Publication Details:

Ubiquitous/Pervasive/Location-Aware Computing

N. Roy, S. K. Das, K. Basu, M. Kumar, "Enhancing Availability of Grid Computational Services to Ubiquitous Computing Applications," Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Denver, Colorado, Apr 2005.[pdf]

S. K. Das and C. Rose, "Coping with Uncertainty in Mobile Wireless Networks,"  Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad hoc Networks (Eds. R. Ganesh, S. Kota, K. Pahlavan, and R. Augusti), Chapter 12, pp. 189-204, Springer, 2005.

S. K. Das, A. Agah and M. Kumar, "Security Issues in Pervasive Computing," Wireless Information Highways (Ed: D. Katsaros), IDEAS Pub., Chapter XV, pp. 421-440, 2005.

M. Kumar and S. K. Das, ``Pervasive Computing: An Overview of Challenges," Handbook of Innovative Computing (Eds. A. Zomaya, et al.), John Wiley, 2005.

P. De, K. Basu and S. K. Das, "An RFID Based Framework for Object Distribution, Tracking and Recalls in Pervasive Transaction Environments," Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Ft Lauderdale, Florida, pp. 349-358, Oct 2004.[pdf]

P. De, K. Basu and S. K. Das, "An Ubiquitous Architectural Framework and Protocol for
Object Tracking using RFID Tags," Proceedings of MobiQuitous Networking Conference, Boston, pp. 174-182, Aug 2004.[pdf]

M. Kumar and S. K. Das, "Efficient Information Acquisition and Dissemination in Pervasive Computing Through Caching," Wireless Communications Systems and Networks (Ed: M. Guizani), Chapter 17, pp. 513-530, Kluwer Academic Pub, 2004.

S. K. Das, A. Bhattacharya, A. Roy, and A. Misra, "Managing Location in `Universal' Location-Aware Computing," Handbook of Wireless Internet (Eds. B. Furht and M. Ilyas), Chapter 17, pp. 407-425, CRC Press, 2003.

S. K. Das, M. Kumar and B. Shirazi, "Pervasive Community Computing (PCC) Paradigm with Application to Healthcare," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Seoul, South Korea, pp. 3-8, Oct 2003.

M. Kumar, B. Shirazi, S. K. Das, B. Sung, D. Levine, and M. Singhal, "PICO: A Middleware Framework for Pervasive Computing", IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 72-79, July-Sept 2003.

A. Misra, S. Das, A. McAuley, and S. K. Das, "Autoconfiguration, Registration and Mobility Management for Pervasive Computing", IEEE Personal Communications, (Special Issue on Pervasive Computing), Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 24-31, Aug 2001.

A. Bhattacharya, A. Roy, and S. K. Das, "Toward a Novel Architecture to Support Universal Location Awareness," GI Jahrestagung, Vol. 1, pp. 182-189, 2001.


Smart Environments and Computing

D. J. Cook and S. K. Das, Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols and Applications, John Wiley, 2005.

D. Cook, M. Youngblood, and S. K. Das, "A Multi-Agent Approach to Controlling a Smart Environment," Applications of AI to Smart Homes (Ed: J. C. Augusto), 2006.

S. K. Das and D. J. Cook, "Designing Smart Environments: A Paradigm Based on Learning
and Prediction," Proceedings of First International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'05), Kolkata, India, Dec 18-22, 2005. (Invited Paper)

N. Roy, A. Roy, K. Basu and S. K. Das, "A Cooperative Learning Framework for Mobility-Aware Resource Management in Multi-Inhabitant Smart Homes," Proceedings of 2nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, San Diego, California, pp. 393-403, July 2005.[pdf]

N. Roy, A. Roy, K. Basu and S. K. Das, "A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Location-Aware Resource Management in Multi-Inhabitant Smart Homes," Proceedings of 3rd International Conference On Smart Homes and Health Telematic (ICOST), Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, pp. 180-187, July 2005.[pdf]

S. K. Das and D. J. Cook, "Designing Smart Home Environments: A Paradigm Based on Learning and Prediction," Mobile, Wireless and Sensor Networks: Technology, Aplications and Future Directions (Eds. R. Shorey, C. M. Choon, O. Woi and A. Ananda), John Wiley, 2005.

A. Roy, S. K. Das Bhaumik, K. Basu and S. K. Das, "Resource Reservation for Location-Oriented Multimedia in a Smart Home," Proceedings of 8th Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MoMuc), Oct 2003, Munich, Germany.

A. Roy, S. K. Bhaumik, A. Bhattacharya, K. Basu, D. J. Cook, and S. K. Das, "Location Aware Resource Management in Smart Homes," Proceedings of First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'03), Ft Worth, Texas, pp. 481-488, Mar 2003.

S. K. Das, D. J. Cook, A. Bhattacharya, E. Heierman, and J. Lin, "The Role of Prediction Algorithms in the MavHome Smart Home Architecture," IEEE Wireless Communications (Special Issue on Smart Homes), Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 77-84, Dec 2002.


Mobile Caching

S. K. Das and M. Kumar, "Efficient Data Caching and Consistency in Wireless Mobile Systems," Mobile Middleware (Eds. A. Corradi and P. Bellavista), CRC Press, 2005.

Z. Wang, S. K. Das, M. Kumar and  H. Shen, "Dynamic Cache Consistency Schemes for Wireless Cellular Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, to appear, 2005.

H. Shen, M. Kumar, S. K. Das, and Z. Wang, "Energy-Efficient Data Caching and Prefetching for Mobile Devices Based on Utility," ACM/Springer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (Special Issue on Mobile Services), Vol. 10, pp. 475-486, 2005.

Z. Wang, S. K. Das, H. Che, and M. Kumar, "A Scalable Asynchronous Cache Consistency Scheme (SACCS) for Mobile Environments," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 15, No. 11, Nov. 2004.

H. Shen, S. K. Das, M. Kumar, and Z. Wang, "Cooperative Caching with Optimal Radius in Hybrid Wireless Networks", Proceedings of Third IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, LNCS Vol. 3042, pp. 841-853, Athens, Greece, May 2004.

R. Kambalakatta, M. Kumar, and S. K. Das, "Profile Based Caching to Enhance Data Availability in Push/Pull Mobile Environments," Proceedings of ACM MobiQuitous Networking Conference, Boston, Aug 2004.

H. Shen, M. Kumar, S. K. Das, and Z. Wang, "Energy-Efficient Caching and Prefetching with Data Consistency in Mobile Distributed Systems," Proceedings of International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Apr 2004.

M. Kumar and S. K. Das, "Efficient Information Acquisition and Dissemination in Pervasive Computing Through Caching," Wireless Communications Systems and Networks (Ed: M. Guizani), Chapter 17, pp. 513-530, Kluwer Academic Pub, 2004.

Z. Wang, S. K. Das, H. Che, and M. Kumar, "SACCS: A Scalable Asynchronous Cache Consistency Scheme for Mobile Environment," IEEE International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networks (MWN), Providence, Rhode Island, pp. 797-802, May 2003.

Z. Wang, M. Kumar, S. K. Das, and H. Shen, "Investigation of Cache Maintenance Strategies for Multi-cell Environments," Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'03), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 39-44, Jan 2003.


Mobile Agents and Middleware

J. Cao and S. K. Das, "Mobile Agents in Networking and Distributed Computing," John Wiley, 2006.

J. Cao, X. Feng, J. Lu, H. Chan, and S. K. Das, "Reliable Message Delivery for Mobile Agents: Push or Pull?", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 577-587, Sept 2004.

J. Cao, M. Cao, A. Chan, G. Wu, and S. K. Das "A Framework for Architecting and High-level Programming Support of CORBA Applications," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Special issue on Middleware, Guest Eds: A. R. Blatecky and X.-H. Sun), Vol. 64, No. 6, pp. 725-739, June 2004.

J. Cao, L. Zhang, X. Feng, and S. K. Das, "Path Pruning in Mailbox-based Reliable Mobile Agent Communications," Journal of Information Science and Engineering (Special Issue on Mobile Computing), Vol. 20. No. 3, pp. 405-424, May 2004.

J. Cao, L. Zhang, J. Yang, and S. K. Das, "A Reliable Mobile Agent Communication Protocol," Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Conf on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 468-475, Mar 2004.

J. Cao, X. Feng, L. Zhang, and S. K. Das, "Adaptive and Reliable Message Delivery for Mobile Objects," Proceedings of IEEE GlobeCom, San Francisco, Dec 2003.

J. Cao, Y. Sun, X. Wang, and S. K. Das, "Scalable Load Balancing on Distributed Web Servers Using Mobile Agents", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Special Issue on Scalable Web Servers, Guest Eds: C.-Z. Xu, H. Jin
and P. K. Srimani), Vol. 63, No. 10, pp. 996-1005, Oct 2003.

J. Cao, X. Feng, L. Zhang, and S. K. Das, "Path Compression in Forwarding-Based Reliable Mobile Agent Communications," Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel Processing, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, pp. 313-320, Oct 2003.

J. Cao, X. Wang, S. Lo, and S. K. Das, "A Consensus Algorithm for Synchronous Distributed Systems using Mobile Agents," Proceedings of Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 229-236, Dec 2002.

J. Cao, X. Feng, J. Lu, and S. K. Das, "Mailbox-Based Scheme for Mobile Agent Communications," IEEE Computer, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 54-60, Sept 2002.



Grid, Cluster and Peer-to-Peer Computing

P. Ghosh, N. Roy, S. K. Das, and K. Basu, "A Pricing Strategy for Job Allocation in Mobile Grids Using a Non-cooperative Bargaining Theory Framework," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Special Issue on Design and  Performance of Networks for Super-, Cluster-, and Grid-Computing, Guest Eds: A. Zomaya, M. Ould-Khaoua and H. Sarbazi-Azad), to appear, 2005.[pdf]

D. Harvey, S. K. Das and R. Biswas, "Design and Performance of a Heterogeneous Grid Partitioner," Algorithmica (Special Issue on Coarse Grained Parallel Algorithms For Scientific Applications, Guest Ed: F. Dehne), to appear, 2006.

P. Ghosh, K. Basu and S. K. Das, "Cost-Optimal Job Allocation Schemes for Bandwidth-Constrained Distributed Computing Systems," Proceedings of 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Goa, India, Dec 18-21, 2005.[pdf]

S. Sanyal and S. K. Das, "MaTCH: Mapping Heterogenous Tasks on a Heterogeneous Computing Platform using the Cross-Entropy Heuristic," Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Denver, Colorado, Apr 2005.

H. Shen, M. S. Joseph, M. Kumar, and S. K. Das, "PReCinCt: An Energy Efficient Data Retrieval Scheme for Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks," Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Denver, Colorado, Apr 2005.

M. S. Joseph, M. Kumar, H. Shen and S. K. Das, "Energy Efficient Data Retrieval and Caching in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks," Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks (MP2P), Kauai Island, Hawaii, pp. 50-54, Mar 2005.

J. Cao, A. Chan, Y. Sun, S. K. Das, and M. Guo, "A Taxonomy of Application Scheduling Tools for High Performance Cluster Computing," Cluster Computing Journal (Special Issue on Cluster Computing in Science and Engineering, Eds: L. T. Yang, M. Parashar and J. Hai), to appear, 2005.

N. Banerjee, A. Acharya, and S. K. Das, "Peer-to-Peer SIP-Based Services over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Multimedia (BroadWIM), San Jose, CA, Oct 2004 (Invited Paper).

A. Jain, S. Sanyal, S. K. Das, and R. Biswas, "FastMap: A Distributed Schem for Mapping Large Scale Applications onto Computational Grids," Proceedings of Challenges in Large-Scale Computing in Distributed Environments (CLADE), pp. 118-123, June 2004.

P. Ghosh, N. Roy, S. K. Das, and K. Basu, "A Game Theory Based Pricing Strategy for Job Allocation in Mobile Grids," Proceedings of International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Apr 2004.[ps]

S. Sanyal, A. Jain, S. K. Das, and R. Biswas, "A Hierarchical and Distributed Approach for Mapping Large Applications to Heterogeneous Grids Using Genetic Algorithms," Proceedings of Cluster and Grid Computing Conference, Hong Kong, pp. 496-499, Dec 2003.

D. Harvey, S. K. Das and R. Biswas, "Performance of a Heterogeneous Grid Partitioner for N-body Applications," Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel Processing, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, pp. 399-406, Oct 2003.

M. Arora, S. K. Das, and R. Biswas, "A De-centralized Scheduling and Load Balancing Algorithm for Heterogeneous Grid Environments," Proceedings of Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Cluster Computing, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 499-505, Aug 2002.

S. Kumar, S. K. Das and R. Biswas, "Graph Partitioning for Parallel Applications in Heterogeneous Grid Environments", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS), Ft Lauderdale, FL, pp. 618-624, Apr 2002.

A. Boukerche, S. K. Das, A. Datta and T. LeMaster, "Implementation of a Virtual Time Synchronizer for Distributed Databases on a Cluster of Workstations," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices (Special Issue, Guest Editor: C. Tropper), pp. 25-47, 2002.

S. K. Das, D. Harvey, and R. Biswas, "Latency Hiding in Dynamic Partitioning and Load Balancing of Grid Computing Applications", Future Generation Computing Systems, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 477-490, Mar 2002.

S. K. Das, D. Harvey, and R. Biswas, "Parallel Processing of Adaptive Meshes with Load Balancing," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 1269-1280. Dec 2001.

R. Biswas, S. K. Das, D. Harvey, and L. Oliker, "Parallel Dynamic Load Balancing Strategies for Adaptive Irregular Aplications," Applied Mathematical Modelling Journal Special Issue of DRAMA Workshop), Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 109-122, 2000.