Welcome to Alex Kogan's home page

Contact Info:

Email: sakogan <AT> cs.technion.ac.il

Office: Taub, 315

Phone: +972-4-829-3939

Fax: +972-4-829-3900

Short Bio:

I am Ph.D. student in Computer Science Department, Technion. My supervisor is Assoc. Prof. Roy Fiedman.
My research area is distributed algortihms in mobile ad-hoc network (MANETs), and more specifically -- an efficient usage of multiple communication interfaces in MANETs.

I hold M.Sc. (2008) and B.A (Summa Cum Laude, 2002) degrees from Computer Science Department, Technion. My supervisor in master was Prof. Hagit Attiya.

List of Publications:

Journal Publications:

• Attiya H., Kogan A., Welch J.L., "Efficient and Robust Local Mutual Exclusion in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks",
  accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2009.

Conference Publications:

• Friedman R., Kogan A., "Efficient Power Utilization in Multi-Radio Wireless Ad Hoc Networks",
  in Proc. of 13th International Conference On Principle of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), 2009.

• Friedman R., Kogan A., "Power Aware Management Middleware for Multiple Radio Interfaces",
  in Proc. of ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, 2009.

• Friedman R., Kogan A., "Brief Announcement: Efficient Utilization of Multiple Interfaces in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks",
  in Proc. of 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), 2009.

• Attiya H,. Kogan A., Welch J.L., "Efficient and Robust Local Mutual Exclusion in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks",
  in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2008.

Technical Reports:

• Kogan A., "On Porting iperf to Windows Mobile and Adding BlueTooth Support",
  Technical Report CS-2010-04, Department of Computer Science, Technion.

Teaching:

• Distributed Systems (236351) - Teaching Assistant in Charge - Winter 2009/2010.
• Projects in Parallel/Distributed Systems (236371) - Projects supervisor - Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010.
  List of projects for the Spring 2010 semester.
• Introduction to Systems Programming (234122) - Teaching Assistant - Winter 2008/2009
• Compilation Theory (236360) - Teaching Assistant in Charge - Winter 2007/2008
• Compilation Theory (236360) - Teaching Assistant - Winter 2006/2007, Spring 2007

Industry Experience:

• 2008: Summer internship in Information Retrieval group, IBM Haifa Research Labs.
• 2001-2007: Code Optimization Technologies, IBM Haifa Research Labs. Participated and led various research projects.

Technical links:

• Extensions to Jist/SWANS network simulator - includes the source code of SWANS simulator extended with two following features:
  (1) Measuring energy consumed by wireless communication interfaces.
  (2) Supporting multiple radios at the same device.
• Extensions to iperf - includes two extensions of iperf, a popular tool for measuring network performance:
  (1) Port to the Windows Mobile OS.
  (2) Supporting BlueTooth communication.
• Past projects given under my supervising in the DSL lab