• Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks, Network Security

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, August 2001.
• M. S. in Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. 1992.
  

Professional Experience

• 2001 - present, Assistant Professor, Washington State University.
• 1995, Graduate Research Assistant, Arizona State University.
• 1992 - 1994, Instructor, Computer Science Dept., University of Central Florida.
• 1990 - 1992, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Dept., University of Central Florida.

Teaching

• Introduced two new courses: (i) CptS 559, Mobile Computing in Wireless Networks and (ii) CptS 456/556 Secure Wireless Networks.
• Also teaches CptS/EE 455 (Introduction to Computer networks) and CptS/EE 555 (Computer Communication Networks).

Selected Publications and Book Sections

• Murali Medidi, Jin Ding, and Sirisha Medidi, “Data Dissemination using Limited Flooding,” In Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Networks, 2005, Las Vegas, NV.
• Murali Medidi, Jon Campbell, Yuanyuan Zhou and Sirisha Medidi, “Bounded diameter tree scatternets for Bluetooth WPANs,” In Proceedings Defense and Security Conference on Digital Wireless Communication, volume 5819, pages 306-315, 2005, Orlando, FL.
• Murali Medidi, Jin Ding and Sirisha Medidi, “Data dissemination using gossiping in wireless sensor networks,” In Proceedings of Defense and Security Conference on Digital Wireless Communication, volume 5819, pages 316-327, 2005, Orlando, FL.
• Muralidhar Medidi, Jin Ding, and Sirisha Medidi, “Data dissemination using flooding in wireless sensor networks,” In Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Networks, 2005.
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Knuth Helge-Vik, “QoS-Aware Source Initiated Ad-hoc Routing,” In Proceedings of IEEE Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks Conference (SECON), pages 108-117, October 2004, Santa Clara CA.
• Sirisha R. Medidi, Muralidhar Medidi, and Sireesh Gavini, “Detecting Packet Mishandling in MANETs,” In Proceedings of Security and Management Conference, pages 40-44, July 2004, Las Vegas, NV.
• Jin Ding and Sirisha R.Medidi, “Distinguishing Congestion from Malicious behavior in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks,” In proceedings of Defense and Security Conference on Digital Wireless Communication, Vol 5400, April 12-13, 2004, Orlando, FL.
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Mathew E. Whitehead, “Buddy Enhanced Return Routability for Authentication in Mobile Ipv6,” In proceedings of Defense and Security Conference on Digital Wireless Communication, Vol 5400, April 12-13, 2004, Orlando, FL.
• Sirisha R. Medidi, Muralidhar Medidi and Sireesh Gavini, “Detecting Packet-dropping faults in Mobile ad-hoc Networks,” In proceedings of IEEE ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR), Monterey, CA, November 9-12, 2003.
• Richard L. Griswald and Sirisha R. Medidi, “Malicious Node Detection in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks,” In proceedings of Defense and Security Conference on Digital Wireless Communication, vol 5100, April 21-25, 2003, Orlando, FL.
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Forouzan Golshani, “Design Issues for efficient handoff in Wireless ATM Networks,” In the Journal of Annual Reviews of Communication, vol. 55, 2003.
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Forouzan Golshani, “Mobility Management in Mobile IP,” In Proceedings of SPIE ITCom Conference on Internet Performance and Control of Network Systems, Boston, MA, 29 July- 2 August, 2002.
• Jin Ding, Li Zhao, Sirisha R. Medidi and Krishna Sivalingam, “MAC Protocols for Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) Wireless Networks: Impacts of Channel Acquisition Time,” In Proceedings of SPIE ITCom Conference on Emerging Technologies for Future Generation Wireless Communication, Boston, MA, 29 July – 2 August 2002.
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Forouzan Golshani, “Handoff in Mobile ATM Networks: A Framework for Performance Optimization" In Proceedings of High Performance Computing Systems, Moncton, NB, Canada, pages 53-60, June 17-19, 2002.
• Sirisha Medidi and Muralidhar Medidi, “An Efficient Mobile IP-WATM Interworking for Mobile Computing,” In proceedings of Parallel and Distributed Computing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), Las Vegas, vol. IV, pages 1817-1823, June 2002.
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Forouzan Golshani, "Design considerations for Mobile-to-mobile Handoff in Integrated Services Wireless Networks," In Proceedings of SPIE ITCom workshop on Modeling and Design of Wireless Networks, Edited by. Edwin K. Chong, Vol. 4531, pages 269-280, August 2001.
• Sirisha R. Medidi, Forouzan Golshani and Edward A. Ashcroft, "Tradeoff Analysis of Handoff in Integrated Services Wireless Networks," In Journal of Annual Reviews of Communication vol.54, pages 755-770, (2001).
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Edward A. Ashcroft, "Handoff in Mobile Wireless Networks," In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communication (ICPWC), pages 52-56, Hyderabad, India, December 2000.
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Edward A. Ashcroft, "Performance Analysis of Mobile Wireless ATM Networks," In Proceedings of Parallel and Distributed Computing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), pages 109-116, Las Vegas, July 2000.
• Sirisha R. Medidi, "A Uniform Policy for Handoff in Mobile Wireless ATM Networks," In proceedings of IEEE International Performance Conference on Computing and Communication (IPCCC), pages 201-207, Phoenix, AZ, February 2000.
• Sirisha R. Medidi, "QoS Guarantees and Performance Analysis in Wireless ATM Networks," In Proceedings of IEEE International Performance Conference on Communication and Computing (IPCCC), pages 48-54, Phoenix, AZ, February 2000.
• Sirisha R. Medidi, Sumit Ghosh and Edward A. Ashcroft, "QoS Guarantees in Wireless ATM Networks," In Proceedings of Real Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pages 95-99, Phoenix, AZ, December 1999.
• Arunabha Sen, Tom Roxborough and Sirisha R. Medidi, "Upper and Lower Bounds of a Class of Channel Assignment Problems in Cellular Networks," In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Information and Communication (INFOCOM), vol. 3, pages 1284-1291, San Diego, CA, April, 1998.
• Tom Roxborough, Sirisha R. Medidi and Arunabha Sen "On Channel Assignment Problem in Cellular Networks," In Proceedings of IEEE ASILOMAR Conference Signals, Systems and Communication (ASILOMAR), vol. 1, pages 630-639, Monterey, CA, October 1997.
• Ronald D. Dutton, Sirisha R. Medidi and Robert C. Brigham "Changing and Unchanging of the Radius of a Graph," In Journal of Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol.217, pages 67-82 (1995). Also In proceedings of Conference on Graphs and Matrices, May 1993.
• Sirisha R. Medidi and Muralidhar Medidi "Multiply Twisted Hyper-Cube: A Low-diameter Network," In Journal of Congressus Numerantium, vol.104 pages 121-127 (1994). Also In proceedings of Southeast Conference on Computers and Graph theory, February 1994.