BIPLAB SIKDAR

Room No. ****, JEC, ph: +1-518-***-****

Department of ECSE, fax: +1-518-***-****

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, email: abqaxm@r.postjobfree.com

Troy, NY 12180 http://networks.ecse.rpi.edu/ bsikdar

EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 07/2007 - Present

Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 08/2001 - 06/2007

EDUCATION

Ph.D, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA August 2001

M. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India May 1998

B. Tech, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India May 1996

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 7/2007 - Present

Leiv Eiriksson Fellow, Simula Research Laboratories, Oslo, Norway 6/2011 - 8/2011

Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA 3/2011 - 5/2011

Visiting Professor, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 12/2010 - 2/2011

JSPS Fellow, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan 10/2010 - 11/2010

Visiting Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 8/2010 - 9/2010

Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India 6/2010 - 7/2010

Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 8/2001 - 6/2007

Tan Chin Tuan Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 7/2005 - 9/2005

Etudiant Visitant (Visiting Student), INRIA, Rocquencourt, France 5/2000 - 8/2000

Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 12/1997 - 6/1998

Summer Intern, Department of Telecommunications, Calcutta, India 5/1995 - 7/1995

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computer communication networks: Protocols and performance

Wireless MAC protocols

Smart grids and green computer networks

Network Security

RESEARCH GRANTS

1. Title: CURENT: Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Net-

works, Agency: National Science Foundation, Funds: US$ 2,000,000, Duration: 2011-

2016, Contribution: 20%.

2. Title: New York State Phasor Measurement Network, Agency: New York State Energy

Research and Development Agency, Funds: US$ 250,000, Duration: 2010-2012, Contri-

bution: 50%.

3. Title: Green Solutions for Wireless Network Access, Agency: Research Council of Norway,

Funds: US$ 30,000, Duration: 2011-2011, Contribution: 100%.

4. Title: Multiple-Layer Modeling and Design of Wireless AdHoc Networks, Agency: National

Science Foundation, Funds: US$ 160,000, Duration: 2009-2011, Contribution: 100%.

5. Title: Biologically Motivated Models for Spatio-Temporal Behavior of Computer Networks:

Performance, Growth and Pathological Behavior, Agency: National Science Foundation,

Funds: US$ 402,000, Duration: 2004-2010, Contribution: 100%, (NSF CAREER

Award)

6. Title: WiMax Application Performance and System Simulation, Agency: WiMax Forum,

Funds: US$ 227,000, Duration: 2006-2009, Contribution: 100%.

7. Title: Community Wireless Networks for Last-Mile Broadband Interconnectivity: An Exper-

imental Research Program, Agency: National Science Foundation, Funds: US$ 350,000.

Duration: 2004-2008, Contribution: 50%.

8. Title: Infrastructure Mesh Wireless Networks, Agency: Intel Corporation, Funds: US$

205,000, Duration: 2004-2006, Contribution: 50%.

9. Title: Scalable Online Network Modeling and Simulation, Agency: Defense Advanced Re-

search Project Agency (DARPA), Funds: US$ 950,000, Duration: 2001-2004, Contri-

bution: 25%

10. Title: High Performance Robust Network Management: Theoretical Foundations and Prac-

tical Design Tools, Agency: RPI, Funds: US$ 50,000, Duration: 2002-2002, Contribu-

tion: 17%

TEACHING AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

1. Courses Taught:

(a) Broadband and Optical Networking (Graduate)

(b) Computer Architecture, Networks and Operating Systems

(c) Computer Communication Networks

(d) Introduction to Engineering Design

(e) Probability for Engineering Applications

2. Courses Developed (and Taught):

(a) Modeling and Analysis of Computer Networks (Graduate)

(b) Experimental Networking

STUDENTS

1. PhD Graduated:

(a) Jun Peng: 2004, Current Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Pan

American.

(b) Fengji Ye: 2005, Current Employment: Cisco systems, San Jose, CA.

(c) Hua Yang: 2005, Current Employment: Intel Research Laboratories, Shanghai, China.

(d) Shivani Deshpande: 2007, Current Employment: Packeteer Inc., San Jose, CA.

(e) Rajagopal Iyengar: 2007, Current Employment: Posdata-USA, San Jose, CA.

(f) Krishna Ramachandran: 2007, Current Employment: General Motors Research Lab-

oratory, Bangalore, India.

(g) Haiming Yang: 2008, Current Employment: Cisco systems, San Jose, CA.

(h) Xiaobo Long: 2008, Current Employment: Goldman Sachs, New York, NY.

2. MS Graduated: 6

3. PhD Current: 3

4. MS Current: 0

HONORS AND AWARDS

1. Leiv Eiriksson Fellowship, Norway, 2011.

2. JSPS Fellowship, Japan, 2010.

3. Best Paper Award, IEEE GLOBECOM, New Orleans, LA, 2008.

4. Individual Contribution Award, WiMAX Forum, San Jose, CA, USA, 2008.

5. Teaching Excellence Award, School of Engineering, RPI, Troy, NY 2006.

6. Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship, Singapore, 2005.

7. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2004.

8. Charles M. Close Doctoral Prize, RPI, Troy, NY

9. ECSE Departmental Service Award, RPI, Troy, NY

10. Founder s Award of Excellence, RPI, Troy, NY

11. Master Teaching Assistant, RPI, Troy, NY

12. Verifone Fellowship, IIT, Kanpur, India

13. State Scholarship, NEHU, Shillong, India

14. Eta Kappa Nu

15. Tau Beta Pi

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Communications (2008-Present).

TPC Co-Chair:

IEEE GLOBECOM, Communications Software and Services Symposium, 2009.

IEEE BROADNETS, Wireless Track, 2009.

Panelist: National Science Foundation.

External Reviewer: National Research Council of Canada, Austrian Science Fund.

TPC member: IEEE INFOCOM (2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), IEEE GLOBE-

COM (2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009), IEEE VTC (2007), IEEE ICC (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009,

2010), ICMU (2004-2010), IEEE WCNC (2005, 2006, 2010, 2011).

Journal Reviews: IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Network-

ing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wire-

less Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile

Computing, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Tech-

nology, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE

Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, ACM

Transactions on Sensor Networks, Computer Networks, Performance Evaluation, IEEE Com-

munications Magazine, IEEE Communication Letters

Conference Reviews: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE/IFIP MMNS,

SPECTS, ICON, TRIDENTCOM, IEEE VTC, IEEE WSN, IEEE ISCC, ACM MSWIM,

WiOpt

PATENTS

1. Network management and control using on-line collaborative simulations, US

Patent No. 7,363,285, April 2008, (with S. Kalyanaraman et al.).

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

5. H. Li, N. Jaggi and B. Sikdar, Cooperative Relay Scheduling in Energy Harvesting Sensor

Networks, GreenIT: Technologies and Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2011.

4. X. Long and B. Sikdar, MAC and Routing Protocols for Vehicle to Vehicle Networks,

Automotive Informatics and Communicative Systems: Principals in Vehicular Networks and

Data Exchange, IGI Global, 2009.

3. R. Iyengar, K. Kar, B. Sikdar and X. Luo, Scheduling Algorithms for OFDMA based

WiMAX Systems with QoS Constraints, WiMAX: Technologies, Performance Analysis and

QoS, Part I: Technologies, CRC Press, 2007.

2. S. Kalyanaraman and B. Sikdar, Protocol Design Concepts, TCP/IP, and the Network

Layer, IP over WDM: Building the Next-Generation Optical Internet, Sudhir Dixit (Editor),

Wiley, April 2003.

1. B. Sikdar and K. S. Vastola, On the Contribution of TCP to the Self-Similarity of Network

Tra c, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2170, pp. 596-613, 2001.

Journals (accepted and published)

35. B. Sikdar, Comparison of Broadcasting Schemes for Infrastructure to Vehicular Communica-

tions, Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

34. B. Sikdar and J. Chow, Defending Synchrophasor Data Networks Against Tra c Analysis

Attacks, Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

33. R. Iyengar and B. Sikdar, A Queueing Model for Polled Service in WiMAX/IEEE 802.16

Networks, Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

32. H. Li and B. Sikdar, Throughput Guarantee for Maximal Schedulers in Sensor Networks with

Cooperative Relays, Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

31. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, Queueing Analysis of Polling Based Wireless MAC Protocols with

Sleep-Wake Cycles, Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

30. H. Li, N. Jaggi and B. Sikdar, Relay Scheduling for Cooperative Communications in Sensor

Networks with Energy Harvesting, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.

10, no. 9, pp. 2918-2928, September 2011.

29. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, Dynamics of Malware Spread in Decentralized Peer to

Peer Networks, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 8, no. 4,

pp. 617-623, July/August 2011.

28. B. Sikdar, Characterization and Abatement of the Reassociation Overhead in Vehicle to

Roadside Networks, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3296-

3304, November 2010.

27. A. Seyedi and B. Sikdar, Energy E cient Transmission Strategies for Body Sensor Networks

with Energy Harvesting, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 2116-

2126, July 2010.

26. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, A Population Based Approach to Model the Lifetime and

Energy Distribution in Battery Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Journal on

Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 576-586, May 2010.

25. X. Long and B. Sikdar, A Mechanism for Detecting Session Hijacks in Wireless Networks,

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1380-1389, April 2010.

24. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, A Queueing Model for Evaluating the Transfer Latency

of Peer to Peer Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 21.

no. 3, pp. 367-378, March 2010.

23. B. Sikdar, Queueing Analysis of Polling Service Classes in the IEEE 802.16 MAC Protocol,

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 5767-5772, December

2009.

22. S. Deshpande, M. Thottan, T. Ho and B. Sikdar, An Online Mechanism for BGP Instability

Detection and Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 1470-1484,

November 2009.

21. F. Ye, H. Yang, H. Yang and B. Sikdar, A Distributed Coordination Scheme to Improve

the Performance of IEEE 802.11 in Multi-hop Networks, IEEE Transactions on Communi-

cations, vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 2903-2908, October 2009.

20. B. Stephenson and B. Sikdar, A Quasi-species Model for the Propagation and Containment

of Polymorphic Worms, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 1289-1296,

September 2009.

19. J. Peng, B. Sikdar and L. Cheng, Multicasting With Localized Control In Wireless Ad-Hoc

Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 52-64, January 2009.

18. G. Nagy and B. Sikdar, Classi cation and Evaluation of Examples for Teaching Probability

to Electrical Engineering Students, IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 51, no. 4, pp.

476-483, November 2008.

17. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, A Swarm Intelligence Based Protocol for Data Acquisition in

Networks with Mobile Sinks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 8, pp.

932-945, August 2008.

16. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, Modeling Queueing and Channel Access Delay in Unsaturated

IEEE 802.11 Random Access MAC Based Wireless Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

Networking, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 878-891, August 2008.

15. S. Deshpande, M. Thottan and B. Sikdar, An Online Scheme for the Isolation of BGP

Miscon guration Errors, IEEE Transactions on Network and Services Management, vol. 5,

no. 2, pp. 78-90, June 2008.

14. J. Peng, L. Cheng and B. Sikdar, A Wireless MAC Protocol with Collision Detection, IEEE

Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 1357-1369, December 2007.

13. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, Distributed Mobility Transparent Broadcasting in Vehicle to

Vehicle Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 3289-

3299, November 2007.

12. F. Ye, S. Yi and B. Sikdar, Scaling of Spatial Reuse and Saturation Throughput in a Class

of MAC Protocols, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 10, pp.

3529-3533, October 2007.

11. B. Sikdar, An Analytic Model for the Delay in IEEE 802.11 PCF MAC based Wireless

Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1542-1550,

April 2007.

10. K. Chandrayana, S. Ramakrishnan, B. Sikdar and S. Kalyanaraman, On Randomizing the

Sending Times in TCP and other Window Based Algorithms, Computer Networks, vol. 50,

no. 3, pp. 422-447, February 2006.

9. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, A Population Based Approach to Model Network Lifetime

in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 21-

23, September 2005.

8. J. Peng and B. Sikdar, An E cient and Scalable Loss Recovery Scheme for Video Multicast,

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 356-365, April 2005.

7. J. Peng and B. Sikdar, Multi-layer Multicast Congestion Control in Satellite Environments,

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 449-461, May 2004.

6. B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, Analytic Models for the Latency and Steady-

State Throughput of TCP Tahoe, Reno and SACK, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Network-

ing, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 959-971, December 2003.

5. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, On the Impact of IEEE 802.11 MAC on Tra c Characteristics,

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 189-203, February

2003.

4. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, Variable Length Packet Switches: Delay Analysis of Crossbar

Switches Under Poisson and Self-similar Tra c, Computer Communications, vol. 26, no. 6,

pp. 590-610, April, 2002.

3. B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, An Integrated Model for the Latency and

Steady State Throughput of TCP Connections, Performance Evaluation, vol. 46, no. 2-3,

pp. 139-154, September 2001.

2. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, Integral Expressions for the Numerical Evaluation of Product

Form Expressions over Irregular Multidimensional Integer State Spaces (extended version),

Telecommunication Systems, vol. 16, no. 1,2, pp. 195-215, January 2001.

1. B. Sikdar and D. Manjunath, Queueing Analysis of Scheduling Policies in Copy Networks of

Space Based Multicast Packet Switches, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 8,

no. 3, pp. 396-406, July 2000.

Conferences

76. B. Sikdar, Environmental Impact of IEEE 802.11 Access Points: A Case Study, Proceedings

of ACM GreenMetrics, New York, NY, June 2010.

75. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, Delay and Energy Models for Polling Based MAC Protocols with

Sleep-Wake Cycles, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.

74. A. Seyedi and B. Sikdar, Performance Modeling of Transmission Schedulers for Sensor Net-

works Capable of Energy Harvesting, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Cape Town, South Africa,

May 2010.

73. H. Li and B. Sikdar, Relay Usage Scheduling in Sensor Networks with Energy Harvesting,

Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.

72. M. Aman, B. Sikdar and S. Parekh, Scalable Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming in WiMAX

Networks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Honolulu, HI, December 2009.

71. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, A Framework for Modeling the Lifetime and Residual

Energy Distribution in Wireless Networks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Honolulu,

HI, December 2009.

70. H. Yang, B. Sikdar and S. Kalyanaraman, A Threshold Based MAC Protocol for Cooperative

MIMO Transmissions, to appear in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, minisymposium, Rio

de Janerio, Brazil, April, 2009.

69. X. Guo, R. Rouil, C. Soin, S. Parekh, B. Sikdar and S. Kalyanaraman, WiMAX System

Design and Evaluation Methodology using the NS-2 Simulator, Proceedings of WISARD,

Bangalore, India, January 2009.

68. B. Sikdar, A Broadcasting Scheme for Infrastructure to Vehicle Communications, Proceed-

ings of IEEE GLOBECOM, New Orleans, LA, December 2008.

67. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, A Mobility Based Architecture for Underwater Acoustic Sensor

Networks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, New Orleans, LA, December 2008.

66. X. Long and B. Sikdar, Wavelet Based Detection of Session Hijacking Attacks in Wireless

Networks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, New Orleans, LA, December 2008.

65. H.-Y. Shen, H. Yang, B. Sikdar and S. Kalyanaraman, A Distributed System for Cooperative

MIMO Transmissions, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, New Orleans, LA, December

2008.

64. A. Seyedi and B. Sikdar, Modeling and Analysis of Energy Harvesting Nodes in Wireless Sen-

sor Networks, Proceedings of the Allerton Conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL, September

2008.

63. A. Seyedi and B. Sikdar, Modeling and Analysis of Energy Harvesting Nodes in Body Sensor

Networks, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body

Sensor Networks, Hong Kong, China, June 2008.

62. B. Sikdar, Medium Access Control in Vehicle to Roadside Networks, Proceedings of IEEE

ICC, Beijing, China, May 2008.

61. X. Long and B. Sikdar, A Wavelet Based Long Range Signal Strength Prediction in Wireless

Networks, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Beijing, China, May 2008.

60. X. Long and B. Sikdar, A Real-time Algorithm for Long Range Signal Strength Prediction

in Wireless Networks, Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008.

59. B. Sikdar, Design and Analysis of a MAC Protocol for Vehicle to Roadside Networks,

Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008.

58. A. Seyedi and B. Sikdar, Energy E cient Transmission Strategies for Body Sensor Networks

with Energy Harvesting, Proceedings of CISS, Princeton, NJ, March 2008.

57. H. Yang, H.-Y. Shen and B. Sikdar, A MAC Protocol for Cooperative MIMO Transmissions

in Sensor Networks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Washington, DC, November 2007.

56. X. Long and B. Sikdar, Wavelet Based Detection of Shadow Fading in Wireless Networks,

Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Washington, DC, November 2007.

55. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, On the Stability of the Malware Free Equilibrium in Cell

Phones Networks with Spatial Dynamics, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Glasgow, Scotland, July

2007.

54. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, Performance Analysis of Polling based TDMA MAC Protocols with

Sleep and Wakeup Cycles, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2007.

53. X. Long and B. Sikdar, Real Time Detection of Link Failures in Inter Domain Routing,

Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2007.

52. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, Malware Propagation in Networks of Smart Cell Phones

with Spatial Dynamics, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, minisymposium, Alaska, AK, May

2007.

51. P. Michiardi, K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, Modeling and Analysis of Seed Scheduling

Strategies in a BitTorrent Network, Proceedings of IFIP Networking, Atlanta, GA, May

2007.

50. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, Optimal Cluster Heads Selection in LEACH Architecture, Proceed-

ings of IEEE IPCCC, New Orleans, LA, April 2007.

49. J. Peng, L. Cheng and B. Sikdar, A New MAC Protocol for Wireless Packet Networks,

Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.

48. F. Ye, H. Yang and B. Sikdar, Distributed Mobility Transparent Broadcast in Mobile Ad

Hoc Networks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.

47. S. Deshpande, M. Thottan, T. Ho and B. Sikdar, A Statistical Approach to Anomaly Detec-

tion in Interdomain Routing, Proceedings of IEEE BROADNETS, San Hose, CA, October

2006.

46. R. Iyengar, V. Sharma, K. Kar and B. Sikdar, Analysis of Contention Based Multichannel

MAC for Point to Multipoint Networks, Proceedings of IEEE WOWMOM, Niagara Falls,

NY, June 2006.

45. F. Ye, H. Yang and B. Sikdar, Enhancing MAC Coordination to Boost Spatial Reuse in

IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Istanbul, pp. 3815-3819, Turkey,

June 2006.

44. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, Modeling Malware Propagation in Gnutella Type Peer-

to-Peer Networks, Proceedings of IEEE IPDPS, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.

43. B. Stephenson and B. Sikdar, A Quasi-species Approach for Modeling the Dynamics of

Polymorphic Worms, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

42. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, SIMPLE: Using Swarm Intelligence Methodology to De-

sign Data Acquisition Protocol in Sensor Networks with Mobile Sinks, Proceedings of IEEE

INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

41. R. Iyengar, K. Kar and B. Sikdar, Scheduling Algorithms for PMP operation in IEEE

802.16 Networks, Proceedings of the Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks,

Boston, MA, April 2006.

40. B. Sikdar Delay Analysis of IEEE 802.11 PCF MAC based Wireless Networks, Proceedings

of IEEE GLOBECOM, Saint Louis, MO, November 2005.

39. R. Iyengar, P. Iyer and B. Sikdar, Delay Analysis of 802.16 based Last Mile Wireless Net-

works, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, Saint Louis, MO, November 2005.

38. B. Sikdar, Queueing Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Point Coordination Function, Proceedings of

International Teletra c Congress, Beijing, China, August 2005.

37. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, A Lightweight Target Tracking Protocol for Ad Hoc Sensor Net-

works, Proceedings of IEEE VTC, pp. 2850-2854, Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2005.

36. A. Muthukrishnan and B. Sikdar, Power E ciencies of Multi-hop paths for Routing in

Wireless Networks, Proceedings of IEEE VTC, pp. 2459-2462, Stockholm, Sweden, May,

2005.

35. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, Swarm Intelligence Based Surveillance Protocol in Ad Hoc

Sensor Networks, Proceedings of IEEE VTC, pp. 2533-2537, Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2005.

34. K. Ramachandran and B. Sikdar, An Analytic Framework for Modeling Peer to Peer Net-

works, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 215-269, Miami, FL, March 2005.

33. F. Ye and B. Sikdar, Distance-Aware Virtual Carrier Sensing for Improved Spatial Reuse in

Wireless Networks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 3793-3797, Dallas, TX, Novem-

ber 2004.

32. S. Deshpande, M. Thottan and B. Sikdar, Early Detection of BGP Instabilities Resulting

from Internet Worm Attacks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 2266-2270, Dallas,

TX, November 2004.

31. S. Deshpande and B. Sikdar, On the Impact of Route Processing and MRAI Timers on

BGP Convergence Times, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 1147-1151, Dallas, TX,

November 2004.

30. F. Ye and B. Sikdar, Evaluation of Spatial Reuse in Cooperative Multiple Access Networks,

Proceedings of IEEE VTC, pp. 4315-4319, Los Angeles, CA, October 2004.

29. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, A Queueing Model for Finite Load IEEE 802.11 Random Access

MAC, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, pp. 175-179, Paris, France, June 2004.

28. H. Yang, F. Ye and B. Sikdar, A Dynamic Query-Tree Energy Balancing Protocol for Sensor

Networks, Proceedings of IEEE WCNC, pp. 1715-1720, Atlanta, GA, March 2004.

27. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, Queueing Analysis and Delay Mitigation in IEEE 802.11 Random

Access MAC based Wireless Networks, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1404-1413,

Hong Kong, China, March 2004.

26. J. Peng and B. Sikdar, A Multicast Congestion Control Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Net-

works, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 2860-2864, San Francisco, CA, December

2003.

25. F. Ye, S. Yi and B. Sikdar, Improving Spatial Reuse of IEEE 802.11 Based Ad Hoc Net-

works, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 1013-1017, San Francisco, CA, December

2003.

24. J. Peng and B. Sikdar, Multicast Loss Recovery with Active Injection, Proceedings of IEEE

ICCCN, pp. 81-86, Dallas, TX, October 2003.

23. H. Yang and B. Sikdar, A Protocol for Tracking Mobile Targets using Sensor Networks,

Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (In conjunction

with IEEE ICC), Anchorage, AK, May 2003.

22. R. Iyengar and B. Sikdar, Scalable and Distributed GPS Free Positioning for Sensor Net-

works, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, pp. 338-342, Anchorage, AK, May, 2003.

21. J. Peng and B. Sikdar, Rate Control over Repair Tra c in Multicast, Proceedings of the

37th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.

20. O. Tickoo and B. Sikdar, Modeling and Analysis of Tra c Characteristics in IEEE 802.11

MAC Based Networks, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 67-71, Taipei, Taiwan,

November, 2002.

19. B. Sikdar, K. Chandrayana, K. S. Vastola and S. Kalyanaraman, On Reducing the Degree of

Second-Order Scaling in Network Tra c, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 2594-2598,

Taipei, Taiwan, November, 2002.

18. J. Peng and B. Sikdar, Routing-based video multicast congestion control, Proceedings of

IFIP/IEEE MMNS, pp. 328-340, Santa Barbara, CA, October 2002.

17. B. Sikdar, K. Chandrayana, K. S. Vastola and S. Kalyanaraman, Queue management algo-

rithms and network tra c self-similarity, Proceedings of IEEE HPSR, pp. 319-323, Kobe,

Japan, May 2002.

16. K. Chandrayana, B. Sikdar and S. Kalyanaraman, Comparative study of TCP compatible

binomial congestion control schemes, Proceedings of IEEE HPSR, pp. 224-228, Kobe, Japan,

May 2002.

15. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, Input queued switches for variable length packets: Finite bu er

analysis, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on High Performance Computing,

pp. 372-384, Hyderabad, India, December 2001.

14. B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, Analytic models for the latency and steady-

state throughput of TCP Tahoe, Reno and SACK, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, pp.

1781-1787, San Antonio, TX, November 2001.

13. J. L vy-V hel and B. Sikdar, A multiplicative multifractal model for TCP tra c, Proceed-

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ings of IEEE ISCC, pp. 714-719, Hammamet, Tunisia, July 2001.

12. Y.Tao, D. Harrison, B.Sikdar, H. Tahilramani, B. Mo, L. Jiang, S. Kalyanaraman, B. Szy-

manski, and K. S. Vastola, Network management and control using collaborative on-line

simulation, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, pp. 204-209, Helsinki, Finland, June 2001.

11. K. Chandrayana, B. Sikdar and S. Kalyanaraman, Scalable con guration of RED queue

parameters, Proceedings of IEEE HPSR, pp. 185-189, Dallas, TX, May 2001.

10. B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, TCP Reno with random losses: Latency,

throughput and sensitivity analysis, Proceedings of IEEE IPCCC, pp. 188-195, Phoenix,

AZ, April 2001.

9. B. Sikdar and K. S. Vastola, The e ect of TCP on the self-similarity of network tra c,

Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD,

March 2001.

8. B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, An integrated model for the latency and

steady-state throughput of TCP connections, Proceeding of IFIP Symposium on Advanced

Performance Modeling, Orlando, FL, November 2000.

7. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, Variable length packet switches: Delay analysis of crossbar

switches under Poisson and self-similar tra c, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1055-

1064, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.

6. B. Sikdar and K. S. Vastola, On the convergence of Markovian arrival and fractional ARIMA

processes with long-range dependence to fractional Brownian motion, Proceedings of the 34th

Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. TP2(7-12), Princeton, NJ, March 2000.

5. M. Yuksel, B. Sikdar, K. S Vastola and B. Szymanski, Workload generation in ns simula-

tions of wide area networks and the Internet, Proceedings of Communication Networks and

Distributed Systems Simulation Conference, pp. 93-98, San Diego, CA, January 2000.

4. D. Manjunath and B. Sikdar, Integral expressions for the numerical evaluation of product

form expressions over irregular multidimensional integer state spaces, Proceedings of the

Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, pp.

326-332, Chicago, IL, July 1999.

3. B. Sikdar and D. Manjunath, Queueing analysis of scheduling policies in copy networks of

space based multicast ATM switches, Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Workshop on

Broadband Switching Systems, pp 3-7, Kingston, Canada, June 1999.

2. B. Sikdar and D. Manjunath, Input queued packets for variable length packets: A continuous

time analysis, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Switching

Systems, pp. 65-69, Kingston, Canada, June 1999.

1. B. Sikdar and D. Manjunath, Evaluation of the exact over ow probabilities in a space based

multicast switch copy network, Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Information Sciences

and Systems, pp. 586-587, Baltimore, MD, March 1999.

Invited Papers

1. B. Sikdar and K. S. Vastola, On the contribution of TCP to the self-similarity of network

tra c, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Communications, pp. 596-613,

Taormina, Italy, September 2001.

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