Selected Recent Publications of Prof. Ken Vastola

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"Performance Modeling of 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks with Time-Varying Carrier Sense Range and Physical Capture Capability," Jin Sheng and Kenneth S. Vastola. Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (EEE GLOBECOM), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 30 - December 4, 2008. Longer version.

"An Efficient Model of 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks under a Block-fading Rayleigh Channel with Physical Layer Capture," Jin Sheng and Kenneth S. Vastola. Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (EEE GLOBECOM), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 30 - December 4, 2008. Longer version.

"Physical Carrier Sensing Outage in Single Hop IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks with Slowly Moving Stations," Jin Sheng and Kenneth S. Vastola. Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 31 - April 3, 2008.

"Performance Modeling of IEEE802.11 Ad-Hoc Networks under Slow Rayleigh Fading Channel," Jin Sheng and Kenneth S. Vastola. Currently under review.

"Technology-Independent Link Sensing in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: Benefits and Challenges," Lisa A. Shay and Kenneth S. Vastola. Chapter 14 in Mobile and Wireless Internet: Protocols, Algorithms and Systems, K. Makki et al. (Eds.), Kluwer, 2003, pp. 365-382.

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

``Minimizing Packet Loss by Optimizing OSPF Weights Using Online Simulation," H.T. Kaur, T. Ye, S. Kalyanaraman, K.S. Vastola Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analyses and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Orlando, Florida, October 12-15, 2003.

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

``Queue Management Algorithms and Network Traffic Self-Similarity," B. Sikdar, K. Chandrayana, K. S. Vastola and S. Kalyanaraman. Proceedings of IEEE HPSR, Kobe, Japan, May 2002, pp. 319-323.

``Analytic Models and Comparative Study of the Latency and Steady-State Throughput of TCP Tahoe, Reno and SACK," B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K.S. Vastola. Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2001, San Antonio, TX, November 25-29, 2001.

``On the Contribution of TCP to the Self-Similarity of Network Traffic," B. Sikdar and K.S. Vastola, in Evolutionary Trends of the Internet, S. Palazzo (Ed.), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2170, Springer-Verlag: London, 2001, pp. 596-613 (invited).

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

``Network Management and Control Using Collaborative On-line Simulation", T. Ye, S. Kalyanaraman, D. Harrison, B. Sikdar, B. Mo, H. Kaur, K. S. Vastola and B. Szymanski, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Helsinki, Finland, June 2001.

``TCP Reno with Random Losses: Latency, Throughput and Sensitivity Analysis," B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K.S. Vastola. Proceedings of IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, Arizona, April 4-6, 2001.

``The Effect of TCP on the Self-Similarity of Network Traffic," B. Sikdar and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 21-23, 2001.

``An Integrated Model for the Latency and Steady State Throughput of TCP Connections," B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, Proceedings of the 2000 IFIP Symposium on Advanced Performance Modeling (SAPM), Orlando, Florida, October--November 2000.

``Tunable Parameters for Online Control of Network Routing," H.T. Kaur and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of the SCS Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2000), Vancouver, B.C., July 2000.

``On the Convergence of Markovian and Fractional ARIMA Processes with Long-Range Dependence to Fractional Brownian Motion," B. Sikdar and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2000.

``Workload generation for ns Simulations of Wide Area Networks and the Internet," M. Yuksel, B. Sikdar, K.S. Vastola, and B. Szymanski. Proceedings of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, part of SCS Western Multiconference, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2000.

``Throughput Analysis for a Packet Radio Network Using Variable Rate OFDM Signaling," Z. Ye, G.J. Saulnier, K.S. Vastola, and M.J. Medley. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC`99), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 1999.

``A Delay Analysis of FDQ (Fair Distributed Queue) and DQDB Networks," M. Kabatepe and K.S. Vastola, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 30, No. 11, June 1998, pp. 1013-1028.

``MOVIN -- A Mobile ATM Architecture for Fast Handoff," M. Sun and K.S. Vastola. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1998.

``Reliable Transmission of High-Quality Video over ATM Networks," V. Parthasarathy, J.W. Modestino and K.S. Vastola. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Vol. 8, No. 3, March 1999, pp. 361-374.

``Design of a Transport Coding Scheme for High-Quality Video over ATM Networks," V. Parthasarathy, J.W. Modestino, and K.S. Vastola, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 7, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 358-376.

``The Fair Distributed Queue (FDQ) Protocol for High Speed Metropolitan Area Networks," M. Kabatepe and K.S. Vastola, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 4, No. 3, June 1996, pp. 331-339.

``A Simple Approximation of Multimedia Traffic with Long Term Correlation," E.T. Saulnier and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of IEEE ICC `96, Dallas, TX, June 1996, pp. 333-337.

``An Analysis of a New Carrier Sensing Scheme for Unidirectional Bus CSMA Networks," I.N. Vukovic and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of IEEE ICC `96, Dallas, TX, June 1996, pp. 1088-1092.

``Modeling Heterogeneous Sources on Multiple Time Scales," E.T. Saulnier and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM `96, San Francisco, CA, March 1996, pp. 505-512.

``Source and Channel Coding Issues on ATM Networks," V. Parthasarathy, J.W. Modestino, and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of the 7th Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications, Viareggio, Italy, Sept. 1995, Springer-Verlag, pp. 124-134.

``Bandwidth Allocation in Fair Distributed Queue (FDQ) Networks," M. Kabatepe and K.S. Vastola, Computer Communications, Butterworth-Heinemann, UK, Vol. 18, No. 8, August 1995, pp. 527-536.

``Sensing the State of Voice Sources to Improve Multiplexer Performance," S. Sibal, K. Parthasarathy, and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM `95, Boston, MA, April 1995, pp. 56-63.

``An Analysis of Nonpersistent CSMA With Power Capture in Wireless Star-Like Networks," I.N. Vukovic and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, Nov.-Dec. 1994, pp. 1375-1379.

``The Shifting Cycle-Gated (SCG) Protocol for High Speed Bus Networks," I. Ali and K.S. Vastola, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM `94, Toronto, Canada, June 1994, pp. 1112-1119.


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