Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory

S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, A. Prasanna "Compressed-Sensing-Enabled Video Streaming for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2011.[pdf]

M. Li, S. N. Batalama, D. Pados, T. Melodia, M. Medley, J. Matyjas "Cognitive Code-Division Links with Blind Primary-System Identification," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, in press, 2011.[pdf]

L. Kuo, T. Melodia, "Distributed Medium Access Control Strategies for MIMO Underwater Acoustic Networking," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 2523-2533, August 2011. [pdf]

D. Pompili, T. Melodia, I. F. Akyildiz, "Distributed Routing Algorithms for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 2934-2944, September 2010. [pdf]

K. Chowdhury, T. Melodia, "Platforms and Testbeds for Experimental Evaluation of Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 96-104, September 2010.  [pdf]

S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, "A Distortion-minimizing Rate Controller for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," Computer Communications (Elsevier), Vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 1380-1390, July 2010. [pdf]  

A. Zhang, Q. Zhang, T. Melodia,  "A Frequency-domain Entropy-Based Spectrum Detector for Cognitive Radio Networks,"  IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 533-535, June 2010. [pdf]

T. Melodia, I. F. Akyildiz,  "Cross-layer QoS-Aware Communication for Ultra Wide Band Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 28, no. 5,  pp. 653-663, June 2010. [pdf]

T. Melodia, W. Heinzelmann, "Cross-layer Optimization in Video Sensor Networks," IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letter, vol. 5, no. 3, May 2010. [pdf] 

L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, J. Matyjas, M. Medley, "Cross-layer Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks,"  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 1969-1979, May 2010. [pdf]

T. Melodia, D. Pompili,  I. F. Akyildiz "Handling Mobility in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 160-173, February 2010. [pdf]

T. Melodia, S. Pudlewski, "A Case for Compressive Video Streaming in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letter, Vol. 4, No. 9, October 2009. [pdf]

D. Pompili, T. Melodia, and I. F. Akyildiz, "A CDMA-based Medium Access Control Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,"  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1899-1909, April 2009. [pdf]

D. Pompili, T. Melodia, I. Akyildiz, "Three-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Deployment Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 778-790, June 2009. [pdf]

I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Applications and Testbeds,''  Proceedings of the IEEE,  Vol. 96, No. 10. (2008), pp. 1588-1605. [pdf]

I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: A Survey,''  IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine,  December 2007. [pdf]

T. Melodia, D. Pompili, V. C. Gungor, I. F. Akyildiz, "Communication and Coordination in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 1116-1129, October 2007. [pdf]

I. F. Akyildiz, D. Pompili, and T. Melodia, "State of the Art in Protocol Research for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," ACM Mobile Computing and Communication Review (Invited Paper), October 2007. [pdf]

I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, ``A Survey on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks,'' Computer Networks (Elsevier), Vol. 51, no. 4, pp.921-960, March 2007. [pdf] [bibtex]
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U. Monaco, F. Cuomo, T. Melodia, F. Ricciato, M. Borghini, "Understanding Optimal Data Gathering in the Energy and Latency Domains of a Wireless Sensor Network," Computer Networks (Elsevier), Vol. 50, no. 18, pp. 3564-3584, December 2006. [pdf] [bibtex]

I. F. Akyildiz, D. Pompili, T. Melodia, "Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks: Research Challenges," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), March 2005, Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 257-279. [pdf] [bibtex]
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T. Melodia, D. Pompili, I. F. Akyildiz, "On the Interdependence of Distributed Topology Control and Geographical Routing in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 520-532, Mar. 2005. [pdf] [bibtex]

F. Cuomo, T. Melodia, I. F. Akyildiz, "Distributed self-healing and variable topology optimization algorithms for QoS provisioning in scatternets," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 1220-1236, September 2004. [pdf] [bibtex]

I. F. Akyildiz, D. Pompili, T. Melodia, "Challenges for Efficient Communication in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," ACM Sigbed Review, vol. 1, no. 2, July 2004.  [pdf] [bibtex]

T. Melodia, F. Cuomo,  "Ad hoc networking with Bluetooth: key metrics and distributed protocols for scatternet formation," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 185-202, April 2004. [pdf] [bibtex]

L. C. Kuo, T. Melodia, "Cross-layer Routing on MIMO-OFDM Underwater Acoustic Links," in Proc. of IEEE Conf. on on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Seoul, South Korea, June 2012. [pdf]

L. Galluccio, T. Melodia, S. Palazzo, G. E. Santagati, "Challenges and Implications of Using Ultrasonic Communications in Intra-body Area Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), Courmayeur, Italy, Jan. 2012. [pdf]

K. Gao, L. Ding T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "Spread-spectrum Cognitive Networking: Distributed Channelization and Routing," in Proc. of IEEE MILCOM, Baltimore, MD November 2011. Best Paper Award Runner-up for IEEE MILCOM 2011 Track 3 [pdf]

S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, "A Rate-Energy-Distortion Analysis for Compressed-Sensing-Enabled Wireless Video Streaming on Multimedia Sensors," in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, Texas, USA, December 2011. [pdf]

Z. Guan, T. Melodia, D. Yuan, D. Pados, "Distributed Spectrum Management and Relay Selection in Interference-Limited Cooperative Wireless Networks," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Sept. 2011. [pdf]

L. Kuo, T. Melodia, "Tier-Based Underwater Acoustic Routing for Applications with Reliability and Delay Constraints," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN), Salt Like City, Utah, June 2011. [pdf]

Z. Guan, T. Melodia, D.Yuan, "Optimizing Cooperative Video Streaming in Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Salt Like City, Utah, June 2011. [pdf]

S. Colonnese, F. Cuomo, O. Damiano, V. De Pascalis, T. Melodia, "On the Adoption of Multiview Video Coding in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," in Wireless Advanced 2011, London, June 2011. [pdf]

Z. Guan, L. Ding, T. Melodia, D. Yuan, "On the Effect of Cooperative Relaying on the Performance of Video Streaming Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011. [pdf]

C. Taysi, A. Guvensan, T. Melodia, "TinyEARS: Spying on House Appliances with Audio Sensor Nodes," in Proc. of ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys) 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2010. [pdf]

M. Li, S. Batalama, D. Pados, T. Melodia, M. Medley, J. Matyjas, "Cognitive Code-division Channelization with Blind Primary User Identification," in Proc. of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Jose, CA, October 2010. [pdf]

L. Ding, P. Nagaraju, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "Software-defined Joint Routing and Waveform Selection for Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Jose, CA, October 2010. [pdf]

Pradeep B. Nagaraju, E. Koski, T. Melodia, "A Software-defined Ionospheric Chirpsounder for HF Propagation Analysis," in Proc. of HF Nordic Conference, Faro, Sweden, August 2010. [pdf]

S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, A. Prasanna, “C-DMRC: Compressive Distortion-Minimizing Rate Control for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Boston, MA, June 2010 [pdf]

Nagaraju P.B., L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "Implementation of a Distributed Joint Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Algorithm on USRP2 Radios," DEMO at IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Boston, MA, Jun. 2010. [pdf]

L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, J. Matyjas, “Distributed Routing, Relay Selection, and Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive and Cooperative Ad Hoc Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Boston, MA, June 2010 [pdf]

S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, "On the Performance of Compressive Video Streaming for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks,"  in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010. [pdf]

S. Pudlewski, A. Prasanna, T. Melodia, “Resilient Image Sensor Networks in Lossy Channels Using Compressed Sensing," (Invited Paper) in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S) , Mannheim, Germany, March 2010. [pdf]

S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, "DMRC: Distortion-minimizing Rate Control for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Mobile Ad Hoc And Sensor Systems (MASS), Macau, China, October 2009. [pdf]

L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, M. Medley, "ROSA: Distributed Joint Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Conf. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, October 2009. [pdf]

L. Kuo, T. Melodia, "Medium Access Control for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks with MIMO links," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Conf. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, October 2009. [pdf]

L. Ding,  S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, J. Matyjas, M. Medley,  "Distributed Spectrum Sharing for Video Streaming in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of  Intl. Workshop on Cross-layer Design in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, September 2009, Niagara Falls, CA. [pdf]

T. Melodia, I. F. Akyildiz, "Cross-layer Quality of Service Support for UWB Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks,"  in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Mini-Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008. [pdf]

D. Pompili, T. Melodia, and I. F. Akyildiz, "A Distributed CDMA Medium Access Control for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," in Proc. of Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net), Corfu, Greece, June 2007. [pdf][bibtex]

F. Cuomo, S. D. Luna, U. Monaco, and T. Melodia, "Routing in ZigBee: benefits from exploiting the IEEE 802.15.4 association tree," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 2007. [pdf][bibtex]

I. F. Akyildiz, D. Pompili, T. Melodia, "State of the Art in Protocol Research for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Sept. 2006. [pdf][bibtex]

D. Pompili, T. Melodia, I. F. Akyildiz, "Deployment Analysis in Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Sept. 2006. [pdf][bibtex]

T. Melodia, D. Pompili, I. F. Akyildiz, "A Communication Architecture for Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks,'' in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Reston, VA, September 2006. [pdf][bibtex]

E. Stuntebeck, D. Pompili, T. Melodia, "Underground Wireless Sensor Networks Using Commodity Terrestrial Motes," poster presentation, in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Reston, VA, September 2006. [pdf] [bibtex]

D. Pompili, T. Melodia, I. F. Akyildiz, "Routing Algorithms for Delay-insensitive and Delay-sensitive Applications in Underwater Sensor Networks,'' in Proc. of ACM Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Sept. 2006.[pdf][bibtex]

D. Pompili, T. Melodia, I. F. Akyildiz, "A Resilient Routing Algorithm for Long-term Applications in Underwater Sensor Networks,'' Proc. of the Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MedHocNet), Lipari, Italy, June 2006. [pdf][bibtex]

T. Melodia, M. C. Vuran, D. Pompili, "The State of the Art in Cross-layer Design for Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. of EuroNGI Workshops on Wireless and Mobility. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3883, Como, Italy, July 2005. [pdf][bibtex]

D. Pompili and T. Melodia, "Three-Dimensional Routing in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," in Proc of ACM Intl. Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN), Montreal, Canada, October 2005. [pdf] [bibtex]

M. Borghini, F. Cuomo, T. Melodia, U. Monaco, F. Ricciato, "Optimal Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks in the Energy and Latency Domains," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Wireless Internet Conf. (WICON), Budapest, Hungary, July 2005. [pdf] [bibtex]

T. Melodia, D. Pompili, V. C. Gungor, I. F. Akyildiz, "A Distributed Coordination Framework for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," Proc. of ACM Intl. Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2005. [pdf] [bibtex]

D. Pompili, T. Melodia,  "An architecture for ocean bottom UnderWater Acoustic Sensor Networks," poster presentation, in Proc. of the Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MedHocNet), Bodrum, Turkey, July 2004. [abstract] [bibtex]

G. Di Bacco, T. Melodia, F. Cuomo, "A MAC Protocol for Delay-Bounded Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks,"  in Proc. of the Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MedHocNet), Bodrum, Turkey, July 2004. [pdf]  [bibtex]

F. Cuomo, G. Di Bacco, T. Melodia, "Optimized Scatternet Topologies for Personal Area Networking in Dynamic Environments,"
in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, June 2004. [pdf] [bibtex]

T. Melodia, D. Pompili, Ian F. Akyildiz, Optimal Local Topology Knowledge for Energy Efficient Geographical Routing in Sensor Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong S.A.R., PRC, March 2004.[pdf] [bibtex]

T. Melodia, F. Cuomo, "Locally Optimal Scatternet Topologies for Bluetooth Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of IFIP Working Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems (WONS), Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, January 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2928, Springer 2003, pp. 116-129. [pdf] [bibtex]

F. Cuomo, G. Di Bacco, T. Melodia, "SHAPER: a Self-Healing Algorithm Producing multi-hop bluetooth ScattERnets," Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2003. [pdf] [bibtex]

A. Roveri, C. F. Chiasserini, M. Femminella, T. Melodia, G. Morabito, M. Rossi, I. Tinnirello, "The RAMON Module: Architecture Framework and Performance Results," in Proc. of Intl. Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks (QoS-IP), Milan, Italy, February 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2601 Springer 2003, pp. 471-484. [pdf] [bibtex]

A. Baiocchi, F. Cuomo, T. Melodia, A. Todini, F. Vacirca, "Reconfigurable Packet Scheduling for Radio Access Jointly Adaptive to Traffic and Channel," in Proc. of Intl. Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks (QoS-IP), Milan, Italy, February 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2601 Springer 2003, pp. 485-498. [pdf] [bibtex]

F. Cuomo, T. Melodia,  "A General Methodology and Key Metrics for Scatternet Formation in Bluetooth,"  in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002. [pdf] [bibtex]

T. Melodia, I. F. Akyilidiz, "Research Challenges for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," in Distributed Video Sensor Networks, Eds. Nir. Bhanu, Chinya V. Ravishankar, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, Demetri Terzopolous, Hamid Aghajan, Springer, June 2010.

D. Pompili and T. Melodia, "Research Challenges for Communication Protocols in Underwater Sensor Networks,'' in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, Yang Xiao Ed., 2009.

M. C. Vuran, D. Pompili,  T. Melodia,  "Future Trends in Wireless Sensor Networks,"   in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Networking Perspective J. Zheng and A. Jamalipour Eds, 2008.

T. Melodia and K. R. Chowdhury, "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Challenges and Solutions," invited book chapter in Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications, Y. Zhang, S. Mao, L. T. Yang, and T. M. Chen, Eds. Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

D. Pompili, M. C. Vuran, T. Melodia, "Cross-layer Design in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Sensor Network and Configuration: Fundamentals, Techniques, Platforms, and Experiments, Springer-Verlag, Germany, October 2006.