Thomas Little

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

Computer Engineering
Information Sciences and Systems
 Multimedia Communications
Smart Lighting Center


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

  • 1991 NSF Research Initiation Award
  • 1995 NSF CAREER Award
  • 2009 Faculty Service Award
  • 2010 Kern Faculty Fellow
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications

Classes Taught

  • EC463 Senior Design Project I
  • EC464 Senior Design Project II
  • EC/ME544 Networking the Physical World
  • EC744 Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
  • EC748 Multimedia Computing

Research Interests

  • Mobile and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)
  • Vehicular Networking
  • Pervasive and Multimedia Computing
  • Embedded Systems

Additional Affiliations

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, and 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.