Wireless Mobile and Sensor Networks
and Quality of Service

1   Research Areas

1.1   Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks

There are essentially two ways to provide QoS for network applications. One is by resource reservation from the network's viewpoint; the other is by behavior adaptation from the application's viewpoint. The focus of our research is on application's behavior adaptation as a method of QoS provision.

For an application to achieve resource reservation or behavior adaptation, it first needs to be aware of the network environment. Awareness is the basis of adaptation. The knowledge of the characteristics of the network environment is necessary as well for the resource reservation or allocation approach.

The objective of this research is to develop an architecture for wireless awareness which will enhance the performance of networked multimedia applications in heterogeneous networks. Wireless awareness is the capability of network applications to be aware of the existence and characteristics of the wireless links in the communication path.

1.2   Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

The main focus of this research is routing in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). We are particularly interested in the algorithms that scale well to the networks with very large number of nodes.

2   Funding

3   Publications

NOTE: Check for our related publications here.

2009

  1. J. Zhang, Y. P. Chen, and I. Marsic, MAC-Layer Proactive Mixing for Network Coding in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks,    Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, accepted for publication.
  2. Y. P. Chen, J. Zhang, and I. Marsic, Link-Layer-and-Above Diversity in Multihop Wireless Networks,    IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 118-124, February 2009.
    (doi:   10.1109/MCOM.2009.4785389)
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  3. Y. P. Chen, J. Zhang, and I. Marsic, Enhancing Efficiency and Effectiveness of 802.11 MAC in Wireless Mesh Networks,   Section 5.5 in Wireless Mesh Networking: With 802.16, 802.11, and ZigBEE, George Aggelou (editor), pages 284-294, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2009.
  4. B. Chen, I. Marsic, D. Faucher, C. Purzynski, R. Miller, and S. Sameer, Fast Handover for Multiple-interface Mobile Devices Connecting to a Single Foreign Agent in MIPv4 with MIH Support,   Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09), Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009.
  5. B. Chen, I. Marsic, H. R. Shao, and R. Miller, Improved Delayed ACK for TCP over Multi-hop Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2009), pp. 1-5, Budapest, Hungary, April 2009.
    (doi:   10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917747)

2008

  1. B. Chen, I. Marsic, and R. Miller, Improving TCP Performance over Multi-hop Wireless Networks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2008-Fall), Calgary, Alberta, September 2008.
    (doi:   10.1109/VETECF.2008.275)
  2. B. Chen and I. Marsic, Issues and Improvements in TCP Performance over Multihop Wireless Networks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE 2008 Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, pages 1-5, Princeton, NJ, April 2008.
    (doi:   10.1109/SARNOF.2008.4520055)
  3. J. Zhang, Y. P. Chen, and I. Marsic, BEND: MAC-Layer Proactive Mixing Protocol for Network Coding in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks,   (Poster) In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2008), pages 447-448, Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2008.
    (doi:   10.1145/1374618.1374680)
  4. J. Zhang, Y. P. Chen, and I. Marsic, Network Coding Via Opportunistic Forwarding in Wireless Mesh Networks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2008), pages 1775-1780, Las Vegas, NV, March/April 2008.
    (doi:   10.1109/WCNC.2008.316)

2007

  1. J. Zhang, Y. P. Chen, and I. Marsic, MAC Scheduling Using Channel State Diversity for High-Throughput IEEE802.11 Mesh Networks,    IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp. 94-99, November 2007.
    (doi:   10.1109/MCOM.2007.4378327)
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  2. J. Zhang, Y. P. Chen, and I. Marsic, Persistent Pseudo-Clearance Problem in IEEE802.11 Mesh Networks and its Multicast Based Solutions,   In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2007), pages 1-6, Princeton, NJ, June 2007.
    (doi:   10.1109/LANMAN.2007.4295966)
  3. F.-Y. Hung and I. Marsic, Access Delay Analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF in the Presence of Hidden Stations,   In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2007), pages 2541-2545, Washington, DC, November 2007.
    (doi:   10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.483)
  4. F.-Y. Hung and I. Marsic, Analysis of Non-Saturation and Saturation Performance of IEEE 802.11 DCF in the Presence of Hidden Stations,   In Proceedings of the IEEE 65th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2007-Fall), pages 230-234, Baltimore, MD, September 2007.
    (doi:   10.1109/VETECF.2007.62)
  5. F.-Y. Hung and I. Marsic, Effectiveness of Physical and Virtual Carrier Sensing in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2007), pages 143-147, Hong Kong, March, 2007.
    (doi:   10.1109/WCNC.2007.32)

2006

  1. S. Faizullah and I. Marsic, Measuring and Pricing QoS,     International Journal of Computers and Applications (ACTA Press / IASTED), Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 189-209, 2006.
    (doi:   10.2316/Journal.202.2006.3.202-1575)
  2. F.-Y. Hung and I. Marsic, Performance Modeling and Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function in Presence of Hidden Stations,    In Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2006), pages 1-7, Washington, DC, October 2006.
    (doi:   10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302210)
  3. J. Zhang, Y. P. Chen, and I. Marsic, Adaptive MAC Scheduling Using Channel State Diversity for Wireless Networks,    In Proceedings of the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking, and Mobile Computing (WiCOM-2006), pages 1-4, Wuhan, China, September 2006.
    (doi:   10.1109/WiCOM.2006.330)
  4. J. Zhang and I. Marsic, Link Quality and Signal-to-Noise Ratio in 802.11 WLAN with Fading: A Time-Series Analysis,    In Proceedings of the IEEE 64th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2006-Fall), "Modeling and Simulation of Mobile Wireless Systems", pages 1-5, Montreal, Canada, September 2006.
    (doi:   10.1109/VTCF.2006.450)

2004

  1. S. Muthuswamy, I. Marsic, and A. Annamalai, New Methods for Estimating/Forecasting Link Bandwidths in 802.11b WLANs,    In Proceedings of the IEEE 60th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2004-Fall), "Wireless Technologies for Global Security", Vol. 2, pages 1163-1168, Los Angeles, CA, September 2004.
  2. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, Hierarchical Routing Overhead in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 46-56, January-March 2004.
    (doi:   10.1109/TMC.2004.1261816)
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2003

  1. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Modeling and Prediction of Session Throughput of Constant Bit Rate Streams in Wireless Data Networks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2003), Vol. 3, pages 1733-1741, New Orleans, LA, March 16-20, 2003.
  2. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, A Query Scope Agent for Flood Search Routing Protocols,   Wireless Networks: The Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information, ACM / Kluwer Academic Press, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 623-636, November 2003.
    (doi:   10.1023/A:1025908518800)
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  3. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, Capacity Compatible 2-Level Link State Routing for Ad Hoc Networks with Mobile Clusterheads,   In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2003), Vol. 2, pages 1196-1201, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
  4. J. Zhang, L. Cheng, and I. Marsic, Models for Non-intrusive Estimation of Wireless Link Bandwidth,   In Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 8th International Conference on Personal Wireless Communication Conference (PWC 2003), pages 334-348, Venice, Italy, September 2003.

2002

  1. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Accurate Bandwidth Measurement in xDSL Networks,     Computer Communications (Elsevier), Vol.25, No.18, pp.1699-1710, 1 December 2002.   ( 370 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )     (doi:   10.1016/S0140-3664(02)00104-4)
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  2. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Java-Based Accurate Bandwidth Measurement Tools for Digital Subscriber Line Networks,     Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IOS Press), Vol.9, No.4, pp.333-344, 2002. [Special issue on Quality of Service in ATM Networks]   ( 270 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )
  3. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Piecewise Network Awareness Service for Wireless/Mobile Pervasive Computing,     Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), ACM / Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol.7, No.4, pp. 269-278, August 2002.   ( 280 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )     (doi:   10.1023/A:1015459227426)
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  4. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Lightweight Models for Prediction of Wireless Link Dynamics in Wireless/Mobile Local Area Networks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, pages 98-101, Ewing, NJ, March 13, 2002.
    [Student Paper/Poster Prize]
  5. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, Capacity Compatible Two-level Link State Routing for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks,   In Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2002), pages 507-512, Anaheim, CA, October 7-10, 2002.
  6. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, Clustering Overhead for Hierarchical Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks,   In Proceedings of The 21st Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (Infocom 2002), New York, NY, June 23-27, 2002.   ( 200 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )
  7. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, Location Management Handoff Overhead in Hierarchically Organized Mobile Ad hoc Networks,   In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Issues in Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (IPDPS 2002 WORKSHOPS), Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 15-19, 2002.   ( 200 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )
  8. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, Location Management for Hierarchically Organized Mobile Ad hoc Networks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2002), pages 603-607, Orlando, FL, March 17-21, 2002.   ( 200 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )

2001

  1. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Bandwidth Measurement in xDSL Networks,   In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on ATM (ICATM2001), pages 222-226, Seoul, Korea, April 23-25, 2001.
  2. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Fuzzy Reasoning for Wireless Awareness,     International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Vol.8, No.1, pp. 15-26, January 2001.   ( 290 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )
    (doi:   10.1023/A:1011329512150)
  3. S. Faizullah and I. Marsic, Charging for QoS in Internetworks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE GlobeCom 2001, San Antonio, TX, November 2001.
  4. S. Faizullah and I. Marsic, QoS Guarantees and Security in Future Internetworks,   In Proceedings of The Fifth Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2001), pages 46-51, Orlando, FL, July 2001.
  5. S. Faizullah and I. Marsic, An Architecture for Guaranteeing QoS and Charging in Future Internetworks,   In Proceedings of the IASTED International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE'2001), pages 202-208, Las Vegas, NV, June 2001.
  6. S. Faizullah and I. Marsic, Pricing QoS: Simulation and Analysis,   In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Simulation Symposium (ASTC 2001), pages 193-199, Seattle, WA, April 2001.
  7. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, An Application of Parameter Estimation to Route Discovery By On-Demand Routing Protocols,   In Proceedings of The 21st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-21), pages 207-216, Phoenix, AZ, April 16-19, 2001.   ( 145 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )

2000

  1. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Lightweight Service Discovery and Invocation for Mobile Ad Hoc Networked Appliances,   In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA'2000), New Brunswick, NJ, December 2000.
  2. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, User-domain Multiservice Architecture for Wired and Wireless IP Networks,   In Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN'2000), pages 272-282, Colmar, France, October 2000.
  3. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Wireless Awareness for Multimedia Applications,   In Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication Technologies (ICCT2000), pages 1376-1382, Beijing, China, August 2000.
  4. L. Cheng and I. Marsic, Multi-level reliability in multimedia over heterogeneous networks,   In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME-2000), pages 501-504, New York, August 2000.
  5. L. Cheng, A. Wanchoo, and I. Marsic, Hybrid Cluster Computing with Mobile Objects,   In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference/Exhibition on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific (HPC-Asia 2000), pages 909-914, Beijing, China, May 14-17, 2000.   ( 190 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )
  6. S. Faizullah and I. Marsic, A Pricing Framework for QoS Capable Internet,   In Proceedings of the 12th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2000), pages 569-577 (Volume 2), Las Vegas, NV, November 2000.
  7. J. Sucec and I. Marsic, An Efficient Distributed Network-Wide Broadcast Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,   CAIP Technical Report #248, CAIP Center, Rutgers University, September 2000.   ( 120 Kbytes, Acrobat PDF file )   cite

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