Selected Publications

Wireless Networks

• S. Biaz and N. H. Vaidya, "``De-randomizing" Congestion Losses to Improve TCP Performance over Wired-Wireless Networks,"to appear in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking June 2005
• S. Biaz and Y. Ji, "A Glance at MAC Protocols for Ultra Wideband", 42nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Apr. 2004.
• S. Biaz and Y. D. Barowski, "GANGS: an Energy Efficient MAC protocol for Sensor Networks", 42nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Apr. 2004.
• S. Biaz and Y. Dai, "Enhancing Congestion Control for Wireless Links,"Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, pp 93-99, Jan. 2003.
• S. Biaz and N. H. Vaidya, "Is the Round Trip Time Correlated with the Number of Packets in Flight?," Internet Measurements Conference, pp 273-278, Oct. 2003.
• S. Biaz and N. H. Vaidya, " Discriminating Congestion Losses from Wireless Losses using Inter-Arrival Times at the Receiver" , IEEE Symposium ASSET'99, Richardson, TX, USA, March 1999.
• S. Biaz and N. H. Vaidya, ``Distinguishing Congestion Losses from Wireless Transmission Losses'',
  Seventh International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N), New Orleans, October 1998.

Distributed Computing

• S. Biaz and J. L. Welch , "Closed Forms Bounds for Clock Synchronization under Simple Uncertainty Assumptions " ,
  Information Processing Letters, Vol. 80, pp 151-157, Dec. 2001.

Location Management

• S. Biaz and N. H. Vaidya, "Tolerating Visitor Location Register Failures in Mobile Environments",
  17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'98), October 1998.
• S. Biaz and N. H. Vaidya, "Performance Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Scheme For Location Management of Mobile Hosts",
  IPPS'98 Workshop FTPDS, Orlando April 1998.

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