• 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, to appear (accepted in June 2005).
  
  
• 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 February 2007).
  
  
• Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, "Improving connectivity of wireless ad-hoc networks", which you submitted to Wireless Networks," Wireless Networks, to appear (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 (accepted in September 2006).
  
  
• Jennifer C. Hou, Yong Yang, David Yau, I-Hong Hou, Mallikarjun Shankar and Nagi Rao, "Sensor placement in realistic environments: theory and practice," in Handbook of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Sudip Misra, Isaac Woungang and Subhas C. Misra (Eds), Springer-Verlag (London), to be published in the 4th quarter of 2007.
  
  
• Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, ``Tracking targets with quality in wireless sensor networks,'' conditionally accept for publication in ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks (accepted in April 2007).
  
  
• Hyuk Lim and Jennifer C. Hou, ``Localization in wireelss sensor networks,'' Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, special issue of distributed systems of sensors and actuators, scheduled for publication in the first quarter of 2008 (invited).
  
  
• Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, ``Toward Efficient and Scalable Wireless Network Simulation,'' accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (subject to minor revision) August 2007.
  
  
• Zheng Zeng, Yong Yang, and Jennifer C. Hou, ``How physical carrier sense affect protocol capacity: modeling and analysis,'' Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, March 2008 (acceptance rate = 236/1160 = 20%).
  
  
• Yan Gao, Jennifer C. Hou, and Hoang Nguyen, ``Topology control for maintaining network connectivity and maximizing network capacity under the physical model,'', Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, March 2008 (acceptance rate = 236/1160 = 20%).

• Ahmed Sobeih, Mahesh Viswanathan, Darko Marinov and Jennifer C. Hou, "J-Sim: An Integrated Environment for Simulation and Model Checking of Network Protocols," Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IEEE IPDPS 2007), NSF Next Generation Software Program Workshop, Long Beach, CA, March 2007 (invited).
  
  
• Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, "Mixed mode simulation for IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs: integration of packet mode and fluid model based Simulation", Computer Network Journal, Vol.51, No. 6, Pages 1379--1402, 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," Proc. ACM Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Cambridge, MA, April 2007 (demo paper).
  
  
• 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,'' IEEE INFOCOM Miniconference 2007, May 2007 (acceptance rate = 25%).
  
  
• Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, ``A novel approach to contention control in IEEE 802.11e-operated WLANs,'' Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2007, May 2007 (acceptance rate = 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,'' Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, May 2007 (acceptance rate = 18%).
  
  
• 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,'' Proc. of High Confidence Medical Device Software and Systems Workshop, June 2007 (invited).
  
  
• 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, Volume 51, Issue 8, pages 1955-1980, June 2007.
  
  
• 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, Volume 51, Issue 8, pages 1922-1941, June 2007.
  
  
• D. Jung, J. Hwang, H. Lim, K.-J. Park, and J. C. Hou, "Improving end-to-end throughput performance of multihop wireless networks," Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON'07) Austin, TX, October 22-24, 2007 (invited).
  
  
• Hyuk Lim and Jennifer C. Hou, ``Identifying lossy links in wired/wireless networks by exploiting sparse characteristics," Computer Networks Journal, Vol. 51, Number 15, pp. 4442-4459, October 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,'' Proc. of IEEE Globecom, November 2007.
  
  
• Guanghui He, Jennifer C. Hou, Wei-Peng Chen, and Takeo Hamada, ``Characterizing individual user behaviors in WLANs,'' ACM/IEEE 10th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'07), November 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," in the special issue of Emerging Wireless Networks: Performance Modeling and Analysis of Computer Networks, scheduled for publication in September/October 2007.
  
  
• Qixin Wang, Xue Liu, Jennifer Hou and Lui Sha, ``GD-Aggregate: A WAN Virtual Topology Building Tool for Hard Real-Time and Embedded Applications,'' Proc. of IEEE 28th Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'07), December 2007.
  
  
• Jennifer C. Hou, Kyung-Yoon Park and Tae-Seok Kim, ``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 to be published in 2007.
  
  
• Jennifer C. Hou and Honghai Zhang, ``An in-depth study on fundamental limits of wireless sensor networks,'' in Algorithm and Protocols for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, A. Boukerche (Ed.), Wiley & Sons, to be published in Spring 2007.

• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "Is deterministic deployment worse than random deployment for wireless sensor networks", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, March 2006 (acceptance ratio = 18%).
  
  
• Hwangnam Kim, Hyuk Lim, and Jennifer C. Hou, "Accelerating simulation of large-scale IP networks: an network invariant preserving approach", Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, March 2006 (acceptance ratio = 18%).
  
  
• Chunyu Hu, Hwangnam Kim, Jennifer C. Hou, and Sai Shankar, "Provisioning quality-controlled medium access in ultra wide band WPANs", Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, March 2006 (acceptance ratio = 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", Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, March 2006 (acceptance ratio = 18%).
  
  
• 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, No. 4, pp. 307--320, April 2006.
  
  
• Jong-Kwon Lee and Jennifer C. Hou, "Modeling steady-state and transient behaviors of user mobility: formulation, analysis, and application", Proc. of ACM 7th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc'06), May 2006 (31/318, acceptance rate = 10%).
  
  
• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "An algorithm for maximizing alpha-lifetime for wireless sensor networks", International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), Vol. 1, No. 1/2, pp. 64--71, June 2006 (invited).
  
  
• Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "Performance analysis of power management policies in wireless networks", IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications,, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 1351--1362, June 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, No. 12, 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), July 2006.
  
  
• Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, "A scalable, power-efficient broadcast algorithm for wireless networks", ACM Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 495--509, August 2006.
  
  
• 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, No. 4, pp. 104--119, August 2006.
  
  
• 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, No. 9, pp. 1228--1241, September 2006.
  
  
• Hyuk Lim, C. Lim, and Jennifer C. Hou, "Improving throughput through spatial diversity in wireless mesh networks: a coordinate-based approach", 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", 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", Proc. of IEEE Milcom 2006, October 2006 (invited).
  
  
• David K. Y. Yau, Jennifer C. Hou, Shankar Mallikarjun, and Nagi Rao, "An experimental network testbed for radiational plume detection and tracking", Proc. Int'l Symp. on Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks, October 2006 (invited).
  
  
• Qixin Wang, Wook Shin, Xue Liu, Zheng Zeng, Cham Oh, Bedoor K. Alshebli, Marco Caccamo, Elsa Gunter, Carl Gunter, Jennifer Hou, Karrie Karahalios, and Lui Sha, "An open system architecture for assited living", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 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,'' Proc. of ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiN'06), October 2006.
  
  
• Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, "On sampling self-simiar Internet traffic", Computer Networks Journal, Vol. 50, No. 14, pp. 2919-2936, November 2006.
  
  
• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "Maintaining sensing coverage and connectivity in large sensor networks", Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless and Peer-to-Peer Network, Jie Wu (Ed), Chapter 28, pp. 453-475, Auerbach Publications, 2006.
  
  
• Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Ning Li, "Power management and control in wireless networks", Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Yi Pan, Yang Xiao, and Jie Li (Eds), Nova Science Publishers, 2006.
  
  
• Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, "Topology control in wireless sensor networks", Combinatorial Optimization in Communication Networks (ISBN: 0-387-29025-7), Maggie Cheng, Yingshu Li, Ding-Zhu Du (Eds), Springer Publishers, 2006.

• 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, No. 1-2, pp. 89--123, January 2005.
  
  
• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "On the critical total power for asymptotic k-connectivity in wireless networks", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, Florida, March 2005 (acceptance ratio = 17%).
  
  
• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "Capacity of wireless ad-hoc networks under ultra wide band with power constraints", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, Florida, March 2005 (acceptance ratio = 17%).
  
  
• Hyuk Lim and Jennifer C. Hou, "Localization for anisotropic sensor networks", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, Florida, March 2005 (acceptance ratio = 17%).
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan, Ahmed Sobeih, and Jennifer C. Hou, "Towards composable and extensible network simulation", NSF Next Generation Software Program Meeting, in conjuction with IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Denver, Colorado, April 2005 (invited paper).
  
  
• 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", Proc. 38th Annual Simulation Symposium, April 2005, San Diego, CA.
  
  
• 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, No. 3, pp. 1195--1207, May 2005.
  
  
• Hyuk Lim, Jennifer C. Hou, and Chong-ho Choi, "Provisioning of network distance service on the Internet", IEEE Trans. on Networking, Vol. 13, No. 3, pages 513--526, June 2005 (one of the four manuscripts forwarded from ACM IMC'05 for fast track publication).
  
  
• Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, "An in-depth, analytical study of sampling techniques for self-similar Internet traffic", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05), June 2005 (acceptance ratio = 14%).
  
  
• Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, "A reactive channel model for expediting wireless network simulation", ACM SIGMETRICS poster session, June 2005 (31 full papers and 23 posters out of 237 submissions).
  
  
• Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, "Improving connectivity of wireless ad-hoc networks", ACM 2nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2005), July 2005 (acceptance ratio = 28%).
  
  
• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "Maximizing \alpha-Lifetime for Wireless Sensor Networks", Proc. of Third Int'l Workshop on Measurement, Modelling, and Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks (SenMetrics 2005), July 2005 (invited paper).
  
  
• Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, "Mixed-mode simulation for IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs: achieving the best of all worlds performance", Proc. International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2005), July 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, vol. 3 No. 5, special Issue on "Data communication and topology control in ad hoc networks", pp. 529--545, September 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", Proc. of IEEE Milcom, October 2005 (invited paper).
  
  
• 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, No. 2, pp. 272--300, November 2005.
  
  
• Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, "Tracking targets with quality in wireless sensor networks", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'05), November 2005 (acceptance ratio = 17%).
  
  
• Ahmed Sobeih, Mahesh Viswanathan, Darko Marinov, and Jennifer C. Hou, "Finding bugs in network protocols using simulation code and protocol-specific heuristics", Seventh International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2005), November 2005.
  
  
• Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, "Localized topology control algorithms for heterogeneous wireless networks", IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1313--1324, December 2005.
  
  
• Jennifer C. Hou, Ivan Stojmenovic, and Ning Li, "Topology construction and maintence in sensor networks", Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architectures, pp. 311-342, Ivan Stojmenovic (Ed), John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
  
  
• Wei-Peng Chen and Jennifer C. Hou, "Data gathering and fusion in sensor networks", Sensor Networks, Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architectures, pp. 493--526, Ivan Stojmenovic (Ed), John Wiley and Sons, 2005.

• Bin Wang and Chao-Ju Hou, "An efficient QoS routing algorithm for quorumcast communication", Volume: 44, Issue: 1, January 15, 2004. pp. 43-61.
  
  
• Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 power saving mode", Proc. SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulation -- communication networks and distributed systems modeling and simulation conference, January 2004.
  
  
• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "Maintaining sensing coverage and connectivity in large sensor networks", NSF International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, February 2004 (invited paper).
  
  
• Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, "Topology control in heterogeneous wireless networks: problems and solutions", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2004, March 2004 (acceptance ratio = ~18%).
  
  
• Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, "Network calculus based simulation: theorems, implementation, and evaluation", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2004, March 2004 (acceptance ratio = ~18%).
  
  
• Chunyu Hu and Jennifer C. Hou, "LISP: a link-indexed statistical traffic prediction approach to improving IEEE 802.11 PSM", Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04) , March 2004 (acceptance ratio = ~18%).
  
  
• Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, "Throughput analysis for IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs: mathematical modeling and its application to fluid model based simulation", Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2004, June 2004 (acceptance ratio = ~12%).
  
  
• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "On deriving the upper bound of \alpha-lifetime for large sensor networks", Proc. ACM Mobihoc 2004, June 2004 (acceptance ratio = 10%).
  
  
• Ahmed Sobeih, Mahesh Viswanathan, and Jennifer C. Hou, "Check and simulat: a case for incorporating model checking in network simulation", Proc. Second ACM-IEEE Int'l Conf. on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign, June 2004.
  
  
• 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 in self-reconfiguring sensor networks, Vol. 3, Number 3, July-September 2004.
  
  
• Guanghui He, Yuan Gao, Chao-Ju Hou, and Kihong Park, "On exploiting self-similarity of Internet traffic in TCP congestion control", Computer Networks, Volume 45, Issue 6, pp.~743--766, August 2004.
  
  
• Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, "FLSS: a fault-tolerant topology cntrol algorithm for wireless networks", Proc. ACM Mobicom, September 2004 (acceptance ratio = ~9%).
  
  
• Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou, "BLMST: A Decentralized, Power-Efficient Broadcast Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks", Proc. IEEE 1st Int'l Conf. on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine'04), October 2004 (invited paper).
  
  
• Ahmed Sobeih, Bill, and Jennifer C. Hou, "VRing: A case for building application-layer multicast rings (rather than trees)", Proc. 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004 (acceptance ratio = 30%).
  
  
• Srikanth Kandula, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "The case for resource heterogeneity in large sensor networks", Proc. IEEE Milcom 2004, November 2004 (invited paper).
  
  
• Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "On time-out driven power management policies in wireless networks", Proc. IEEE Globecom 2004, December 2004 (acceptance ratio = 30%).
  
  
• Hwangnam Kim and Chao-Ju 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, No. 10, pp.~1987--2003, December 2004.
  
  
• Paul Havinga, Jennifer C. Hou, Mani Srivastava, and Feng Zhao, "Wireless Sensor Networks", editorial for the special issue of wireless sensor networks in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 4--5, December 2004.

• Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, "How good is fluid simulation for simulating IEEE 802.11 operated WLANs?", Proc. 2003 SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulation -- communication networks and distributed systems modeling and simulation conference, January 2003.
  
  
• Ning Li, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "Design and analysis of a MST-based topology control algorithm", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2003, April 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~20.5%).
  
  
• Guanghui He and Jennifer C. Hou, "On exploiting long range dependency in measuring cross traffic", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2003, April 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~20.5%).
  
  
• Yuan Gao and Jennifer C. Hou, "A state feedback control approach to stablizing AQM queues for ECN-enabled TCP connections", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2003, April 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~20.5%).
  
  
• Lynn Y. Zhang, Ye Ge, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "Energy-efficient real-time scheduling in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs", Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, May 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~18%).
  
  
• Zhenmin Li, Pin Zhou, and Jennifer C. Hou, "A fragmentation-based D-MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks", Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, May 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~18%).
  
  
• Honghai Zhang, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "Design and analysis of a Bluetooth loop scatternet formation algorithm", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communications, May 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~37.5%).
  
  
• Chunyu Hu, Yifei Hong, and Jennifer C. Hou, "On mitigating the broadcast storm problem in MANET with directional antennas", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communications, May 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~37.5%).
  
  
• Ye Ge and Jennifer C. Hou, "An analytical model for service differentiation in IEEE 802.11", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communications, May 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~37.5%).
  
  
• Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "Asynchronous wakeup for ad hoc networks", Proc. ACM MobiHoc, June 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~15%).
  
  
• 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, 6:3, pp. 289-308, 2003.
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, and Bin Wang, "Many-to-many multicast routing with delay and delay jitter requirements", IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 52, No. 6, June 2003.
  
  
• 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, No. 7, July 2003.
  
  
• Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer C. Hou, "Improving protocol capacity with model-based frame scheduling in IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs", Proc. ACM MobiCom, September 2003 (acceptance ratio = 9.6%).
  
  
• Hyuk Lim, Jennifer C. Hou, and Chong-ho Choi, "Constructing an Internet coordinate system based on delay measurement", Proc. ACM Internet measurement conference, October 2003 (acceptance ratio = 29%, one of the four manuscripts forwarded to IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking for fast track publication).
  
  
• Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha, "Dynamic clustering for acoustic target tracking in wireless sensor networks", Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols, November 2003 (acceptance ratio = ~15%).
  
  
• Srikanth Kandula, Jong-Kwon Lee, and Jennifer C. Hou, "LARK: a light-weight, resilient application-Level multicast protocol", Proc. of IEEE Computer Communication Workshop, November 2003 (invited paper).
  
  
• Yuan Gao, Chao-Ju Hou, and Sanjoy Paul, "RACCOOM: a rate-based congestion control scheme for multicasts", IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 52, No. 12, December 2003.

• Bin Wang, Chao-Ju Hou, and Ching-Chih Han, "On dynamically establishing and terminating isochronous message streams in WDMA-based networks", accepted for publication in Journal of High Speed Networks, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 45-66, January 2002.
  
  
• Rong Zheng, Ye Ge, Chao-Ju Hou, Sandy R. Thuel, "A case for mobility support with temporary home agents", ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 32--47, January 2002.
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan and Jennifer C. Hou, "Design, realization, and evaluation of a component-based, compositional network simulation environment", 2002 SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulation -- communication networks and distributed systems modeling and simulation conference, January 2002.
  
  
• Wei-Peng Chen, Yung-Ching Hsiao, Chao-Ju Hou, Ye Ge, and Mike Fitz, "Syndrome: A light-weight approach to improve the TCP performance in mobile wireless networks", The Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Reliable Transport Protocols for Mobile Computing, Vol. 2, pp. 37--57, February 2002.
  
  
• Yuan Gao, Guanghui He, Jennifer C. Hou, "On leveraging traffic predictability in active queue management", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2002, June 2002 (acceptance ratio = ~ 20.5%).
  
  
• Honghai Zhang and Jennifer C. Hou, "A scheduling algorithm for variable rate coded voice in Bluetooth networks", Proc. The Fifth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia, September 2002.
  
  
• Wei-Peng Chen and Jennifer C. Hou, "Provisioning of temporal QoS in Bluetooth networks", Proc. 4th IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN'02), September 2002.
  
  
• Wei-Peng Chen and Jennifer C. Hou, "Dynamic, ad-hoc source routing with connection-aware link-state exchange and differentiation", Proc. IEEE Globecom, November 2002.
  
  
• Guanghui He, Yuan Gao, Jennifer C. Hou, and Kihong Park, "A case for exploiting self-similarity of Internet traffic in TCP congestion control", Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols, November 2002 (acceptance ratio = ~15%).

Journal Papers

• 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, No.7, pp. 704-719, July 1994.
  
  
• 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, No.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, No.9, pp. 1076-1090, September 1994.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, "Incorporation of optimal timeouts into distributed real-time load sharing", IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol.43, No.5, pp. 528-547, May 1994.
  
  
• Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, "Model-based evaluation of contention protocols used for real-time systems", Real-Time Systems Journal, Vol. 9, pages 69--107, 1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, "Determination of an optimal retry time in multiple-module computing systems", IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 45, No. 3, pages 374--379, March, 1996.
  
  
• 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, No. 7, pages 724--740, July, 1996.
  
  
• 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, No. 7, pages 814--826, July, 1996.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin "Implementation of decentralized load sharing in networked workstations using the Condor package", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 40, pages 173--184, January, 1997.
  
  
• 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, No. 7, pages 756--767, July, 1997.
  
  
• 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. 44, No. 5, pages 304--316, September, 1997.
  
  
• 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, No. 12, pages 1338-1356, December, 1997.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou, "Routing virtual circuits with timing requirements in virtual path based ATM networks", IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 48, No. 11, pages 1228--1243, November 1999.
  
  
• Bin Wang and Chao-Ju Hou, " A survey on multicast routing and its QoS extension: problems, algorithms, and protocols", IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 1, pages 22-36, January/February 2000.
  
  
• 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, No. 10, pages 1110-1119, October 2000.
  
  
• 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, No. 3, pages 197--215, March 2001.
  
  
• 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, No. 5, pp. 414--431, May 2001.
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan and Chao-Ju Hou, "A rate-based packet scheduling paradigm", IEE Proceedings - Software, Vol. 148, No. 4, pp.~122--134, August 2001.

Conference Papers

• Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, "Analysis of three contention protocols in distributed real-time systems", IEEE Proc. of 11th Real-Time Systems Symposium, pages 136-145, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, December 5-7, 1990.
  
  
• Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, "Effective load sharing in distributed real-time computing systems", Proc. of Third IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, pp. 670-677, Dallas, Texas, December 1-3, 1991.
  
  
• Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, "Queueing models of adaptive load sharing schemes in distributed real-time systems", Presented at ORSA Computer Science and Operations Research: New Developments in Their Interfaces, Williamsburg, Virginia, January 8-10, 1992.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, "Load sharing with consideration of future task arrivals in heterogeneous distributed real-time systems", IEEE Proc. of 12th Real-Time System Symposium, pp. 94-103, San Antonio, Texas, December 4-6, 1991.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, "Incorporation of optimal timeouts into distributed real-time load sharing", IEEE Proc. of 26th Hawaii Int'l Conf. on Systems Science, pp. II603-610, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 5-8, 1993.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, "Module allocation with timing and precedence constraints in distributed real-time systems", IEEE Proc. 13th Real-Time Systems Symposium, pp. 146-155, Phoenix, Arizona, December 2-4, 1992.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, "Determination of an optimal retry time in multiple-module computing systems", IEEE Proc. of 2nd Int'l Symp. on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, pp. 294-301, College Park, Maryland, April 25-28, 1993.
  
  
• Kang G. Shin and Chao-Ju Hou, "Evaluation of load sharing in HARTS with consideration of its communication activities", ACM 1993 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", IEEE 24th Annual Int'l Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, pp. 26-35, Austin, Texas, June 15-17, 1994.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, "Transparent load sharing in distributed systems: decentralized design alternatives based on Condor package", Proc. IEEE 13th Int'l Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems, pages 202--211, Dana Point, California, October 25-27, 1994.
  
  
• 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", Proc. IEEE 14th Int'l Phoenix Conf. on Computers and Communications, pages 191--197, Phoenix, Arizona, March 28-31, 1995.
  
  
• Ching-Chih Han, Chao-Ju Hou, and Kang G. Shin, "On slot allocation for time-constrained messages in DQDB networks", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'95: the Conf. on Computer Communications, pages 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", Proc. IEEE 20th Annual Conf. on Local Computer Networks, pages 19--28, Minneapolis, Mineasota, October 1995.
  
  
• Ching-Chih Han, Chao-Ju Hou, and Kang G. Shin, "On slot reuse for isochronous services in DQDB networks", Proc. IEEE 16th Real-Time Systems Symposium, pages 222--231, December 5-7, 1995, Pisa, Italy.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou and Kar-Shun Tsoi, "Dynamic real-time channel setup and tear-down in DQDB Networks", Proc. IEEE 16th Real-Time Systems Symposium, pages 232--241, December 5-7, 1995, Pisa, Italy.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang, and Ching-Chih Han, "Design and analysis of a WDMA protocol for passive lightwave networks", IEEE INFOCOM'96, The Conference on Computer Communications, pages 1225--1233, March, 1996, San Francisco, CA.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou, "Routing virtual circuits with timing requirements in virtual path based ATM networks", IEEE INFOCOM'96, The Conference on Computer Communications, pages 320--328, March 1996, San Francisco, CA.
  
  
• Kar Shun Tsoi and Chao-Ju Hou, "On dynamically establishing and terminating isochronous message streams in dual-bus networks", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, London, England, November 1996 (7 pages).
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang, and Ching-Chih Han, "On supporting time constrained communications in WDMA-based lightwave networks", IEEE 17th Real-Time Systems Symposium, pages 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", IEEE INFOCOM'97: The Conference on Computer Communications, April, 1997 (9 pages).
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou, "Deisgn of a fast mechanism for virtual path-based ATM networks", IEEE INFOCOM'97, Kobe, Japan, April, 1997 (9 pages).
  
  
• Yi Ye and Chao-Ju Hou, "On laying out virtual paths for real-time applications in ATM networks", Proc. of 3rd IEEE Real Time Technology and Application Symposium, pages 14--24, June, 1997.
  
  
• Chao-Ju Hou, Ching-Chih Han, and Yao-Min Chen, "Communication middleware for QoS control in high-speed networks", 21st Annual Int'l Computer Software and Application Conference (CompSac'97), August, 1997 (8 pages).
  
  
• 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", 16th Digital Avionics Systems Conference , October, 1997 (9 pages).
  
  
• Yi Ye and Chao-Ju Hou, "QGMA: A new MAC protocol for supporting QoS in wireless local area networks", IEEE 6th Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols, April, 1998 (10 pages).
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan, Bin Wang, Yi Ye, and Chao-Ju Hou, "NetSim^Q: a Java-integrated network simulation tool for QoS control in point-to-point high speed networks", 3rd NASA Research and Education Network Workshop, Moffett Field, CA, August 1998 (6 pages).
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan and Chao-Ju Hou, "A rate-based message scheduling paradigm", 1999 IEEE CS Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems, January 1999 (12 pages).
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, and Bin Wang, "On providing quality-of-service control for core-based multicast routing", IEEE 19th Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, June 1999 (9 pages). A preliminary version appeared in IEEE 1st Workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services, December 2, 1997.
  
  
• Ye Ge and Chao-Ju Hou, "A packet eligible time calculation mechanism for providing temporal QoS in multicast routing", IEEE ICC'99, Vancouver, Canada, June 1999 (7 pages).
  
  
• Ye Ge and Chao-Ju Hou, "On call admission control and adaptive capacity allocation for voice and data traffic in CDMA systems", 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications (ISWC '99), June 3-4, 1999, Victoria, Canada (2 pages).
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang, and Yao-Min Chen, "QoS extension to CBT", 9th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 99), June 1999 (12 pages).
  
  
• Wei Lin, Rong Zheng, and Chao-Ju Hou, "How to make assured services more assured?" 7th Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'99), October 1999 (10 pages).
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, and Bin Wang, "QoS-enhanced core-based multicast routing", IEEE 20th Real-Time System Symposium (RTSS'99), December 1999 (10 pages).
  
  
• Bin Wang and Chao-Ju Hou, "QoS-based multicast routing for distributing layered video to heterogeneous receivers in rate-based networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2000, March 2000 (10 pages).
  
  
• Yuan Gao, Ye Ge, and Chao-Ju Hou, "Reliable multicasts for core-based multicast routing", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'2000), November 2000 (12 pages).
  
  
• Ling Su, Rong Zheng, and Chao-Ju Hou, "An active queue management scheme for congestion control and bandwidth sharing", IEEE Int'l Conf. on computer communications and networks (IC³N 2000), October 2000 (8 pages).
  
  
• Hung-Ying Tyan and Chao-Ju Hou, "Javasim: A component-based compositional software architecture for network simulation", Western Simulation Multiconference -- Communication Networks And Distributed Systems Modeling And Simulation, January 2001 (10 pages).
  
  
• Chunlei Liu, Ye Ge, Mike Fitz, Chao-Ju Hou, Wei-Peng Chen, and Raj Jain, "OSU-MAC: a new, real-time medium access control protocol for wireless LANs with asymmetric wireless links", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, June 2001 (10 pages).
  
  
• Yuan Gao, Chao-Ju Hou, and Sanjoy Paul, "RACCOOM: a rate-based congestion control scheme for multicasts", SPIE Conference on Scalability and Traffic Control, August 2001 (invited paper).
  
  
• Rong Zheng, Ye Ge, Jennifer C. Hou, Sandy R. Thuel, "A case for mobility support with temporary home agents", IEEE 10th Int'l Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks (IC³N'01), October 2001.
  
  
• Bin Wang and Jennifer C. Hou, "An efficient QoS routing algorithm for quorumcast communication", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP'2001), November 2001.