Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain, PhD
Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain, PhD

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I am a Computer Engineering and Operations Research investigator, specializing in techno-policy and economic aspects of Dynamic Spectrum Access planning.

My research interests lie in how the intersections between Network Systems and Security drive policy decisions within wireless spaces. With the interconnectivity of the modern world, access to wireless bandwidth is an essential pillar for ensuring access to rural communities for applications requiring broadband-class speeds. In addition, various Smart City technologies ranging from Positive Train Control to Vehicle-to-Vehicle/Vehicle-to-Grid communication utilize wireless spectrum to improve traffic flows and reduce congestion. Considerations of use, however, involve delicate balancing acts, carefully accounting for essential Public Interest scientific uses: these include, but are hardly limited to, the Earth Exploration Satellite Service-passive remote sensors for weather forecasting and climate monitoring. Additionally, technology such as Mobile Edge Computing introduces side channels for attacks on cloud technologies to be executed via methods such as Economic Denial of Sustainability.

My published academic works as a member of BU NISLAB include a number of papers published in collaboration with a team from the Ohio State ElectroScience Laboratory establishing the economic feasibility of sharing for wholesale commercial markets yielding priority to mission critical EESS-passive radiometers. This includes a 2024 IEEE DySpan paper which received the Runner-Up accolade for Best Paper on the Policy Track. I also have engaged in active collaboration with the FROOT Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park on problems related to monitoring of cloud computing clusters in mobile networks. My particular focus has been in formalizing models on scalable container networks operating in Mobile Edge environments being targeted by the EDoS attack. This collaboration has yielded one accepted SIGMETRICS paper thus far.

As a graduate student I was involved in multiple service roles, including serving on the executive board of the Boston University Student Association of Graduate Engineers in various roles, membering on an advisory committee providing feedback for university initiatives and proposed policy updates to the Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs, and co-organized the 10th and 11th editions of the BU Center for Information and Systems Engineering Graduate Student Workshops in 2024 and 2025. For these efforts, as well as my work mentoring students both within the NISLAB and in other projects as well as my published research, I was recognized with the BU ECE Department Doctoral Acheivement Award for the 2024-25 academic year. I additionally had the privilege of participating in the 2025 NSF NeTS Early Career Investigators workshop.

Research Interests: Queuing Games, Wireless Communications, Dynamic Spectrum Access and Coexistence with Passive Users, Wide Area Networks, Mobile Edge Computing, Scalable Networks, Systems Security, Public Policy

Recent News

Collaborator work accepted into VLDB

Joint work has been accepted into the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment and has been invited for presentation at the VLDB 2025 conference in London in September