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Selected Recent Journal Publications

R. Kannan, S. Wei, V. Chakravarthy and M. Rangaswamy,`` Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Energy Transmission Scheduling in Rate and Duty-Cycle Constrained Wireless Networks ,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 296-306, February 2010.

V. Chakravarthy, Z. Wu, M. Temple, F. Garber, R. Kannan and A. V. Vasilakos,``Novel Overlay/Underlay Cognitive Radio Waveforms Using SD-SMSE Framework to Enhance Spectrum Efficiency - Part I,'' to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

M. P. Anastasopoulos, D. K. Petraki, R. Kannan and A. V. Vasilakos, ``TCP Throughput Adaptation in WiMax Networks using Evolutionary Game Theory,'' to appear in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-PartB.

G. T. Amariucai, S. Wei and R. Kannan, `` Optimal Strategies for Gaussian Jamming in Block-Fading Channels under Delay and Power Constraints ,'' under review in IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory .

C. Busch, R. Kannan and A. V. Vasilakos, ``Approximating Congestion and Dilation in Networks via Quality of Routing Games,'' submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

N. Xiong, A. V. Vasilakos, L. Yang, L. Song, Y. Pan, R. Kannan and Y. Li, ``Comparative Analysis of Quality of Service and Memory Usage for Adaptive Failure Detectors in Healthcare Systems,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare, vol. 27, no. 4, pp.1-15, May 2009.

M. P. Anastasopoulos, P-D. Arapoglou, R. Kannan and P. G. Cottis, '' Adaptive Routing Strategies in IEEE 802.16 Multi-Hop Wireless Backhaul Networks Based On Evolutionary Game Theory,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications -Game Theory in Communication Systems, May 2008.

S. Wei, R. Kannan, S. Iyengar, N. S. Rao `` Energy Efficient Estimation of Gaussian Sources Over Inhomogeneous Gaussian MAC Channels ,'' Submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory

Selected Recent Conference Publications

S. Wei and R. Kannan, ``Jamming and Counter-Measure Strategies in Parallel Gaussian Fading Channels with Channel State,'' IEEE MILCOM, San Diego, Nov. 2008.

C. Busch, R. Kannan and A. V. Vasilakos, ``The Impact of Path Lengths on Atomic Congestion Games,'' WiCon 2008 -Game-Theoretic Models for Wireless Sensor Networks, Nov. 2008.

U. Wiggins, R. Kannan, V. Chakravarthy and A. V. Vasilakos, ''Data-Centric Prioritization in a Cognitive Radio Network: A Quality of Service based Design and Integration'', IEEE DySPAN 08, Chicago, Oct. 2008.

S. Wei, R. Kannan, S. Iyengar and N. Rao, ``Energy Efficient Estimation of Gaussian Sources Over Inhomogeneous Gaussian MAC Channels.,'' IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2008), New Orleans, Nov. 2008.

Publications

R. Kannan, S. Wei, V. Chakravarthy and M. Rangaswamy,`` Fully Polynomial Approximation Algorithms for Collaborative Relaying in Sensor Networks under Finite Rate Constraints,'' to appear in, International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'07) , June 18 - 20, 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

G. Amariucai, S. Wei and R. Kannan, ''Gaussian Jamming in Block-Fading Channels under Long Term Power Constraints,'' in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2007 (ISIT07)

R. Kannan and S. Wei, `` Energy Efficient Relaying and Coalition-Forming in Relay Networks,'' in 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 07) Honolulu, Hawaii, April 15 - 20, 2007.

R. Kannan, S. Wei, G. Deng, V. Chakravarthy and M. Rangaswamy, `` Algorithms for Relaying via Channel Qantization in Sensor Networks,'' in 41st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 07) Baltimore, MD, March 2007.

G. Amariucai, S. Wei and R. Kannan, ``Minimax and Maxmin Solutions to Gaussian Jamming,'' in 41st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 07) Baltimore, MD, March 2007.

R. Kannan and S. Wei, `` Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling Wireless Sensor Networks with Rate and Duty-Cycle Constraints over Interference Channels ,'' in International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'06) , San Francisco, CA, June 2006.

S. Wei and R. Kannan, ``Strategic Versus Cooperative Power Control in Relay Fading Channels,'' in International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT06) , Seattle, July 2006.

R. Kannan and S. Wei, ``Scheduling with Rate and Duty-Cycle Constraints for Wireless Networks over an Interference Channel,'' in 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS06), Princeton, NJ, Mar 22-24, 2006.

R. Kannan, S. Wei and V. Chakravarthy `` RF-Classification of Wireless Adhoc Networks using Active Waveform Injection ,'' in 2006 IEEE International Waveform Diversity & Design Conference Hawaii, January 2006.

R. Kannan, S. Wei, V. Chakravarthy and G. Seetharaman, ``Analysis of Communication Vulnerability via Misbehavior in Wireless and Sensor Networks,'' in IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM05) Atlantic City, NJ, October 12-14, 2005.

R. Kannan, S. Wei and S. Iyengar, ``Strategic Delay-Constrained Energy Minimization in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' 1st Annual Innovations and Commercial Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks Symposium, , Baltimore, MD, October 2005. ( Best-Paper Award )

S. Wei and R. Kannan, "Strategic Power and Rate Allocation for Energy Minimization in Wireless Sensor Networks with Strong Interference," in 39th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS05) Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, March 16-19, 2005.

R. Kalidindi and R. Kannan, "Energy and Deployment Aware Sensing for Wireless Sensor Networks," in IEEE Intl Conf on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob2005) Montreal, Canada, August 22 - 24, 2005.

S. Dhar, K. Roy and R. Kannan, ``NEC: Node Energy Based Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with Guaranteed Connectivity,'' in 1st Intnl Conf on Distributed Computing & Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3347, pp. 75-84, December 2004.

C. Mallanda, A. Kulshrestha, R. Kannan, A. Durresi and S.S. Iyengar, ``EBRP: Energy Band based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Proc. of Intnl. Conf. on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 04), pp. 67 - 72, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2004.

R. Kannan , L. Ray, A. Durresi and S. Iyengar `` Security-Performance Tradeoffs of Resilient Inheritance based Key Predistribution for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' @CoRR ArXiv:Computing Research Repository.

R. Kannan, L. Ray, S. S. Iyengar, and R. Kalidindi,`` Max-Min Length-Energy-Constrained Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' ,'' LNCS-Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol 2920, ISBN=3-540-20825-9, pp. 234-249. (1st European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, Jan 19-21, 2004).

R. Kalidindi, V. Parachuri, S. Basavaraju, C. Mallanda, A. Kulshrestha, L. Ray, R. Kannan, A. Durresi, and S. Iyengar, ``Sub-Grid Based Key Vector Assignment: A Key Pre-Distribution Scheme For Distributed Sensor Networks,'' to appear in International Conference on Wireless Networks ICWN 04

``Secure Cluster Based Energy Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Cariappa Mallanda, Shivakumar Basavaraju, Archit Kulshrestha, Rajgopal Kannan, Arjan Durresi and S. S. Iyengar to appear in International Conference on Wireless Networks ICWN 04

Selected Journal Publications

S. Ray, R. Kannan, D. Zhang and H. Jiang, ``Weighted Integrity Problem is Polynomial for Interval Graphs,'' Ars Combinatoria, Volume LXXIX, April 2006.
R. Kannan, , S. Wei, V. Chakravarthy, ``Using Misbehavior to Analyze Strategic versus Aggregate Energy Minimization in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks , to appear, 2006. Expanded version of ``Strategic Delay-Constrained Energy Minimization in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' ( Best-Paper ) awarded at 1st Annual Innovations and Commercial Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks Symposium, Baltimore, MD, October 2005.
R. Kannan, `` The KR-Benes Network: A Control-Optimal Rearrangeable Permutation Network ,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 54, (2005), p. 534-. We have derived a new result on optimally rearrangeable permutation networks above. The Benes networks is one of the best known rearrangeable networks over the last 30 years. We show above that it is possible to derive a control optimal rearrangeable network whose worst case control complexity is bounded by the Benes.
R. Kalidindi, R. Kannan, S.S. Iyengar, A. Durresi, ``Sub-Grid based Key Vector Assignment: A Key Pre-Distribution Scheme For Distributed Sensor Networks,'' International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications 2006.
Arjan Durresi, Vamsi Paruchuri, S. Sitharama Iyengar, Rajgopal Kannan, ``Data Integrity for Sensor Networks,'' to appear in, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2005.
R. Kannan, L. Ray and S. Sarangi, `` The Structure of Information Networks ,'' Economic Theory , 2006.
A. Durresi, V. Paruchuri, R. Kannan , S.S. Iyengar, `` Optimized Broadcast Protocol for Sensor Networks ,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers , August 2005.
R. Kannan and S. S. Iyengar `` ``Game-Theoretic Models for Reliable Path-Length and Energy-Constrained Routing with Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks, '' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 22, (2004), p. 1141-50.
A. Durresi, V. Paruchuri, L. Barolli, R. Kannan, , S.S Iyengar, "Anonymous Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks", to appear in International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), 2005.
W. Ding, S.S. Iyengar, R. Kannan, W. Rummler, ``Energy Equivalence Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Journal of Microcomputers and Applications: Special issue on Wireless Sensor Networks.
A. Durresi, V. Parachuri, L. Barelli, R. Kannan, and S.S. Iyengar, ``Efficient And Secure Autonomous System Based Traceback,'' Journal of Interconnection Networks, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 151-164 July 2004.
R. Kannan, S. Sarangi and S. S. Iyengar `` Sensor-Centric Energy-Constrained Reliable Query Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 64, (2004), p. 839-.
Preliminary version appeared in `` Sensor-Centric Quality of Routing in Sensor Networks ,'' IEEE INFOCOM 2003, San Francisco, CA April 2003.
R. Kannan, R. Kalidindi, S. S. Iyengar and V. Kumar, ``Energy and Rate based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' ACM SIGMOD Record Vol. 32 No. 4, pp. 60-65 (2003).
R. Kannan, L. Ray , R. Kalidindi and S. S. Iyengar, `` Threshold-Energy Constrained Routing Protocol for Sensor Networks, Sensor Letters, December 2003. also as `` Technical Report LSU-CSC-TR03-06.
R. Kannan, S. Sarangi, S. Ray and S. S. Iyengar, `` Minimal Sensor Integrity: Measuring the Vulnerability of Sensor grids ,'' Information Processing Letters, Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 49-55, 15 April 2003. (Copyright: Elsevier).
R. Kannan, and S. Ray,`` An Optical Switching Architecture for Hierarchical Group Communication ,'' Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol 49, No. 7-9, pp. 297-314, October 2003. (Copyright: Elsevier).
V. Phoha, S. S. Iyengar and R. Kannan, Fast Web Page Allocation on a Server using Self-Organizing Properties of Neural Networks ,'' IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 18-26, December 2002.
R. Kannan, and S. Ray,`` An $O(N \log N)$ Multicast Packet Switch with Low Memory Requirements ,'' IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E84-B, No. 12, pp. 3252--3264, December 2001.
R. Kannan, and S. Ray `` MSXmin: A Modular Scalable Multicast ATM Switch with Low Delay and Hardware Complexity ,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 8, No. 3, pp. 407-418, June 2000.
R. Kannan, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan,`` SXmin: A Self-Routing High-Performance ATM Switch based on Group Knockout Principle ,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 710--722, June 1998.
R. Kannan, D. Lee, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, `` ``Optical TDM Sorting Networks for High-Speed Switching ,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 723--736, June 1998.

Some Older Conference Publications

R. Kannan, and Brian Bourgeois (Naval Research Laboratory),`` Efficient Protocols for Integrated Communication and Formation Control in UUV Task Forces ,'' 13th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), New Hampshire, August, 2003.

R. Kalidindi, L. Ray, R. Kannan, and S. S. Iyengar,`` Distributed Energy-Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks ,'' in International Conference on Wireless Networks , Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2003. also as Technical Report LSU-CSC-TR03-03

Other submissions I don't have the energy to type in but waiting, waiting ... waiting...

R. Kannan, S. Ray, S. Sarangi and S. S. Iyengar, ``Minimal Sensor Integrity: Measuring Integrity in Sensor Grids,'' in Intl. Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2002) , Vancouver, B. C., July 2002.

D. Zhang, S. Ray and R. Kannan, ``Static Subgroup based Source Recovery for Reliable Multicast in Reliable Networks,'' in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2002 , Taiwan, November 2002, to appear .

[20] R. Kannan, and S. Ray, ``Optical Sorting Networks for Hierarchical Optical Interconnects,'' in Intnl. Conf. on Parallel Processing ICPP 2001--Workshop on Optical Networks October 2001, Spain.

[19] Z. Haq, S. Ray and R. Kannan, `` A Data-Carousel Protocol for Wireless Signalling,'' in Proc. SCI 2001 Orlando, Florida, Novemeber 2001.

[18] R. Kannan, S. Ray and R. Bartos, `Optical Advanced Computing and Communications Conference (ADCOM 2000)}, pp. , Kochi, India, December 2000.

[17] R. Kannan, and S. Ray, ``An $O(N \log N) and $O(N \log^2N)$ Hardware Complexity,'' Intnl. Conf. on Computers, Communications and Networking (ICCCN 2000)}, pp. , Las Vegas, NV, October 2000.

[16] R. Kannan, and S. Ray, Intl. Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2000)}, pp. , Antibes, France, July 2000.

[15] R. Bartos, P. La Torre and R. Kannan, ``Space-Time-Wavelength Network with Group Communication Locality,'' in Proc. of DIMACS Workshop on Multichannel Optical Networks: Theory and Practice, Peng-Jun Wan, Ding-Zhu Du and Panos M. Pardalos, Editors, AMS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 46, pp.239--249, March 1998.

[14] R. Kannan, and S. Ray, ``MSXMin: A Self-Routing Multicast ATM Packet Switch with $O(\log^2N)$ Delay and $O(N \log^2N)$ Hardware Complexity,'' IEEE GLOBECOM}, pp. 217--221, Phoenix, AZ, November 1997.

[13] R. Kannan, ``A Pipelined Single-Bit Controlled Sorting Network With O(N log^2 N) Bit Complexity ,'' IEEE Infocom'97, Kobe, Japan, April 1997.

[12] R. Kannan, R. Bartos, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``STWnet: A High Bandwidth Space-Time-Wavelength Multiplexed Optical Switching Network,'' IEEE Infocom'97, Kobe, Japan, APril 1997.

[11] S. Ray, and R. Kannan, ``A Message Number Allocation Scheme for Bus-Networks,'' International Workshop on Computational Sciences and Engineering, China, May 1997.

[10] R. Kannan, R. Bartos, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``SXmin: A Self-Routing High-Performance ATM Packet Switch based on Group Knockout Principle,'' IEEE Globecom'94, pp. 453--457, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1994.
Preliminary version of [1]

[9] R. Kannan, R. Bartos, K. Y. Lee, and F. Jordan, ``Optical TDM Sorting Networks for High-speed Packet Switching,'' IEEE Globecom'94, pp. 1948--1952, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1994.
Preliminary version of [2]

[8] R. Kannan, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``High-Performance Space-Time Division ATM Packet Switch,'' Proc. Asia-Pacific Conf. on Communications, pp. 868--872, Osaka, Japan, June 1995.

[7] R. Kannan, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``High-Speed Hardware-Efficient Optical Sorting Network,'' Proc. Asia-Pacific Conf. on Communications, pp. 873--877, Osaka, Japan, June 1995.

[6] R. Bartos, R. Kannan, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``MultiNet: High-Performance WDM Interconnection Architecture,'' IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications, pp. 277--281, Seattle, WA, June 1995.

[5] R. Kannan, K. Y. Lee, H. F. Jordan, and C. Reed, ``A Bit-Controlled Multichannel Time-Slot Permutation Network,'' MPPOI'95: Proc. of International Conf. on Massively Parallel Processing using Optical Interconnects, pp. 271--279, San Antonio, TX, October 1995.

[4] R. Bartos, R. Kannan, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``Distributed Optical ATM Switching Architectures'' IEEE Globecom'95, pp. 1751--1755, Singapore, November 1995.

[3] R. Kannan, R. Bartos, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``Optical TDM Switch Architectures with Distributed Control,'' IEEE Milcomm, pp. 155-159, McLean, VA, October 1996.

[2] R. Bartos, R. Kannan, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``An Efficient Photonic WDM Architecture with a Wavelength-Distributed Synchronization Protocol,'' IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications/Supercomm., pp. 505-509, Dallas, TX June 1996.

[1] R. Bartos, R. Kannan, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, ``Multicasting WDM Networks for Clustered Processors,'' 8th IASTED Intnl. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Comput. Systems, Chicago, IL, October 1996.

Tech Reports

[1] H. F. Jordan, K. Y. Lee, R. Kannan, C. Reed, J. R. Sauer, and D. E. Straub, ``A High-Speed Optical Radix Sorter,'' NASA CR-201600 ICASE Report No. 96-55, August 1996, pp. 18-.

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