Other Undergraduate Projects

Apart from my work in Combinatorial Optimization, my undergraduate work also covers Networks, Graphics and Robotics. Here is the work I have done in these areas:

Virtual Private Networks (VPN):

• Worked in the BITS-CISCO lab, setup by BITS in collaboration with CISCO.
• Configuring CISCO equipment (routers of 7100 series, Network Access Servers (NAS)) to provide a VPN-based solution to the BITS network.
• Initial test-bed - setting up a VPN tunnel between two local networks; providing access to this tunnel using a NAS and a gateway.
• Data sent through the VPN tunnel is encrypted at one end and decrypted at the other end.

SMS-GSM:

• Coding two layers of the SMS-GSM protocol-stack at the client-side (mobile handset) of a GSM network.
• Protocol-stack implemented in C, successfully in accordance with standard GSM 03.40, specified by ETSI.
• Undertaken as part of Practice School-I (PS-I), conducted by BITS, Pilani, India, in collaboration with U and I System Designs Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India.

3D object viewer:

• Part of the prize-winning working-model exhibits of the Computer Science Association at APOGEE 2001, the annual academic festival of BITS, Pilani, India.
• Graphics program developed in C; enabled the user to visualize simple three-dimensional objects in real-time.
• Given the coordinates of the endpoints that make up the object, the program generated a realistic view of this object from a specified view-point in space.