Koojana Kuladinithi Research Associate, Communication Networks Group, University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee NW1, 25359, Bremen, Germany.

I received my BSc in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering, in 1997, at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. From 1997 to 2000, I worked as a Systems Engineer at DMS Software Engineering (pvt) Ltd, a mission-critical software company in Sri Lanka. I completed my MSc in Communication, in January, 2002 at the same university, while working as a Temporary Lecturer in the department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, since August 2001 to February 2002.

In March 2002, I joined the Communication Networks Group at the University of Bremen as a Research Associate and a PhD candidate. My current research interests focus on, Network layer solutions for mobility management in IP centric networks: specific focus on Mobile IP and Ad-hoc Networking.

You can find my CV here!! [PDF] Updated in January 2005.

Reserach Projects

Wearit@work is one of the largest projects on wearable computing worldwide, funded by the EU within the 6th framework program. Its goal is to develop a platform and prototypes for wearable devices that increase the productivity of workers in the areas of emergency response, health care, maintenance and car production. This will prove the applicability of computer systems integrated to clothes, so-called wearable, in various industrial environments. wearIT@work consortium has many industrial and academic partners.
I am working for AF3 of this project, which is focused on realising network communication between wearable devices and heterogeneous wireless networks.

This project was focused to implement middleware (both networking & service discovery)for roaming mobile users. Network middleware that integrates current technologies such as UMTS and WLAN, with ‘seamless roaming’ was being demonstrated by the NOMAD project. A middleware-based service discovery and composition platform can both discover location-specific services (based on location data gathered through GPS and cellular positioning technologies) and also construct complex ‘specific-to-user’ services out of sets of individual simple services.
I worked in the area of realizing the network middleware for the NOMAD project. It was based on our own implementations of Mobile IP and ad hoc networking that ran on mobile devices like Zaurus PDA. Trials were carried out in three European locations (Bremen, Bern & Helsinki), to test the NOMAD Platform.

In this project, A WAP based prototype banking application was designed and developed for the Commercial Bank of Ceylon, in Sri Lanka. Application was developed based on a set of Java servlets. Finally, two deployment options of the developed solution were evaluated in terms of commercial as well as technical feasibility. The first deployment option was based on WAP gateway with the mobile operator and was tested successfully on a real environment made available by the mobile operator, Dialog GSM in Sri Lanka.

Developed a suit of computer programs in Microsoft Visual Basic and Crystal Report to compute and display information related to Terrestrial & Satellite Links, which was used by Sri Lankan Airport & Aviation Authority in Sri Lanka.

Student Projects, supervised by me