Sam Nelson

Research



My general research interests include finding practical and efficient solutions for routing, transport, and security in mobile ad hoc, content-centric, and disruption-tolerant networks.

BBN Technologies
At BBN, I help lead and contribute to top-notch research groups. Here are a few programs I've worked on:

WINLAB, Rutgers University
While at WINLAB, I helped work on the NSF MobilityFirst Future Internet Architecture (FIA) project, aimed at a clean-slate design and validation of a mobility-centric Internet architecture.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
As a Ph.D. student at UIUC, my research focused on efficient and robust routing for disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs). DTNs allow communication between network nodes without static communication infrastructure or instantaneous end-to-end paths between nodes.

Bucknell University
As an undergraduate at Bucknell, my research focused on simulating connectivity properties of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs).