Uyen Trang Nguyen

Research Interests

• Mobile ad-hoc networks and wireless mesh networks: routing, multirate-aware routing, multicasting, medium access control , quality of service support, video transmission, security, transport issues, applications.
• Wireless sensor networks: routing, localization, medium access control, security, applications.
• Multipoint communications in IP and broadband networks: multicast routing, flow/congestion control, quality of service g uarantees.
• Video multicast and multimedia applications.

Curriculum Vitae

Assessment criteria with respect to Professional Contribution and Standing (research contribution)

Publications

Papers in Journals and Magazines

1. Lan Nguyen and U.T. Nguyen, "A Study of Different Types of Attacks on Multicast in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks," accepted and to appear in Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks.
2. U.T. Nguyen and Jin Xu, "Multicast Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks: Minimum Cost Trees or Shortest Path Trees?" accepted and to appear in the November 2007 issue of IEEE Communications, special issue on Wireless Mesh Networks. [more comprehensive version]

Journal Papers in Preparation

• U.T. Nguyen and Jin Xu, "Multicast Routing Approaches in Wireless Mesh Networks," to be submitted to ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review.
• U.T. Nguyen and Xing Xiong, "Rate-adaptive Multicast in Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks," extended version of WiMob'05 and MASS'06 papers, to be submittted to Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks.
• U.T. Nguyen, "Effectiveness and Performance of Flow Control Algorithms for ABR Multipoint Services,"journal version of ICCS'04 and ISCC'04 papers, to be submitted to Elsevier Journal of Performance Evaluation.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. U.T. Nguyen, Amir Asif, and Xing Xiong, "Multirate-aware Multicast Routing in MANETs," IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems 2006 (MASS '06), Vancouver, Canada, October 2006.
2. Amir Asif, U.T. Nguyen, and Guohua Xu, "Scalable Video Multicast over MANETs," IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2006 (MMSP '06), Victoria, BC, Canada, October 2006.
3. Foroohar Foroozan, and U.T. Nguyen, "ID-Based Clustering in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks," Sixth ACM Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006 (GHC '06), San Diego, California, October 2006.
4. Xing Xiong, U.T. Nguyen and Lan Nguyen, "Preemptive Multicast Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks," Fifth IEEE International Conference on Networking 2006 (ICN '06), Mauritius, April 2006.
5. Lan Nguyen and U.T. Nguyen, "Study of Different Types of Attacks on Multicast in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Fifth IEEE International Conference on Networking 2006 (ICN '06), Mauritius, April 2006.
6. U.T. Nguyen and Xing Xiong, "Rate-adaptive Multicast in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks," IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications 2005 (WiMob 2005), Montreal, Canada, August 2005.
7. Van Ngo and U.T. Nguyen, "Rate-based Congestion Control for Tree-based Reliable Multicast," 18th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '05), Saskatoon, Canada, May 2005.
8. Amir Asif, U.T. Nguyen, Frank Xu and Bin Song, "Streaming Video with Bandwidth Adaptation and Error Concealment for Low Bit Rate Live Wireless Applications," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '05), March 2005.
9. U.T. Nguyen, "Effective Flow Control for ABR Multipoint-to-multipoint Services," Ninth IEEE Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS '04), Singapore, September 2004.
10. U.T. Nguyen, "Evaluation of Flow Control Algorithms for ABR Multipoint Services," Ninth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '04), Alexandria, Egypt, June 2004.
11. U.T. Nguyen and I. Katzela, "Loss Recovery at the ATM Layer for Latency-Constrained Reliable Multicast," Second IEEE European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks 2002 (ECUMN '02), Colmar, France, April 2002.
12. U.T. Nguyen and I. Katzela, "A Flexible Multipoint-to-Point Traffic Control Algorithm for ABR Services in ATM Networks," IEEE Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing 2000, Heidelberg, Germany, June 2000.
13. U. Nguyen, H. Hosseini, and L. Tao, "A Performance Debugger for Parallel Programs Running on Wormhole-Routed Multicomputers," International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications '95, Athens, Georgia, November 1995, pp. 698-707.
14. U. Nguyen, H. Hosseini, L. Tao, and T. Bui, "Mappings Minimizing Contention in Wormhole-Routed Networks," International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications '95, Athens, Georgia, November 1995, pp. 501-510. [extended version]
15. H. Hosseini, U. Nguyen, L. Tao, and T. Bui, "Contracting Processes in Virtual Architecture Programs," International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications '95, Athens, Georgia, November 1995, pp. 708-717.
16. U. Nguyen, H. Hosseini, and L. Tao, "Contention Minimization in Regular Wormhole-Routed Networks," High Performance Computing Symposium '95, Montreal, Quebec, July 1995, p. 454 and poster.
17. L. Tao, H. Hosseini, U. Nguyen, T. Li, and S. Klasa, "Parallel task assignment on bus-based workstation clusters," Supercomputing Symposium '94, Toronto, Ontario, June 1994, pp. 398-408.
18. L. Tao, H. Hosseini, U. Nguyen, and T. Li, "Delayed many-to-one mapping in distributed memory architectures," Supercomputing Symposium '94, Toronto, Ontario, June 1994, pp. 312-319.

Conference Papers in Preparation

• U.T. Nguyen and Jin Xu, "Reliable Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks".
• Lan Nguyen and U.T. Nguyen, "Security Enhancement for Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks".
• Celia Li and U.T. Nguyen, "Key Management for Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks".
• U.T. Nguyen, Van Ngo and Xing Xiong, "Congestion Control for Multicast in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks".

Last updated: Jan. 28, 2007