Patents :

       1. S. Kalyanaraman, B. Szymanski, K. Vastola, Y. Tao, D. Harrison, B. Mo, B. Sikdar
           and J. Jiang,  ``Network Management and control using Collaborative On-line
           Simulation,'' U.S. Patent No. 7,363,285, April, 2008.


Software :

       1. Traffic generator for the network simulator ns, developed by M. Yuksel, B.
                  Sikdar, K. S. Vastola and B. Szymanski. Gives capability to generate self-
                  similar traffic (two methods: superposition of MMPPs and fractal point
                  processes) and application specific traffic. Please cite our CNDS paper
                  (number 5 in the list of conference papers below) if you use this tool.
 

Publications :

      Book Chapters :

            1. S. Kalyanaraman and B. Sikdar, ``Protocol Design Concepts, TCP/IP, and the
                Network Layer,'' IP over WDM: Building the Next-Generation Optical Internet,
                Sudhir Dixit (Editor), Wiley, April 2003. ISBN: 0-471-21248-2.

            2. R. Iyengar, K. Kar, B. Sikdar and X. Luo, ``Scheduling Algorithms for OFDMA
                based WiMAX Systems with QoS Constraints,'' WiMAX: Technologies,
                Performance Analysis and QoS
, Part I: Technologies, CRC Press, 2007.

      Journal :

          18. J. Peng, B. Sikdar and L. Cheng, ``Multicasting With Localized Control In
                Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks,'' Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions
                on Mobile Computing.

          17. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, ``A Swarm Intelligence Based Protocol for Data
                Acquisition in Networks with Mobile Sinks,'' Accepted for publication in IEEE
                Transactions on Mobile Computing.

          16. G. Nagy and B. Sikdar, ``Classification and Evaluation of Examples for Teaching
                Probability to Electrical Engineering Students,'' Accepted for publication in IEEE
                Transactions on Education.

          15. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, ``Distributed Mobility Transparent Broadcasting
                in Vehicle to Vehicle Networks,'' Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions
                on Vehicular Technology.

          14. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, ``Modeling Queueing and Channel Access Delay in
                Unsaturated IEEE 802.11 Random Access MAC based Wireless Networks,''
                Accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

          13. J. Peng, L. Cheng and B. Sikdar, ``A Pulse Based Wireless MAC Protocol With
                Collision Detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 6, no. 12,
                pp. 1357-1369, December 2007.

          12. F. Ye, S. Yi and B. Sikdar, ``Scaling of Spatial Reuse and Saturation Throughput
                in a Class of MAC Protocols,'' IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
                vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 3529-3533, October 2007.

          11. B. Sikdar, ``An Analytic Model for the Delay in IEEE 802.11 PCF MAC based
                Wireless Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no.
                4, pp. 1542-1550, April 2007. 

          10. K. Chandrayana, S. Ramakrishnan, B. Sikdar and S. Kalyanaraman, ``On
                Randomizing the Sending Times in TCP and other Window Based Algorithms,''
                Computer Networks, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 422-447, February 2006.

            9. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, ``A Population Based Approach to Model
                Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' ACM Performance Evaluation
                Review, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 21-23, September 2005.

            8. J. Peng and B. Sikdar, ``An Efficient and Scalable Loss Recovery Scheme for Video
               Multicast,'' IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 356-365, April
                2005.

            7. J. Peng and B. Sikdar, ``Multi-layer Multicast Congestion Control in Satellite
               Environments,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 22, no.
                3., pp. 449-461, April 2004.

            6. B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, ``Analytic Models for the Latency
               and Steady-State Throughput of TCP Tahoe, Reno and SACK,'' IEEE/ACM
                Transactions on Networking, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 959-971, December 2003.

            5. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, ``On the Impact of IEEE 802.11 MAC on Traffic
               Characteristics,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 21,
                 no. 2, pp. 189-203, February 2003.

            4. D.  Manjunath  and  B.  Sikdar,  ``Input  Queued  Switches  for  Variable  Length
               Packets: Analysis for Poisson and Self Similar Traffic,'' Computer Communications,
                vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 590-610, April, 2002.

            3. B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman  and  K. S. Vastola, ``An  Integrated  Model  for  the
               Latency  and  Steady-State  Throughput  of  TCP  Connections, '' Performance
                Evaluation, vol. 46, no. 2-3, pp. 139-154, September 2001.

           2. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, ``Integral Expressions for the Numerical Evaluation
              of   Product  Form  Expressions  Over  Irregular  Multidimensional  Integer  State
              Spaces,'' Telecommunication  Systems,  vol.  16,  no. 1, 2,  pp. 195-215,  January
                2001.

            1. B. Sikdar and D. Manjunath, ``Queueing Analysis of Scheduling Policies in Copy
               Networks of Space Based Multicast Packet Switches,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions
                 on Networking, vol. 8, no. 3, pp 396-406, June 2000.

      Conference :

         55. J. Peng, L. Cheng and B. Sikdar, ``Distributed Multiple Access with an Out-of-band
               Control Channel,'' Proceedings of IEEE VTC, Baltimore, MD, October 2007.

         54. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, ``On the Stability of the Malware Free Equilibrium
               in Cell Phones Networks with Spatial Dynamics,'' Proceedings of IEEE ICC,
               Glasgow, Scotland, July 2007.

         53. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, ``Performance Analysis of Polling based TDMA MAC
               Protocols with Sleep and Wakeup Cycles,'' Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Glasgow,
               Scotland, July 2007.  

         52. X. Long and B. Sikdar, ``Real Time Detection of Link Failures in Inter Domain
               Routing,'' Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2007.

         51. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, ``Malware Propagation in Networks of Smart Cell
               Phones with Spatial Dynamics,'' To appear in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM
               minisymposium, Alaska, AK, May 2007.

         50. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, ``Optimal Cluster Heads Selection in LEACH Architecture,''
               Proceedings of IEEE IPCCC, New Orleans, LA, April 2007.

         49. J. Peng, L. Cheng and B. Sikdar, ``A New MAC Protocol for Wireless Packet
               Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.

         48. F. Ye, H. Yang and B. Sikdar, ``Distributed Mobility Transparent Broadcast
               in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco,
               CA, November 2006.

         47. S. Deshpande, M. Thottan, T. Ho and B. Sikdar, ```A Statistical Approach to
               Anomaly Detection in Interdomain Routing,'' Proceedings of IEEE BROADNETS,
                San Hose, CA, October 2006.

         46. R. Iyengar, V. Sharma, K. Kar and B. Sikdar, ``Analysis of Contention Based
               Multichannel MAC for Point to Multipoint Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE
               WOWMOM, Niagara Falls, NY, June 2006.

         45. F. Ye, H. Yang and B. Sikdar, ``Enhancing MAC Coordination to Boost Spatial
               Reuse in IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Istanbul,
               Turkey, June 2006.

         44. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, ``Modeling Malware Propagation in Gnutella
               Type Peer-to-Peer Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE IPDPS, Rhodes Island,
               Greece, April 2006.

         43. B. Stephenson and B. Sikdar, ``A Quasi-species Approach for Modeling the
               Dynamics of Polymorphic Worms,'' Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Barcelona,
               Spain, April 2006.

         42. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, ``SIMPLE: Using Swarm Intelligence Methodology
                to Design Data Acquisition Protocol in Sensor Networks with Mobile Sinks,'' To
                appear in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

         41. R. Iyengar, K. Kar and B. Sikdar, ``Scheduling Algorithms for PMP operation in
               IEEE 802.16 Networks
,'' Proceedings of the Workshop on Resource Allocation in
               Wireless Networks, Boston, MA, April 2006.

         40. B. Sikdar, ``Delay Analysis of IEEE 802.11 PCF MAC Based Wireless Networks,''
                Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, St. Louis, MO, November 2005.

         39. R. Iyengar, P. Iyer and B. Sikdar, ``Delay Analysis of 802.16 Based Last Mile Wireless
                Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, St. Louis, MO, November 2005.

         38. B. Sikdar, ``Queueing Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Point Coordination Function,''
               To appear in Proceedings of ITC, Beijing, China, August 2005.

         37. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, ``Swarm Intelligence Based Surveillance Protocol
                in Ad-hoc Sensor Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE VTC, Stockholm, Sweden,
                May 2005.

         36. A. Muthukrishnan and B. Sikdar, ``Power-Efficiencies of Multi-hop Paths for
                Routing in Wireless Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE VTC, Stockholm, Sweden,
                May 2005.

         35. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, ``Lightweight Target Tracking Protocol Using Ad-hoc
                Sensor Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE VTC, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005.

         34. K. Ramachandran and B. sikdar, ``An Analytic Framework for Modeling Peer to
               Peer Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, FL, March 2005.

         33. S. Deshpande and B. Sikdar, ``On the Impact of Route Processing and MRAI Timers
               on BGP Convergence Times,'' Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 1147-1151,
                Dallas, TX, November 2004.

         32. S. Deshpande, M. Thottan and B. Sikdar, ``Early Detection of BGP Instabilities
               Resulting from Internet Worm Attacks,'' Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp.
                2266-2270, Dallas, TX, November 2004.

         31. F. Ye and B. Sikdar, ``Distance-Aware Virtual Carrier Sensing for Improved Spatial
               Reuse in Wireless Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 3793-3797,
                Dallas, TX, November 2004.

         30. F. Ye and B. sikdar, ``Evaluation of Spatial Reuse in Cooperative Multiple Access
              Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE VTC, Los Angeles, CA, September 2004.

         29. O. Tickoo abd B. Sikdar, ``A Queueing Model for Finite Load IEEE 802.11 Random
              Access MAC,'' Proceedings of IEEE ICC, pp. 175-179, Paris, France, June 2004.

         28. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, ``A Dynamic Query-tree Energy Balancing Protocol
              for Sensor Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, pp. 1715 - 1720, Atlanta, GA,
                March 2004.

         27. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, ``Queueing Analysis and Delay Mitigation in IEEE 802.11
             Random Access MAC based Wireless Networks,'' To appear in the proceedings of
                IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, China, March 2004.

         26.  J. Peng and B. Sikdar, ``A Multicast Congestion Control Scheme for Mobile Ad
              Hoc Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 2860-2864, San Francisco,
                CA, December 2003.

         25.  F. Ye, S. Yi and B. Sikdar, ``Improving Spatial Reuse of IEEE 802.11 Based Ad Hoc
              Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 1013-1017, San Francisco,
                CA, December 2003.

         24.  J. Peng and B. Sikdar, ``Multicast Loss Recovery with Active Injection,''
                 Proceedings of IEEE ICCCN, pp. 81-86, Dallas, TX, October 2003.

         23.  H. Yang and B. Sikdar, ``A Protocol for Tracking Mobile Targets using Sensor
              Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and
                Applications (In conjunction with IEEE ICC), Anchogare, AK, May 2003.

         22.  R. Iyengar and B. Sikdar, ``Scalable and Distributed GPS Free Positioning for
              Sensor Networks,'' Proceedings of IEEE ICC, pp. 338-342, Anchorage, AK,
                 May, 2003.

         21.  J. Peng and B. Sikdar, ``Rate Control over Repair Traffic in Multicast,'' Proceedings
                of the 37th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March
                2003.

         20. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, ``Modeling and Analysis of Traffic Characteristics in
                IEEE 802.11 MAC Based Networks,'' Proceedings of  IEEE GLOBECOM, pp.
                67-71, Taipei, Taiwan, November, 2002.

        19.  B.  Sikdar, K. Chandrayana, K.  S. Vastola and  S. Kalyanaraman, ``On  Reducing
                the Degree of Second-Order Scaling in Network Traffic,'' Proceedings of  IEEE
                GLOBECOM, pp. 2594-2598, Taipei, Taiwan, November, 2002.

         18.  J. Peng and B. Sikdar, ``Routing-based Video Multicast Congestion Control,''
                 Proceedings  of  IFIP/IEEE  MMNS, pp. 328-340, Santa Barbara, CA, October
                 2002.

         17.  B.  Sikdar, K.  Chandrayana, K.  S. Vastola  and  S. Kalyanaraman,  ``Queue
                 management algorithms and network traffic self-similarity,'' Proceedings  of
                 IEEE HPSR, pp. 319-323, Kobe, Japan, May 2002.

         16.  K. Chandrayana, B. Sikdar  and  S. Kalyanaraman, ``Comparative  Study  of  TCP
                Compatible Binomial Congestion Control Schemes,'' Proceedings of IEEE HPSR,
                 pp. 224-228, Kobe, Japan, May 2002.

         15.  D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, ``Variable  Length  Packet Switches:  Input Queued
                 Fabrics  with  Finite Buffers:  Speedup  and  Parallelism,'' Proceedings of the 8th
                 International   Conference   on   High   Performance   Computing,   pp.   372-384,
                 Hyderabad, India, December 2001.

         14.  B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, ``Analytic models and comparative
                study of the latency and steady-state throughput of TCP Tahoe, Reno and SACK,''
                Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 1781-1787, San Antonio, TX, November
                 2001.

         13.  J.  Levy-Vehel and B.  Sikdar,  ``A  Multiplicative  Multifractal  Model  for  TCP
                Traffic,'' Proceedings  of  IEEE  ISCC,  pp. 714-719, Hammamet,  Tunisia,  July
                 2001.

         12.  T. Ye, D. Harrison, B. Mo, B. Sikdar, H. T. Kaur, S. Kalyanaraman, B. Szymanski
                 and K.  S. Vastola ,  ``Network  Management  and  Control   Using  Collaborative
                On-line  Simulation,'' Proceedings of IEEE ICC,  pp. 204-209, Helsinki,  Finland,
                 June 2001.

         11.  K. Chandrayana,  B. Sikdar  and S.  Kalyanaraman,  ``Scalable  configuration  of
                RED queue  parameters,'' Proceedings of IEEE  HPSR, pp. 185-189, Dallas,  TX,
                 May 2001.

         10. B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, ``TCP  Reno with Random  losses:
               Latency, Throughput  and  Sensitivity Analysis,'' Proceedings  of IEEE IPCCC, pp.
               188-195, Phoenix, AZ, April 2001.

           9. B. Sikdar and K. S. Vastola, ``The Effect of  TCP on the Self-Similarity of Network
               Traffic,'' Proceedings of 35th Conference  on Information  Sciences  and  Systems,
               Baltimore, MD, March 2001.

          8.  B.  Sikdar, S.  Kalyanaraman  and  K. S. Vastola, ``An  Integrated  Model  for  the
               Latency  and  Steady  State Throughput of  TCP Connections,''To  appear  in  the
                Proceedings  of IFIP Symposium on Advanced  Performance  Modeling, Orlando,
                FL, USA, November 2000.

          7. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, ``Variable  Length  Packet Switches: Delay Analysis
              of  Crossbar  Switches  Under  Poisson  and  Self Similar  Traffic,'' Proceedings  of
              IEEE INFOCOM,  pp 1055-1064, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2000.

          6. B. Sikdar and K. S. Vastola, ``On  the Convergence of  Markovian  and Fractional
              ARIMA   Processes   with   Long-Range   Dependence   to   Fractional   Brownian
              Motion,'' Proceedings  of 34th Conference on Information  Sciences  and  Systems,
               pp TP2(7-12), Princeton, NJ, USA, 2000.

          5. M. Yuksel, B. Sikdar, K. S. Vastola and B. Szymanski,  ``Workload  Generation  for
              ns simulations of wide area networks and the  Internet,'' Proc.  of  Communication
               Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, pp 93-98,
               San Diego, CA, USA, 2000.

          4. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, ``Integral  Expressions for  the  Numerical  Evaluation
              of Product Form Expressions Over Irregular Multidimensional Integer State Spaces,''
              Proceedings  of  the  1999  Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and
              Telecommunication Systems, pp 326-332, Chicago, IL, USA, 1999.

          3. B. Sikdar and D. Manjunath,  ``Queueing  Analysis of  Scheduling  Policies in Copy
              Networks of  Space Based Multicast  ATM Switches,'' Proceedings  of  the 3rd IEEE
               International Workshop on Broadband Switching  Systems, pp 3-7, Kingston,  ON,
               Canada, 1999.

          2. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, ``Input Queued Packets for Variable Length Packets:
              A Continuous Time Analysis,'' Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop
              on Broadband Switching Systems, pp 65-69, Kingston, ON, Canada, 1999.

          1. B. Sikdar and D. Manjunath, ``Evaluation of the Exact Overflow  Probabilities  in a
              Space Based Multicast Switch Copy Network,'' Proceedings of the 33rd Conference
              on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, USA, 1999.

     Invited Papers :

            1. B. Sikdar and K. S. Vastola, ``On the Contribution of  TCP  to  the Self-Similarity of
                Network Traffic,'' Lecture Notes in computer Science (Proceedings of IWDC), vol.
                2170, pp. 596-613, 2001.