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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Dissertations

2013

• Byzantine Vector Consensus in Complete Graphs, Nitin Vaidya and Vijay Garg, Technical Report, February 2013. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Token-DCF: An Opportunistic MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks, Ghazale Hosseinabadi and Nitin Vaidya, the 5th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), January 2013.
  
  
• Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus under a Generalized Fault Model, Lewis Tseng and Nitin Vaidya, ICDCN, January 2013. (reviews)
  Technical report version, May 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  

2012

• A new "direction" for source location privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks, Shehla Rana and Nitin Vaidya, Globecom, December 2012
  
  
• Exact Byzantine Consensus in Directed Graphs, Lewis Tseng and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, October 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  Revised version (Feb. 2013) is available here.
  A previous version (Sep. 2012) is available here.
  
  
• Broadcast Using Certified Propagation Algorithm in Presence of Byzantine Faults, Lewis Tseng, Nitin Vaidya, and Vartika Bhandari, Technical Report, September 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Resilient Average Consensus in the Presence of Heterogeneous Packet Dropping Links, Christoforos N. Hadjicostis, Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, and Nitin H. Vaidya, CDC, 2012. (reviews)
  
  
• Robust Consensus over Unreliable Links: Analysis Using Coefficients of Ergodicity, Nitin H. Vaidya, Christoforos N. Hadjicostis, and Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, CDC, 2012. (reviews)
  
  
• Parameter-independent Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus, Lewis Tseng and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus in Arbitrary Directed Graphs, Nitin Vaidya, Lewis Tseng, and Guanfeng Liang, ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS PODC, July 2012. (reviews)
  Technical report version, January 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Byzantine Broadcast in Point-to-Point Networks using Local Linear Coding, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS PODC, July 2012. (reviews)
  Technical report version, November 2011. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Watchdogs to the rescue: Securing Wireless TCP, Shehla Rana and Nitin Vaidya. IEEE SECON, June 2012.
  
  
• Exploiting Opportunistic Overhearing to Improve Performance of Mutual Exclusion in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Ghazale Hosseinabadi and Nitin Vaidya, the 10th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC), June 2012.
  
  
• Byzantine Broadcast Under a Selective Broadcast Model for Single-hop Wireless Networks, Lewis Tseng and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, May 2012.
  
  
• Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus under a Generalized Fault Model, Lewis Tseng and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, May 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Network-Aware Mechanisms for Tolerating Byzantine Failures in Distributed Systems, Guanfeng Liang, Ph.D. Thesis, 2012.
  
  
• Traffic-aware Channel Allocation and Routing in Multichnanel, Multi-radio Wireless Networks, Vijay Raman, Ph.D. Thesis, 2012.
  
  
• Matrix Representation of Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus in Directed Graphs, Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus in Arbitrary Directed Graphs - Part II: Synchronous and Asynchronous Systems, Nitin Vaidya, Lewis Tseng, and Guanfeng Liang, Technical Report, February 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Token-DCF: An Opportunistic MAC protocol for Wireless Networks, Ghazale Hosseinabadi and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, February 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus in Arbitrary Directed Graphs, Nitin Vaidya, Lewis Tseng, and Guanfeng Liang, Technical Report, January 2012. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Experimental Performance Comparison of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols for Data Centers, Guanfeng Liang, Benjamin Sommer and Nitin Vaidya, to appear in the IEEE INFOCOM, March 2012. (reviews)
  
  
• Capacity of Byzantine Consensus in Capacity Limited Point-to-Point Networks, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, the 4th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), January 2012.
  
  

2011

• Exploiting Opportunistic Overhearing to Improve Performance of Mutual Exclusion in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Ghazale Hosseinabadi and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, December 2011.
  
  
• Byzantine Broadcast in Point-to-Point Networks using Local Linear Coding, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, November 2011. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Unified Cross-Layer Framework: A Generic Platform for Cross-Layer Design Experimentation, Lu-Chuan Kung, Master's Thesis, 2011.


• Hiding Switching Delay and Improving Broadcast Efficiency in Multichannel Multi-Interface Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Xavier Franco, Master's Thesis, 2011.


• Distributed Algorithms for Consensus and Coordination in the Presence of Packet-Dropping Communication Links - Part II: Coefficients of Ergodicity Analysis Approach, Nitin H. Vaidya, Christoforos N. Hadjicostis, and Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, Technical Report, September 2011. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Distributed Algorithms for Consensus and Coordination in the Presence of Packet-Dropping Communication Links - Part I: Statistical Moments Analysis Approach, Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, Christoforos N. Hadjicostis, and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, September 2011. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Multiparty Equality Function Computation in Networks with Point-to-Point Links, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, the 18th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), June 2011.
  
  
• Error-Free Multi-Valued Consensus with Byzantine Failures, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS PODC, June 2011. (reviews)
  Technical report version, January 2011. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• WiSP: A Protocol for Overcoming MAC Overheads Using Packet Size Dependent Channel Widths, Vijay Raman and Nitin Vaidya, IEEE SECON, June 2011. (reviews)
  
  
• Capacity of Byzantine Agreement with Finite Link Capacity, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, IEEE INFOCOM, April 2011. (reviews)
  
  
• Capacity of Byzantine Consensus with Capacity-Limited Point-to-Point Links, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2011.
  
  

2010

• Creating Subchannels to Improve Throughput in Wireless Communication, Brian Proulx, Master's Thesis, 2010.


• Efficient Access Algorithms for Dynamic Many-tag Passive RFID Storage Systems, Victor K. Y. Wu, Nitin Vaidya, and Roy H. Campbell, Technical Report, November 2010.
  
  
• Overcoming MAC Overheads Using Packet Size Dependent Channel Widths, Vijay Raman, Fan Wu, and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, November 2010.
  
  
• A Channel Allocation Algorithm for Opportunistic Routing in Multichannel, Multi-Radio, Wireless Mesh Networks, Fan Wu, Vijay Raman, and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, November 2010.
  
  
• Multiparty Equality Function Computation in Networks with Point-to-Point Links, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, October 2010. (Also on arXiv)
  
  
• Capacity of Byzantine Agreement: Summary of Recent Results, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, S3 Workshop, MobiCom, September 2010.
  
  
• Exploiting Wireless Broadcast Property to Improve Performance of Mutual Exclusion, Ghazale Hosseinabadi and Nitin Vaidya, N2Women Workshop, MobiCom, September 2010.
  
  
• Brief Announcement: Capacity of Byzantine Agreement with Finite Link Capacity - Complete Characterization of Four-Node Networks, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, ACM PODC, July 2010.
  
  
• Deterministic Consensus Algorithm with Linear Per-Bit Complexity, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2010. (also on arXiv)
  
  
• Experimental Characterization of 802.11n Link Quality at High Rates, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Theodoros Salonidis, Henrik Lundgren, and Nitin Vaidya, to appear in the proceedings of WiNTECH, September 2010.
  
  
• Short Note on Complexity of Multi-Value Byzantine Agreement, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, July 2010. (also on arXiv)
  
  
• Complexity of Multi-Valued Byzantine Agreement, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, June 2010. (also on arXiv)
  A more recent manuscript (with some minor corrections) is available here.
  
  
• Capacity of Byzantine Agreement: Complete Characterization of Four-Node Networks, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, April 2010.
  A more recent manuscript (with some minor corrections) is available here.
  This report supersedes the following:
  • Capacity of Byzantine Agreement: Tight Bound for the Four Node Network, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, February 2010.
  • Comments on "Capacity of Byzantine Agreement", Guanfeng Liang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, January 2010.
  • Capacity of Byzantine Agreement (Preliminary Draft - Work in Progress), Nitin Vaidya and Guanfeng Liang, Technical Report, January 2010.
  
  
• Selfish Misbehavior in the Optimal Cross-Layered Rate Control of Wireless Networks, Ghazale Hosseinabadi and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2010.
  
  
• A Distributed Throughput-Optimal CSMA/CA, Tae Hyun Kim, Jian Ni and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2010.
  
  
• SHORT:A Static-Hybrid Approach for Routing Real Time Applications over Multichannel, Multi-Radio Wireless Networks, Vijay Raman and Nitin H. Vaidya, Recipient of the Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC), June 2010.(reviews)
  
  
• When Watchdog Meets Coding, Guanfeng Liang, Rachit Agarwal and Nitin Vaidya, IEEE INFOCOM, March 2010.
  
  
• On Providing Non-uniform Scheduling Guarantees in a Wireless Network, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report (revised version of original tech-report  Differentiated Performance Analysis of Maximal Scheduling in a Wireless Network dated March 2009). A version will appear in IEEE Infocom 2010 Mini-conference.
  
  
• Scheduling in Multi-channel Wireless Networks, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Recipient of the Best Paper Award in ICDCN 2010
  
  

2009

• Short Notes on Communication with Byzantine Node Failures: Part I, Rachit Agarwal, Guanfeng Liang, and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, November 2009

• An Efficient Multicasting for Multi-Channel Multi-Interface Wireless Mesh Networks, Sung-Hwa Lim, Cheolgi Kim, Young-Bae Ko, and Nitin H. Vaidya, IEEE MILCOM, October 2009 (reviews)

• Cooperation Helps Power Saving, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin H. Vaidya, IEEE MASS, October 2009 (reviews)

• On the mobile wireless access via MIMO relays, Tae Hyun Kim, Nitin H. Vaidya and Young-Bae Ko, IEEE PIMRC, Sept. 2009 (reviews)
  
  
• Secure Capacity of Wireless Broadcast Networks, Guanfeng Liang, Rachit Agarwal, and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, September 2009

• A Static-Hybrid Apporach for Providing Low Delay Routing for Real Time Applications, Vijay Raman and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2009.

• When WatchDog Meets Coding II (revised), Guanfeng Liang, Rachit Agarwal, and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, July 2009 (older version available here)

• Adjacent Channel Interference Reduction in Multichannel Wireless Networks Using Intelligent Channel Allocation, Vijay Raman and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2009 [Older version: March 2009].

• IEEE 802.11 WLAN for Medical-grade QoS, Kyunj-Joon Park, Deepesh M. Shrestha, Young-Bae Ko, Nitin H. Vaidya, and Lui Sha, ACM WiMD, May 2009

• When WatchDog Meets Coding, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, May 2009

• Distributed RFID tag storage infrastructure, Victor K. Y. Wu, M. Montanari, N. H. Vaidya and R. H. Cambell, Technical Report, May 2009.

• A Framework for Dynamic Contention Window Adaptation for the Net-X System, Shehla Saleem Rana, Master's Thesis, 2009

• Cooperation Helps Power Saving, Guanfeng Liang and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, April 2009

• RFID Trees: A Distributed RFID Tag Storage Infrastructure to Backtrack Hikers in a Forest, Victor K. Y. Wu, Nitin H. Vaidya, and Roy H. Campbell, Technical Report, April 2009

• Adjacent Channel Interference Reduction in Multichannel Wireless Networks Using Intelligent Channel Allocation, Vijay Raman and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2009 [Newer version: August 2009]

• Channel and Interface Management in a Heterogeneous Multi-Channel Multi-Radio Wireless Network, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2009

• A Result on Hybrid Scheduling in Wireless Networks, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2009

• Differentiated Performance Analysis of Maximal Scheduling in a Wireless Network, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2009
  
  
• Mobile wireless access via MIMO relays, Tae Hyun Kim, Nitin H. Vaidya, and Young-Bae Ko, Technical Report, Feb. 2009.

• Learning-Based Interference Mitigation for Wireless Networks, Chun-cheng Chen, Ph.D. Thesis, 2009

2008

• OCP: Opportunistic Carrier Prediction for Wireless Networks, Chun-cheng Chen and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2008

• Dealing with Adjacent Channel Interference Effects in Multichannel, Multi-interface Wireless Networks, Vijay Raman, Master's Thesis, 2008

• Performance of Wireless Networks subject to Constraints and Failures, Vartika Bhandari, Ph.D. Thesis, 2008

• Dynamic Spatial Backoff in Fading Environments, Zhongning Chen, Xue Yang, and Nitin H. Vaidya, in IEEE MASS 2008 (reviews)

• Experiments on a Multichannel Multi-Interface Wireless Mesh Network, Thomas Shen, Master's Thesis, May 2008

• Experiments on a Multichannel Multi-Interface Wireless Mesh Network, Thomas Shen and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, May 2008

• Repeatability of Illinois Wireless Wind Tunnel, Yuhao Zheng and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, May 2008

• Secure Capacity of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Random Key Pre-distribution, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, in IEEE Workshop on Mission Critical Networking (MCN) 2008

• Scheduling in Multi-Channel Wireless Networks with Limited Information, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, February 2008

• Resource Allocation in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, Simone Merlin, Nitin H. Vaidya, and Michele Zorzi, in IEEE INFOCOM 2008.

2007

• Secure Capacity of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Random Key Pre-distribution, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, December 2007

• Expanding Horizon and Capture Effect in RFID Systems, Charles-Francois Natali and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, December 2007

• A Spatial Backoff Algorithm Using the Joint Control of Carrier Sense Threshold and Transmission Rate, Xue Yang and Nitin H. Vaidya, IEEE SECON 2007 (reviews)

• Reliable Broadcast in Wireless Networks with Probabilistic Failures, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, December 2007
  (This report supercedes the tech-report "Reliable Broadcast in Wireless Networks with Probabilistic Failures" dated January 2007. It also contains additional results not in the identically-titled INFOCOM paper.)

• Heterogeneous Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Scheduling and Routing Issues, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, October 2007

• Reliable Local Broadcast in a Wireless Network Prone to Byzantine Failures, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, in DIALM-POMC 2007

• Resource Allocation in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, Simone Merlin, Nitin H. Vaidya, and Michele Zorzi, July 2007.

• Capacity of Multi-Channel Wireless Networks with Random (c, f) Assignment, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, recipient of the Best Student Paper Award in ACM MobiHoc 2007
  Extended version: Technical Report, June 2007(Old versions: January 2007, October 2006)

• Connectivity and Capacity of Multi-Channel Wireless Networks with Channel Switching Constraints, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, in IEEE INFOCOM 2007
  Extended Version: Technical Report, January 2007 (An old version dated Aug. 2006)

• Reliable Broadcast in Wireless Networks with Probabilistic Failures, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, in IEEE INFOCOM 2007

• Capacity of Multi-Channel Wireless Networks with Random Channel Assignment: A Tight Bound, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya , Technical Report, October 2006

• Capacity of MultiChannel Wireless Networks: Impact of Channels, Interfaces and Interface Switching Delay, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, October 2006 (extended and revised version of MobiCom 2005 paper)

• Net-X: System eXtensions for Supporting Multiple Channels, Multiple Interfaces, and Other Interface Capabilities, Pradeep Kyasanur, Chandrakanth Chereddi, and Nitin H. Vaidya , Technical Report, August 2006

• Connectivity and Capacity of Multi-Channel Wireless Networks with Channel Switching Constraints, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya , Technical Report, August 2006 (Revised September 2006)

• RFID-Based Networks -� Exploiting Diversity and Redundancy, Nitin H. Vaidya and Samir R. Das , Technical Report, June 2006

• Reliable Broadcast in Radio Networks: The Bounded Collision Case, Chiu-Yuen Koo, Vartika Bhandari, Jonathan Katz, and Nitin H. Vaidya, in ACM PODC 2006

• Design and Implementation of a Multi-Channel Multi-Interface Network, Chandrakanth Chereddi, Pradeep Kyasanur, and Nitin H. Vaidya, REALMAN 2006, May 2006 ( slides )

• On Designing MAC Protocols for Wireless Networks using Directional Antennas, Romit Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang, Ram Ramanathan and Nitin H. Vaidya to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, accepted December 2004.

• Leveraging Channel Diversity for Key Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, Infocom 2006, April 2006 (PS)

• Multi-Channel Mesh Networks: Challenges and Protocols, Pradeep Kyasanur, Jungmin So, Chandrakanth Chereddi, and Nitin H. Vaidya, (invited paper) in IEEE Wireless Communications, April 2006

• Spatial Backoff Contention Resolution for Wireless Networks, Xue Yang and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2006

• Routing and Link-layer Protocols for Multi-Channel Multi-Interface Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin H. Vaidya, in SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Volume 10, Number 1, pages 31-43, January 2006

• Leveraging Channel Diversity for Key Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, December 2005 (PS)

• Protocol Design Challenges for Multi-hop Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin H. Vaidya, short paper in IEEE DySpan, Baltimore, MD, November 2005

• Improving Power Save Protocols Using Carrier Sensing for Dynamic Advertisement Window, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, MASS 2005, November 2005 (PS)

• Reliable Broadcast in a Wireless Grid Network with Probabilistic Failures, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, October 2005 (Minor revision in Feb. 2006. Original Version)
  (This report includes results from the following Technical Report, as well as some new results:
Connectivity and Coverage in Failure-Prone Wireless Grid Networks, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, September 2005)

• Mesh Networking Protocols to Exploit Physical Layer Capabilities, Pradeep Kyasanur, Xue Yang, and Nitin H. Vaidya, (invited paper) in First IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks, held in conjunction with SECON, Santa Clara, CA, September 2005

• An Errata for Delay Efficient Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks, Matthew J. Miller, Technical Report, September 2005 (PS)

• Capacity of Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Impact of Number of Channels and Interfaces, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin H. Vaidya, in ACM Mobicom, Cologne, Germany, August 2005
  NOTE: An alternative construction to prove the lower bound on capacity, using row-column routing instead of straight-line routing, is included in the longer and revised version of this MobiCom paper.

• Spatial Backoff in Wireless Networks, Xue Yang and Nitin H. Vaidya, SIGCOMM 2005 Work in Progress session, August 2005 (ABSTRACT and SLIDES ).

• Implementing a Reliable Local Broadcast Primitive in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, July 2005

• On Reliable Broadcast in a Radio Network: A Simplified Characterization, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, May 2005

• On Reliable Broadcast in a Radio Network, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, May 2005 (PS). (Revised from earlier technical report dated February 2005)

• Routing and Link-layer Protocols for Multi-Channel Multi-Interface Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, May 2005 (This report differs from the protocols in report "Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Capacity and Protocols" by presenting a new routing metric, more protocol details, and simulation results for the new metric.)

• Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Capacity and Protocols, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, April 2005
(This report supercedes the earlier technical report: Routing in Multi-Channel Multi-Interface Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin H. Vaidya, December 2004)

• Routing and Channel Assignment in Multi-Channel Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Single Network Interface, Jungmin So and Nitin H. Vaidya, in The Second International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine), August 2005. (A Revised Version from a Technical Report in December 2004)

• Capture-Aware Protocols for Wireless Multihop Networks Using Multi-Beam Directional Antennas, Romit Roy Choudhury and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, March, 2005.

• Power Aware Routing using Power Control in Ad Hoc Networks, Eun-Sun Jung and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, February 2005

• On Reliable Broadcast in a Radio Network, Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, February 2005 (PS). (A version will appear in ACM PODC 2005)

• On the Physical Carrier Sense in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks,
  Xue Yang and Nitin H. Vaidya, in IEEE INFOCOM 2005.

• A Power Control MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Network ,
  Eun-Sun Jung and Nitin H. Vaidya, accepted for publication in Wireless Networks (WINET), to appear in 2005.

• Improving Power Save Protocols Using Carrier Sensing and Busy-Tones for Dynamic Advertisement Window, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, December 2004 (PS)

• Split-channel Pipelined Packet Scheduling for Wireless Networks,
  Xue Yang, Nitin H. Vaidya and Priya Ravichandran, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (November 2004)

• A Wireless MAC Protocol Using Implicit Pipelining ,
  Xue Yang and Nitin H. Vaidya, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (October 2004)

• Selecting Transmit Powers and Carrier Sense Thresholds for CSMA Protocols,
  Jason Fuemmeler, Nitin H. Vaidya and Venugopal V. Veeravalli, Technical Report, October 2004

• A Routing Protocol for Utilizing Multiple Channels in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with a Single Transceiver,
  Jungmin So and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, October 2004

• MTSF: A Timing Synchronization Protocol to Support Synchronous Operations in MultiHop Wireless Networks,
  Jungmin So and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, October 2004 (Revised from a technical report in January 2004)

• Routing and Interface Assignment in Multi-Channel Multi-Interface Wireless Networks,
  Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, October 2004 (A version will appear in WCNC 2005)

• Power Save Mechanisms for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, BroadNets 2004, October 2004 (PS) (PowerPoint slides)

• Deafness: A MAC Problem in Ad Hoc Networks when using Directional Antennas,
  Romit Roy Choudhury and N. H. Vaidya, 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, October, 2004.

• A Mix Route Algorithm for Mix-Net in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,
  S. Jiang, N. H. Vaidya and W. Zhao, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), October 2004.

• Some Analytical Results on Rate-Controlled Many-to-One Communication over Two Hops,
  Vartika Bhandari and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2004 (PS)

• De-Randomizing" Congestion Losses To Improve TCP Performance over Wired-Wireless Networks, Saad Biaz and Nitin H. Vaidya, accepted for publication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 2004.

• Using Carrier Sensing to Improve the Energy Consumption of Sensor Network Wake-Up Protocols, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2004 (PS)

• Illinois Wireless Wind Tunnel: A Testbed for Experimental Evaluation of Wireless Networks,
  N. H. Vaidya, J. Bernhard, V. Veeravalli, P. R. Kumar, R. Iyer, Technical Report, August 2004 (a version of this paper will appear at the E-Wind workshop at SIGCOMM 2005).

• A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocol for Cooperative Collision Warning ,
  Xue Yang, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao and Nitin Vaidya, the First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2004), August 2004.

• Priority Scheduling in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,
  Xue Yang and Nitin Vaidya, accepted for publication in Wireless Networks (WINET), July 2004.

• Distributed Fair Scheduling in a Wireless LAN,
  Nitin Vaidya, Anurag Dugar, Seema Gupta, Victor Bahl, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, July 2004.

• On the Physical Carrier Sense in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ,
  Xue Yang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2004.

• Improving IEEE 802.11 Power Saving Mechanism, Eun-Sun Jung and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, July 2004

• A MAC Protocol to Reduce Sensor Network Energy Consumption Using a Wakeup Radio, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, June 2004 (PS)

On-Demand TDMA Scheduling for Energy Conservation in Sensor Networks, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, June 2004 (PS)

• A Wakeup Scheme for Sensor Networks: Achieving Balance between Energy Saving and End-to-end Delay ,
  Xue Yang and Nitin Vaidya, 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2004), May 2004. Slides

• Multi-Channel MAC for Ad Hoc Networks: Handling Multi-Channel Hidden Terminals Using A Single Transceiver,
  Jungmin So and Nitin Vaidya, ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc),
  May 2004. Slides

• Selfish MAC Layer Misbehavior in Wireless Networks (PS),
  Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin Vaidya, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (April 2004)

• Minimizing Energy Consumption in Sensor Networks Using A Wakeup Radio, Matthew J. Miller and Nitin H. Vaidya, WCNC 2004, March 2004 (PS) (PowerPoint slides)

• A Routing Protocol for K-Hop Networks, William List and Nitin Vaidya, WCNC 2004, March 2004 (PowerPoint slides)

• The Utility of Explicit Rate-Based Flow Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Kai Chen, Klara Nahrstedt and Nitin Vaidya, WCNC 2004, March 2004

• TCP-DCR: A novel protocol for tolerating wireless channel errors, Sumitha Bhandarkar, Nauzad Sadry, A. L. Narasimha Reddy and Nitin Vaidya, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (February 2004)

• Distributed Token Circulation on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Navneet Malpani, Yu Chen, Nitin Vaidya and Jennifer Welch, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (February 2004)

• Efficient Content Location in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Jivodar Tchakarov and Nitin Vaidya, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), January 2004 (PowerPoint slides)

• A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocol for Cooperative Collision Warning, Xue Yang, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2003

• Explicitly Pipelining IEEE 802.11 to Enhance Performance, Priya Ravichandran, MS Thesis, December 2003 (PS)

• Minimizing Energy Consumption in Sensor Networks Using A Wakeup Radio, Matthew J. Miller, MS Thesis, November 2003 (PS)

• De-Randomizing Congestion Losses to Improve TCP Performance over Wired-Wireless Networks, Saad Biaz and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, November 2003

• A Wakeup Scheme for Sensor Networks: Achieving Balance Between Energy Saving and End-to-End Delay , Xue Yang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report (July 2003)

• Deafness: A MAC Layer Problem in Ad Hoc Networks when Using Directional Antennas, Romit Roy Choudhury and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, July 2003

• MAC-Layer Anycasting in Wireless Ad Hoc NetworksRomit Roy Choudhury and Nitin Vaidya, The 2nd workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets II), MIT, Nov, 2003

• Detection and Handling of MAC Layer Misbehavior in Wireless Networks, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin Vaidya, Dependable Computing and Communications Symposium (DCC) at the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) , June 2003. Extended version of paper - Oct 2003, ns-2 source code for paper and extended version

• Impact of Directional Antennas on Ad Hoc Routing, Romit Roy Choudhury and Nitin Vaidya, Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communication (PWC), Venice, September 2003.

• Location Tracking with Quorums in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Hyunyoung Lee, Jennifer L. Welch, and Nitin H. Vaidya, Ad Hoc Networks journal (Elsevier Science), November 2003.

• Explicit and Implicit Pipelining for Wireless Medium Access Control, Xue Yang and Nitin Vaidya, VTC 2003

• Is the Round-Trip Time Correlated With the Number of Packets in Flight? (Extended Abstract), Saad Biaz and Nitin Vaidya, Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2003.

• Efficient Content Location in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, J. Tchakarov and Nitin Vaidya, June 2003. (For more details, see Tchakarov's thesis).

• A Hybrid Network Implementation to Extend Infrastructure Reach, Matthew J. Miller, William D. List and Nitin H. Vaidya, Technical Report, January 2003.

• A Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, J. So and N. H. Vaidya, Technical Report, January 2003.

• Weak Duplicate Address Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Nitin Vaidya, ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), June 2002. (PowerPoint slides)

• Priority Scheduling in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Xue Yang and Nitin Vaidya, ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), June 2002 (PDF) (PowerPoint slides)

• A Power Control MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks, Eun-Sun Jung and Nitin Vaidya, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), September 2002.

• Using Directional Antennas for Medium Access Control in Ad Hoc Networks, Romit Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang, Ram Ramanathan, and Nitin Vaidya, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), September 2002. (slides)

• A Power Saving MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks, Eun-Sun Jung and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, July 2002.

• Ad Hoc Routing Using Directional Antennas, R. Roy Choudhury and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2002.

• Pipelined Packet Scheduling in Wireless LANs, Xue Yang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, March 2002 (revised August 2002).

• DSCR: A More Stable MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks, Xue Yang and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2002.

• Diagnosing and Penalizing MAC Layer Misbehavior in Wireless Networks, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, December 2002.

• Detection and Handling of MAC Layer Misbehavior in Wireless Networks, Pradeep Kyasanur and Nitin Vaidya, Technical Report, August 2002.

• An Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless LANs, Eun-Sun Jung and Nitin Vaidya, IEEE INFOCOM, June 2002. An error was detected in the simulation model used in this paper, which affects the results. We hope to release an updated version here in the future.

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