Refereed Journal Papers (Student Authors are marked with *)

1. *Riduan Abid and Saâd Biaz, "An Interference-aware Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Networks," accepted in July 2011 by the International Journal of Mobile Communications (Inderscience).

2. *Shaoen Wu, Saâd Biaz, “Measurement Based Link Level Investigation of IEEE 802.11g Channels,” to appear in 2011 International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, 3(2)):1-12.

3. *Riduan Abid, *Taha Benbrahim, and Saâd Biaz, “IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networks for Last Mile Internet Access: An open-Source Real World Indoor Testbed Implementation,” in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2(10):725-738, (2010).

4. Chadia Affane Aji, Saad Biaz, N.K. Govil, “On Annuli Containing All the Zeros of a Polynomial,” Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 52(9-10): 1532-1537 (2010).

5. *Riduan Abid, *Taha Benbrahim , and Saâd Biaz , “Airtime Ping-Pong Effect in IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networks,” accepted by the International Journal of Communications, Network, and System Sciences.

6. Saâd Biaz and *Yawen Dai Barowski, “BaseStation Flow Control for Wired to Wireless Networks,” in the Journal of Wireless Networks, Springer-Verlag 16(3): 775-791, March 2010.

7. Saad Biaz and *Shaoen Wu , “ERA: Effective Rate Adaptation for WLANs,” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 4982/2008, pp. 901-913, Impact Factor for 2008: unavailable.

8. Saad Biaz , *Yiming Ji , *Bing Qi , “BaseStation Assisted TCP: A Simple Way to Improve Wireless TCP,” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 4096/2006, pp. 630-641; August 2006. Impact Factor for 2006: unavailable.

9. *Yiming Ji , Saâd Biaz , *Santosh Pandey and Prathima Agrawal . "Dynamic Indoor Localization Using Wireless Ethernet: The ARIADNE System," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 3970/2006, pp. 299-310; May 2006.

10. Saad Biaz and Nitin H. Vaidya , “”De-randomizing” Congestion Losses to Improve TCP Performance over Wired-Wireless Networks,” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(3):596-608 June. 2005.

11. Saâd Biaz , *Yiming Ji , “A Survey and Comparison on Localization Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” in International Journal on Mobile Communications, Volume 3, Number 4, pp. 374-410, 2005.

12. Saâd Biaz and Jennifer L. Welch , “Closed Form Bounds for Clock Synchronization under Simple Uncertainty Assumptions,” in Information Processing Letters, Vol. 80, pp. 151-157, Elsevier, January 2001.

Refereed Conference Papers (Acceptance Rate Less than 25%)

1. *Yiming Ji , Saad Biaz, *Santosh Pandey and Prathima Agrawal “ARIADNE: A Dynamic Indoor Signal Map Construction and Localization System,” in Mobisys 2006, pp. 151-164, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006.

2. *Yiming Ji , Saâd Biaz , Santosh Pandey and *Prathima Agrawal . "Dynamic Indoor Localization Using Wireless Ethernet: The ARIADNE System," in 4th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC2006; LNCS, vol. 3970/2006, pp. 299-310; Bern, Switzerland. May 2006.

3. Saâd Biaz , *Yiming Ji , “Precise Distributed Localization Algorithms for Wireless Networks,” in IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), pp. 388-394, June 2005.

4. Saâd Biaz , *Yiming Ji , *Bing Qi , and *Shaoen Wu , "Realistic Radio Range Irregularity Model and Its Impact on Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WCNM), pp. 669-673, Sept. 2005.

5. Saâd Biaz , *Yiming Ji, *Bing Qi , and *Shaoen Wu , "Dynamic Signal Strength Estimates for Indoor Wireless Communications," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WCNM), pp. 606-610, Sept. 2005.

Other Refereed Conference Papers

1. Saad Biaz , Shaoen Wu : "Rate adaptation algorithms for IEEE 802.11 networks: A survey and comparison,” in 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications, pp. 130-136 Morocco, July 2008. (Best Paper Award)

2. Malak Taoufiki , Abdellah Adib , Driss Aboutajdine , Saad Biaz , “Blind MIMO deconvolution of any source distributions via high-order spectra,” in IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications 2008, pp. 818-823, Marrakesh, Morocco, July 2008.

3. Saad Biaz and *Shaoen Wu , “ERA: Effective Rate Adaptation for WLANs,” in IFIP Networking 2008, pp. 901-913, Singapore, May’08.

4. Saad Biaz and Shaoen Wu , "Loss differentiated rate adaptation in wireless networks," in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 1639-1644, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2008.

5. Yiming Ji , Gordon Sproul , Saad Biaz , "FreeMobility: Dynamic Localization Using GIS,” in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 2408-2413, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2008.

6. Saad Biaz , Bing Qi , "iETT: A Quality Routing Metric for Multi-Rate Multi-Hop Networks,” in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp.2729-2734, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2008.

7. Saad Biaz and Shaoen Wu , "OTLR: Opportunistic transmission with loss recovery for WLANs," in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp.1541-1546, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2008.

8. *Taha Benbrahim, Driss Aboutajdine, Saad Biaz, “E-TCP: An Evolutionary Computation Approach for Congestion Avoidance in Bulk-Data Transfers Networks,” in the 46^th ACM Southeast Regional Conference 2007, pp.146-151 Auburn, Alabama, March 2008.

9. Saad Biaz , *Bing Qi and *Yiming Ji , "Improving expected transmission time metric in multi-rate multi-hop networks," in 5^th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 533-537, Las Vegas, NV, January 2008.

10. *Yiming Ji , S. Biaz , *Shaoen Wu , and B. Qi "Optimal Sniffers Deployment for Wireless Indoor Localization," in 16^th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, pp. 251-256 Honolulul, Hawaii, August 2007.

11. Saad Biaz , *Bing Qi , *Shaoen Wu , *Yiming Ji , “Evaluation of Multi-Radio Extensions to DSR for Wireless Multi-Hop Networks,” in International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS’07), 65-69, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.

12. Saad Biaz and *Shaoen Wu , “A Relaxed Probing Rate Adaptation in IEEE 802.11 WLANs,” in International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS’07), pp. 93-98, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.

13. *Shaoen Wu , Saad Biaz , *Bing Qi (3%), Kehao Zhang (2%), “BARA: a sender based rate adaptation in wireless networks,” in the 45^th ACM Southeast Regional Conference 2007, pp. 179-184, Salem, North Carolina, March 2007.

14. *Bing Qi , Saad Biaz , *Shaoen Wu , *Yiming Ji : “An interference-aware routing metric in multi-radio multi-hop networks,” in the 45^th ACM Southeast Regional Conference 2007, pp.549-550 Salem, North Carolina, March 2007.

15. Saad Biaz , *Yiming Ji , and *Bing Qi , "Dynamic signal strength estimates for indoor wireless communications, " in 2005 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, pp. 606-610, Clearwater Beach, FL, Dec. 2005.

16. *Yiming Ji , Saad Biaz , *Shaoen Wu , and *Bing Qi, "Impact of building environment on the performance of dynamic indoor localization," in 2005 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology, Clearwater Beach, FL, Dec. 2005.

17. Saad Biaz , *Yiming Ji , *Bing Qi, “BaseStation Assisted TCP: A Simple Way to Improve Wireless TCP,” in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing International Conference, EUC 2006, pp. 630-641, Seoul, Korea, August 2006.

18. Saad Biaz , *Yiming Ji , Prathima Agrawal , “Impact of sniffer deployment on indoor localization,” in First International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, San Jose, CA, USA, December 2005.

19. Saad Biaz , *Chris Walstad , *Christopher W. Miller , *Russell Pierce , “Creating Virtually Mobile Nodes for Testing Ad Hoc Routing Protocols,” in 2005 International Conference on Wireless Networks, ICWN 2005, pp. 92-98, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2005.

20. Saad Biaz , Richard O. Chapman , *James Pate Williams , “RTP and TCP based MIDI over IP protocols,” in 43^rd Annual Southeast Regional Conference 2005, pp. 112-117, Kennesaw, Georgia, Alabama, USA, March 2005.

21. Saad Biaz, “Controlling Inbound Traffic,” in International Conference on Internet Computing, IC '04, pp. 321-327, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 21-24, 2004.

22. Saad Biaz , *Xia Wang , “RED for Improving TCP over Wireless Networks,” in International Conference on Wireless Networks, ICWN '04, pp. 628-636, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2004.

23. Saad Biaz , *Yawen Dai Barowski, ""GANGS": an energy efficient MAC protocol for sensor networks,” in 42^nd Annual Southeast Regional Conference 2004, pp. 82-87, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, April 2004.

24. Saad Biaz , *Yiming Ji , “A glance at MAC protocols for ultra wideband,” in 42nd Annual Southeast Regional Conference 2004, pp. 94-95 Huntsville, Alabama, USA, April 2004.

25. Saad Biaz and Nitin H. Vaidya , “Is the round-trip time correlated with the number of packets in flight?,” in Internet Measurement Conference 2003, pp. 273-278, Miami, Florida, USA, October 2003.

26. Saad Biaz , Gavin Holland , Young-Bae Ko , Nitin H. Vaidya , “Evaluation of Protocols for Wireless Networks,” in PDPTA 1999, pp. 2150-2156, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 1999.

27. Saad Biaz , Nitin H. Vaidya , “Tolerating Visitor Location Register Failures in Mobile Environments,” in Seventeenth Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, pp. 109-117, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, October 1998.

28. Saad Biaz and Nitin Vaidya , "Performance analysis of a fault-tolerant scheme for location management of mobile hosts," in 1998 IPPS/SPDP Workshops, pp. 756-769, Orlando, FL, March 1998.