Weekly Group Meetings

Ph.D. Theses

  1. Tolga Numanoglu (Ph.D., 2009)
    Improving the Reliability and Performance of Real-Time Communications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks [PDF]
  2. Christophe J. Merlin (Ph.D., 2009)
    Adaptability in Wireless Sensor Networks Through Cross-Layer Protocols and Architectures [PDF]
  3. Stanislava Soro (Ph.D., 2007)
    Application-Aware Resource Management in Wireless and Visual Sensor Networks [PDF]
  4. Mark Perillo (Ph.D., 2007)
    Role Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks: Energy-Efficient Strategies and Algorithms [PDF]
  5. Lei Chen (Ph.D., 2006)
    Protocols for Supporting Quality of Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks [PDF]
  6. Zhao Cheng (Ph.D., 2006)
    Efficient Information Discovery and Retrieval in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks [PDF]
  7. Bulent Tavli (Ph.D., 2005)
    Protocol Architectures for Energy Efficient Real-Time Data Communications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks [PDF]
  8. Hervaldo Carvalho (Ph.D., 2005)
    Data Fusion Implementation in Sensor Networks Applied to Health Monitoring

M.S. Theses

  1. Matthew Holland (M.S., 2007)
    Optimizing Physical Layer Parameters for Wireless Sensor Networks [PDF]
  2. Colin Goldsmith (M.S., 2004)
    Wireless Local Area Networking for Device Monitoring [PDF]
  3. Owen Zacharias (M.S., 2004)
    Wireless Wide Area Networking for Device Monitoring [PDF]
  4. Edward Woodrow (M.S., 2002)
    Data-Centric Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks [PDF]

Books and Book Chapters

  1. "Resource Management Policies for Wireless and Visual Sensor Networks" by S. Soro and W. Heinzelman, VDM Publishing House, 2008.

  2. "Protocols for Supporting QoS in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" by L. Chen and W. Heinzelman, VDM Publishing House, 2008.

  3. "Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Energy-Efficient Real-Time Data Communications" by B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, Springer Publishers, 2006.

  4. S. Tilak, N. Abu-Ghazaleh and W. Heinzelman, "Storage Management in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Appears in Mobile, Wireless and Sensor Networks: Technology, Applications and Future Directions, Wiley Publishers, 2005.

  5. M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "Wireless Sensor Network Protocols,'' Appears in Fundamental Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless and Mobile Networks, CRC Hall, 2005.

  6. W. Heinzelman, A. Murphy and M. Perillo, "Data- and Event-Centric Communication,'' Appears in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systems Perspective, Artech House, 2005.

  7. M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "Sensor Management,'' Appears in Wireless Sensor Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

  8. A. Chandrakasan, R. Amirtharajah, A. Dancy, J. Goodman, W. Rabiner and T. Xanthopoulos, "Future Directions in Energy Efficient Computing,'' Appears in Low-Power, High-Speed ULSI Circuits and Technology, Realize Inc., Japan, 1998.

Journal Articles

  1. S. Soro and Wendi Heinzelman, "A Survey of Visual Sensor Networks," Advances in Multimedia, 2009. [PDF]

  2. M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "Closing the Gap in Sensor Network Lifetimes Through an Integrated Approach to Sensor Role Selection," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2009. [PDF]

  3. S. Soro and W. Heinzelman, "Cluster Head Election Techniques for Coverage Preservation in Wireless Sensor Networks," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, 2009. [PDF]

  4. Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "Discovering Long Lifetime Routes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 6, No. 5, July, 2008, pp. 661-674. [PDF]

  5. Z. Cheng, M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "General Network Lifetime and Cost Models for Evaluating Sensor Network Deployment Strategies," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 2008. [PDF]

  6. B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "QoS and Energy Efficiency in Network Wide Broadcasting: A MAC Layer Perspective," Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 30, No. 18, December 2007. [PDF]

  7. L. Chen and W. Heinzelman, "A Survey of Routing Protocols that Support QoS in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, November 2007. [PDF]

  8. Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "Searching Strategies for Target Discovery in Wireless Networks," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4, May 2007. [PDF]

  9. T. Numanoglu, B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "Energy Efficiency and Error Resilience in Coordinated and Non-coordinated MAC Protocols," Elsevier Computer Communications Journal Special Issue, Vol. 29, No. 17, November 2006. [PDF]

  10. G. Caner, G. Sharma, M. Tekalp and W. Heinzelman, "Local Image Registration by Adaptive Filtering," Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 10, October 2006. [ PDF]

  11. B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "Energy and Spatial Reuse Efficient Network Wide Real-Time Data Broadcasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol 5, No. 10, October 2006. [PDF]

  12. Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "Adaptive Local Searching and Caching Strategies for On-demand Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks," Mobile and Wireless Networking of International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), Vol 4, No. 1/2, 2006. [PDF]

  13. S. Tilak, N. Abu-Ghazaleh and W. Heinzelman, "Collaborative Storage in Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1/2, 2005. [PDF]

  14. J. Deng, Y. Han, W. Heinzelman and P. Varshney, "Balanced-energy Sleep Scheduling in High Density Cluster-based Sensor Networks," Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 28, 2005, pp. 1631-1642. [PDF]

  15. J. Deng, Y. Han, W. Heinzelman and P. Varshney, "Scheduling Sleeping Nodes in High Density Cluster-based Sensor Networks," ACM/Kluwer MONET Special Issue on Energy Constraints and Lifetime Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 825-35, Dec. 2005. [PDF]

  16. Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "Flooding Strategy for Target Discovery in Wireless Networks," ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks, Vol. 11, No. 5, Sept. 2005. [PDF]

  17. L. Chen and W. Heinzelman, "QoS-aware Routing Based on Bandwidth Estimation for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication, Special Issue on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 23, No. 3, March 2005. [PDF]

  18. B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "MH-TRACE: Multi-Hop Time Reservation using Adaptive Control for Energy Efficiency," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication, Vol. 22, No. 5, June 2004, pp. 942-953 [PDF]

  19. W. Heinzelman, A. Murphy, H. Carvalho and M. Perillo, "Middleware to Support Sensor Network Applications," IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue, Jan. 2004. [PDF]

  20. B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "TRACE: Time Reservation using Adaptive Control for Energy Efficiency," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication, Vol. 21, No. 10, 2003. [PDF]

  21. M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "Sensor Management Policies to Provide Application QoS," Elsevier AdHoc Networks Journal, Special Issue on Sensor Network Applications and Protocols, Vol. 1, No. 2-3, 2003, pp. 235-246. [PostScript]

  22. E. Tan and W. Heinzelman, "DSP Architectures: Past, Present and Future,'' Computer Architecture News, Vol. 31, No. 3, June 2003, pp. 6-19. [PDF]

  23. S. Tilak, N. Abu-Ghazaleh, and W. Heinzelman, "A Taxonomy of Wireless Micro-Sensor Network Models,'' ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), Volume 6, Number 2, April 2002. [PDF]

Conference/Workshop Articles

  1. Tianqi Wang, Alireza Seyedi and W. Heinzelman, "Minimizing Energy Consumption in IR-UWB Based Wireless Sensor Networks ," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '09), June 2009. [PDF]

  2. Bora Karaoglu, Tolga Numanoglu and W. Heinzelman, "Adaptation of TDMA Parameters Based on Network Conditions ," IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC '09), April 2009. [PDF]

  3. Tolga Numanoglu and Wendi Heinzelman, " Improving QoS in Multicasting Through Adaptive Redundancy ," IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC '09), April 2009. [PDF]

  4. Chen-Hsiang Feng and W. Heinzelman, "RBMulticast: Receiver Based Multicast for Wireless Sensor Networks ," IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC '09), April 2009. [PDF]

  5. O. Yang and W. Heinzelman, "A Better Choice for Sensor Sleeping," 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN '09), February 2008. [PDF]

  6. O. Yang and W. Heinzelman, "Sensor Selection Cost Function to Increase Network Lifetime with QoS Support," 11-th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM '08), October 2008. [PDF]

  7. T. Wang, W. Heinzelman and A. Seyedi, "Minimization of Transceiver Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks with AWGN Channels," Proceedings of Allerton 2008, September 2008. [PDF]

  8. T. Numanoglu and W. Heinzelman, "Improving QoS Under Lossy Channels Through Adaptive Redundancy," IEEE Conference on Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Sept. 2008. [PDF]

  9. C. Merlin and W. Heinzelman, "Duty Cycle Control for Low-Power-Listening MAC Protocols," IEEE Conference on Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Sept. 2008. [PDF]

  10. C. Merlin and W. Heinzelman, "Node Synchronization for Minimizing Delay and Energy Consumption in Low-Power-Listening MAC Protocols," IEEE Conference on Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Sept. 2008. [PDF]

  11. S. Soro and W. Heinzelman, "Camera Selection in Visual Sensor Networks," IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2007), Sept. 2007. [PDF]

  12. C. Yu, S. Soro, G. Sharma and W. Heinzelman, "Lifetime-Distortion Trade-off in Image Sensor Networks," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2007), Sept. 2007. [PDF]

  13. C. Merlin and W. Heinzelman, "Network-aware Adaptation of MAC Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks," DCOSS 2007 Poster Session, June 2007. [PDF]

  14. O. Yang, C. Merlin and W. Heinzelman, "A General Cost Function to Reflect Sensor Support for Application QoS," DCOSS 2007 Poster Session, June 2007. [PDF]

  15. T. Numanoglu, B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "Broadcast Multi-rate Support for MANETs," IFIP Networking 2007, May 2007. [PDF]

  16. C. Merlin and W. Heinzelman, "A First Look at a Cross-Layer Facilitating Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE SECON 2006 Poster Session, Sept. 2006. [PDF]

  17. M. Holland, R. Aures and W. Heinzelman, "Experimental Investigation of Radio Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE SECON 2006 Poster Session, Sept. 2006. [PDF]

  18. C. Merlin and W. Heinzelman, "Use of a Sensor Network Middleware for Managing a Cross-Layer Architecture," Euro-American Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks, (with DCOSS '06), June, 2006. [PDF]

  19. M. Perillo, Z. Cheng and W. Heinzleman, "An Analysis of Strategies for Mitigating the Sensor Network Hot Spot Problem," Proc. of CollaborateCom, Dec., 2005. [PDF]

  20. C. Merlin and W. Heinzelman, "A Study of Safety Applications in Vehicular Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2005, November 2005. [PDF]

  21. S. Soro and W. Heinzelman, "On the Coverage Problem in Video-based Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNets '05), October 2005. [PDF]

  22. B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "MC-TRACE: Multicasting Through Time Reservation Using Adaptive Control for Energy Efficiency," Proceedings of IEEE Milcom '05, October 2005. [PDF]

  23. T. Numanoglu, B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "An Analysis of Coordinated and Non-Coordinated Medium Access Control Protocols under Channel Noise," Proceedings of IEEE Milcom '05, October 2005. [PDF]

  24. T. Numanoglu, B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "The Effects of Channel Errors on Coordinated and Non-Coordinated Medium Access Control Protocols," IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob '05), August 2005. [PDF]

  25. M. Perillo, Z. Cheng and W. Heinzleman, "An Analysis of Strategies for Mitigating the Sensor Network Hot Spot Problem," The Second International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (Mobiquitous '05), July, 2005. [PDF]

  26. S. Soro and W. Heinzelman, "Prolonging the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks via Unequal Clustering," Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE WMAN '05), April 2005. [PDF]

  27. G. Caner, M. Tekalp, G. Sharma and W. Heinzelman, "An Adaptive Filtering Framework for Image Registration," Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP '05, March 2005. [PDF]

  28. B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "NB-TRACE: Network-wide Broadcasting through Time Reservations Using Adaptive Control for Energy Efficiency," Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC '05), March 2005. [PDF]

  29. M. Perillo, Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "On the Problem of Unbalanced Load Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, November 2004. [PDF]

  30. B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "PN-TRACE: Plain Network-Wide Broadcasting Through Time Reservations Using Adaptive Control for Energy Efficiency," Proceedings of IEEE Milcom '04, October 2004. [PDF]

  31. Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "Exploring Long Lifetime Routing in Ad Hoc Networks," Seventh ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM '04), October 2004. [PDF]

  32. Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "Adaptive Local Searching and Caching Strategies for On-Demand Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks," Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networking (MWN '04), August 2004. [PDF]

  33. Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "Searching Strategy for Multi-Target Discovery in Wireless Networks," 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN '04), August 2004. [PDF]

  34. J. Deng, S. Han, W. Heinzelman and P. Varshney, "Balanced-energy Sleep Scheduling Scheme for High Density Cluster-based Sensor Networks," 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN '04), August 2004. [PDF]

  35. L. Chen and W. Heinzelman, "Network Architecture to Support QoS in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME '04), June 2004. [PDF]

  36. M. Perillo, Z. Ignjatovic and W. Heinzelman, "An Energy Conservation Method for Wireless Sensor Networks Employing a Blue Noise Spatial Sampling Technique," Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '04), April 2004. [PDF]

  37. M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "DAPR: A Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Utilizing an Application-based Routing Cost," Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC '04), March 2004. [PDF]

  38. S. Tilak, A. Murphy and W. Heinzelman, "Non-Uniform Information Dissemination for Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '03), Nov. 2003. [PostScript]

  39. L. Chen and W. Heinzelman, "End-to-End Congestion Control for Best-Effort Transmission," Proceedings of the WNCG Wireless Networking Symposium, Oct. 2003. [PostScript]

  40. B. Tavli and W. Heinzelman, "MH-TRACE: Multi-Hop Time Reservation Using Adaptive Control for Energy Efficiency," Proceedings of Milcom 2003, Oct. 2003. [PDF]

  41. Z. Cheng and W. Heinzelman, "Flooding Strategy for Target Discovery in Wireless Networks," Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2003), Sept. 2003. [PDF]

  42. H. Carvalho, W. Heinzelman, A. Murphy and C. Coelho, "A General Data Fusion Architecture," Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2003), July 2003. [PDF]

  43. H. Carvalho, A. Murphy, W. Heinzelman, and C. Coelho, "Network-Based Distributed Systems Middleware," Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing, June 2003. [PDF]

  44. M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "Providing Application QoS Through Intelligent Sensor Management," Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA '03), May 2003. [PDF]

  45. M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "Optimal Sensor Management Under Energy and Reliability Constraints," Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC '03), March 2003. [PostScript]

  46. M. Perillo and W. Heinzelman, "ASP: An Adaptive Energy-Efficient Polling Algorithm for Bluetooth Piconets,'' Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS '03), January 2003. [PDF]

  47. S. Tilak, N. Abu-Ghazaleh and W. Heinzelman, "Infrastructure Tradeoffs for Sensor Networks,'' ACM 1st International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA '02), Sept. 2002. [PostScript]

  48. E. Woodrow and W. Heinzelman, "SPIN-IT: A Data Centric Routing Protocol for Image Retrieval in Wireless Networks,'' Proc. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '02), Sept. 2002. [PDF]

  49. Z. Cheng, M. Perillo, B. Tavli, W. Heinzelman, S. Tilak, and N. Abu-Ghazaleh, "Protocols for Local Data Delivery in Wireless Microsensor Networks,'' 45th IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS '02), Tulsa, OK, Aug. 2002. [PDF]