Publications


Testbeds and Platforms
Next-Generation Radio technologies
Models and Measurements
Networking Studies

Testbeds and Platforms
  • J. Zhou, Z. Ji, and R. Bagrodia, "TWINE: A Hybrid Emulation Testbed for Wireless Networks and Applications," To appear in IEEE INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 23-29, 2006.
  • Z. Ji, M. Marina, M. Varshney, Z. Xu, Y. Yang, J. Zhou and R. Bagrodia, "WHYNET: A Hybrid Testbed for Large-Scale, Heterogeneous and Adaptive Wireless Networks" UCLA Computer Science Department Technical Report CSD-TR060002, January, 2006.
  • J. Zhou, Z. Ji, M. Varshney, M. Marina, M. Takai and R. Bagrodia, "WHYNET: A Hybrid Testbed for Large-Scale, Heterogeneous and Adaptive Wireless Networks," Demonstration at the Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), June 2005.
  • M. Takai, R. Bagrodia, M. Gerla, B. Daneshrad, M. P. Fitz, M. B. Srivastava, E. M. Belding-Royer, S. V. Krishnamurthy, M. Molle, P. Mohapatra, R. R. Rao, U. Mitra, C. Shen, J. B. Evans, "Scalable Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Networking Technologies," Proc. IEEE TRIDENTCOM, Feb 2005.
  • W. Zhu, D. Browne, M. P. Fitz, "An Open Access Wideband Multi-Antenna Wireless Testbed with Remote Control Capability," in Proc. IEEE TRIDENTCOM, Feb 2005.
  • R. M. Rao, W. Zhu, S. Lang, C. Oberli, D. Browne, J. Bhatia, J. F. Frigon, J. Wang, P. Gupta, H. Lee, D. N. Liu, S. G. Wong, M. Fitz, B. Daneshrad and O. Takeshita, "Multi-Antenna Testbeds for Research and Educations in Wireless Communications," IEEE Communications Magazine, Dec 2004.
  • S. Lang, R. Rao, B. Daneshrad, "Design and Development of a 5.25 GHz Software Defined Wireless OFDM Communicaiton Platform," IEEE Communication Magazine, vol 42, No. 6, June 2004.
  • S. Lang, R. Rao, B. Daneshrad, "The Development of a Software Configurable Broadband Wireless Communicaiton Platform," IEEE IST 2004.

Next-Generation Radio technologies
  • S. Franz, C. Carbonelli, U. Mitra, "Semi-Blind ML Synchronization for UWB Systems," IEEE Transactions Wireless Communications, 2006, to appear.
  • S. Franz, U. Mitra, "Generalized UWB Transmitted Reference Systems," To appear in IEEE JSAC, 2006.
  • M. A. Nemati, R. A. Scholtz, U. Mitra, "Receiver design for UWB signals using diffusion model for indoor communications," Proc. IEEE International Conference on UWB, Bosten, US, September 2006.
  • D. W. Browne, M. Manteghi, M. P. Fitz, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Experiments with Compact Antenna Arrays for MIMO Radio Communications," under submission.
  • C. Carbonelli, U. Mitra, "On single and multiple antenna Rake receivers for UWB signals," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, December 2005.
  • C. Carbonelli, U. Mitra, "Clustered ML channel estimation for ultra-wideband signals," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications - Letters, December 2005.
  • S. Franz, U. Mitra, "Quantized UWB Transmitted Reference Systems," IEEE Transactions Wireless Communications, Nov. 2005, under submission.
  • S. Franz, U. Mitra, "Quantized UWB Transmitted Reference Systems," Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2005, Pacific Grove, CA.
  • D. W. Browne, M. Manteghi, M. P. Fitz, Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Antenna Topology Impacts on Measured MIMO Capacity," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, September 2005.
  • C. Carbonelli, U. Mitra, "On single and multiple antenna Rake receivers for UWB signals," Proc. 43nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, US, September 2005.
  • C. Carbonelli, U. Mitra, "Clustered channel estimation for UWB temporal returns," Proc. IEEE International Conference on UWB, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2005.
  • C. Carbonelli, U. Mitra, "Sparse channel estimation with zero-tap detection," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, August 2005.
  • D. W. Browne, W. Zhu, and M.P. Fitz, "A Signaling Scheme and Estimation Algorithm for Characterizing Frequency Selective MIMO Channels," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2005.
  • C. Carbonelli, U. Mitra, "Clustered channel estimation for UWB multiple antenna receivers," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (under second revision), April 2005.
  • W. Zhu, H. Lee, D. N. Liu, D. W. Browne, and M. P. Fitz, "Experiments in space-time modulation and demodulation," Space-Time Wireless System: From Array Processing to MIMO Communications, Book Chapter, 2005.
  • R. Penrod, O. Takeshita, M. Fitz, and W. Zhu. "A Low Complexity Packet Detection Algorithm for a CPM Modem". Submitted to the thirty-eighth annual Asilomar conference on signals, systems, and computers, Nov. 2004, Pacific Grove, California.
  • W. Zhu, and M. P. Fitz. "Adaptive Wiener Interpolation Channel Estimation for Pilot Symbol Assisted MIMO OFDM in low mobility environment," Submitted to the thirty-eighth annual Asilomar conference on signals, systems, and computers, Nov. 2004, Pacific Grove, California.
  • W. Zhu, H. Lee, D. N. Liu, S. G. Wong, D. Browne, S. Venkateswaran, M. P. Fitz. "Trained versus Noncoherent Space-Time Coding: Validation in Field Testing," Invited paper on the thirty-eighth annual Asilomar conference on signals, systems, and computers, Nov. 2004, Pacific Grove, California.
  • R. Rao, B. Daneshrad, "I/Q Mismatch Cancellation for MIMO-OFDM Systems," IEEE PIMRC 2004.
  • R. Rao, S. Lang, B. Daneshrad, "Overhead Optimization in a MIMO-OFDM Testbed Based on MMSE MIMO Decoding," IEEE VTC 2004.
  • H. Lee, M. Siti, W. Zhu, and M. P. Fitz. "Super-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code Using a Unitary Expansion," To appear on IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Sept. 2004, Los Angeles.
  • S. Franz and U. Mitra. "Integration Interval Optimization and Performance Analysis for UWB Transmitted Reference Systems," In IEEE UWBST & IWUWBS, Kyoto, Japan, May 2004.
  • S. Franz and U. Mitra. "Optimized Transmitted Reference for UWB Communication Systems". Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, March 2004.
  • S. Franz and U. Mitra. "On Optimal Data Detection for UWB Transmitted Reference Systems," In IEEE Globecom, San Francisco, CA, December 2003.

Models and Measurements
  • T. Sun, L.-J. Chen, C.-C. Han, G. Yang and M. Gerla, "Measuring Effective Capacity of IEEE 802.15.4 Beaconless Mode," to appear in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2006 (WCNC'06), Las Vegas, USA, 2006.
  • M. Varshney, Z. Ji, M. Takai and R. Bagrodia, "Modeling Environmental Mobility and its Effect on Network Protocol Stack," to appear in WCNC 2006.
  • Z. Xu, M. Marina and R. Bagrodia, "Impact of Network Subsystem on Reliable Transport Protocol Performance over Wireless Links," to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'06), April, 2006.
  • Y. Yang, M. Marina and R. Bagrodia, "Experimental Evaluation of Application Performance with 802.11 PHY Rate Adaptation Mechanisms in Diverse Environments," to appear in Proc. of 2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'06), April, 2006.
  • L.-J. Chen, T. Sun, G. Yang and M. Gerla, "USHA: a simple and practical seamless vertical handoff solution," Demo in IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2006, Las Vegas, USA, 2006.
  • T. Sun, L.-J. Chen, C.-C. Han, G. Yang and M. Gerla, Path Capacity Estimation in IEEE 802.15.4 Enabled Wireless Sensor Network via SenProbe, Demo in IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2006, Las Vegas, USA, 2006.
  • B. Vasu, M. Varshney, R. Rengaswamy, M. Marina, A. Dixit, P. Aghera, M. Srivastava and R. Bagrodia, "Demo Abstract: sQualnet: A Scalable Simulation Framework for Sensor Networks," ACM Sensys, Nov 2005.
  • A. P. Jardosh, K. N. Ramachandran, K. C. Almeroth and E. M. Belding-Royer, "Understanding Congestion in IEEE 802.11b Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference, Berkeley, CA, October 2005.
  • F. Hui and P. Mohapatra, "Experimental Characterization of Multi-hop Communications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," ACM VANET Workshop, 2005.
  • J. Li and P. Mohapatra, "An Analytical Model For The Energy Hole Problem In Many-To-One Sensor Networks," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Fall 2005.
  • A. P. Jardosh, K. N. Ramachandran, K. C. Almeroth and E. M. Belding-Royer, "Understanding Link-Layer Behavior in Highly Congested IEEE 802.11b Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of E-WIND, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
  • T. Sun, G. Yang, L.-J. Chen, M. Y. Sanadidi and M. Gerla, "A Measurement Study of Path Capacity in 802.11b based Wireless Networks," the Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling Workshop (WiTMeMo'05, in conjunction with MobiSys'05), Seattle, USA, 2005.
  • Y. Sun, I. Sheriff, E. M. Belding-Royer and K. C. Almeroth, "An Experimental Study of Multimedia Traffic Performance in Mesh Networks," in Proceedings of WitMeMo, Seattle, WA, June 2005.
  • I. Chakeres and E. M. Belding-Royer, "AODV Implementation Design and Performance Evaluation," International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, Issue 2/3, 2005.
  • S. Liese, D. Wu and P. Mohapatra, "Experimental Characterization of an 802.11b Wireless Mesh Network," Technical Report, TR-CSE-2005-17, Department of Computer Science, UC Davis.
  • Z. Ji, J. Zhou, M. Takai and R. Bagrodia, "Scalable Simulation of Large-Scale Wireless Networks with Bounded Inaccuracies," ACM MSWIM 2004.
  • M. Varshney and R. Bagrodia, "Detailed Models for Sensor Network Simulations and their Impact on Network Performance," ACM MSWIM 2004.
  • Z. Ji, J. Zhou, M. Takai, J. Martin and R. Bagrodia, "Optimizing Parallel Execution of Detailed Wireless Network Simulation," in Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2004), May 16-19, 2004.

Networking Studies
  • G. Jakllari, W. Luo and S. V. Krishnamurthy, "Towards Better Usage of Spatial Diversity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Under submission.
  • H. Chen and P. Mohapatra, "A Context-Aware HTML/XML Document Transmission Process for Mobile Wireless Clients," World Wide Web Journal (To appear).
  • C. Gui and P. Mohapatra, "Overlay Multicast for MANETs Using Dynamic Virtual Mesh," ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) (to appear).
  • C. Gui and P. Mohapatra, "Hierarchical Multicast Techniques and Scalability in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Ad Hoc Networks Journal (to appear).
  • J. Li and P. Mohapatra, "LAKER: Learning from Past Actions to Guide Future Behaviors in Ad Hoc Routing," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) Journal (to appear).
  • J. Li and P. Mohapatra, "PANDA: A Novel Mechanism for Flooding Based Route Discovery in Ad Hoc Networks," ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) (toappear).
  • A. Gupta, C. Gui and P. Mohapatra, "Exploiting Multi-channel Clustering for Power Efficiency in Sensor Networks," COMSWARE 2006.
  • I. Aydin and C.-C. Shen, "Evaluating Cellular SCTP over One-Hop Wireless Networks," September 2005. Previous version of this work is published in the proceedings of IEEE VTC2005-Fall.
  • I. Broustis, S. V. Krishnamurthy, M. Faloutsos, M. Molle and J. Foerster, "A Multiband MAC Protocol for Impulse-based UWB Ad hoc Networks," IEEE SECON 2005, Santa Clara. (Runner up in the race for the Best Paper Award).
  • X. Liu and P. Mohapatra, "On the Deployment of Wireless Sensor Nodes," International Workshop on Measurement, Modeling, and Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks (SenMetrics), held in conjunction with MobiQuitous 2005 (Invited Paper).
  • T. Sun, L.-J. Chen, G. Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and M. Gerla, "SenProbe: Path Capacity Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks," the Third International Workshop on Measurement, Modelling, and Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks (SenMetrics'05, in conjunction with MobiQuitous'05), San Diego, USA, 2005.
  • G. Jakllari, W. Luo and S. V. Krishnamurthy, "An Integrated Neighbor Discovery and MAC protocol for Ad hoc Networks using Directional Antennas," in Proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM, Taormina, Italy.
  • V. Shah and S. V. Krishnamurthy, "Handling Asymmetry in Power Heterogeneous Ad hoc Networks: A Cross Layer Approach," IEEE ICDCS, Columbus, 2005.
  • S. Narayan, J. Pandya, P. Mohapatra and D. Ghosal, "Analysis of Windowing and Peering Schemes for Cache Coherency in Mobile Devices," Networking 2005.
  • I. Aydin, R. Ge, P. Natarajan and C.-C. Shen, "Performance Evaluation of SCTP in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Technical Report #2005-18, Dept. of Computer & Info. Sciences, University of Delaware, May 2005.
  • C. Gui and P. Mohapatra, "Virtual Patrol: A new Power Conservation Design for Surveillance Using Sensor Networks," IEEE/ACM Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2005.
  • J. Kong, X. Hong and M. Gerla, "Mobility Changes Anonymity: Towards Efficient Anonymous Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in submission to IEEE INFOCOM 2005.
  • J. Kong, Y. Yi, and M. Gerla, "Collaborative Recovery for Reliable Multicast in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in submission to IEEE INFOCOM 2005.
  • L.-J. Chen, T. Sun and M. Gerla, "USHA: A Practical Vertical Handoff Solution," the First International Conference on Multimedia Services Access Networks (MSAN 2005), Orlando, USA, 2005.
  • L.-J. Chen, T. Sun, G. Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and M. Gerla, "AdHoc Probe: Path Capacity Probing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," the first IEEE International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON 2005), Budapest, Hungary, 2005.
  • L.-J. Chen, T. Sun, G. Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, "AdHoc Probe: Path Capacity Probing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Technical Report TR050005, UCLA CSD, 2005.
  • M. Takai, J. Zhou and R. Bagrodia, "Performance Evaluation of Directional Adaptive Range Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Wireless Networks 11(5): 581-591 (2005).
  • S. Gwalani, K. Srinivasan, G. Vigna, E. M. Beding-Royer and R. Kemmerer, "An Intrusion Detection Tool for AODV-based Ad hoc Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Tucson, AZ, December 2004.
  • I. D. Chakeres and E. M. Belding-Royer, "PAC: Perceptive Admission Control for Mobile Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine), Dallas, TX, October 2004.
  • Y. Lee, K. Xu, M. Gerla and X. Hong, "Hybrid Landmark Routing in Ad Hoc Networks with Heterogeneous Group Mobility," in submission to IEEE SECON 2004.
  • Kr. Ramachandran, E. M. Belding-Royer and K. C. Almeroth, "DAMON: A Distributed Architecture for Monitoring Multi-hop Mobile Networks," in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (SECON).
  • L. Yuan, C. Gui, C. Chuah and P. Mohapatra, "Applications and Design of Heterogeneous and/or Broadband Sensor Networks," (Invited Paper), IEEE BaseNets, 2004.
  • H. Chen, J. Li and P. Mohapatra, "RACE: Time Series Compression with Rate Adaptivity and Error Bound for Sensor Networks," IEEE Int. Conf. on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2004.
  • C. Gui and P. Mohapatra, "Power Conservation and Quality of Surveillance in Target Tracking sensor Networks," ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), 2004.
  • Z. Ji, Y. Yang, J. Zhou, M. Takai and R. Bagrodia, "Exploiting Medium Access Diversity in Rate Adaptive Wireless LANs," in ACM MOBICOM 2004.
  • C. Ho, K. Ramachandran, K. Almeroth and E. M. Belding-Royer, "A Scalable Framework for Wireless Network Monitoring," in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH), Philadelphia, PA, September 2004.
  • J. Kong, Y. Yi, X. Hong and M. Gerla, "Community Based Secure Routing Schemes for Dense Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in submission to ACM WiSe 2004.
  • I. D. Chakeres and E. M. Belding-Royer, "Transparent Influence of Path Selection in Heterogeneous Ad hoc Networks," 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Barcelona, Spain, September 2004.
  • J. Chen, K. Xu and M. Gerla. "Multipath TCP in Lossy Wireless Environment," in Med-Hoc-Net 2004, Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004.
  • V. Shah, S. V. Krishnamurthy and N. Poojary, "Improving MAC Layer Performance in Ad Hoc Networks of Nodes with Heterogeneous Transmit Power Capabilities," in Proceedings of ICC 2004.
  • C. Gui and P. Mohapatra, "Scalable Multicasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE INFOCOM, 2004.
  • J. Pandya, P. Mohapatra and D. Ghosal, "Asymptotic Analysis of Peer-Enhanced Cache Invalidation Scheme," Modeling and Optimization in Mobile Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'04), 2004.
  • P. Mohapatra, C. Gui and J. Li, "Group Communications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Special Issue on Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Computer, February 2004.
  • J. Li and P. Mohapatra, "A Novel Mechanism for Flooding Based Route Discovery in Ad Hoc Networks," Wireless Communications Symposium, GLOBECOM, 2003.
  • I. Aydin, W. Seok and C.-C. Shen, "Cellular SCTP: A Transport-Layer Approach to Internet Mobility," in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2003), Dallas, Texas, October 20--22 2003.
  • I. Aydin and C.-C. Shen, "Cellular SCTP: A Transport-Layer Approach to Internet Mobility," October 2003. IEEE Internet Draft, draft-iaydin-cshen-cellular-sctp-00.txt (work in progress).
  • M. Gerla, K. Xu and X. Hong, "Exploiting Mobility in Large Scale Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," in IEEE Computer Communication Workshop (CCW 2003), Oct. 2003.
  • K. Xu, K. Tang, R. Bagrodia, M. Gerla and M. Bereschinsk, "Adaptive Bandwidth Management and QoS Provisioning in Large Scale Ad Hoc Networks," in IEEE MILCOM'03, Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 2003.
  • P. Mohapatra, J. Li and C. Gui, "QoS in Mobile Ad hoc Networks," Special Issue on QoS in Next-Generation Wireless Multimedia Communications Systems in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, June 2003.
  • C. Gui and P. Mohapatra, "SHORT: A Self-Healing and Optimizing Routing Technique for Ad Hoc Networks," ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2003.
  • C. Gui and P. Mohapatra, "Efficient Overlay Multicast for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2003.
  • J. Li and P. Mohapatra, "LAKER: Location Aided Knowledge Extraction Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2003.
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