Joel W. Branch

Research Staff Member

Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)

Summary

Joel W. Branch joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY in 2007 as a research staff member in the Network Management Research Group. His research interests include middleware frameworks, networking protocols and root cause analysis solutions for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks as well as end-to-end management tools for enterprise-scale IT systems. Joel's broader interests lie in pervasive/mobile computing, networking, and business process management.

Joel received his Ph.D. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in May, 2007. He graduated summa cum laude from Howard University in Washington, DC with a B.S. in computer science in May, 2001. Throughout his graduate study, Joel received multiple fellowships and awards, including best student paper awards as well as the Robert McNaughton Award for best thesis in computer science at Rensselaer.

Selected Publications

• Joel W. Branch, Chatschik Bisdikian, Ho Y Starsky Wong, and Dakshi Agrawal, “A Universal Method of Composing Business Transaction Models Using Logs,” in Proceedings of the 2009 IFIP/IEEE Integrated Management Conference (IM’09), New York, New York, June 2009.
  
  
• Lei Chen, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Joel W. Branch, “Auction-Based Congestion Management for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM’09), Galveston, Texas, March 2009.
  
  
• Lei Chen, Boleslaw K. Szymanski and Joel W. Branch, “Quality-driven congestion control for target tracking in wireless sensor networks,” in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Quality of Information (QoI) for Sensor Networks, Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 2008.
  
  
• Thomas Babbitt, Christopher Morrell, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Joel W. Branch, “Self-Selecting Reliable Paths for Wireless Sensor Network Routing,” Computer Communications, Vol. 31, No. 16, Elsevier, 2008.
  
  
• Joel W. Branch, Lei Chen, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, "A Middleware Framework for Market-Based Actuator Coordination in Sensor and Actuator Networks," to appear in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'08), Sorrento, Italy, July 2008.
  
  
• Joel W. Branch, Mark Lisee, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, “SHR: Self-Healing Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (SPECTS’07), San Diego, California, July 2007.
  
  
• Kamil Wasilewski, Joel W. Branch, Mark Lisee, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, “Self-Healing Routing: A Study in Efficiency and Resiliency of Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Technologies and Applications, Orlando, Florida, April 2007.
  
  
• Joel W. Branch, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Chris Giannella, Ran Wolff, and Hillol Kargupta, “In-Network Outlier Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS’06), Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006.
  
  
• Joel W. Branch, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Chatschik Bisdikian, Norman Cohen, Maria R. Ebling, John S. Davis, and Daby M. Sow, “Towards Middleware Components for Distributed Actuator Coordination,” in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (IEEE EmNets’06), Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2006.
  
  
• Joel W. Branch, John S. Davis, Daby M. Sow, and Chatschik Bisdikian, “Sentire: A Framework for Building Middleware for Sensor and Actuator Networks,” in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (IEEE PerSeNS'05), Kauai Island, Hawaii, March 2005.
  
  
• Joel W. Branch, Nick Petroni, Jr., David Safford, and Leendert Van Doorn, “Autonomic 802.11 Wireless LAN Security Auditing: A Distributed Approach,” in IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3, May/June 2004.
  

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Last updated 16 Dec 2008