RAMESH R

RAMESH R. RAO

San Diego Division Director,

California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technology

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive ~ La Jolla, CA 92093-0436

858-822-4572 (voice) / 858-822-5197 (fax)

rrao@ucsd.edu

http://cwc.ucsd.edu/~rao

PUBLICATIONS.

R. Dilmaghani., R.R. Rao, “Future Wireless Communication Infrastructure with Application to Emergency Scenarios”, proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM 2007), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.

B. S. Manoj, R. Hegde, B. D. Rao, and R. R. Rao, "Sentient Networks: A New Dimension in Network Capability," in the Proceedings of IEEE FINA 2007, May 2007

B. S. Manoj, R. R. Rao, M. Zorzi, “Architectures and Protocols for Next Generation Cognitive Networking," to appear in Cognitive Wireless Networks: Concepts, Methodologies and Visions, (Edited by Katz Marcos et.al.,) Spring, 2007

R. Dilmaghani., R.R. Rao, “A reliable Wireless Mesh Infrastructure Deployment at Disaster Site”, Extended Abstract, proceedings of The First International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures, April 13th, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, in Conjunction with the IEEE IPCCC 2007

R. Dilmaghani., R.R. Rao, ²Hybrid Communication Infrastructure and Social Implications for Disaster Management², proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 3-6 2007, Big Island, HI.

B. S. Manoj and R. R. Rao, ``Wireless Mesh Networks: Issues and Solutions," book chapter in Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Standards (Ed. Y. S. Zhang et al.) CRC Press, December 2006

B. S. Manoj and R. R. Rao, ``Load Balancing in Wireless Mesh Networks," book chapter in Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Standards (Ed. Y. S. Zhang et al.) CRC Press, December 2006. Kang Wang, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Ramesh Rao, John Proakis, “Joint Scheduling and Power Control Supporting Multicasting in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) October 2006.B. Braunstein, R. Mishra, B. S. Manoj and R. Rao, "On The Performance of Distributed Wireless Mesh Networks for Disaster Response", in the Proceedings of IEEE WOWMOM 2006, June 2006.M. Rossi, M. Zorzi, R. Rao. “Statistically assisted routing algorithms (SARA) for hop count based forwarding in wireless sensor networks,” Wireless Networks, Published Online, June 2006. K. Chebrolu, B. Raman, R. Rao, “A Network Layer Approach to Enable TCP over Multiple Interfaces'', ACM/Kluwer Journal of Wireless networks (WINET), 2005-2006. P.Nuggehalli, V.Srinivasan, R. R. Rao, “Energy Efficient Transmission Scheduling for Delay Constrained Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2005-2006. K. Chebrolu, R. Rao “Bandwidth Aggregation for Real –Time Applications in Heterogenerous Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2005-2006.

M. Kim, C. G. Kang, I. Choi, R. R. Rao, “Ordered Packet Length Based Groupwise Transmission Scheme for Rate Scheduling in Burst Switching DS/CDMA System,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 54, no. 4, pp 1426-1437, July 2005.

B.C. Meyer, MD; P.D. Lyden, MD, FAAN; L. Al-Khoury, MD; Y. Cheng, MD, PhD; R. Raman, PhD; R. Fellman, PhD; J. Beer, R. Rao, PhD; and J.A. Zivin, MD, PhD; “Prospective Reliability of the STRokE DOC Wireless/Site Independent Telemedicine System,” Neurology 2005, no. 64, pp. 1058-1060, March 2005.

V. Srinivasan, P. Nuggehalli, C.-F. Chiasserini, and R. R. Rao, “An Analytical Approach to the Study of Cooperation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 4, No. 2, March 2005.

C.F. Chiasserini, P. Nuggehalli, V. Srinivasan, R. R. Rao, “Optimal Rate Allocation for Energy Efficient Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 3, May 2004, pp. 891--899.

K. Wang, C. F. Chiasserini, J. G. Proakis, R. R. Rao, “A Distributed Joint Scheduling and Power Control Algorithm for Multicasting in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Cross Layer Design for Communications and Signal Processing Systems, 2004.

C.F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Improving Energy Saving in Wireless Systems by Using Dynamic Power Management,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, November 2003.

M. Zorzi, R. Rao, “Geographic Random forwarding (GeRaF) for ad hoc and sensor networks: energy and latency performance,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 2, pp. 337-347, October-December 2003

M. Zorzi, R. Rao, “Geographic Random forwarding (GeRaF) for ad hoc and sensor networks: multihop performance,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 2, pp. 349-364, October-December 2003

C.F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Coexistence Mechanisms for Interference Mitigation in the 2.4 GHz ISM Band,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Sept 2003.

K. Wang, J. Proakis, R. R. Rao, “Energy-Efficient Routing Algorithms Using Directional Antennas for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, SPECIAL SERIES ON MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS (MANETs): Standards, Research, Applications, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 105-118, April 2002.

M. Kim, C. G. Kang, R. R. Rao, “Group-wise Transmission Rate Scheduling Scheme for Integrated Voice/Data Service in Burst-Switching DS/CDMA System,” IEICE Transactions Fundamentals, vol. E85-B, no. 8, p. 1618 March 2002.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Improving Battery Performance by using Traffic Shaping Techniques,” IEEE JSAC Wireless Series, vol. 19, no. 7, July 2001, pp. 1385-1394.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Energy Efficient Battery Management,” IEEE JSAC Wireless Series, vol. 19, no. 7, July 2001, pp. 1235 -1245.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Energy Efficiency of TCP in a local wireless environment,” Mobile Networks and Applications (special issue on Energy Efficient Protocols), vol. 6, pp. 265-278, June 2001.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Stochastic Battery Discharge in Portable Communication Devices,” IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, vol. 15, no. 8, August 2000, pp. 41-45.

M. Zorzi, A. Chockalingam, R. R. Rao “Throughput Analysis of TCP on Channels with Memory,'' IEEE Journal of Selected Areas Communications, vol. 18, no.7, pp. 1289-1300, July 2000.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Lateness probability of a retransmission scheme for error control on a two-state Markov channel,” IEEE Transactions Communications, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 1537-1548, October 1999.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Perspectives on the Impact of Error Statistics on Protocols for Wireless Networks,” IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 6, no.5, pp. 32-40 October 1999.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “On the impact of burst errors on wireless ATM,” IEEE Personal Communications, vol.6, no.4, p.65-76, August 1999.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, L. B. Milstein, “Error statistics in data transmission over fading channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.46, no.11, IEEE, p.1468-77, November 1998.

E. Ayanoglu, V. Bahl, R. S. Cheng, R. R. Rao, M. Zorzi, “Multimedia Network Radios (guest editorial),” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas Communications, vol., SAC-17, pp. 753-755, May 1999.

Boris Slutsky, R. R. Rao, P. C. Sun, Y. Tancevski and S. Fainman, “Defense frontier analysis of quantum cryptographic systems,” Applied Optics, Vol. 37, No. 14, Opt. Soc. America, May 1998, p. 2869-78.

Boris Slutsky, R. R. Rao, Pang Chen Sun and Shaya Fainman, “Security of quantum cryptography against individual attacks,” Physical Review A, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics), Vol. 57, No. 4, APS through AIP, April 1998. p. 2383-98.

A. Chockalingam, P. Dietrich, L. B. Milstein, and R. R. Rao, “Performance of Closed - Loop Power Control in DS-CDMA Cellular Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp.774-89, August 1998.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Energy constrained error control for wireless channels,” IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 27-33, December 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “The effect of correlated errors on the performance of TCP,” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 127-9, September 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “On the statistics of block errors in bursty channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp.660-7, IEEE, June 1997.

B. Slutsky, PC. Sun, Y. Mazurenko, R. R. Rao, Y. Fainman, “Effect of channel imperfection on the secrecy capacity of a quantum cryptographic system,” Journal of Modern Optics, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp.953-961, May 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, L. B. Milstein, “ARQ error control for fading mobile radio channels,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 46, No. 2, pp.445-55, May 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Error Control and Energy Consumption in Communications for Nomadic Computing,” IEEE Transactions on Computers (special issue on Mobile Computing), Vol. 46, No. 3, pp.279-89, March 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Performance of ARQ Go-Back-N protocol in Markov channels with unreliable feedback,” Wireless Networks, Vol. 2, pp. 183-193, 1997.

Paul Dietrich and R. R. Rao, “Request Resubmission in a Blocking, Circuit-Switched, Interconnection Network,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, November, 1996, pp. 1282-93

M. Zorzi and R. R. Rao, “On the use of renewal theory in the analysis of ARQ protocols,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 44, No. 9, September 1996, pp.1077-81

M. Zorzi and R. R. Rao, “Throughput performance of ARQ Selective-Repeat protocol with time diversity in Markov channels with unreliable feedback,” Wireless Networks Journal, vol. 2, pp. 63-75, March 1996.

Fang Xu, R. R. Rao and Yeshayahu Fainman, “An Intelligent Photonic Switch Using Polarization Sensitive Birefringent Computer Generated Holograms,” Optics Letters, 1 February 1995, vol.20, No. 3, pp. 336-8

Michele Zorzi and R. R. Rao, “Capture and Retransmission Control in Mobile Radio,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, pp. 1289-98, 1994.

Amir B. Behroozi-Toosi and R. R. Rao, “Delay Upper Bounds for a Finite User Random Access System with Bursty Arrivals,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 40, No. 3, pp.591-6, March 1992.

R. R. Rao, “Computer Communications - A First Course -- J. Walrand” Book Review in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 214-216 January 1992.

Kelvin Ho, R. R. Rao and Jack K. Wolf, “Random Access Systems with a Time Varying Channel,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 38, No. 9, pp. 1293-7, September 1990.

Kyung S. Kwak and Ramesh R Rao, “Stabilization of Slotted Aloha with Capture,” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control as “Controlled Aloha with Geometric Capture Probabilities,” Vol. 35, No. 11, pp. 1270-4, November 1990.

R. R. Rao and Anthony Ephremides, “On the stability of interacting queues in a multiple-access system,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 918-30 September 1988.

Elias Masry and R. R. Rao, “On the choice of the timeout distribution in decentralized Random Access Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 501-4 May 1986.

BOOK CHAPTERS

R. R. Rao, “Ethernet Networks,” in The Communications Handbook, Chapter 43 CRC Press, 1996 and in The Communications Handbook Edition 2, Chapter 32 CRC Press, 2002.

A. M. Chen, R. R. Rao, “Wireless Channel Models- Coping with Complexity,” in Wireless Multimedia Network Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, p.271-288.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

L. A. Lenert, D. A. Palmer, T. C. Chan, and R. Rao, “An Intelligent 802.11 Triage Tag For Medical Response to Disasters,” to appear in Procceedings of American Medical Informatics Association 2005 Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C., October 22-26, 2005.

M. Arisoylu, R. Mishra, R. Rao, and L. Lenert, “802.11 Wireless Infrastructure To Enhance Medical Response to Disasters,” to appear in Procceedings of American Medical Informatics Association 2005 Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C., October 22-26, 2005.

K. Wang, C. F. Chiasserini, J. G. Proakis, R. R. Rao, “Distributed Fair Scheduling and Power Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of Globecom 2004, Dallas, TX, November 2004.

J. Fang, R. Rao, “Optimal flow control for end-to-end delay and power constrained wireless multihop networks,” Proceedings of IEEE Military Communication Conference (Milcom), Monterey, CA., October, 2004.

A. Dhamdhere, R Rao , “Scheduling on a Channel with Time-Varying Capacity,” Workshop on Cross-Layer Issues in the Design of Tactical Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Integration of Communication and Networking Functions to Support Optimal Information Management, Washington, D.C., June 2004.

M. Zorzi, R. Rao, “Energy-Efficient forwarding for ad hoc and sensor networks in the presence of fading,” in IEEE International Conference On Communications 2004, Vol. 6, pp. 3784-3789, June 2004.

K. Chebrolu and R. R. Rao, “Selective Frame Discard for Interactive Video,” Proceedings of ICC 04, June 2004, Paris, France.

A. Dhamdhere, R Rao, “Using Time Divisioning to Improve the Performance of Bit-Loading Algorithms,” Proceedings WCNC 2004, Atlanta, GA March 2004.

J. Fang, R. Rao, “An Integrated and distributed power control and scheduling algorithm for wireless multihop networks,” Proceedings of IEEE Military Communication Conference (Milcom), Boston, Mass., October, 2003.

K. Wang, C. F. Chiasserini, J. G. Proakis, R. R. Rao, “Joint Scheduling and Power Control for Multicasting in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of VTC Fall 2003, Orlando, FL, October 2003.

M. Liu, L.B. Milstein, R. R. Rao, “Wireless Random Scheduling Protocol with Realistic Channel Conditions,” Military Communications Conference, Boston, MA, October 2003.

J. Fang, R. R. Rao, “An Integrated and Distributed Scheduling and Power Control Algorithm for Maximizing Network Utility for Wireless Multihop Networks,” Military Communications Conference, Boston, MA, October 2003.

K. Wang, C.F. Chiasserini, J.G. Proakis, R. R. Rao, “Joint Scheduling and Power Control for Multicasting in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings IEEE VTC Fall 2003, Orlando, FL, October 2003.

P. Nuggehalli, V. Srinivasan, C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Energy-Efficient Caching Strategies for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,” ACM MobilHoc 2003, Annapolis, MD, June 2003.

K. Wang, C. F. Chiasserini, J. G. Proakis, R. R. Rao, “A Distributed Joint Scheduling and Power Control Algorithm for Multicasting in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE ICC 2003, Vol.1, pp. 725-31, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2003.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Exploring the Energy-Latency Tradeoff of Geographic Random Forwarding for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE VTC Spring 2003, vol.4, pp.2770-74, April 2003.

V. Srinivasan, P. Nuggehalli, C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Cooperation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE INFOCOM 2003, vol.2, pp.808-17, San Francisco, CA, Mar 2003.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Energy and Latency Performance of Geographic Random Forwarding for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE WCNC 2003, March 2003.

P. Nugghalli, V. Srinivasan, R. R. Rao, “Energy Efficient Routing and Scheduling in Wireless Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, pp. 215-8, 15-17 December, 2002.

V. Srinivasan, P. Nuggehalli, R. R. Rao, C.F. Chiasserini, “Energy Efficiency and Fairness in Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, pp. 33-36, 20-25 October, 2002.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “On the Concept of Distributed Digital Signal Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of MILCOM 2002, Anaheim, CA, vol.1, pp.260-4, October 2002.

K. Wang, C. F. Chiasserini, J. G. Proakis, R. R. Rao, “RISE: Reducing Interference and Saving Energy through Multicasting in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of MILCOM 2002, Anaheim, CA, October 2002.

K. Wang, C.F. Chiasserini, J.G. Proakis, and R. R. Rao, “RISE: Reducing Interference and Saving Energy through Multicasting in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of MILCOM 2002, Anaheim, CA,vol.2, pp.826-32, October 2002.

C. F. Chiasserini, P. Nuggehalli, V. Srinivasan, R. R. Rao, “Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols,” (Invited Paper) Proceedings of DAC, New Orleans, LA, June 2002.

C. F. Chiasserini and R. R. Rao, “Coexistence Mechanisms for Interference Mitigation Between IEEE 802.11 WLANs and Bluetooth,” Proceedings of Infocom 2002, vol.2, pp. 590-8, New York City, NY, June 2002.

P. Nuggehalli, V. Srinivasan, and R. R. Rao, “Delay Constrained Energy Efficient Transmission Strategies for Wireless Devices,” Proceedings of Infocom 2002, vol.3, pp. 1765-72, New York City, NY, June 2002.

V. Srinivasan, C. F. Chiasserini, P. Nuggehalli, and R. R. Rao, “Optimal Rate Allocation and Traffic Splits for Energy Efficient Routing in Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of Infocom 2002, vol. 2, pp. 950-7, New York City, NY, June 2002.

Kim, C. G. Kang, I. C. Choi, R. R. Rao, “Scheduling Scheme of Packet Length-based Group-wise Transmission for Integrated Voice/Data Service in Burst-Switching DS/CDMA System,” IEEE ICC 2002, pp. 381-5, New York, NY, April 28 to May 2 2002.

K. Chebrolu and R. R. Rao, “Communication using multiple wireless interfaces,” Proceedings 2002 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2002, vol.1, pp.327-31, Orlando, FL, USA. 17-21 March 2002.

K. Wang, J Proakis, R. R. Rao, “Directional Routing Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks” CISS 2002 36th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems, March 2002.

V. Srinivasan, P. Nuggehalli, C. F. Chiasserini and R. R. Rao, “Energy Efficiency of Ad Hoc Networks with Selfish Users,” Proceedings of European Wireless Conference 2002, Invited paper, Florence, Italy, February 2002.

F. Karim , A. Nguyen, S. Dey and R. Rao, “On-chip communication architecture for OC-768 network processors,” Proceedings of the 38th Design Automation Conference, pp.678-83, Las Vegas, NV, June 18-22, 2001.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “A Comparison between Collaborative and Non-Collaborative Coexistence Mechanisms for Interference Mitigation in ISM Bands,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2001, vol. 3, pp. 2187-91, Rodhe Island, Greece, May 2001.

V. Srinivasan, P. Nuggehalli and R. R. Rao, “Design of Optimal Energy Aware Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2001, vol.4, pp. 2494-8, Rodhe Island, Greece, May 2001.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Combining Paging with Dynamic Power Management,” IEEE Infocom 2001, pp. 996-1004, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.

D. Panigrahi, C. F. Chiasserini, S. Dey, R. R. Rao, A. Raghunathan, K. Lahiri, “Battery Life Estimation of Mobile Embedded Systems,” IEEE VLSI Design 2001, Bangalore, India, pp. 57-63, 3-7 January 2001.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Routing Protocols to Maximize Battery Efficiency,” IEEE Milcom 2000, Los Angeles, CA, vol.1, pp. 496-500, October 2000.

Pavan Nuggehalli, Vikram Srinivasan, Kameswari Chebrolu and R. R. Rao, “Energy aware sampling schemes,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2001, Chicago, IL, pp. 870-873, September 2000

M. Liu, L.B. Milstein, R. R. Rao, “Delay Analysis of Block Coded Transmission Over the Gilbert-Elliot Channel with Interleaving and Retransmission Strategy,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2000, Chicago, USA, pp. 834-838, September 2000.

P. Nuggehalli, V. Srinivasan, K. Chebrolu and R. R. Rao, “Energy Aware Sampling Schemes,” Proceedings of WCNC’00, Chicago, IL, Sept 2000.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “A Distributed Power Management Policy for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2000, Chicago, USA, vol.3, pp. 1209-1213, September 2000.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Performance of IEEE 802.11 WLANs in a Bluetooth Environment,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2000, Chicago, USA, pp. 94-99, September 2000.

Pavan Nuggehalli, Vikram Srinivasan and R. R. Rao, “Energy efficient sampling schemes for wireless networks” IEEE Conference on Communications, Control and Signal Processing 2000, Bangalore, India, July 2000.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Energy Efficient Battery Management,” Proceedings of Infocom 2000, vol.2, pp. 396-403 March 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Stochastic Battery Discharge in Portable Communication Devices,” in Proceedings of Battery Conference, pp. 27-32, Long Beach, CA, January 2000.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Is TCP Energy Efficient?” Proceedings Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications, San Diego, CA, November 1999.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “A Traffic Control scheme to optimize battery pulsed discharge,” Proceedings of Milcom '99, pp. 1419-23 Atlantic City, NJ, November 1999.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “A Model for Battery Pulsed Discharge with Recovery Effect,” Proceedings of WCNC '99, vol. 2, pp. 636-9 New Orleans, LA, October 1999.

V. Srinivasan,K. N. Sivarajan and H. Jiang, “Channel Allocation in Tiered Cellular Network,” Proceedings of IEEE WCNC 1999, pp. 236-40, New Orleans, Louisiana.

C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao, “Pulsed battery discharge in communication devices,” Proceedings of Mobicom '99, pp. 88-95 Seattle, WA, August 1999.

J.S. Shauh, R. R. Rao, “A multi-rate resource control (MRRC) scheme for wireless/mobile networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications, vol.2, pp. 1157-61, 6-10 June 1999.

II Kim, P. Adhikari, M. Chevitarese, R. Doshi, J. Koontz, R. Rao “Quantifying the effects of weather and scintillation on the network performance of the San Diego LaserNet,” Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.3532, 1999, pp.6-15, from Optical Wireless Communications conference, Boston, MA, SPIE November 5, 1998.

J. S. Shauh, R. R. Rao, “A power efficient zone based resource assignment (ZBRA) scheme for wireless communication,” IEEE 1998 International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, Florence, Italy, vol.1, p.395-9, 5-9 October 1998.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “On channel modeling for delay analysis of packet communications over wireless links,” 36th Annual Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL, p.526-35, September 1998.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Impact of Burst Errors on Framing,” Proceedings IEEE PIMRC'98, Boston, MA, USA, vol.1, p.253-9, 8-11 September 1998.

A. Chockalingam; R. R. Rao, “MAC Layer Performance with Steerable Multibeam Antenna Arrays,” Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC '98), Boston, MA, USA, vol.2, p.973-7, 8-11 September 1998.

A. M. Chen; R. R. Rao, “On tractable wireless channel models,” Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC '98), Boston, MA, USA, p.825-30, 8-11 September 1998.

J. S. Shauh, R. R. Rao, “Enhancement of power consumption efficiency and channel resource utilization for mobile communication,” Book of Abstracts 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, USA, p.160, 16-21 August 1998.

R. R. Rao, “Higher Layer perspectives on Modeling the Wireless Channel,” Proceedings 1998 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Kilarney, Ireland, pp. 137-138, 22-26 June 1998.

A. Chockalingam, Michele Zorzi, and R. R. Rao, “Performance of TCP Reno on Wireless Fading Links with Memory,” Proceedings ICC’98, Atlanta, GA, USA, p.595-600, 7-11 June 1998.

A. M. Chen, R. R. Rao, “Exploiting Overlapping Coverage in Pico-Cellular Networks for Web support,” appears as “Multi-channel packet resource allocation for multimedia support,” Proceedings VTC ’98, Ottawa, Ont., Canada, pp. 1770-4, 18-21 May 1998.

R. R. Rao, “Perspectives on the Impact of Fading on Protocols for Wireless Networks,” Proceedings 1997 IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, Mumbai (Bombay) India, December 1997.

A. M. Chen, A. K. Legaspi, R. R. Rao “Migratory Battlegroup Internet Architecture,'' Proceedings MILCOM'97, Monterey, CA, November 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Error control in multi-layered stacks,” Proceedings IEEE GLOBECOM'97, pp. 1413-18 Phoenix, AZ, November 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “The Role of Error Correlations in the Design of Protocols for Packet Switched Services,” Proceedings 35th Annual Allerton Conference, pp. Allerton House, Monticello, IL, September 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Error Propagation in Protocol Stacks,” Book of Abstracts International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 262 Ulm, Germany, June 1997.

A. M. Chen, R. R. Rao, “Resource Management for Third Generation Cellular Communication Systems,” Proceedings VTC'97, pp. 1832-36, May 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “ARQ Error Control for Delay-Constrained Communications on Short-Range Burst-Error Channels,” Proceedings VTC’97, pp. 1528-32, May 1997.

Boris Slutsky, R. R. Rao, Ljubisa Tancevski, Pang Chen Sun and Shaya Fainman, “Quantum Cryptography: Defending Against Individual Eavesdropping,” Proceedings of SPIE, Orlando, Florida, April 1997.

B. Slutsky, R. R. Rao, L. Tancevski, P.C. Sun, Y. Fainman, “Information leakage estimates in quantum cryptography” Optics in Computing 1997, Technical Digest Series Vol.8, Postconference Edition. Optics Society of America, 1997, pp.115-17 from Topical Meeting on Optics in Computing - OC97, Incline Village, NV, IEEE/Lasers & Electro-Opt. Soc. ICO, Opt. Soc. America, March 18-21, 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Effect of correlated errors on TCP,'' Proceedings 1997 CISS, pp. 666-71, Baltimore, MD, March 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Energy Management in Wireless Communications,” Proceedings Sixth WINLAB Workshop on 3rd Generation Wireless Information Networks, pp. 189-201, March 1997.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao “Energy Constrained Error Control for Wireless Channels,” Proceedings IEEE GLOBECOM '96, London, UK, pp.1411-16, 18-22 November 1996.

B. Slutsky, P. C. Sun, Y. Mazurenko, R. Rao, and Y. Fainman, “Quantum Cryptography in the Presence of Noise and Losses,” OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York, October 1996.

Albert K. Legaspi and R. R. Rao “Embedding Physical Layer Processes in Link Layer Analysis,” Proceedings IEEE MILCOM'96, vol. 3, pp. 938-42, Washington DC., October 1996.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao and L.B. Milstein, “A Markov model for block errors on fading channels,” Proceedings PIMRC'96, Taiwan, October 15-18 1996.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao “Error Control and Energy Consumption in Wireless Communications Channels,” Proceedings 34th Annual Allerton Conference, Allerton, IL, pp. 825-34, October 2-4, 1996.

B. Slutsky, R. Rao, L. Tancevski, P. C. Sun, and Y. Fainman, “Defense Against Bitwise Eavesdropping Strategies in Quantum Cryptography” OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York, October 1996.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao “Error control strategies for the wireless channel,” Proceedings IEEE ICUPC96, Boston, MA, pp. 970-974, September-October 1996.

M. Zorzi and R. R. Rao, “Bounds on the throughput performance of ARQ Selective-Repeat protocol in Markov channels,” Proceedings IEEE ICC'96, vol.2, pp. 782-6, June 1996.

B. Slutsky, P. C. Sun, Y. Mazurenko, R. Rao, and Y. Fainman, “Quantum cryptography for secret key generation using frequency-division long distance interferometry,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 2690, pp. 63-69, Wavelength Division Multiplexing Components, Louis S. Lome; Ed. May 1996.

Kellner, Albert L.; Cruz, Rene L.; Y. Fainman, R. D. Fellman, Y. Mazurenko, L. B. Milstein, R. R. Rao, PC Sun, P. K. Yu, “Transparent terabit photonic imaging networks,” Proceedings SPIE, vol. 2690, pp. 118-124, Wavelength Division Multiplexing Components, Louis S. Lome; Ed. May 1996.

Paul Dietrich and R. R. Rao, A. Chockalingam and L. Milstein, “A Log-Linear Closed Loop Power Control Model,” Proceedings, 1996 Vehicular Technology Conference, Atlanta, GA, vol.1, pp. 51-5, 28 April-1 May 1996.

Paul Dietrich and R. R. Rao, “Second order bounds on Block Error Probabilities in Stationary, Time Varying Channels,” Proceedings of Conference on Information and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1996.

B. Slutsky, P.C. Sun, Y. Mazurenko, R. Rao, Y. Fainman, “Quantum cryptography for secret key generation using frequency-division long distance interferometry,” SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.2690, 1996, pp.63-9, from Wavelength Division Multiplexing Components Conference, San Jose, CA, SPIE Jan 29-31, 1996.

B. Slutsky, P. C. Sun, Y. Mazurenko, R. Rao, and Y. Fainman, “Quantum cryptography using frequency-division transmission of optical phase,” CLEO/Europe'96.

Paul Dietrich and R. R. Rao, “Dynamic Performance of a Circuit Switched Interconnection Network,” Proceedings 1995 International Conference on High-Performance Computing, pp. 515-519, New Delhi, India, December 1995.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Performance of ARQ Go-Back-N protocol in Markov channels with unreliable feedback: Delay analysis,” Proceedings IEEE ICUPC'95, pp. 481-485, November 1995.

M. Zorzi and R. R. Rao, L.B. Milstein, “On the accuracy of a first-order Markov model for data block transmission on fading channels,” Proceedings IEEE ICUPC'95, pp. 211-215, November 1995.

M. Zorzi and R. R. Rao, “Throughput analysis of ARQ Selective-Repeat protocol with time diversity in Markov channels,” Proceedings IEEE GLOBECOM'95, vol.3, pp. 1673-7, Singapore, November 13-17, 1995.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao, “Bounds on the throughput performance of ARQ Go-Back-N protocol in Markov channels,” Proceedings IEEE MILCOM'95, vol.2, pp. 571-5, November 1995.

M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao and L.B. Milstein, “Performance Analysis of ARQ Go-Back-N protocol in fading mobile radio channels,” Proceedings IEEE MILCOM'95, vol.2, pp. 576-80, November 1995.

M. Zorzi and R. R. Rao, “Throughput analysis of ARQ Go-Back-N protocol in Markov channels with unreliable feedback,” Proceedings IEEE ICC'95, pp. 1232-37, June 1995.

Amiya Bhattacharya, Ramesh, R. Rao, and Ting-Ting Lin, “Evaluation of performability measures for replicated banyan networks,” Proceedings. International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium, pp. 265-73, Erlangen, Germany, 24-26 April 1995.

B. Slutsky, P.C. Sun, Y. Mazurenko, R. Rao, Y. Fainman, “Long-distance frequency-division interferometer for communication and quantum cryptography,” OSA Annual Meeting 1995, Portland, OR.

Michele Zorzi and R. R. Rao, “Slotted ALOHA with capture in a mobile radio environment,” Lecture notes in computer science; 783,44 Mobile Communications: advanced systems components: Proceedings 1994 International Zurich Seminar on Digital Communications, pp. 452-463, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994.

Amiya Bhattacharya, R. R. Rao and Ting-Ting Y. Lin, “Cumulative Performance Measures for Gracefully Degradable Multistage Interconnection Networks,” Proceedings, First International Workshop on Parallel Processing, pp. 234-9, Bangalore, India, December 26-31, 1994.

Fang Xu, R. R. Rao and Yeshayahu Fainman, “A 2 X 1 Photonic Switch with Reflecting Property Constructed Using Polarization Sensitive Computer Generated Holograms,” Proceedings, IEEE LEOS '94, Seventh Annual Meeting, vol. 1, pp. 244-245, Boston, October 31- November 3, 1994.

Amiya Bhattacharya, R. R. Rao and Ting-Ting Y. Lin, “Performability Analysis of Non-repairable Multicomponent Systems Using Order Statistics,” Proceedings, Sixth IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, pp. 646-53, Dallas, TX, October 26-29, 1994.

Paul Dietrich and R. R. Rao, “Delay Analysis of a Circuit-Switched Interconnection Network with Non-Uniform Traffic,” Proceedings, Infocom '94, Toronto, Canada, vol.2, pp. 447-54, June 12-16, 1994.

Michele Zorzi and R. R. Rao, “Retransmission Control in Mobile Radio Slotted ALOHA,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications, vol. 3, pp. 1302-5 New Orleans, May 1-5, 1994.

Albert Legaspi and R. R. Rao, “Stability of Interacting Queues in a Multiple Access System - a Recursive Technique,” Proceedings of Conference on Information and Systems, pp. 556-9, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1994.

Paul Dietrich and R. R. Rao, “Delay Analysis of a Circuit Switched Interconnection Network Implementing a Gated Hold Strategy,” Proceedings, Allerton Conference on Communications, Computing, and Control, Allerton, IL, September 1993.

A. Bhattacharya, R. R. Rao, T.T.Y. Lin, “Delay analysis in synchronous circuit-switched delta networks,” Proceedings of Seventh International Parallel Processing Symposium, pp. 666-70, April 13-16, 1993.

R. R. Rao, “Analysis of a Dual-Bus Protocol,” Proceedings International Conference on Communication Systems, vol.2, pp. 705-9 Singapore, November 1992

R. R. Rao and Michael O'Laughlin, “CPCQ - An Alternative to DQDB,” Proceedings MILCOM 92, vol.1, pp. 264-7, San Diego, California, October 1992.

R. R. Rao, “Approximate Analysis of DQDB,” Book of Abstracts 1991 International Symposium on Information Theory, Budapest, Hungary, June 1991.

R. R. Rao, “DQDB -Approximations and Alternatives,” Proceedings 1991 Conference on Information and Systems, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1991.

S. G. Glisic, R. R. Rao and L. B. Milstein, “The Effect of Imperfect Carrier Sensing on Nonpersistent Carrier Sense Multiple Access,” Proceedings of International Conference on Communication ICC '90, pp. 1266-9, New York, NY, 1990.

A. Behroozi-Toosi and R. R. Rao, “Stability analysis of an asymmetric, limited service, token ring system,” Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM '90, vol.1, pp. 1-7 San Francisco, CA, June 3-7, 1990.

R. R. Rao and Amir B. Behroozi-Toosi, “Stability Analysis of an Asymmetric, Limited Service, Polling System,” Book of Abstracts IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Diego, Ca, January 1990.

Kelvin Ho, R. R. Rao and Jack K. Wolf, “Random Access Systems with a Time Varying Channel,” Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 89, pp. 1121-6, Ottawa, Canada, April 23-27, 1989.

Amir B. Behroozi-Toosi and R. R. Rao, “Delay Analysis of an Asymmetric, Buffered Random Access System,” Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 89, vol.2, pp. 558-63, Ottawa, Canada, April 23-27, 1989.

Kyung S. Kwak and R. R. Rao, “Capture Induced Priority in Random Access Networks,” Proceedings International Conference on Communication Systems, pp. Singapore, October 31 - November 3, 1988.

Kyung S. Kwak and R. R. Rao, “Priority based Random Access Network,” Proceedings International Conference on Computer Communication, pp. 78-82 Tel Aviv, Israel, October 29 - November 4, 1988.

Amir B. Behroozi-Toosi and R. R. Rao, “Effect of Flow Control on the performance of Multiple Access Systems,” Proceedings 26th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp. 979-80, Monticello, IL, September 1988.

Manoel Rodrigues, R. R. Rao and Jack K. Wolf, “Performance analysis of a Multi-Group Random Access Systems,” Book of Abstracts IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Kobe, Japan, June 19-24, 1988.

Kelvin Ho, R. R. Rao and Jack K. Wolf, “Random Access Systems with a General Ternary Feedback Channel,” Book of Abstracts, 1988 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Kobe, Japan, June 19-24 1988.

Amir B. Behroozi-Toosi and R. R. Rao, “Effect of Bursty arrivals on the performance of Multiple Access Systems,” Proceedings 22nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 1988.

Kyung S. Kwak and Ramesh R Rao, “Retransmission Control of capture-Aloha Systems,” Proceedings International Conference on Communication ICC '88, pp. 166-71, June 1988.

R. R. Rao, “Stability Analysis of M Interacting Queues in the Slotted Aloha System,” Proceedings 26th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2058-9, Los Angeles, CA December 9-11 1987.

Kyung S Kwak and R. R. Rao, “Two interacting ALOHA Systems - Stability Analysis,” Proceedings IEEE/IEICE GLOBECOM 87, pp. 561-5, Tokyo, Japan, November 15-18 1987.

Manoel Rodrigues, R. R. Rao and Jack K. Wolf, “Multi-Group Random Access System,” Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 87, pp. 286-95, San Francisco, CA, March 30-April 2, 1987.

Kelvin Ho, R. R. Rao and Jack K. Wolf, “A Robust Collision Resolution Algorithm for the Random Access System with a noisy Channel,” Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 87, pp. 372-80, San Francisco, CA, March 30-April 2, 1987.