Govindan was later named the Northrop Grumman Chair in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He is a former editor-in-chief of the journal
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He is a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2000, he along with
Kannan Varadhan and
Deborah Estrin analyzed a way to prevent
oscillations in
topologies. During the study he have discovered that an
inter-domain routing protocol called
hop-by-hop is responsible for the unconstrained route selection and therefore the route get oscillated. However, if "safe" mode is enabled, it can shorten route selection as well as the number of errors. A year later, he peered up with Deborah Estrin and
Deepak Ganesan of UCLA as well as
Scott Shenker to develop braided
multipath routing scheme which he claimed to be important alternative for energy-saving recovery after lone and patterned failures. On August 14, 2001 he used simulation to evaluate
Geographic and Energy Aware Routing protocol and discovered that it lives longer than its non-geographic energy aware routing counterpart. In 2002, he and colleagues from both
International Computer Science Institute and UCLA have developed a
geographic hash table which was later used along with
data-centric storage system. In 2004, while working with researchers at the
University of California, Los Angeles he discussed
wireless sensor network system which is called
Wisden which according to him and his colleagues will use
end-to-end and
hop-by-hop transport recovery which wouldn't require global
clock synchronization to transport data. During the same study they have developed
wavelet-based technique that will use limited amount of data
bandwidth for
low-power wireless radios. In 2006, Govindan and his colleagues have developed a compact version of a
pursuit–evasion application called
Tenet. In 2010 Govindan,
Jeongyeup Paek and
Joongheon Kim used
smartphones to evaluate
remote area power supply. He and his colleagues found that this prototype implementation increased phone lifetimes 3.8 times more than
GPS. ==References==