Index Group
Illinois Network Design and Experimentation
People
Projects
Publications
Software
Demos
Links
Seminar
Facility
News
Members Only

List all publications in all research areas.


Wireless Ad-hoc Networks


Book / Book Chapter

  • Jennifer C. Hou, Kyung-Joon Park, Tae-Suk Kim, and Lu-Chuan Kung, Medium access control and routing protocols for wireless mesh networks, Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications, Ekram Hossain and Kin K. Leung (Eds), Springer, 2007.


    Journal / Magazine

  • Rong Zheng, Ye Ge, Jennifer C. Hou, and Sandy R. Thuel, A case for mobility support with temporary home agents, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 6, num. 1, pp. 32-47, January 2002. (note: A preliminary version appeared in IEEE IC3N 2001, October 2001) pdf

  • Wei-Peng Chen, Yung-Ching Hsiao, Jennifer C. Hou, Ye Ge, and Mike Fitz, Syndrome: A light-weight approach to improving TCP performance in mobile wireless networks, The Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2, pp. 37-57, February 2002. pdf

  • Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, Improving protocol capacity with model-based frame scheduling in IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special issue on design, implementation and analysis of communication protocols, vol. 22, num. 10, pp. 1987-2003, December 2004.

  • Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, Optimal block design for asynchronous wakeup and its applications in multi-hop wireless networks, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, vol. 5, num. 9, pp. 1228-1241, September 2006.

  • Chunyu Hu, Rong Zheng, and Jennifer C. Hou, A microscopic study of power management in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks, International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, special issue on Medium Access Control for WLANs, WPANs, Ad Hoc Networks, and Sensor Networks, June 2005 (to appear).

  • Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, Performance analysis of power management policies in wireless networks, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, num. 6, pp. 1351-1362, June 2006.

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Localized fault-tolerant topology control in wireless ad hoc networks, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, special issue on Localized communication and topology protocols for ad hoc networks, vol. 17, num. 4, April 2006.

  • Hwangnam Kim, Jennifer C. Hou, Chunyu Hu, and Ye Ge, QoS provisioning for IEEE 802.11-compliant wireless networks: past, present, and future, Computer Networks Journal, vol. 51, num. 8, pp. 1922-1941, June 2007.

  • Chunyu Hu, Hwangnam Kim, and Jennifer C. Hou, Short-Term Non-Uniform Access in IEEE 802.11-compliant WLANs: A Microscopic View and its Impact, Computer Networks Journal, special issue of Emerging Wireless Networks: Performance Modeling and Analysis of Computer Networks, to appear, scheduled for publication in September/October 2007.

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, On the asymptotic minimum energy and its implication on deriving the capacity of wireless networks, ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking, to appear (accepted in Feburary 2007).

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Improving connectivity of wireless ad-hoc networks, Wireless Networks, to appear (conditionally accepted with minor revision in September 2006).

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Asymptotic critical total power for k-connectivity fo wireless networks, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, to appear (conditionally accepted in September 2006).


    Conference Paper

  • Yi Ye and Jennifer C. Hou, QGMA: A new MAC protocol for supporting QoS in wireless local area networks, in Proc. of IEEE 6th Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols, Austin, TX, October 1998. pdf

  • Chunlei Liu, Ye Ge, Mike Fitz, Jennifer C. Hou, Wei-Peng Chen, and Raj Jain, OSU-MAC: a new, real-time medium access control protocol for wireless LANs with asymmetric wireless links, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, April 2001. pdf

  • Rong Zheng, Ye Ge, Jennifer C. Hou, and Sandy R. Thuel, A case for mobility support with temporary home agents, in Proc. of 10th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks (IC3N), October 2001.

  • Wei-Peng Chen and Jennifer C. Hou, Provisioning of temporal QoS in Bluetooth networks, in Proc. of 4th IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN'02), September 2002. pdf

  • Wei-Peng Chen and Jennifer C. Hou, Dynamic, ad-hoc source routing with connection-aware link-state exchange and differentiation, in Proc. of IEEE Globecom, November 2002. pdf

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou Hou, A scheduling algorithm for variable rate coded voice in Bluetooth networks, in Proc. of The Fifth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia, September 2002.

  • Lynn Y. Zhang, Ye Ge, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, Energy-efficient real-time scheduling in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, June 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~18%)

  • Zhenmin Li, Pin Zhou, and Jennifer C. Hou, A fragmentation-based D-MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, June 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~18%)

  • Honghai Zhang, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, Design and analysis of a Bluetooth loop scatternet formation algorithm, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communications, June 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~37.5%)

  • Chunyu Hu, Yifei Hong, and Jennifer C. Hou, On mitigating the broadcast storm problem in MANET with directional antennas, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communications, June 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~37.5%) pdf

  • Ye Ge and Jennifer C. Hou, An analytical model for service differentiation in IEEE 802.11, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communications, June 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~37.5%)

  • Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, Improving protocol capacity with model-based frame scheduling in IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs, in Proc. of ACM MobiCom, September 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~9.6%)

  • Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 power saving mode, in Proc. of roc. SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulation -- communication networks and distributed systems modeling and simulation conference, January 2004.

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, LISP: a link-indexed statistical traffic prediction approach to improving IEEE 802.11 PSM, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04), March 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = 18%)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Capacity of wireless ad-hoc networks under ultra wide band with power constraints, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, Florida, March 2005. (note: acceptance ratio = ~17%)

  • Chunyu Hu, Hwangnam Kim, Jennifer C. Hou, and Sai Shankar, Provisioning quality-controlled medium access in ultra wide band WPANs, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, March 2006 (acceptance rate = 18%).

  • Hyuk Lim, Luke Kung, Haiyun Luo, and Jennifer C. Hou, Use of singular value decomposition for zero-configuration, robust indoor localization: theory and experimentation, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, March 2006 (acceptance rate = 18%).

  • Hyuk Lim, C. Lim, and Jennifer C. Hou, Improving throughput through spatial diversity in wireless mesh networks: a coordinate-based approach, in Proc. of Proc. of ACM Mobicom, September 2006 (acceptance rate = 12%).

  • Tae-Seok Kim, Hyuk Lim, and Jennifer C. Hou, Improving Spatial Reuse Through Tuning Transmit Power, Carrier Sense Threshold, and Data Rate in Multihop Wireless Networks, in Proc. of Proc. of ACM Mobicom, September 2006 (acceptance rate = 12%).

  • Ye Ge and Jennifer C. Hou, Making proportional bandwidth guarantees in IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access, in Proc. of Proc. of IEEE Milcom, October 2006 (invited).

  • Chunyu Hu, Hwangnam Kim, and Jennifer C. Hou, Short-term non-uniform access in IEEE 802.11-compliant WLANs: A microscopic view and its impact, in Proc. of Proc. of ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiN'06), October 2006 (invited the special issue .

  • Yong Yang, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lu-Chuan Kung, Modeling of physical carrier sense in multi-hop wireless networks and its use in joint power control and carrier sense adjustment, in Proc. of Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Miniconference, May 2007 (acceptance ratio = 25%).

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, A novel approach to contention control in IEEE 802.11e-operated WLANs, in Proc. of Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, May 2007 (acceptance ratio = 18%).

  • Ting-Yu Lin and Jennifer C. Hou, Interplay of spatial reuse and SINR-determined data rates in CSMA/CA-based multi-hop multi-rate wireless networks, in Proc. of Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, May 2007 (acceptance ratio = 18%).

  • Yan Gao, Jennifer C. Hou, and Hoang Nguyen, Topology control for maintaining network connectivity and maximizing network capacity under the physical model, in Proc. of Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, March 2008. (note: acceptance rate = 20%)

  • Zheng Zhen, Yong Yang, and Jennifer C. Hou, How Physical Carrier Sense Affects Protocol Capacity in Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Modeling and Analysis, in Proc. of Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, March 2008. (note: acceptance rate = 20%)

  • D. Jung, J. Hwang, H. Lim, K.-J. Park, and J. C. Hou, Improving end-to-end throughput performance of multihop wireless networks, in Proc. of Proc. of Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON'07), October 2007 (invited).

  • Qixin Wang, Xue Liu, Jennifer Hou and Lui Sha, GD-Aggregate: A WAN Virtual Topology Building Tool for Hard Real-Time and Embedded Applications, in Proc. of Proc. of IEEE 28th Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'07), December 2007.


    Technical Report

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, LISP: a link-indexed statistical traffic prediction approach to improving IEEE 802.11 PSM, UIUCDCS-R-2003-2669, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. (note: published in IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04))

  • Chunyu Hu, Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou and Lui Sha, A Microscopic Study of Power Management in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2452, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2004. (note: accepted for publication in International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), special issue on Medium Access Control for WLANs, WPANs, Ad Hoc Networks, and Sensor Networks)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Capacity of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks under Ultra Wide Band with Power Constraint, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2453, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2004. (note: published in IEEE Infocom 2005)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, On the critical total power for asymptotic k-connectivity in wireless networks, UIUCDCS-R-2004-2454, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. (note: An enhanced version will appear in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Neworking)

  • Chunyu Hu, Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, An Analysis of the Binary Exponential Backoff Algorithm in Distributed MAC Protocols, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2599, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2005. (note: An enhanced version has been accepted for publication in the special issue of ``Emerging Wireless Networks: Performance Modeling and Analysis,'' Elsevier Computer Networks,)

  • Chunyu Hu, Hwangnam Kim, Jennifer C. Hou, Dennis Chi and Sai Shankar, Provisioning Quality Controlled Medium Access in UltraWideBand (UWB) WPANs, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2600, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2005. (note: An enhanced version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2007)

  • Hyuk Lim, Lu-Chuan Kung, Jennifer C. Hou, and Haiyun Luo, Zero-Configuration, Robust Indoor Localization: Theory and Experimentation, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2629, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2005. (note: publsihed in IEEE INFOCOM 2006)

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, A novel approach to contention control in IEEE 802.11e-operated WLANs, UIUCDCS-R-2006-2764, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. (note: A shortened version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2007)

  • Ting-Yu Lin and Jennifer C. Hou, Interplay of spatial reuse and SINR-determined data rates in CSMA/CA-based multi-hop multi-rate wireless networks, UIUCDCS-R-2006-2765, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. (note: A shortened version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2007)

  • Yong Yang, Jennifer C. Hou and Lu-Chuan Kung, Modeling of physical carrier sense in multi-hop wireless networks and its use in joint power control and carrier sense adjustment, UIUCDCS-R-2006-2769, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. (note: A shortened version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2007 miniconference)

  • Tae-Suk Kim, Yong Yang, and Jennifer C. Hou, Modeling of IEEE 802.11 based Multi-rate Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Its Application towards Optimal Network Operation, UIUCDCS-R-2007-2841, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2007.

  • Zheng Zhen, Yong Yang, and Jennifer C. Hou, How Physical Carrier Sense Affects Protocol Capacity in Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Modeling and Analysis, UIUCDCS-R-2007-2858, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2007. (note: A shortened version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2008)

  • Yan Gao, Jennifer C. Hou, and Hoang Nguyen, Topology Control for Maintaining Network Connectivity and Maximizing Network Capacity Under the Physical Model, UIUCDCS-R-2007-2859, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2007. (note: A shortened version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2008)

  • Kyung-Joon Park, Jihyuk Choi, and Jennifer C. Hou, Optimal Physical Carrier Sense for Maximizing Network Capacity in Multi-hop Wireless Networks, UIUCDCS-R-2007-2860, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2007.


    Demo and Exhibition

  • Hyuk Lim, Luke Kung, Jennifer C. Hou, and Haiyun Luo, Use of singular value decomposition for zero-configuration, robust indoor localization, ACM Mobihoc, Urbana, IL, May 2005.

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, Lu-Chuan Kung, Ning Li, Hyuk Lim, Hung-Ying Tyan, and Honghai Zhang, J-Sim: a simulation and emulation environment for wireless sensor networks, IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, FL, March 2005.


    Ph.D. Thesis

  • Ye Ge, QoS extension to IEEE 802.11, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, September 2004.

  • Chunyu Hu, MAC-centric resource management in wireless networks, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, October 2006.


    Master's Thesis

  • Wei-Peng Chen, Syndrome: A light-weight approach to improve the TCP performance in mobile wireless networks, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, 2001.

  • Aaron John Klish, Mobility constrained scatternet formation, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

  • Dennis Y. Chi, A software infrastructure for instrumenting wireless devices for assisted living, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.


    Manuscripts Submitted for Review

  • Chunyu Hu, Hwangnam Kim, Jennifer C. Hou, and Sai Shankar, Provisioning quality-controlled medium access in ultra wide band WPANs, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, 2006 (under second review).

  • Lu-Chuan Kung, Jihyuk Choi, Jennifer C. Hou, Yan Cao, I-Hong Hou, Ray Lam, Yong Yang, CUWiN: Towards building a open wireless mesh network for corss layer design and optimization, IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue of Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols, 2007.


    Wireless Sensor Networks


    Book / Book Chapter

  • Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Ning Li, Yi Pan and Yang Xiao (Ed), Power management and control in wireless networks, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Nova Science Publishers, 2006.

  • Jennifer C. Hou, Ivan Stojmenovic, and Ning Li, Ivan Stojmenovic (Ed), Topology construction and maintenance in sensor networks, Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architectures, pp. 311-342, John Wiley and Sons, 2005.

  • Wei-Peng Chen and Jennifer C. Hou, Ivan Stojmenovic (Ed), Data gathering and fusion in sensor networks, Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architectures, pp. 493-526, John Wiley and Sons, 2005.

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Ding-Zhu Du, Maggie Cheng and Yingshu Li (Eds), Topology control in wireless sensor networks, Combinatorial Optimization in Communication Networks, Springer Publishers, 2006.

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Jie Wu (Ed), Maintaining sensing coverage and connectivity in large sensor networks, Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless and Peer-to-Peer Network, chapter 28, pp. 452-475, Auerbach Publication, 2006.

  • Jennifer C. Hou, Yong Yang, David Yau, I-Hong Hou, Mallikarjun Shankar and Nagi Rao, Sensor placement in realistic environments: theory and practice, Handbook of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,, Springer-Verlag (London), 2007 .

  • Jennifer C. Hou and Honghai Zhang, An in-depth study on fundamental limits of wireless sensor networks, Algorithm and Protocols for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, A. Boukerche (Ed.), Wiley & Sons, 2007 .


    Journal / Magazine

  • John A. Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, Chenyang Lu, Lui Sha, and Chao-Ju Hou, Real-time communication and coordination in embedded sensor nets, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, num. 7, July 2003.

  • Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, Dynamic clustering for acoustic target tracking in wireless sensor networks, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Special issue self-reconfiguring in sensor networks, vol. 3, num. 3, July-September 2004. pdf

  • Paul Havinga, Jennifer C. Hou, Mani Srivastava, and Feng Zhao, Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Opportunities, Editorial for the special issue of wireless sensor networks in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 11, num. 6, pp. 4-5, December 2004.

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Maintaining sensing coverage and connectivity in large sensor networks, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: An International Journal, vol. 1, num. 1-2, pp. 89-123, January 2005.

  • Ning Li, Jennifer C. Hou and Lui Sha, Design and analysis of a MST-based distributed topology control algorithm for wireless ad-hoc networks, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 4, num. 3, pp. 1195-1207, May 2005.

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, A link-indexed statistical traffic prediction approach to improving IEEE 802.11 PSM, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, special Issue on Data communication and topology control in ad hoc networks, vol. 3, num. 5, pp. 529-545, September 2005.

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, On deriving the upper bound of alpha-lifetime for large sensor networks, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, vol. 1, num. 2, pp. 272-300, November 2005.

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Localized topology control algorithms for heterogeneous wireless networks, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol. 13, num. 6, pp. 1313-1324, December 2005.

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, A scalable, power-efficient broadcast algorithm for wireless networks, ACM Wireless Networks (WINET), vol. 12, num. 4, pp. 495-509, August 2006.

  • Fan Ye, Honghai Zhang, Songwu Lu, Lixia Zhang, and Jennifer C. Hou, A randomized energy-conservation protocol for resilient sensor networks, ACM Wireless Network (WINET), vol. 12, num. 5, pp. 637-652, October 2006.

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, An algorithm for maximizing alpha-lifetime for wireless sensor networks, International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), vol. 1, num. 1/2, pp. 64-71, June 2006 (invited).

  • Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, Tracking targets with quality in wireless sensor networks, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, to appear, accepted in April 2007.

  • Hyuk Lim, Jennifer C. Hou, Mallikarjun Shankar and Nagi Rao, Localization in wireless sensor networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, special issue of Distributed Systems of Sensors and Actuators, to appear in the first quarter of 2008.


    Conference Paper

  • Ning Li, Chao-Ju Hou, and Lui Sha, Design and analysis of a MST-based topology control algorithm, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2003, April 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~20.5%)

  • Qixin Wang, Wei-Peng Chen, Rong Zheng, Kihwal Lee and Lui Sha, Acoustic Tracking Using Wireless Sensors, in Proc. of IPSN'03, April 2003.

  • Rong Zheng, Chao-Ju Hou, and Lui Sha, Asynchronous wakeup for ad hoc networks, in Proc. of ACM MobiHoc 2003, June 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~15%)

  • Wei-Peng Chen, Chao-Ju Hou, and Lui Sha, Dynamic clustering for acoustic target tracking in wireless sensor networks, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols, November 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~15%)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Maintaining sensing coverage and connectivity in large sensor networks, in Proc. of NSF International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, February 2004. (note: (invited paper))

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Topology control in heterogeneous wireless networks: problems and solutions, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2004, March 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = ~18%)

  • Honghai Zhang and Chao-Ju Hou, On deriving the upper bound of \alpha-lifetime for large sensor networks, in Proc. of ACM Mobihoc 2004, June 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = ~15%)

  • Wei-Peng Chen and Lui Sha, An energy-aware data-centric generic utility based approach in wireless sensor networks, in Proc. of 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2004.

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, FLSS: a fault-tolerant topology control algorithm for wireless networks, in Proc. of ACM Mobicom, September 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = ~9%)

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, BLMST: A Decentralized, Power-Efficient Broadcast Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proc. of IEEE QShine, October 2004. (note: invited paper, forwarded to WINET for fast track publication)

  • Rong Zheng, Guanghui He, Indranil Gupta, and Lui Sha, Time-Indexed Storage in Sensor Networks, in Proc. of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 04), October 2004.

  • Srikanth Kandula, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, The case for resource heterogeneity in large sensor networks, in Proc. of IEEE Milcom 2004, November 2004. (note: invited paper)

  • Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, On time-out driven power management policies in wireless networks, in Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2004, December 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = ~30%)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, On the critical total power for asymptotic k-connectivity in wireless networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, Florida, March 2005. (note: acceptance ratio = ~17%)

  • Hyuk Lim and Jennifer C. Hou, Localization for anisotropic sensor networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, Florida, March 2005. (note: acceptance ratio = ~17%)

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Improving connectivity of wireless ad-hoc networks, in Proc. of ACM 2nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2005), July 2005. (note: acceptance ratio = ~28%)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Maximizing \alpha-Lifetime for Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proc. of Third Int'l Workshop on Measurement, Modelling, and Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks (SenMetrics 2005), July 2005. (note: invited paper)

  • Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, Lui Sha, and Marco Caccamo, A distributed, energy-aware, utility-based approach for data transport in wireless sensor networks, in Proc. of IEEE Milcom, October 2005. (note: invited paper)

  • Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, Tracking targets with quality in wireless sensor networks, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'05), November 2005. (note: acceptance ratio = ~15%)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Is deterministic deployment worse than random deployment for wireless sensor networks?, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, March 2006 (acceptance rate = 18%).

  • David K. Y. Yau, Jennifer C. Hou, Shankar Mallikarjun, and Nagi Rao, An experimental network testbed for radiational plume detection and tracking, in Proc. of Proc. Int'l Symp. on Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks, October 2006 (invited).

  • J. C. Chin, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Chris Ma, Nagi Rao, Mobit Saxena, Mallikarjun Shankar, Yong Yang, and David K. Y. Yau, A sensor-cyber network testbed for plume detection, identification, and tracking, in Proc. of Proc. ACM Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2007 (demo paper).


    Technical Report

  • Rong Zheng, Chao-Ju Hou, and Lui Sha, Asynchronous wakeup for ad hoc networks: theory and protocol design, UIUCDCS-R-2002-2301, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002. (note: publsihed in ACM Mobihoc 2004)

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, BLMST: A Scalable, Power-Efficient Broadcast Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2003-2349, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2003. (note: published in Proc. of QSHINE 2004)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Maintaining Sensing Coverage and Connectivity in Large Sensor Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2003-2351, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2003. (note: published in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: An International Journal, Vol 1, num 1-2, 2005)

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Design and Analysis of an MST-Based Topology Control Algorithm, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2003-2372, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2003. (note: published in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2003)

  • Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou and Lui Sha, Modeling Power Management Policies in Wireless Networks, UIUCDCS-R-2003-2354, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. (note: published in IEEE Globecom 2004)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, On Deriving the Upper Bound of \alpha-Lifetime for Large Sensor Network, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2410, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2004. (note: published in ACM Mobihoc 2004, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 2005)

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Topology Control in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Problems and Solutions, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2412, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2004. (note: published in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2004)

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, FLSS: A Fault-Tolerant Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2426, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2004. (note: published in Proc. of IEEE MOBICOM 2004)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, On the Critical Total Power for Asymptotic k-Connectivity in Wireless Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2454, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2004. (note: published in IEEE Infocom 2005)

  • Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, Lui Sha, and Marco Caccamo, A Distributed, Energy-aware, Utility-based Approach for Data Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2455, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2004. (note: published in Milcom 2005)

  • Rong Zheng, Guanghui He, Indranil Gupta, Jennifer C. Hou and Lui Sha, Time-Indexing in Sensor Networks, UIUCDCS-R-2004-2429, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. (note: published in ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, 2006.)

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Topology control in heterogeneous wireless networks: problems and solutions, UIUCDCS-R-2004-2412, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. (note: published in IEEE INFOCOM 2004)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, On deriving the upper bound of \alpha-lifetime for large sensor networks, UIUCDCS-R-2004-2410, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. (note: published in ACM Mobihoc 2004)

  • Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, Improving Connectivity of Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2485, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2004. (note: published in Proc. of MobiQuitous 2005)

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, On the Asymptotic Minimum Energy Required to Transport Packets in Wireless Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2548, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2005.

  • Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, Is Deterministic Deployment Worse than Random Deployment for Wireless Sensor Networks?, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2549, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2005. (note: a shortened version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2006)

  • Hyuk Lim and Jennifer C. Hou, Distributed Localization for Anisotropic Sensor Networks, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2628, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2005. (note: A shortened version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2006)

  • Yong Yang, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Mallikarjun Shankar, and Nagi Rao, Sensor Placement Revisited in a Realistic Environment, UIUCDCS-R-2007-2840, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, April 2007.


    Demo and Exhibition

  • Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, Lu-Chuan Kung, Ning Li, Hyuk Lim, Hung-Ying Tyan, and Honghai Zhang, Future Combat System (FCS) demo using J-Sim, IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Berkeley, CA, April 2004.

  • J. C. Chin, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Chris Ma, Nagi Rao, Mobit Saxena, Mallikarjun Shankar, Yong Yang, and David K. Y. Yau, A sensor-cyber network testbed for plume detection, identification, and tracking, Proc. ACM Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Boston, MA, April 2007.

  • J. C. Chin, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Chris Ma, Nagi Rao, Mobit Saxena, Mallikarjun Shankar, Yong Yang, and David K. Y. Yau, A sensor-cyber network testbed for plume detection, identification, and tracking, IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.


    Ph.D. Thesis

  • Rong Zheng, Design, analysis and empirical evaluation of power management in multi-hop wireless networks, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.

  • Wei-Peng Chem, A data-quality driven framework for information dissemination in wireless sensor networks, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2004.

  • Ning Li, Topology control for multi-hop wireless networks, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2005.

  • Honghai Zhang, An understanding of fundamental performance limits in wireless sensor networks, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2005.


    Master's Thesis

  • Srikanth Kandula, A case for resource heterogeneity in large sensor networks, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.


    Manuscripts Submitted for Conference Presentation

  • Yong Yang, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Mallikarjun Shankar, and Nagi Rao, Sensor Placement Revisited in a Realistic Environment, ACM Sensys 2007, 2007.


    Cyber Physical Systems


    Journal / Magazine

  • Ye Ge, Jennifer C. Hou, and Sunghyun Choi, An analytic study on tuning systems parameters in IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access, Computer Networks Journal, vol. 51, num. 8, pp. 1955-1980, June 2007.


    Conference Paper

  • Ye Ge and Jennifer C. Hou, Making proportional bandwidth guarantees in IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access, in Proc. of IEEE Milcom 2006, October 2006. (note: invited)

  • Qixin Wang, Wook Shin, Xue Liu, Zheng Zeng, Cham Oh, Bedoor K. Alshebli, Marco Caccamo, Elsa Gunter, Carl Gunter, Jennifer C. Hou, Karrie Karahalios, and Lui Sha, An open system architecture for assited living, in Proc. of Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2006 (invited).

  • Jennifer C. Hou, Linda Ball, Stanley Birge, Marco Caccamo, Chin-Fei Cheah, Eric Gilbert, Carl Gunter, Elsa Gunter, Chang-Gun Lee, Karrie Karahalios, Narasimhan Nitya, Lui Sha, Wook Shin, Vasudevan Venu, Qixin Wang, Yang Yu, Zheng Zeng, PAS: A Wireless-enabled Personal Assistance System for Independent and Assisted Living, in Proc. of Proc. High Confidence Medical Device Software and Systems Workshop, June 2007 (invited).


    Demo and Exhibition

  • Zheng Zeng, Sammy Yu, Wook Shin, and Bedoor K AlShebli, Personal Assist System: Use of Wireless Technologies Helping Elder People with Assisted Living, ACM Mobicom 2007, Montreal, Canada, September 2007. (note: student demo competition)


    Manuscripts Submitted for Review

  • Jennifer C. Hou, Linda Ball, Stanley Birge, Marco Caccamo, Chin-Fei Cheah, Eric Gilbert, Carl Gunter, Elsa Gunter, Chang-Gun Lee, Karrie Karahalios, Narasimhan Nitya, Lui Sha, Wook Shin, Vasudevan Venu, Qixin Wang, Yang Yu, Zheng Zeng, PAS: A Wireless-enabled Personal Assistance System for Independent and Assisted Living, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2007.


    Network Simulation and Emulation


    Journal / Magazine

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, Lu-Chuan Kung, Ning Li, Hyuk Lim, Hung-Ying Tyan, and Honghai Zhang, J-Sim: a simulation and emulation environment for wireless sensor networks, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 13, num. 4, pp. 104-119, August 2006.

  • Jennifer C. Hou and P. R. Kumar, Network modeling and simulation, editorial for the special issue of network modeling and simulation in Computer Networks Journal, vol. 50, num. 12, August 2006.

  • Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, Mixed mode simulation for IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs: integration of packet mode and fluid mode based simulation, Computer Networks Journal, vol. 51, num. 6, pp. 1379-1402, April 2007.

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, Toward Efficient and Scalable Wireless Network Simulation, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, to appear.


    Conference Paper

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Bin Wang, Yi Ye, and Chao-Ju Hou, NetSimQ: a Java-integrated network simulation tool for QoS control in point-to-point high speed networks, in Proc. of 3rd NASA Research and Education Network Workshop, Moffett Field, CA, August 1998. (note: Also presented in the Work-in-Progress session of IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Denver, CO, June 1998)

  • Hung-Ying Tyan and Chao-Ju Hou, JavaSim: A component-based compositional network simulation environment, in Proc. of Western Simulation Multiconference -- Communication Networks And Distributed Systems Modeling And Simulation, January 2001. (note: An enhanced version has been submitted to IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, October 2001)

  • Hung-Ying Tyan and Chao-Ju Hou, Design, realization, and evaluation of a component-based, compositional network simulation environment, in Proc. of 2002 SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulation -- communication networks and distributed systems modeling and simulation conference, January 2002. (note: An enhanced version has been submitted to ACM Trans. on Modeling and Computer Simulation, December 2001)

  • Hwangnam Kim and Chao-Ju Hou, How good is fluid simulation for simulating IEEE 802.11 operated WLANs?, in Proc. of 2003 SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulation -- communication networks and distributed systems modeling and simulation conference, January 2003.

  • Hwangnam Kim and Chao-Ju Hou, Network calculus based simulation: theorems, implementation, and evaluation,, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2004, March 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = ~18%)

  • Hwangnam Kim and Chao-Ju Hou, Throughput analysis for IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs: mathematical modeling and its application to fluid model based simulation, in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS 2004, June 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = ~12%)

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Jennifer C. Hou, and Mahesh Viswanathan, Check and Simulate: A Case for Incorporating Model Checking in Network Simulation, in Proc. of Second ACM-IEEE Int'l Conf. on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign, June 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = ~47%)

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, Lu-Chuan Kung, Ning Li, Hyuk Lim, Honghai Zhang, J-Sim: a simulation and emulation environment for wireless sensor networks, in Proc. of 38th Annual Simulation Symposium, San Diego, CA, April 2005.

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, A reactive channel model for expediting wireless network simulation, in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS poster session, June 2005. (note: 31 full papers and 23 posters out of 237 submissions)

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Ahmed Sobeih, and Jennifer C. Hou, Towards composable and extensible network simulation, in Proc. of NSF Next Generation Software Program Meeting, in conjuction with IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Denver, Colorado, April 2005. (note: invited paper)

  • Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, Mixed-mode simulation for IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs: achieving the best of all worlds performance, in Proc. of International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2005), July 2005.

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Mahesh Viswanathan and Jennifer C. Hou, Finding bugs in network protocols using simulation code and protocol-specific heuristics, in Proc. of Seventh International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2005), November 2005.

  • Hwangnam Kim, Hyuk Lim, and Jennifer C. Hou, Accelerating simulation of large-scale IP networks: an network invariant preserving approach, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, March 2006 (acceptance rate = 18%).

  • Jong-Kwon Lee and Jennifer C. Hou, Modeling steady-state and transient behaviors of user mobility: formulation, analysis, and application, in Proc. of ACM 7th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc'06), May 2006. (note: 31/318, acceptance rate = 10%)

  • Marcelo d'Amorim, Ahmed Sobeih and Darko Marinov, Optimized Execution of Deterministic Blocks in Java PathFinder, in Proc. of Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2006), November 2006.

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Mahesh Viswanathan, Darko Marinov and Jennifer C. Hou, J-Sim: An Integrated Environment for Simulation and Model Checking of Network Protocols, in Proc. of Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IEEE IPDPS 2007), NSF Next Generation Software Program Workshop, March 2007.


    Technical Report

  • Ahmed Sobeih and Jennifer C. Hou, A Simulation Framework for Sensor Networks in J-Sim, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2003-2386, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 2003. (note: published in Proc. of ANSS 2005. A substantially extended version appeared in IEEE Communications Magazine)

  • Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, Network Invariant-Based Fast Simulation for Large Scale TCP/IP Networks, UIUCDCS-R-2004-2424, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2004. (note: a shortened version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2006)

  • Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, Mixed-mode simulation for IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs: achieving the best of all worlds performance, UIUCDCS-R-2004-2463, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2004.

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Mahesh Viswanathan, and Jennifer C. Hou, Incorporating Bounded Model Checking in Network Simulation: Theory, Implementation and Evaluation, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2466, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2004. (note: published in Proc. of ACM-IEEE MEMOCODE 2004)

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, A Reactive Channel Model for Expediting Wireless Network Simulation, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2539, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2005. (note: published in Proc. of SIGMETRICS 2005 as an extended abstract)

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Mahesh Viswanathan, and Jennifer C. Hou, Bounded Model Checking of Network Protocols in Network Simulators by Exploiting Protocol-Specific Heuristics, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2547, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2005.

  • Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, Toward Efficient and Scalable Wireless Network Simulation, UIUCDCS-R-2005-2670, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.


    Ph.D. Thesis

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Design, realization and evaluation of a component-based software architecture for network simulation, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, 2001.

  • Hwangnam Kim, Enabling theoretical model based techniques for simulating large scale networks, Department of Conputer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2004.


    Manuscripts Submitted for Review

  • Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, A fast simulation framework for IEEE 802.11-operated wireless LANs, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 2005 (under second review).

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Ahmed Sobeih and Jennifer C. Hou, Design, ralization, and evaluation of a component-based, compositional network simulation environment, Simulation: Transaction of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2006.

  • Hwangnam Kim, Hyuk Lim, and Jennifer C. Hou, Accelerating Simulation of Large-Scale IP Networks Through Preserving Network Invariants, Computer Networks Journal, 2007.

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Marcelo d'Amorim, Mahesh Viswanathan, Darko Marinov and Jennifer C. Hou, Verification of Network Simulation Models Using State Space Exploration and Protocol-Specific Heuristics, ACM Trans. on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 2007.


    Network Measurement, Diagnostics, and Control


    Journal / Magazine

  • Hyuk Lim, Jennifer C. Hou, and Chong-ho Choi, Constructing Internet coordinate system based on delay measurement, IEEE Trans. on Networking, vol. 13, num. 3, pp. 513-526, June 2005.

  • Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, On sampling self-similar Internet traffic, Computer Networks Journal, num. 14, pp. 2919-2936, November 2006.

  • Hyuk Lim and Jennifer C. Hou, Identifying lossy links in wired/wireless networks: problem formulation, solution, and empirical evaluation, Computer Networks Journal, 2007 (to appear, accepted in May 2007).


    Conference Paper

  • Yuan Gao, Guanghui He, and Chao-Ju Hou, On leveraging traffic predictability in active queue management, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2002, June 2002. (note: acceptance ratio = ~20.5%) pdf

  • Guanghui He, Yuan Gao, Chao-Ju Hou, and Kihong Park, A case for exploiting self-similarity of Internet traffic in TCP congestion control, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols, November 2002. (note: acceptance ratio = ~15%)

  • Guanghui He and Chao-Ju Hou, On exploiting long range dependency in measuring cross traffic, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2003, April 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~20.5%)

  • Yuan Gao and Chao-Ju Hou, A state feedback control approach to stablizing AQM queues for ECN-enabled TCP connections, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2003, April 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = ~20.5%)

  • Hyuk Lim, Chao-Ju Hou, and Chong-ho Choi, Constructing an Internet coordinate system based on delay measurement, in Proc. of ACM Internet measurement conference,, October 2003. (note: acceptance ratio = 29%, one of the four manuscripts forwarded to IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking for fast track publication)

  • Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, An in-depth, analytical study of sampling techniques for self-similar Internet traffic, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05), June 2005. (note: acceptance ratio = 14%)

  • Guanghui He, Jennifer C. Hou, Wei-Peng Chen, and Takeo Hamada, Characterizing individual user behaviors in WLANs, in Proc. of 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'07), 2007.

  • Guanghui He, Jennifer C. Hou, Wei-Peng Chen, and Takeo Hamada, One size does not fit all: a detailed analysis and modeling of P2P traffic, in Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2007, November 2007.


    Technical Report

  • Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, An in-depth, analytical study of sampling techniques for self-similar Internet traffic, UIUCDCS-R-2004-2484, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2004.


    Multicast and Multicast Routing


    Journal / Magazine

  • Bin Wang and Chao-Ju Hou, A survey on multicast routing and its QoS extension: problems, algorithms, and protocols, IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 14, num. 1, January/February 2000. pdf

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang, and Yao-Min Chen, QoS extension to core-based multicast routing, accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, July 2002. (note: A preliminary version appeared in 9th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 99), June 1999) pdf

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, and Bin Wang, Many-to-many multicast routing with timing quality of service guarantees, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 52, num. 6, June 2003.

  • Yuan Gao and Chao-Ju Hou, RACCOOM: a rate-based congestion control scheme for multicasts, IEEE Trans. on Computer, vol. 52, num. 12, December 2003. (note: A preliminary version appeared in SPIE Conference on Scalability and Traffic Control, August 2001(invited paper))

  • Bin Wang and Chao-Ju Hou, An efficient QoS routing algorithm for quorumcast communication, Computer Networks, vol. 44, num. 1, pp. 43-61, January 15 2004. (note: A preliminary version appeared in IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'2001), November 2001) pdf


    Conference Paper

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, and Bin Wang, On providing quality-of-service control for core-based multicast routing, in Proc. of IEEE 19th Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, Austin, TX, June 1999. (note: A preliminary version appeared in IEEE 1st Workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services, December 1997) pdf

  • Ye Ge and Chao-Ju Hou, A packet eligible time calculation mechanism for providing temporal QoS in multicast routing, in Proc. of IEEE ICC'99, Vancouver, Canada, June 1999. pdf

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang, and Yao-Min Chen, QoS extension to CBT, in Proc. of 9th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 99), June 1999.

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, and Bin Wang, QoS-enhanced core-based multicast routing, in Proc. of 20th IEEE Real-Time System Symposium (RTSS'99), pp. 168-178, December 1999.

  • Bin Wang and Chao-Ju Hou, QoS-based multicast routing for distributing layered video to heterogeneous receivers in rate-based networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2000, March 2000. ps

  • Yuan Gao, Ye Ge, and Chao-Ju Hou, Reliable multicasts for core-based multicast routing, in Proc. of IEEE 8th Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'2000), November 2000. (note: An enhanced version has been submitted to IEEE Trans. on Computers, May 2002) pdf

  • Yuan Gao, Chao-Ju Hou, and Sanjoy Paul, RACCOOM: a rate-based congestion control scheme for multicasts, in Proc. of SPIE Conference on Scalability and Traffic Control, August 2001. (note: invited paper)

  • Bin Wang and Chao-Ju Hou, An efficient QoS routing algorithm for quorumcast communication, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'2001), November 2001.

  • Srikanth Kandula, Jong-Kwon Lee, and Chao-Ju Hou, LARK: a light-weight, resilient application-Level multicast protocol, in Proc. of IEEE Computer Communication Workshop, November 2003. (note: invited paper)

  • Ahmed Sobeih, Bill Yurcik, and Jennifer C. Hou, VRing: A case for building application-layer multicast rings (rather than trees), in Proc. of 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004. (note: acceptance ratio = ~30%)


    Technical Report

  • Ahmed Sobeih, William Yurcik, and Jennifer C. Hou, VRing: A Ring-based Application-Layer Multicast Protocol, Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2468, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2004. (note: published in Proc. of IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2004)


    Ph.D. Thesis

  • Bin Wang, QoS routing in high speed networks, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, 2000.


    Time-Constrained Communications


    Journal / Magazine

  • Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, Model-based evaluation of contention protocols used for real-time systems, Real-Time Systems Journal, pp. 69-107, July 1995.

  • Ching-Chih Han, Chao-Ju Hou, and Kang G. Shin, On slot allocation for time-constrained messages in dual-bus networks, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 46, num. 7, pp. 756-767, July 1997. pdf

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Routing virtual circuits with timing requirements in virtual path based ATM networks, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 48, num. 11, pp. 1228-1243, November 1999. pdf

  • Ching-Chih Han, Chao-Ju Hou, Kar Shun Tsoi, and Sean Ho, Dynamic establishment and termination of real-time message streams in dual-bus networks, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 49, pp. 1110-1119, October 2000. pdf

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang, and Ching-Chih Han, On supporting time constrained communications in WDMA-based lightwave networks, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 50, num. 3, March 2001. pdf

  • Ching-Chih Han, Kang G. Shin, and Chao-Ju Hou, Synchronous bandwidth allocation for real-time communications with the timed-token MAC protocol, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 50, num. 5, pp. 414-431, May 2001. pdf

  • Bin Wang, Chao-Ju Hou, and Ching-Chih Han, On dynamically establishing and terminating isochronous message streams in WDMA-based networks, Journal of High Speed Networks, vol. 11, num. 1, pp. 45-66, January 2002. pdf

  • Bin Wang, Chao-Ju Hou, and Ching-Chih Han, Design and analysis of a channel access protocol for WDM-based single-hop optical networks, Photonic Network Communications, vol. 6, num. 3, pp. 289-308, 2003.


    Conference Paper

  • Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, Analysis of three contention protocols in distributed real-time systems, in Proc. of IEEE 11th Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 136-145, December 1990.

  • Ching-Chih Han, Kang G. Shin, and Chao-Ju Hou, On the nonexistence of optimal local synchronous bandwidth allocation schemes for real-time communications in FDDI networks, in Proc. of IEEE 14th Int'l Phoenix Conf. on Computers and Communications, pp. 191--197, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1995.

  • Ching-Chih Han, Chao-Ju Hou, and Kang G. Shin, On slot allocation for time-constrained messages in dual-bus networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM'95, pp. 1164-1171, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2-6 1995.

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Ching-Chih Han, and Wun Chun Chau, Priority-based high-speed switch scheduling for ATM networks, in Proc. of IEEE 20th Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks, pp. 19-28, Minneapolis, Minesota, October 1995. pdf

  • Ching-Chih Han, Chao-Ju Hou, and Kang G. Shin, On slot reuse for isochronous service in DQDB networks, in Proc. of 16th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 222-231, Pisa, Italy, December 1995. pdf

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Kar Shun Tsoi, Dynamic real-time channel setup and tear-down in in DQDB networks, in Proc. of 16th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 232-241, Pisa, Italy, December 1995.

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Routing virtual circuits with timing requirements in virtual path based ATM networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM'96, The Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 320-328, San Francisco, CA, March 1996.

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang, and Ching-Chih Han, Design and analysis of a WDMA protocol for passive star-coupled lightwave networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM'96, pp. 1225-1233, San Francisco, March 1996. (note: An enhanced version has been submitted to IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (under second review).) pdf

  • Kar Shun Tsoi and Chao-Ju Hou, On dynamically establishing and terminating isochronous message streams in dual-bus networks, in Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, London, England, November 1996.

  • Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang, and Ching-Chih Han, On supporting time constrained communications in WDMA-based lightwave networks, in Proc. of 17th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 175-184, Washington DC, December 1996.

  • Bin Wang, Chao-Ju Hou, and Ching-Chih Han, On dynamically establishing and terminating isochronous message streams in WDMA-based networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM'97: The Conference on Computer Communications, April 1997.

  • Yi Ye and Chao-Ju Hou, On laying out virtual paths for real-time applications in ATM networks, in Proc. of IEEE Real-Time Technology and Application Symposium'97, pp. 14-24, June 1997. pdf

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Ching-Chih Han, and Yao-Min Chen, Communication middleware for QoS control in high-speed networks, in Proc. of the 21st Annual Int'l Computer Software and Application Conference (CompSac'97), August 1997. pdf

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Ching-Chih Han, Hung-Ying Tyan, Bin Wang, and Yi Ye, Design and middleware implementation of network services that provide end-to-end QoS in ATM-based real-time environments, in Proc. of the 16th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, October 1997. pdf

  • Hung-Ying Tyan and Chao-Ju Hou, A rate-based message scheduling paradigm, in Proc. of 1999 IEEE CS Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS'99), Santa Barbara, CA, January 1999. (note: (invited paper))

  • Ye Ge and Chao-Ju Hou, On Call Admission Control and Adaptive Capacity Allocation for Voice and Data Traffic in CDMA Systems, in Proc. of 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications (ISWC '99), Victoria, Canada, June 1999.


    Master's Thesis

  • Kar Shun Tsoi, Dynamic channel setup and teardown in DQDB networks, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin -- Madison, 1994.


    Wireline QoS


    Journal / Magazine

  • Hung-Ying Tyan and Chao-Ju Hou, A rate-based packet scheduling paradigm, IEE Proceedings - Software, vol. 148, num. 4, pp. 122-134, August 2001.

  • Guanghui He, Yuan Gao, Chao-Ju Hou, and Kihong Park, On exploiting self-similarity of Internet traffic in TCP congestion control, Computer Networks, vol. 45, num. 6, pp. 743-766, August 2004.


    Conference Paper

  • Ling Su, Rong Zheng, and Chao-Ju Hou, An active queue management scheme for congestion control and bandwidth sharing, in Proc. of IEEE IC3N'2000, October 2000. pdf

  • Wei Lin, Rong Zheng, and Chao-Ju Hou, How to make assured services more assured?, in Proc. of 7th Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'99), pp. 182-191, October 1999. pdf


    Ph.D. Thesis

  • Yuan Gao, Congestion control for next generation global Internets, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, 2002.

  • Guanghui He, Exploitation of long-range dependence in Internet traffic for resource and traffic management, Department of Conputer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 2004.


    Master's Thesis

  • Ling Su, An active queue management for Internet congestion and its application to Differentiated services, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, 1999.

  • Wei Lin, How to make assured services more assured?, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, 1999.

  • Seok-Bae Park, Active queue management for the differentiated services architecture, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, 2000.


    Real-Time Task Management


    Journal / Magazine

  • Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, Design and evaluation of effective load sharing in distributed real-time systems, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 5, num. 7, pp. 704-719, July 1994. pdf

  • Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, Analytic models of adaptive load sharing schemes in distributed real-time systems, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 4, num. 7, pp. 740-761, July 1993.

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Load sharing with consideration of future task arrivals in heterogeneous distributed real-time systems, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 44, num. 9, pp. 1076-1090, September 1994. pdf

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Incorporation of optimal timeouts into distributed real-time load sharing, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 43, num. 5, pp. 528-547, May 1994 pdf

  • Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, Evaluation of load sharing in HARTS with consideration of its communication activities, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 7, num. 7, pp. 724-740, July 1996. pdf

  • Ching-Chih Han, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Chao-Ju Hou, Distance-constrained scheduling and its applications to real-time systems, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 45, num. 7, pp. 814-826, July 1996. pdf

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Implementation of decentralized load sharing in networked workstations using the Condor package, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 40, pp. 173--184, January 1997. ps.gz

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Allocation of periodic task modules with precedence and deadline constraints in distributed real-time systems, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 46, num. 12, pp. 1338--1356,, December 1997. pdf


    Conference Paper

  • Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, Effective load sharing in distributed real-time computing systems, in Proc. of Third IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, pp. 670-677, Dallas, Texas, December 1-3 1991.

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Load sharing with consideration of future task arrivals in heterogeneous distributed real-time systems, in Proc. of 12th IEEE Real-Time System Symposium, pp. 94-103, San Antonio, Texas, December 4-6 1991.

  • Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, Queueing models of adaptive load sharing schemes in distributed real-time systems, in Proc. of ORSA Computer Science and Operations Research: New Developments in Their Interfaces, Williamsburg, Virginia, January 8-10 1992.

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Module allocation with timing and precedence constraints in distributed real-time systems, in Proc. of 13th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 146-155, Phoenix, Arizona, December 2-4 1992.

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Incorporation of optimal timeouts into distributed real-time load sharing, in Proc. of 26th IEEE Hawaii Int'l Conf. on Systems Science, pp. 603-610, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 5-8 1993.

  • Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, Evaluation of load sharing in HARTS with consideration of its communication activities, in Proc. of 1993 ACM SIGMETRICS Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (extended abstract), pp. 270-271, Santa Clara, California, May 10-14 1993.

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Replication and allocation of task modules in distributed real-time systems, in Proc. of IEEE 24th Annual Int'l Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, pp. 26-35, Austin, Texas, June 1994. pdf

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Transparent load sharing in distributed systems: decentralized design alternatives based on Condor package, in Proc. of IEEE 13th Int'l Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems, pp. 202-211, Dana Point, California, October 1994. pdf


    Fault Tolerance


    Journal / Magazine

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Determination of an optimal retry time in multiple-module computing systems, IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 45, num. 3, pp. 374-379, March 1996. (note: A preliminary version appeared in IEEE Proc. of 2nd Int'l Symp. on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, pp. 294-301, College Park, Maryland, April 25-28, 1993) pdf

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Kar Shun Tsoi, and Ching-Chih Han, Effective and concurrent checkpointing and recovery in distributed systems, IEE Proceedings-Computer and Digital Techniques, vol. 144, num. 5, pp. 304-316, September 1997. pdf


    Conference Paper

  • Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, Determination of an optimal retry time in multiple-module computing systems, in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Symp. on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, pp. 294-301, College Park, Maryland, April 25-28 1993.

  • Chao-Ju Hou, Design and implementation of a fast restoration mechanism for virtual path-based ATM networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM'97, Kobe, Japan, April 1997. pdf


  • INDEX, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
    201 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
    Contact Yong Yang [yang25 at uiuc] for questions or comments on this website