Nicholas Jones

Nicholas Jones

PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT LIDS

About Me

I am a fourth-year PhD student in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, advised by Professor Eytan Modiano. My research involves modeling and analyzing theoretical problems in communication networks, with an emphasis on optimizing network performance. I am particularly interested in wireless networks and new challenges that arise with increasing mobile connectivity and real-time network applications. I am currently investigating the use of network slicing to provide service guarantees across multiple domains that include unreliable and changing wireless links. This is particularly useful for traffic with strict latency requirements, such as emergency response, real-time video, AR/VR, and autonomous control.

I received my Master’s degree from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2022. Before joining MIT, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2019.

My expected graduation is December 2025.

In my spare time I enjoy running, traveling, and hiking in the New Hampshire White Mountains.

Journal Papers

  • N. Jones and E. Modiano, “Minimizing age of information in spatially distributed wireless networks”. Under review at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2023).
  • V. Tripathi, N. Jones, and E. Modiano, “Fresh-CSMA: A distributed protocol for minimizing age of information”. Journal of Communications and Networks (2023). [IEEEXplore]

Conference Papers

  • N. Jones and E. Modiano, “Minimizing Age of Information in Spatially Distributed Wireless Networks”. Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2023. [IEEEXplore]
  • V. Tripathi, N. Jones, and E. Modiano, “Fresh-CSMA: A Distributed Protocol for Minimizing Age of Information”. Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2023. [IEEEXplore]

Preprints

  • N. Jones and E. Modiano, “Optimal Slicing and Scheduling with Service Guarantees in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks”. Preprint available (2024). [arXiv]

SM Thesis

  • N. Jones, “Optimizing Random Access for Information Freshness in Spatially Distributed Wireless Networks”. MIT EECS SM Thesis. [download]

Resume

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