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Selected Published Journal Articles

X. Sun and N. Ansari, “Green Cloudlet Network: A Sustainable Platform for Mobile Cloud Computing,” IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2017.2764463, early access.
Q. Fan and N. Ansari, “Towards Workload Balancing in Fog Computing Empowered IoT,” IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2018.2852762, early access.
J. Yao and N. Ansari, “QoS-aware Joint BBU-RRH Mapping and User Association in Cloud-RANs,” IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking, DOI: 10.1109/TGCN.2018.2837867, early access.
X. Sun and N. Ansari, “Adaptive Avatar Handoff in the Cloudlet Network,” IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2017.2701794, early access.
Q. Fan and N. Ansari, “Towards Throughput Aware and Energy Aware Traffic Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks with Hybrid Power Supplies,” IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking, DOI: 10.1109/TGCN.2018.2837618, early access.
L. Zhang, Q. Fan, and N. Ansari, “3-D Drone-Base-Station Placement with In-Band Full-Duplex Communications,” IEEE Communications Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2851206, early access.
Q. Fan and N. Ansari, “Application Aware Workload Allocation for Edge Computing based IoT,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2826006, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 2146-2153, June 2018.
X. Sun and N. Ansari, “Dynamic Resource Caching in the IoT Application Layer for Smart Cities,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2764418, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 606-613, Apr. 2018.
Q. Fan and N. Ansari, “Workload Allocation in Hierarchical Cloudlet Networks,” IEEE Communications Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2801866, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 820-823, Apr. 2018.
X. Sun and N. Ansari, “Traffic Load Balancing among Brokers at the IoT Application Layer,” IEEE Trans. on Network and Service Management, DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2017.2787859, vol. 15, no.1, pp. 489-502, Mar. 2018.
L. Zhang, T. Han and N. Ansari, “Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Management in Inter-Datacenter Networks Over Elastic Optical Infrastructure,” IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking, DOI: 10.1109/TGCN.2017.2771724, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 305-315, March 2018.
N. Ansari and X. Sun “Mobile Edge Computing Empowers Internet of Things,” IEICE Trans. on Communications, (Invited Paper), DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2017NRI0001, vol. E101-B, no. 3, pp. 604-619, March 2018.
Q. Fan, M. Taheri, N. Ansari, J. Feng, R. Rojas-Cessa, M. Zhou, and T. Zhang, “Reducing the Impact of Handovers in Ground-to-Train Free Space Optical Communications,” IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2017.2754960, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 1292-1301, Feb. 2018.
X. Liu and N. Ansari, “Green Relay Assisted D2D Communications with Dual Batteries in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks for IoT,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2717853, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1707-1715, Oct. 2017.
Q. Fan, X. Sun, and N. Ansari, “Energy Driven Avatar Migration in Green Cloudlet Networks,” IEEE Communications Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2684812, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1601-1604, July 2017.
X. Sun and N. Ansari, “Latency Aware Workload Offloading in the Cloudlet Network,” IEEE Communications Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2690678, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1481-1484, July 2017.
A. Kiani and N. Ansari, “On the Fundamental Energy Tradeoffs of Geographical Load Balancing,” IEEE Communications Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600787, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 170-175, May 2017.
X. Sun and N. Ansari, “Green Cloudlet Network: A Distributed Green Mobile Cloud Network,” IEEE Network, DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2017.1500293NM, vol.31, no.1, pp. 64‐71, Jan./Feb. 2017.
X. Sun and N. Ansari, “EdgeIoT: Mobile Edge Computing for the Internet of Things,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Internet of Things, DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2016.1600492CM, vol.54, no.12, pp. 22‐29, Dec. 2016.
83. L. Zhang, N. Ansari, and A. Khreishah, “Anycast Planning in Space Division Multiplexing Elastic Optical Networks with Multi-core Fibers,” IEEE Communications Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2593479, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1983-1986, Oct. 2016.
A. Kiani and N. Ansari, “A Fundamental Tradeoff between Total and Brown Power Consumption in Geographically Dispersed Data Centers,” IEEE Communications Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2598535, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1955-1958, Oct. 2016.
X. Sun, N. Ansari, and R. Wang, “Optimizing Resource Utilization of a Data Center,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2558203, vol. 18, no. 4, Fourth Quarter 2016.
Q. Duan, N. Ansari, and M. Toy, “Software-Defined Network Virtualization -- An Architectural Framework for Integrating SDN and NFV for Service Provisioning in Future Networks,” IEEE Network, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 10-16, Sep./Oct. 2016.
J. Liu, Y. Liang, and N. Ansari, " Spark-based Large-scale Matrix Inversion for Big Data Processing,” IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2546544, vol. 4, pp. 2166-2176, 2016.
X. Huang and N. Ansari, “Optimal Cooperative Power Allocation for Energy Harvesting Enabled Relay Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2424218, vol. 65, no.4, pp. 2424-2434. Apr. 2016.
J. Liu, C. Fang, and N. Ansari, “Request Dependency Graph: A Model for Web Usage Mining in Large-scale Web of Things,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2015.2452964, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 598-608, Aug. 2016.
M. Taheri, J. Zhang, and N. Ansari “Design and Analysis of Green Optical Line Terminal for TDM Passive Optical Networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 221-228, April 2016.
N. Ansari, T. Han, and M. Taheri, “GATE: Greening At The Edges,” IEEE Wireless Communicationsk, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 62-69, April 2016.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “A Traffic Load Balancing Framework for Software-Defined Radio Access Networks Powered by Hybrid Energy Sources,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2015.2404576, vol. 24, no.2., pp. 1038-1052, Apr. 2016.
N. Ansari and T. Han, “FreeNet: Spectrum and Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks,” IEEE Network, vol. 30, no 1, pp. 66-71, Jan./Feb. 2016.
X. Huang and N. Ansari, “Joint Spectrum and Power Allocation for Multi-node Cooperative Wireless Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2015.2388478, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 2034-2044, 2015.
M. Yousefvand, N. Ansari, and S. Khorsandi, “Maximizing Network Capacity of Cognitive Radio Networks by Capacity-aware Spectrum Allocation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2431691, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 5058-5067, Sep. 2015.
Y. Zhang, N. Ansari, and W. Su, “Multi-sensor Signal Fusion based Modulation Classification by using Wireless Sensor Networks,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), DOI: 10.1002/wcm.2450, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 1621-1632, Aug. 2015.
X. Huang, T. Han, and N. Ansari, “On Green Energy Powered Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 827-842, Second Quarter, 2015.
Y. Zhang and N. Ansari, “HERO: Hierarchical Energy Optimization for Data Center Networks,” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 406-415, June 2015.
X. Huang and N. Ansari, “Energy Sharing within EH-enabled Wireless Communication Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 144-149, June 2015.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “RADIATE: Radio Over Fiber as Antenna Extender for High Speed Train Communications,” IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 130-137, Feb. 2015.
A. Kiani and N. Ansari, “Towards Low-Cost Workload Distribution for Integrated Green Data Centers,” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 26-29, Jan. 2015.
H. Pan, E.S.H. Hou, and N. Ansari, “Enhanced Name and Vote Separated E-voting System: An E-voting System That Ensures Voter Confidentiality and Candidate Privacy,” Wiley Security and Communication Networks, DOI: 10.1002/sec.944, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 2335– 2344, Dec. 2014.
M. Taheri and N. Ansari, “Multi-power-level Energy Saving Management for Passive Optical Networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 965-973, 2014.
J. Liu, F. Liu, and N. Ansari, “Monitoring and Analyzing Big Traffic Data of a Large Scale Cellular Network with Hadoop,” IEEE Network, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 32-39, July/Aug. 2014.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “Enabling Mobile Traffic Offloading via Energy Spectrum Trading,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 3317-3328, June 2014.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “Offloading Mobile Traffic via Green Content Broker,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 161-170, Apr. 2014.
M. Yilmaz and N. Ansari, “Achieving Destination Differentiation in Ingress Aggregated Fairness for Resilient Packet Rings by Weighted Destination Based Fair Dropping,” Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 62, pp. 43-54, Apr. 2014.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “Powering Mobile Networks with Green Energy,” IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 90-96, Feb. 2014.
J. Liu and N. Ansari, “Identifying Website Communities in Mobile Internet Based on Affinity Measurement,” Elsevier Computer Communications, Vol. 41, pp. 22-30, 2014.
Y. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On Protocol-Independent Data Redundancy Elimination,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 455-472, First Quarter, 2014.
M. Taheri and N. Ansari, “A Feasible Solution to Provide Cloud Computing over Optical Networks,” IEEE Network, Vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 31-35, Nov./Dec. 2013.
Y. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Fair Quantized Congestion Notification in Data Center Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 61, no.11, pp. 4690-4699, Nov. 2013.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “On Optimizing Green Energy Utilization for Cellular Networks with Hybrid Energy Supplies,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 3872-3882, Aug. 2013.
J. Zhang, M. Taheri Hosseinabadi, and N. Ansari, “Standards-compliant EPON Sleep Control for Energy Efficiency: Design and Analysis,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks, Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 677-685, July 2013.
W. Shi, Z. Zhu, M. Zhang, and N. Ansari, “On the Effect of Bandwidth Fragmentation on Blocking Probability in Elastic Optical Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 61, No. 7, pp. 2970-2978, July 2013.
T. Han, N. Ansari, M. Wu, and H. Yu, “On Accelerating Content Delivery in Mobile Networks,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1314-1333, third quarter, 2013.
C-H. Lo and N. Ansari, “CONSUMER: A Novel Hybrid Intrusion Detection System for Distribution Networks in Smart Grid,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 33-44, June 2013.
C-H. Lo and N. Ansari, “Decentralized Controls and Communications for Autonomous Distribution Networks in Smart Grid,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 66 -77, March 2013.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “On Greening Cellular Networks via Multicell Cooperation,” IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 82-89, Feb. 2013.
W. Zhang, Q. Yin, H, Chen, F. Gao, and N. Ansari, “Distributed Angle Estimation for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 527-537, Feb. 2013.
Y. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On Architecture Design, Congestion Notification, TCP Incast and Power Consumption in Data Centers,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 39-64, First Quarter, 2013.
W. Liu, H. Nishiyama, N. Ansari, J. Yang, and N. Kato, “Cluster-based Certificate Revocation with Vindication Capability for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 239-249, Feb. 2013.
Z. Zhu, W. Lu, L. Zhang, and N. Ansari, “Dynamic Service Provisioning in Elastic Optical Networks with Hybrid Single-/Multi-Path Routing,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 15-22, Jan. 2013.
G. Wang, Y. Li, and N. Ansari, “A Semidefinite Relaxation Method for Source Localization Using TDOA and FDOA Measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 853-862, Feb. 2013.
Y. Zhang, N. Ansari, M. Wu, and H. Yu, “On Wide Area Network Optimization,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 14, No.4, pp. 1090-1113, Fourth Quarter 2012.
B. Fong, N. Ansari, and A.C.M. Fong, “Prognostics and Health Management for Wireless Telemedicine Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 83-89, Oct. 2012.
Y. Luo, F. Effenberger, and N. Ansari, “Time Synchronization over Ethernet Passive Optical Networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 136-141, October 2012.
C-H. Lo and N. Ansari, “Alleviating Solar Energy Congestion in the Distribution Grid via Smart Metering Communications,” IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Special Issue - Cyber Physical Systems 2012, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 1607-1620, Sep. 2012.
S. Prabhavat, H. Nishiyama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, “On Load Distribution over Multipath Networks,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 662-680, Third Quarter, 2012.
C-H. Lo and N. Ansari, “The Progressive Smart Grid System from Both Power and Communications Aspects,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 799-821, Third Quarter, 2012.
A.E.A.A. Abdulla, H. Nishiyama, J. Yang, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, “HYMN: A Novel hybrid Multi-hop Routing Algorithm to Improve the Longevity of WSNs,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 2531-2541, July 2012.
W. Yan and N. Ansari, “Anti-Virus In-the-Cloud Service: Are We Ready for the Security Evolution?” Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 572-582, June 2012.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “ICE: Intelligent Cell BrEathing to Optimize the Utilization of Green Energy,” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 866-869, June 2012.
H. Nishiyama, T. Ngo, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, “On Minimizing the Impact of Mobility on Topology Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1158-1166, March 2012.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On Preemptive Multi-wavelength Scheduling in Hybrid WDM/TDM Passive Optical Networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 238-247, Mar. 2012.
Z. Liu, H. Schurz, N. Ansari, and Q. Wang, “Theoretic Design of Differential Minimax Controllers for Stochastic Cellular Neural Networks,” Neural Networks, Vol. 26, pp. 110-117, Feb. 2012.
T. Ako, H. Nishiyama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, “A Novel Multi-Channel Streaming Scheme to Reduce Channel Switching Delay in Application Layer Multicast,” IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on Multimedia Communications Systems, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 545-554, Dec. 2011.
S. Prabhavat, H. Nishiyama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, “Effective Delay-Controlled Load Distribution over Multipath Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 22, No. 10, pp. 1730-1741, Oct. 2011.
H. Nakayama, Z.M. Fadlullah, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, “A Novel Scheme for WSAN Sink Mobility based on Clustering and Set Packing Techniques,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 56, No. 10, pp. 2381-2389, Oct. 2011.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, " Scheduling Hybrid WDM/TDM Passive Optical Networks with Non-zero Laser Tuning Time ," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1014-1027, August 2011.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, " On Assuring End-to-End QoE in Next Generation Networks: Challenges and a Possible Solution," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 185-192, July 2011.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On OFDMA Resource Allocation and Wavelength Assignment in OFDMA-based Radio-over-fiber Picocellular Systems with Wavelength Reuse,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Distributed Broadband Wireless Communications, Vol. 29, No.6, pp. 1273-1283, June 2011.
T. Han and N. Ansari, “Energy Efficient Wireless Multicasting,” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp.620-622, June 2011.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On the Capacity of WDM Passive Optical Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 552-559, Feb. 2011.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Towards Energy-efficient 1G-EPON and 10G-EPON with Sleep-aware MAC Control and Scheduling,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Feature on Advances in Passive Optical Networks, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. S33-S38, February 2011.
P. Sakarindr and N. Ansari, “Survey of Security Services on Group Communications,” IET Information Security, Special Issue on Multi-Agent & Distributed Information Security, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 258-272, Dec. 2010.
S. Yin and N. Ansari, “Non-Linear Predictor-Based Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation over Point-to-Multi-Point (P2MP) Networks: A Control Theoretical Approach,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks, Vol. 2, No. 12, pp. 1052-1062, Dec. 2010.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “An Application-oriented Fair Resource Allocation Scheme for EPON,” IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on Broadband Access Networks, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 424-431, Dec. 2010.
M. Yilmaz and N. Ansari, “Weighted Fairness and Correct Sizing of Secondary Transit Queue in Resilient Packet Rings,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks, Vol. 2, No. 11, pp. 944-951, Nov. 2010.
R. Machado, N. Ansari, G. Wang, and S. Tekinay, “Power Management Through Adaptive Density Control in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks,” IET Communications (formerly, IEE Proc. on Communications), Special Issue on Vehicular Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 758-767, April 30, 2010.
H. Nishiyama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, "Wireless Loss-Tolerant Congestion Control Protocol Designed by Dynamic AIMD Theory," IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 7-14, April 2010.
J. Zhang, N. Ansari, Y. Jin, and W. Hu, "Dichotomy Slot Allocation: A QoS Guaranteed Scheduling Algorithm for Input-Queued Switches," IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 74-83, 2010.
Y. Zhang, N. Ansari, and H. Tsunoda, "Wireless Telemedicine Services Over Integrated IEEE 802.11/WLAN and IEEE 802.16/WiMAX Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 30-36, Feb. 2010.
Z. Qin, R. Rojas-Cessa, and N. Ansari, "Task-Execution Scheduling Schemes for Network Measurement and Monitoring," Computer Communications, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 124-135, 15 February 2010.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, "Design of WDM PON with Tunable Lasers: the Upstream Scenario," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 228-236, Jan. 2010.
M. Miyao, H. Nakayama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, "LTRT: An Efficient and Reliable Topology Control Algorithm for Ad-Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, No. 12, pp. 6050-6058, December 2009.
J. Zhang and N. Ansari, "On Minimizing the AWG Cost and the Optical Cable Cost in Deploying WDM PONs," IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 352-365, October 2009.
E. Haghani, S. Parekh, D. Calin, E. Kim, and N. Ansari, "A Quality-driven Cross-layer Solution for MPEG Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 1140-1147, October 2009.
J. Zhang, N. Ansari, Y. Luo, F. Effenberger, and F. Ye, " Next-Generation PONs: A Performance Investigation of Candidate Architectures for Next-Generation Access Stage 1," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 8, pp. 49-57, August 2009.
A. Shevtekar and N. Ansari, " Is It Congestion or a DDoS Attack?" IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 546-548, July 2009.
M. Kobayashi, H. Nakayama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, " Robust and Efficient Stream Delivery for Application Layer Multicasting in Heterogeneous Networks," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 166-176, January 2009.
N. Ansari, G. Cheng, and N. Wang, "Routing-Oriented update SchEme (ROSE) for Link State Updating," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 948-956, June 2008.
N. Ansari, P. Sakarindr, E. Haghani, C. Zhang, A. K. Jain, and Y.Q. Shi, "Evaluating Electronic Voting Systems Equipped with Voter-Verified Paper Records," IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.30-39, May/June 2008.
T.N. Chang and N. Ansari, "Passband Control of Lightly Damped Systems with Mode Separation," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 2169-2176, May 2008.
Z. Ni, Y.Q. Shi, N. Ansari, W. Su, Q. Sun, and Xiao Lin, "Robust Lossless Image Data Hiding Designed for Semi-Fragile Image Authentication," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 497-509, April 2008.
A. Shevtekar and N. Ansari "A Router-Based Technique to Mitigate Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks," Computer Networks, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 957-970, Apr. 10, 2008.
N. Ansari, C. Zhang, R. Rojas-Cessa, S. De, P. Sakarindr, and E.S.H. Hou, "Networking for Critical Conditions," IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 73-81, April 2008.
Z. Wang, L. Liu, M. Zhou, and N. Ansari," A Position-Based Clustering Technique for Ad Hoc Intervehicle Communication," IEEE Trans. Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part C:Applications and Reviews, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 201-208, March 2008.
S. Yin, Y. Luo, L. Zong, S. Rago, J. Yu, N. Ansari, and T. Wang, " Storage Area Network Extension over Passive Optical Networks (S-PONs)," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 44-52, January 2008.
P. Sakarindr and N. Ansari, "Security Services in Group Communications over Wireless Infrastructure, Mobile Ad-Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 8-20,October 2007.
Y. Luo, S. Yin, N. Ansari, and T. Wang, "Resource Management for Broadband Access over TDM PONs," IEEE Network, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 20-27, Sep./Oct. 2007.
H. Nakayama, N. Ansari, A. Jamilipour, and N. Kato, "Fault-resilient sensing in wireless sensor networks," Computer Communications, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 2375-2384, September 10, 2007.
A. Belenky and N. Ansari, "On Deterministic Packet Marking," Computer Networks, Vol. 51, No. 10, pp. 2677-2700, July 11, 2007.
S. Yin, Y. Luo, N. Ansari, and T. Wang, "Stability of Predictor-Based Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation over EPONs," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 549-551, Jun. 2007.
Z. Gao and N. Ansari, "A Practical and Robust Inter-domain Marking Scheme for IP Traceback," Computer Networks, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 732-750, Feb. 21, 2007.
G. Cheng and N. Ansari, "Rate-distortion Based Link State Update," Computer Networks, Vol. 50, No. 17, pp. 3300-3314, Dec. 5, 2006.
Z. Gao and N. Ansari, "Differentiating Malicious DDoS Attack Traffic from Normal TCP Flows with Proactive Tests," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 10, No. 11, pp. 793-795, Nov. 2006.
D. Gozupek, S. Papavassiliou, and N. Ansari, "Enhancing Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Ad Hoc Networking Using Service Vector Paradigm," Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Wireless Ad hoc Networks: Technologies and Challenges, Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 1003-1015, Nov. 2006.
G. Cheng, N. Ansari, and L. Zhu, " Enhancing e-Approxmiation Algorithms With the Optimal Linear Scaling Factor," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp.1624-1632, Sep. 2006.
W. Yan, E.S.H. Hou, and N. Ansari, "Description Logics for an Autonomic IDS Event Analysis System," Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No. 15, pp 2841-2852, Sep. 5, 2006.
G. Cheng, L. Zhu, and N. Ansari, "A New Deterministic Traffic Model for Core-stateless Scheduling," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 704-713, April 2006.
J. Zeng, L. Zakrevski, and N. Ansari, "Computing the Loss Differentiation Parameters of the Proportional Differentiation Service Model," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 153, No. 2, pp. 177-182, April 2006.
F. Alharbi and N. Ansari,"SSA: simple scheduling algorithm for resilient packet
ring networks," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 153, No. 2, pp. 183-188, April 2006.
Z. Ni, Y.Q. Shi, N. Ansari, and W. Su, "Reversible Data Hiding," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 354-362, March 2006.
L. Zhu, N. Ansari, G. Cheng, and K. Xu, "Edge-based Active Queue Management (EAQM)," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 153, No. 1, pp. 55-60, February 2006.
G. Cheng and N. Ansari, "Finding a Least Hop(s) Path Subject to Multiple Additive Constraints," Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 392-401, 2006.
F. Alharbi and N. Ansari, "Distributed Bandwidth Allocation for Resilient Packet Ring Networks," Computer Networks, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 161-171, October 2005.
Y. Luo and N. Ansari, "LSTP for Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation and QoS Provisioning over EPONs," OSA Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, No. 9, pp. 561-572, September 2005.
Y. Luo and N. Ansari, "Survivable GMPLS Networks with QoS Guarantees," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 152, No. 4, pp. 427-431, August 2005
Z. Gao and N. Ansari, "Tracing Cyber Attacks from the Practical Perspective," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol.43, No. 5, pp.123-131, May 2005.
K. Xu and N. Ansari, "Stability and Fairness of Rate Estimation Based AIAD Congestion Control in TCP," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 378-380, April 2005.
A. Shevtekar, K. Anantharam, and N. Ansari, "Low Rate TCP Denial-of-Service Attack Detection at Edge Routers," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 363-365, April 2005.
Y. Tian, K. Xu, and N. Ansari, "TCP in Wireless Environments: Problems and Solutions," IEEE (Radio) Communications Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. S27 - S32 , March 2005.
J. Yang, J. Ye, S. Papavassiliou, and N. Ansari, "A Flexible and Distributed Architecture for Adaptive End-to-End QoS Provisioning in Next Generation Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 321-333, February 2005.
Y. Luo and N. Ansari, "Bandwidth Allocation for Multi-service Access on EPONs," IEEE (Optical) Communications Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. S16-S21, February 2005.
K. Xu, Y. Tian, and N. Ansari, "Improving TCP Performance in Integrated Wireless Communications Networks," Computer Networks, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 219-237, February 2005.
D. Wei and N. Ansari, "Implementing Fair Bandwidth Allocation Schemes in Hose-modelled VPN ," IEE Proc. on Communications, Vol. 152, No. 6, pp. 521-528, December 2004.
G. Cheng and N. Ansari, "An Information Theory Based Framework for Optimal Link State Update," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 8, No. 11, pp. 692-694, November 2004.
J. Liu and N. Ansari, "A New Control Architecture With Enhanced ARP, Burst-Based Transmission, and Hop-Based Wavelength Allocation for Ethernet-Supported IP-Over-WDM MANs," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 1419-1431, October, 2004.
B. Fong, N. Ansari, A.C.M. Fong, G.Y. Hong, and P.B. Rapajic, "On the Scalability of Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Network Deployment," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 42, No. 9, pp. S12-S18, September 2004
L. Zhu and N. Ansari, "Local Stability of a New Adaptive Queue (AQM) Management Scheme," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 406-408, June 2004.
K. Xu, Y. Tian, and N. Ansari, "TCP-Jersey for Wireless IP Communications," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 747-756, May 2004.
N. Ansari, G. Cheng, and Ram N. Krishnan, "Efficient and Reliable Link State Information Dissemination," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 317-319, May 2004.
G. Cheng and N. Ansari, "Finding All Hop(s) Shortest Path," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 122-124, February 2004.
Y. Luo and N. Ansari, "A Computational Model for Estimating Blocking Probabilities of Multifiber WDM Optical Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 60-62, January 2004.
L. Zhu, G. Cheng and N. Ansari, "Local stable condition for random exponential marking," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 150, No. 5, pp. 367-370, October 2003.
J. Liu, N. Ansari and T. Ott, "FRR for Latency Reduction and QoS Provisioning in OBS Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 1210-1219, September 2003.
A. Belenky and N. Ansari, "On IP Traceback," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 41, No.7, pp. 142-153, July 2003.
A. Belenky and N. Ansari, "IP Traceback with Deterministic Packet Marking," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 162-164, April 2003.
J. Zeng and N. Ansari, "Towards IP Virtual PrivateNetwork (VPN) Quality of Service: A Service Provider Perspective," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 113-119, April 2003.
G. Cheng, Y. Tian and N. Ansari, "A New QoS Routing Framework for Solving MCP," Special Issue on Internet Technology, IEICE Trans. on Communications, Vol. E86-B, No. 2, pp. 534-541, Feb. 2003.
D. Wei, Y. Jie, N. Ansari and S. Papavassiliou, "Cell-based Schedulers with Dual-rate Grouping," Special Issue on Internet Technology, IEICE Trans. on Communications, Vol. E86-B, No. 2, pp. 637-645, Feb. 2003.
D. Wei, Y. Jie, N. Ansari and S. Papavassiliou, " Guaranteeing Service Rates for Cell-based Schedulers with a Grouping Architecture," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 150, No. 1, pp. 1-5, Feb. 2003.
L. Zhu, G. Cheng and N. Ansari, "On The Delay Bound of Youngest Serve First Aggregated Packet Scheduling," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 150, No. 1, pp. 6-10, Feb 2003.
H. Zhao, N. Anari and Y.Q. Shi, "Efficient Predictive Bandwidth Allocation for Real Time Videos," IEICE Trans. on Communications, Vol. E86-B, No. 1, pp. 443-450, Jan. 2003.
G. Cheng and N. Ansari, "On Multiple Additively Constrained Path Selection," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 149, No. 5, pp.237-241, Oct. 2002.
N. Ansari, H. Liu, Y.Q. Shi and H. Zhao, "On Modeling MPEG Video Traffics," IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 337-347, December 2002.
J. Li and N. Ansari, "Credit-Based Scheduling Algorithms for Input Queued Switches," IEICE Trans. Communications, Vol. E85-B, No. 9, pp. 1698-1705, Sep. 2002.
J. Zeng and N. Ansari, "Virtual Queue Occupancy and Its Applications on Periodic Bandwidth On Demand Schemes for IP/SONET," IEICE Trans. Communications, Vol. E85-B, No. 9, pp. 1749-1755, Sep. 2002.
Y. Luo and N. Ansari, "Restoration with Wavelength Conversion in WDM Networks ," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 38, No. 16, pp. 900-901, 2002.
J. Bang, N. Ansari and S. Tekinay, "Performance Analysis of an ATM MUX with a New Space Priority Mechanism under ON-OFF Processes," Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 128-135, June 2002.
J. Lin and N. Ansari, "Enhanced Birkhoff-von Neumann Decomposition Algorithm for Input Queued Switches," IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 148, No. 6, pp. 339-342, 2001.
D. Liu, N. Ansari, and E.S.H. Hou, "A Novel Fairness Criterion for Allocating Resources in Input Queued Switches," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 37, No. 19, pp. 1205-1206, 2001.
H. Liu, N. Ansari and Y.Q. Shi, "Modeling MPEG Coded Video Traffic by Markov-Modulated Self-Similar Processes," Journal of VLSI Signal Processing (special issue on Multimedia Signal Processing), Vol. 29, pp. 101-113, 2001.
L.C. Zhong, Z. Siveski, R.E. Kamel and N. Ansari, " Adaptive Multiuser CDMA Detector for Asynchronous AWGN Channels - Steady State and Transient Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 8, No. 9, pp. 1541-1549, September 2000.
A. Arulambalam, X. Chen and N. Ansari, "Impact of Per-VC and Single FIFO Queuing on ABR Congestion Control," Computer Systems, Science & Engineering. Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 275-282, September 1999.
H. Liu, N. Ansari and Y.Q. Shi, "An Accurate Analytical Model for MPEG Coded Video Traffic," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 17, pp. 1449-1450, Aug. 18, 1999.
J. Li and N. Ansari, "Scheduling Input-Queued Switches by Shadow Departure Time Algorithm," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 14, pp. 1127-1128, July 8, 1999.
J.-H. Lin, N. Ansari and J. Li, "Nonlinear Filtering by Threshold Decomposition," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 925-933, July 1999.
G. Wang and N. Ansari, "Searching for Optimal Frame Patterns in an Integrated TDMA Communication System Using Mean Field Annealing," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 1292-1299, Nov. 1998.
S. Li and N. Ansari, "Provisioning QoS Features for Input-Queued ATM Switches," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 34, No. 19, pp. 1826-1827, Sep. 17, 1998.
L. An, N. Ansari and A. Arulambalam, "TCP/IP Traffic over ATM Networks with FMMRA ABR Flow and Congestion Control," Computer Networks and ISDN, vol. 29, pp. 2091-2102, 1998.
J. Chen and N. Ansari, " Adaptive Fusion of Correlated Local Decisions," IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 276-281, May 1998.
I. Sohn and N. Ansari, "Configuring RBF Neural Networks," IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 684-685, 2nd April 1998.
N. Ansari, J. Chen and Y. Zhang, "Adaptive Decision Fusion for Unequiprobable Sources," IEE Proceedings Radar, Sonar and Navigation, vol. 144, no. 3, pp. 105-111, June 1997.
G. Wang and N. Ansari, "Optimal Broadcast Scheduling in Packet Radio Networks Using Mean Field Annealing," special issue on Computational and Artificial Intelligence in High Speed Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 250-260, Feb. 1997.
A. Arulambalam, X. Chen and N. Ansari, "Allocating Fair Rates for Available Bit Rate Services in ATM Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 92-100, Nov. 1996.
Z.Z. Zhang and N. Ansari, "Structure and Properties of the Generalized Adaptive Neural Filters for Signal Enhancement," IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 857-868, Jul. 1996.
H. Hanek and N. Ansari, "Speeding-up the Generalized Adaptive Neural Filters," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 705-712, May 1996.
N. Ansari, A. Arulambalam and S. Balasekar, "Traffic Management of a Satellite Communication Network Using Stochastic Optimization," IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 732-744, May 1996.
N. Ansari, E.S.H. Hou, B. Zhu and J. Chen, "Adaptive Fusion by Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Detection Systems," IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 524-531, Apr. 1996.
J. Chen, N. Ansari and Z. Siveski, "Distributed Detection for Cellular CDMA," IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 169-171, Feb. 1996.
B. Zhu, N. Ansari and Z. Siveski, "Convergence and Stability Analysis of a Synchronous Adaptive CDMA Receiver," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 3073-3079, Dec. 1995.
N. Ansari and D. Liu, "The Performance Evaluation of a New Neural Network Based Traffic Management Scheme for a Satellite Communication Network," Neurocomputing, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 263-282, 1995.
N. Ansari, E. S. H. Hou and Y. Yu, "A New Method to Optimize the Satellite Broadcasting Schedules Using the Mean Field Annealing of a Hopfield Neural Network," IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 470-483, March 1995.
E.S.H. Hou, N. Ansari, and H. Ren, " A Genetic Algorithm for Multiprocessor Scheduling," IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 113-120, February 1994.
R. Schuster, N. Ansari, and A. Banihashemi, " Steering a Robot with Vanishing Points," IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 491-498, 1993.
N. Ansari and E. J. Delp, " Partial Shape Recognition: A Landmark-Based Approach," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 470-483, May 1990.

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