Recent Publications

Abdullah, M., and Simon, R., “Analysis of Core-Assisted Routing in Opportunistic Networks,” to appear in IEEE MASCOTS, Istanbul. Turkey, October 2007.

Alnifie, G., and Simon, R., “Multi-channel data exfiltration: a defense against wireless jamming attacks,” to appear in ACM International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet 2007), Crete, Greece, October 2007.

Abdullah, M., and Simon, R., “Characteristics of Common Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networks,”, to appear in ACM PM2HW2N 2007, Crete, Greece, October 2007

Rabinovich, P, and Simon, R., “Secure Aggregation in Sensor Networks using Neighborhood Watch,” IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007.

Abdullah, M., and Simon, R., “The Impact of the Mobility Model on Delay Tolerant Networking Performance Analysis,” IEEE Simulation Symposium 2007, Norfolk, VA, March 2007.

Rabinovich, R., and Simon, R. “Routing for Secure and Reliable Publish-Subscribe Systems,” International Journal of Security and Networks,, Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 60 – 70, Feb. 2007

   Abdulla, M., and Simon, R., "A Simulation Analysis of  Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks,"Winter Simulation Conference 2006, Monterry, CA, December 2006

Chang, W., and Simon, R., “Congestion-based Pricing for Multi-Service Networks,”  Simulation,  Vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 331-344, May 2006

Farrugia, E., and Simon, R., “An Efficient and Secure Protocol for Sensor Network Time Synchronization,” Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 79, no. 2, February 2006, pp. 147-162.

Simon, R., Huang, L., Farrugia, E., and Setia, S., “Using multiple communication channels for efficient data dissemination in wireless sensor networks,” IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor System (MASS ’05), Washington, D.C., Nov. 2005.

Rabinovich, P, and Simon, R., “Secure Message Delivery in Publish/Subscribe Networks,” IEEE GlobeCom, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2005.

Mundur, P., Sood, A., and Simon, R., “Threshold-based admission control in Video-on-Demand Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 15, No. 7, July 2005, pp. 844 – 853.

Pullen, J.M., Simon, R, and McAndrews, P, “An Online Graduate Computer Science Program Delivered via Simulteaching,” Advanced Technology for Learning, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2005, pp. 148-155.

Pullen, J. M., and Simon, R., “Presenting an online graduate computer science program at low cost using open-source software,” IFIP World Conferences on Computers in Education (WCCE ’05), Cape Town, South Africa, July 2005.

Khunboa, C., and Simon, R., “Supporting Interactive Publish-Subscribe Applications in a Mobile Ad-hoc Environment,” IASTED Networks and Communication Systems (NCS 2005) Conference, Krabi, Thailand, April 2005.

Chang, Woan Son and Simon, R., “Performance Analysis for Multi-Service Networks with Congestion-based Pricing,” IEEE Simulation Symposium, San Diego, Ca. April 2005

Simon, R., “Middleware,” book chapter, pp. 603-613, Internet Encyclopedia, H. Bidgoli, editor, John Wiley and Sons, 2004.

Simon, R., Chang, Woan Sun, and Pullen, M, “Using Composable Simulation Agents in the Presence Of Network Overload,” Fall 2004 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, September, 2004, Orlando, FL.

Jukic, B., Simon, R., and Chang, W., ``Congestion Based Resource Sharing in Multi-Service Networks,’’ Decision Support Systems, Vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 397-413, June 2004.

Mundur, P., Simon, R., and Sood, A. ``End-to-End Analysis of Distributed Video-on-Demand Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 129-141. Feb. 2004.

Simon, R., Chang, Woan Sun, and Pullen, M, “Using Distributed Agents to Improve the Efficiency of End-Host Multicast,” Spring 2004 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, April, 2004, Arlington, VA. (BEST PAPER AWARD).

Khunboa, C., and Simon, R., “Mobile Ad Hoc Multicasting to Support Distributed Virtual Environments,” IEEE IPCCC Workshop on Multihop Wireless Networks ’04, Phoenix, Az., April 2004, pp. 653-660.

Chang, Woan Sun. and Simon, R., “End-host multicasting in support of distributed real-time simulation systems,” IEEE Annual Simulation Symposium ’04, Washington, D.C., pp. 7 – 14, April 2004 .

Simon, R., and Farrugia, E., “Topology-transparent support for sensor networks,” European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (LCNS 2920), Berlin, Germany, pp. 122-137, Jan. 2004.

Ciucu, F., Mark, B., and Simon, R., “End-to-end Multiplexing Gain for Networks with Deterministic Delay Guarantees,” IEEE GlobeCom 2003, pp. 2977-2981, December, 2003, San Francisco.

Simon, R., Pullen, M.., and Chang, Woan Sun, “An agent architecture for network support of distributed simulation systems,” Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DSRT) October 2003, pp. 68-75, Delft, The Netherlands.

Pullen, M., Simon, R., Zhao, F., and Chang, Woan Sun, “NGI-FOM over RTI-NG and SMRP: Lessons Learned,” 2003 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, September, 2003, Orlando, Florida.

Nolan, J., Sood, A., and Simon, R., “SADISCO: A Scalable Agent Discovery and Composition Mechanism,” Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Dec. 2002, Santiago, Chile, pp. 519-528.

Gerasimov, I., and Simon, R., “Performance Analysis for Ad Hoc QoS Routing Protocols,” IEEE MASCOTS Mobility and Wireless Access Workshop (MobiWAC), October, 2002, Forth Worth, Texas, pp. 87 – 94..

Pullen, J.M, Simon, R., Khunboa, C., Parupalli, M. and Brutzman, D., “A Next-Generation Internet Federation Object Model for the HLA,” Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DSRT) October 2002, Fort Worth, Texas, pp. 43 – 49.

Pullen, J.M., and Simon, R., “Selectively Reliable Multicast for the HLA,” Fall 2002 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, Florida, September 2002.

Nolan, J., Sood, A., and Simon, R., “Discovering and Composing Distributed Atomic Agents for Imagery and Geospatial Problem Solving,” International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), Vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 995-1019, December 2002.

Gerasimov, I., and Simon, R., “Communication Support for Tightly-coupled Distributed Mobile Applications,” International Journal of Simulation, Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 23-40, August 2002.

Mundur, P., Simon, R., and Sood, A., ``A Multi-rate Model for Distributed Video-on-Demand Systems,'' Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 51-75, May 2002.

Simon, R., and Rabinovich, P., ``Design and Analysis of a Multicast Simulator,'' Software Practice and Experience, Vol. 32, no. 1, pp 1-23, January 2002.

Ciucu, F., Mark, B, and Simon, R., “A Partially-Stopped Leaky Bucket,” International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2002), San Diego, CA, July 14 – 18^th 2002.

Nolan, James J., Sood, Arun K. and Simon, Robert. “Composing and Deploying Distributed Applications Using a Semantic Service Discovery Mechanism,” The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'02). June 24-27, 2002. Las Vegas, NV.

Gerasimov, I., and Simon, R., “A Bandwidth-Reservation Mechanism for On-demand Ad Hoc Path Finding,” IEEE/SCS 35th Annual Simulation Symposium, San Diego, CA, April 2002,14^th to 18^th, pp. 27-33

Simon, R., Jukic, B., and Chang, W., “Simple and Efficient Pricing Mechanisms for Multi-service Networks,” IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference, Tampa, Florida, November 14-16, 2001.

Nolan, J. Simon, R., and Sood, A., ``An atomic approach to agent-based imagery and geospatial problem solving,'' ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2001, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, 2001.

Simon, R., Nolan, J., and Sood, A., ``A Light-Weight Agent Architecture for Collaborative Multimedia Systems,'' Information Sciences: an International Journal, vol. 140, no. 1-2, pp. 53-84, December 2001.

Znati, T., Simon, R., and Alrabiah, T, "A Network Level Framework for Synchronization Guarantees of Multimedia Streams", International Journal of Computers and their Applications, vol. 8, no. 3, September, 2001, pp. 157-169.

Nolan, J. Simon, R., and Sood, A., ``An Agent-based Approach to Imagery Geospatial Computing,'' ACM Agents 2001 (poster paper), Montreal, Canada, May 2001, pp. 228-229.

Khunboa, C., and Simon, R., ``On the Performance of Coordination Spaces for Distributed Agent Systems,’’ IEEE 34th Annual Simulation Symposium, Phoenix, AZ, April 2001, pp. 7 – 14.

Simon, R., White, E., and Boucher, J., ``Evaluation of Real-time CORBA ORBS,’’ Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Conference, Phoenix, AZ., January 2001, pp. 157 - 163.

Older Publications

Simon, R., and Znati, T., ``Performance Analysis of Routing and Channel Establishment Procedures for Multimedia Communication,’’ International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, vol. 3, no. 2, May 2000, pp. 82 - 94.

Mundur, P., Simon, R., and Sood, A., ``A Multi-rate Service Model for Distributed Video-on-Demand Systems,’’ IASTED International Conference Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, November 19-23, 2000, pp. 186-191, Las Vegas, NV.

Nolan, J., Sood, A., and Simon, R., ``An Intelligent Agent-based Architecture for Distributed Imagery and Geospatial Computing,'' IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) workshop, Washington, D.C., October 2000, pp. 252-258.

Simon, R., Chang, W., and Jukic, B ``Network Route Pricing: A QoS-based Model,'' IEEE Eighth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2000), August, 2000, San Francisco CA, pp. 457-466.

Simon, R., Jukic, B., and Chang, W., ``Optimal Resource Allocation for Multi-Service Networks,’’ IEEE 33st Annual Simulation Symposium, Washington, D.C., April 2000, pp. 33-42.

Simon, R., Sood, A., and Mundur, P., ``A Framework for QoS Verification in Media-on-Demand Systems,'' in Fifth Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS'2000), Invited Paper, Atlantic City, February 2000, pp. 549-553.

White, E., and Simon, R. ``Adapter-based Dynamic Integration for Real-time Communication,’’ Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Conference, San Diego, CA, January 2000, pp. 39-44.

Simon, R., Sood, A., and Mundur, P., ``Network Service Selection in Distributed Multimedia Systems,’’ 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, 1999. September 23 - 26, 1999, pp. 388 - 392.

Simon, R., ``Predictable Path Establishment in Multimedia Communication Networks,’’ in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Florence, Italy, June, 1999, pp. 289-295.

Mundur, P., Simon, R., and Sood, A., ``Integrated Admission Control in Hierarchical Video-on-Demand Systems,’’ in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems 1999, pp. 388 - 393.

Mundur, P., Simon, R., and Sood, A., ``End-to-end Request Handling in Distributed Video-on-Demand Systems,” Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Conference, San Francisco, CA, January 1999, pp. 151 - 157.

Simon, R., Mundur, P., and Sood, A., ``Access Policies for Distributed VoD Systems,'' Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Special Issue on Communication, 85(2). December 1998, pp. 155 - 176.

Simon, R. and Znati, T., ``A Probabilistic Analysis of Admission Control in Real-time Networks,'' IEEE 31st Annual Simulation Symposium, Boston, MA April 1998, pp. 110 - 118.

Mundur, P., Sood, A., and Simon, R., ``Threshold-based Admission Control for Multi-class VoD Systems,’’ IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), February 1998, Phoenix, Arizona, pp. 154 - 160.

Simon, R., and Sood, A, ``Load-balanced Routing for Collaborative Multimedia Communication,’’ IEEE High Performance Distributed Systems '97, August 1997, Portland, Oregon, pp. 81 – 91.

Simon, R., ``Peer-to-peer Communication Protocols for Interactive Multimedia Applications'', Pacific Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, July, 1997, Vancover, B.C, pp. 110 -117.

Simon, R., ``Packet Scheduling for Multimedia Traffic in a Resource-Partitioned Network,'' IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium Workshop on Resource Allocation, Washington, D.C., December 1996.

Sclabassi, R., Krieger, D., Simon, R., Lofink, R., Gross, G., DeLauder, D., ``NeuroNet: A Collaborative System for Intraoperative Guidance and Control,'' IEEE Computer Graphics, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 1996, pp. 39-45.

Simon, R., Znati, T., and Sclabassi, R., ``Path Establishment of Multimedia Calls based on Evolutionary Computing,'' Pacific Distributed Multimedia Systems Workshop '96, Kowloon, Hong Kong, June 25-28, 1996, pp. 10 - 19.

Simon, R., Znati, T., and Sclabassi, R., ``XCAP: A Multistream Routing Algorithm for Multimedia Traffic,’’ IEEE 1996 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, June 17-21, 1996. .

Simon, R., Znati, T., and Sclabassi, R., ``Real-time Multistream Routing over Integrated Services Networks,'' SPIE Multimedia Networks and Computing '96, San Jose, CA., January 28 - Feb 2 1996, pp. 336-343.

Simon, R., Znati, T., and Sclabassi, R., ``DIPCS: An Interprocess Communication Architecture for Distributed Multimedia Systems,” Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 3, September 1995, pp. 263-293.

Simon, R., Krieger, D., Znati, T., Lofink, R., and Sclabassi, R., ``MultiMedia MedNet: A Medical Diagnosis and Consultation System,’’ IEEE Computer, Vol 28, No. 5, May 1995, pp. 65-73.

Simon, R., Znati, T., and Sclabassi, R., ``A Framework for Call Establishment and Routing in Multimedia Communication Networks,'' Pacific Distributed Multimedia Systems Workshop '95, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31 - April 2, 1995, pp. 162-169.

Simon, R., Sclabassi, R., and Znati, T., ``Communication Control in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Systems," in ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work '94, Raleigh, N.C., October 24-26, 1994, pp. 311-322.

Simon, R., Znati, T., and Sclabassi, R., ``Group Communication in Distributed Multimedia Systems,'' in 14th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, June 21-24, 1994, Poznan, Poland, pp. 294-301.

Simon, R., and Znati, T., ``Routing and Path Establishment in Integrated Networks for Distributed Multimedia," in Proceedings of the 1994 Pacific Distributed Multimedia Systems Workshop, February, 1994, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 131-148.

Simon, R., Znati, T., and Sclabassi, R., ``Group Communication in Multimedia Mednet,'' IEEE Proceedings of Real-Time System Symposium Workshop on Real-time and Multimedia, November, 1993, Durham, North Carolina, pp. 114 - 120.

Znati, T., Simon, R., and Sclabassi, R., ``Communication and Synchronization Support for Distributed Multimedia Systems,'' in ACM Multimedia '93 Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Applications, August 1993, Anaheim, California, pp. 137-141.