Thomas Little

Thomas LittleProfessor
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
PhD, Syracuse University, 1991

Multimedia Communications
Smart Lighting Center


(617) 353-9877
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office: PHO 426
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Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • 1995 NSF CAREER Award
  • 2007 Dean’s Catalyst Award
  • Editorial Board Member, ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications

Classes Taught

  • EC463 Senior Design Project I
  • EC464 Senior Design Project II
  • EC500 Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • EC517 Introduction to Information Theory
  • EC/ME544 Networking the Physical World
  • EC700 Advanced Special Topics
  • EC744 Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
  • EC748

Research Interests

  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)
  • multimedia computing
  • computer networking
  • software engineering
  • embedded sensor networks

Selected Publications

  • S. Guo, C. Fan, and T.D.C. Little, “Supporting Concurrent Task Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. Intl. Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA2008), Cambridge, MA, June 2008.
  • T.D.C. Little, P. Dib, K. Shah, N. Barraford, and B. Gallagher, “Using LED Lighting for Ubiquitous Indoor Wireless Networking,” 4th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Wirless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008), Avignon, France, October 2008.
  • A. Agarwal, D Starobinski, and T.D.C. Little, “Analytical Model for Message Propagaion in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,” Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. 2008, Singapore, May 2008.
  • T.D.C. Little and A. Agarwal “Connecting Vehicles to ‘The Grid’,” Proc. NITRD National Workshop on High-Confidence Automotive Cyber- Physical Systems, April 3-4, 2008, Troy, MI.
  • J.P. Tower and T.D.C. Little, “A Proposed Scheme for Epidemic Routing With Active Curing for Opportunistic Networks,” Proc. 1st IEEE Intl. Workshop on Opportunistic Networking, Okinawa, Japan, March 2008.
  • A. Agarwal, D Starobinski, and T.D.C. Little, “Exploiting Downstream Mobility to Achieve Fast Upstream Message Propagation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,” Proc. Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments 2007, Infocom 2007, Anchorage, AK, May 2007.
  • T.D.C. Little, P. Ishwar, J. Konrad, “A Wireless Video Sensor Network for Autonomous Coastal Sensing,” in Proc. Conference on Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks, (CESN 2007), Boston MA April 2007.
  • T.D.C. Little and A. Agarwal, “An Information Propagation Scheme for VANETs,” Proc. 8th Intl. IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2005), Vienna Austria, Sept. 2005.
  • P. Basu, A. Narayanan, W. Ke, T.D.C. Little, and A. Bestavros, “Optimal Scheduling of Secondary Content for Aggregation in Video-on- Demand Systems,” Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN ‘99), October 1999.