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  1. S. Kalasapur, M. Kumar, and B. Shirazi, Dynamic Service Composition in Pervasive Computing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, In Press.
  2. H. Ko, G. West, S. Venkatesh, and M. Kumar, Online Temporal Fusion in Multisensor Systems using Dynamic Time Warping, Information Fusion Journal, In Press (Online Version available.)
  3. H. Alex, M. Kumar, and B. A. Shirazi, MidFusion: An Adaptive Middleware for Information Fusion in Sensor Network Applications, Information Fusion Journal, In Press (Online Version available.)
  4. M. Kim, M. Kumar, and B. Shirazi, Service Discovery using Volunteer Nodes in Heterogeneous Pervasive Computing Environments, Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3, pgs. 313-343.
  5. Z. Wang, M. Kumar, S. K. Das and H. Shen, Dynamic Cache Consistency Schemes for Wireless Cellular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 5, No. 2, Feb. 2006, pgs. 366-376.
  6. Z. Wang, H. Che, M. Kumar and S. K. Das, CoPTUA: Consistent Policy Table Update Algorithm for TCAM Without Table Lock, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 53 No. 12 Dec. 2004, pgs. 1602-1614.
  7. 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, pgs. 983-995.
  8. H. Shen, M. Kumar, S. K. Das and Z. Wang, Energy-Efficient Data Caching and Prefetching of Mobile Devices Based on Utility, ACM/Springer Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Mobile Services, Volume 10, Number 4, Pgs. 475 - 486
  9. J. Lee, S. Venkatesh, M. Kumar, Formation of a Geometric Pattern with a Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Journal of Robotics (Wiley), Vol. 21, No. 10, October 2004, pp. 517-530.
  10. S. Campbell, M. Kumar and S. Olariu, The Hierarchical Cliques Interconnection Network, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 64(2004) pp. 16-28.
  11. M. Kumar, B. Shirazi, S. K. Das, M. Singhal, B. Sung, and D. Levine, Pervasive Information Communities Organization PICO: A Middleware Framework for Pervasive Computing, IEEE Pervasive Computing, July-September 2003, pp. 72-79.
  12. M. Kumar, Pervasive Computing Education, Distributed Systems Online, July 2003, Vol. 4, No.7.
  13. N. J. Tuah, M. Kumar and S. Venkatesh, Resource-aware Speculative Prefetching in Wireless Networks, ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2003, pp. 61-72.
  14. N. J. Tuah, M. Kumar, S. Venkatesh, and S. K. Das, Performance Evaluation of Speculative Prefetching, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, No. 5, May 2002, pp. 471-484.
  15. K.W. Chin, M. Kumar, A Scheme for Rerouting Multicast Connections in Mobile ATM Networks, Computer Communications, 25(1), 2002, pp. 56-73.
  16. K. W. Chin, M. Kumar, AMTree: An Active Approach to Multicasting in Mobile Networks, ACM/Baltzer, Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 6, No. 4. 2001, pp. 361-376.
  17. K.W. Chin, M. Kumar, and C. Farrell, A Model for Enhancing Connection Rerouting in Mobile Networks, ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2001, pp. 249-267.

Book Chapters
  1. M. Kumar and S. K. Das, Pervasive Computing: An overview of the challenges, Editors. Albert Zomaya et al., Wiley Publications, In Press.
  2. B. Sung, M. Kumar, and B. A. Shirazi, Flexible and Adaptive Services in Pervasive Computing, Parallel, Distributed, and Pervasive Computing, Advances in Computers, Volume 63, Edited by Ali Hurson, Elsevier Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-012163-8, pgs. 166-205.
  3. M. Kumar and S. K. Das, Efficient Information Acquisition and Dissemination in Pervasive Computing Systems through Caching, Wireless Communications Systems and Networks, Editor: M Guizani, Kluwer Publishers, ISBN 0-306-48190-1, April 2004, pgs. 513-530.
  4. A. Agah, S. K. Das and M. Kumar, Security Issues in Pervasive Computing, Wireless Information Highways, Editors: Katsaros et al., Idea Group Publication, ISBN 1-59140-568-8, pgs. 421-440.
  5. H. Alex, M. Kumar and B. A. Shirazi, Service Discovery in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Wireless Information Highways, Editors: Katsaros et al., Idea Group Publication, ISBN 1-59140-568-8, pgs. 251-272.
  6. S. Campbell, M. Kumar, and H. Bunke, Parallel Subgraph Matching on the Hierarchical Interconnection Network, H-N. Teodorescu (Editor), in Hardware Intelligent Technologies, CRC Press, 2001.
  7. S. Campbell and M. Kumar, COMPS: The Common Memory Message Passing System, R. Pose (Editor) Computer Architecture `96, Springer-Verlag, pp. 215-225.

Conference Proceedings
  1. K. Senthivel, S. Kalasapur and M, Kumar, PerSON: A Framework for Service Overlay Network in Pervasive Environments to be presented at the IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2007), Teipei, Taiwan, December 17-20, 2007.
  2. K. Shah and M. Kumar, Distributed Independent Reinforcement Learning (DIRL) Approach to Resource Management in Wireless Sensor Networks, to be presented at the Fourth IEEE Conference on Mobile and Ad hoc Sensor Systems (MASS 2007), Pisa Italy, October 8-11, 2007.
  3. H. Shen, S. Das, M. Kumar, Z. Wang, Semi-Lock: An Efficient Cheat-Proof Synchronization Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Game Systems, International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-06), Seoul, Korea, August 01-04, 2006.
  4. Z. Wang, M. Kumar, S. K Das and H. Shen, File Consistency Maintenance Through Virtual Servers in P2P Systems, The 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, June, 2006.
  5. S. Kalasapur, M. Kumar, B. Shirazi, Evaluating Service Oriented Architectures in Pervasive Computing, In proceedings of the fourth international conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006, Pisa, Italy. pp 276 - 285.
  6. S. Kalasapur, K. Senthivel, M. Kumar, Service Oriented Pervasive Computing for Emergency Response Systems, In proceedings of the first international workshop on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Health Care, UbiCare 2006, Pisa, Italy. pp 517 - 521.
  7. M. H. Ko, G. West, S. Venkatesh and M. Kumar, Online Context Recognition in Multisensor Systems using Dynamic Time Warping, International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Melbourne, Australia, December 2005.
  8. M. Kim, M. Kumar, and B.A. Shirazi, An Integrated Scheme for Address Assignment and Service Location in Pervasive Environments, 2005 IFIP International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-05),to be held in Nagasaki, Japan, 6-9 December 2005.
  9. S. Kalasapur, M. Kumar, and B.A. Shirazi, Seamless Service Composition (SeSCo) in Pervasive Environments, Workshop on Multimedia Service Composition (MSC2005), ACM Multimedia, Singapore, November 6-11, 2005.
  10. M. Kim, M. Kumar, and B.A. Shirazi, Service Discovery using Volunteer Nodes for Pervasive Environments, International Conference on Pervasive Services, Santorini, Greece, July 11-14, 2005.
  11. K. M. Hsiao, G. West, S. Venkatesh and M. Kumar, Temporal Data Fusion in Multisensor Systems Using Dynamic Time Warping, Workshop on Sensor Fusion, WICON 2005, July 10-14, 2005, Budapest, Hungary.
  12. S. Kalasapur, M. Kumar, and B.A. Shirazi, Personalized Service Composition for Ubiquitous Multimedia Delivery, IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Taormina - Giardini Naxos, Italy,13-16 June 2005.
  13. H. Alex, M. Kumar, B. Shirazi, Collaborating Agent Communities for Information Fusion and Decision Making, International Conference on Knowledge Integration and Multi Agent Systems, Boston, USA, April 2005.
  14. M. Kim, M. Kumar, and B. A. Shirazi, A Lightweight Scheme for Auto-configuration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Workshop on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Denver, April 2005.
  15. H. Shen, M. S. Joseph, M. Kumar and S. K. Das, PReCinCt: A Scheme for Cooperative Caching in Mobile Peer-to-Peer System, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Denver, April 2005.
  16. N. Roy, S. K. Das, K. Basu and M. Kumar, Enhancing Availability of Grid Computational Services to Ubiquitous Computing Applications, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Denver, April 2005.
  17. M. S. Joseph, M. Kumar, H. P. Shen and S. K. Das, PReCinCt: A Scheme for Cooperative Caching in Mobile Peer-to-Peer System, Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems, PerCom 2005, Kauai, March 8-12, 2005.
  18. H. Alex, M. Kumar and B. A. Shirazi, MidFusion: Middleware for Information Fusion in Sensor Network Applications, International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Melbourne, Australia, December 2004.
  19. S. Manchenahalli, M. Kumar and B. A. Shirazi, A Framework for Information Sharing in Pervasive Computing, The IASTED International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Technology (ACST2004), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, November 2004.
  20. Z. Wang, S. Das, M. Kumar, H. Shen, Update Propagation Through Replica Chain in Decentralized and Unstructured P2P Systems, Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 64-71, August 25-27, 2004.
  21. R. Kambalakatta, M. Kumar and S. K. Das, Profile based Caching to Enhance Data Availability in Push/Pull Mobile Environments, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, MobiQuitous 2004, Boston, August 22-25, Boston, USA, pp. 74-83.
  22. H. Shen, S. K. Das, M. Kumar and Z. Wang, ECOR: Energy Efficient Cooperative Caching with Optimal Radius in Hybrid Wireless Networks, Third International IFIP TC-6 Networking Conference, Athens, Greece, May 9-14, 2004, Proceedings, Editors:N. Mitrou, K. Kontovasilis, G.N. Rouskas et al., pp. 841-853.
  23. H. Shen, M. Kumar, S. K. Das and Z. Wang, Energy-Efficient Caching and Prefetching with Data Consistency in Mobile Distributed Systems, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Santa Fe, April 2004 (Full paper on CD).
  24. B. A. Shirazi, M. Kumar, and B. Sung, QoS Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing Applications, Minitrack on Quality of Service in Mobile and Wireless Networks, Proc. of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), January 2004, pg. 294 (Full paper on CD).
  25. B. Menasinahal, M. Kumar, Active handoff scheme for mobile environments, Ist Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, December 18-20, 2003.
  26. S. Patil and M. Kumar, TCP Enhancement using Active Network based Proxy Transport Service, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Active Networks: IFIP TC6 5th International Workshop, IWAN 2003, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-12, 2003, Revised Papers, Editors: Naoki Wakamiya, Marcin Solarski, James Sterbenz ISBN: 3-540-21250-7, pp. 103 - 114.
  27. M. Kumar, J. Priest, B. A. Shirazi, B. Huff, and M. Johnson, Revolutionizing Manufacturing Systems with Pervasive Computing: P-RoMS, International Workshop on Ambient Intelligence Computing, Santorini, Greece, Jun. 2003, pp. 33-48.
  28. 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, Korea, pp. 3-8, Oct 20-22, 2003.
  29. B. Shirazi, M. Kumar, B. Sung and S. Kalasapur, Effective Communication and Collaboration among Heterogeneous Pervasive Computing Devices Using Software Communities, International Conference on Advances in Internet, Processing, Systems, and Interdisciplinary Research, Montenegro, Oct. 2003, (on CD).
  30. Z. Wang, S.K. Das, H. Che, and M. Kumar, SACCS: Scalable Asynchronous Cache Consistency Scheme for Mobile Environments, ICDCS Workshops, March 2003, pp. 797-802.
  31. G.V. Zaruba, W. Wu, M. J. Kumar, S. K. Das, Mobility Support Using Intelligent User Shadows for Next-Generation Wireless Networks, Proceedings of 3Gwireless'03, World Wireless Congress, San Francisco, CA, May 2003, (Full paper on CD).
  32. Z. Wang, M. Kumar, S. K. Das, and H. Shen, Investigation of Cache Maintenance Strategies for Multi-cell Environments, 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 21-24 January, 2003, pp. 29-44.
  33. W.H.O. Lau, M. Kumar, and S. Venkatesh, A Generalized Cost-Aware Caching Scheme for Continuous Media Objects in Best-Effort Networks, Proc. Fourth International Workshop on Distributed Computing, IWDC 2002, Calcutta, December 2002, LNCS 2571,Springer, pp. 12-23.
  34. B. Sung, B. Shirazi, M. Kumar, Pervasive Community Organization, Eurasia 2002, Tehran, November 2002, Full paper on CD.
  35. W.H.O. Lau, M. Kumar, and S. Venkatesh, A Cooperative Cache Architecture in Support of Caching Multimedia Objects in MANETs, 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM'02), Atlanta, USA, September 2002.
  36. K-W. Chin, F. Folianto, and M. Kumar, ADS+: An Efficient Binding Update Delivery Scheme using IP Multicast, IEEE ICC2002 Conference in New York, NY, USA, April 2002, Full paper on CD.
  37. Z. J. Yin, K. S. Chung and M. Kumar, A Dynamic Adaptive Multiple Access Protocol for Wireless Integrated Communications, GLOBECOM 2001, San Antonio, Nov. 2001, Full paper on CD.
  38. M. Kumar and S. K. Das, Flexible Integrated Cache for Efficient Information Access in Mobile Computing Environments, Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, NSFWorkshop IMWS 2001 Scottsdale, AZ, October 15, 2001 Editors: B. Konig-Ries, K. Makki, S.A.M. Makki, N. Pissinou, P. Scheuermann (Eds.) Volume 2538 / 2002, pp. 69-77.
  39. W. Lau, M. Kumar. and S. Venkatesh, A cache-based mobility-aware scheme for real-time continuous media delivery in wireless networks, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Tokyo, August 2001, Full paper on CD.
  40. N. J. Tuah, M. Kumar and S. Venkatesh, Effect of Speculative Prefetching on Network Load in Distributed Systems, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, San Francisco, April 2001.

 

 

　

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