PROTOCOL ENGINEERING

Some Topics

1. General concepts
2. Modeling
3. Design, synthesis
4. Simulation of protocols
5. Modular composition, configuration, on-line configuration
6. Evolution/development of protocols
7. Forecasting of protocols
8. Combinatorial optimization problems in protocol engineering (e.g., routing, spanning trees, assignment/allocation, scheduling)
9. Anycast, multicast, unicast, broadcast communication flows (routing)
10. Server selection procedures
11. Application domains

Research Groups

  • PERC: Protocol Engineering Research Center (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Center for Wireless Communications (Prof. Anthony S. Acampora; Univ. of California, San Diego)
  • Berkeley Wireless Research Center (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
  • Protocol Engineering Lab. (Prof. Paul Amer, Univ. of Delaware)
  • Protocol Engineering Center (Electronic & Telecommunication Research Inst. ETRI)
  • Center for Disctributed and Mobile Computing CDMC, Univ. of Cincinnati (Dr. Dharma P. Agrawal)
  • Dr. Nikil Jayant (Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunication Technology GCATT, Georgia Inst. of Technology)
  • Prof. Kenneth P. Birman (Dept. of CS, Cornell Univ.)
  • School of Information Technology and Engineering (Univ. of Ottawa):
    (i) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Research Group,
    (ii) Computer Communication Network Research Group (CCNR), etc.
  • Lab. of Communication and Networking, CS Dept., Technion
  • Networking Group, CS Dept., Technion (Prof. Reuven Cohen)
  • Research Lab. for Network Protocols, Distributed Processing and Simulation (CS & Software Eng. Dept., Univ. of Canterbury)
  • Telecommunication Technologies, (Yuri A. Semenov, Inst. for Theoretical & Experimental Physics, in Russian)
  • Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Dept. of CS, Columbia Univ.
  • Wireless Network Laboratory (WINET) (Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang, University of Florida)
  • Prof. B.S. Manoj, Avionics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Tehcnology
  • Prof. David B. Johnson, Protocols for Wireless and Mobile Networking (The Rice Univ. Monarch Research Group), Dept. of CS, Rice University

    Journals

  • Telecommunication Systems (Springer)
  • IEEE Trans. on Computers
  • IEEE Trans. on Communications
  • IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Communication Magazine
  • IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking
  • IEEE Network
  • IEEE Personal Communications
  • IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology
  • Computer Networks (Elsevier)
  • Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Wireless Networks
  • Computer Communications (Elsevier)
  • J. of Networks and Computers
  • J. of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier)
  • Int. J. of Network Management
  • J. of Network and Systems Management
  • Int. J. of Agent-Oriented Software
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Int. J. of Communication Systems
  • Informatica (Lith.) (IOS Press)
  • Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics (Springer)

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  • Special Journal Issues
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    2. IEEE Communication Magazine, Special issue "Cross-Layer Protocol Engineering for Wireless Mobile Networks: Part 1." 2005.
    3. IEEE Communication Magazine, Special Issue "Cross-Layer Protocol Engineering for Wireless Mobile Networks: Part 2." January 2006.

  • Surveys
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  • Electronic Preprints
    1. Levin M.Sh., A. Andrushevich, R. Kistler, A. Klapproth,
    Combinatorial evolution and forecasting of communication protocol ZigBee. Electronic preprint. 6 pp., April 15, 2012.
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3259 [cs.NI]

  • Technical Reports
    1. S. Bhattacharjee, M.H. Ammar, E.W. Zegura, V. Shah, Z. Fei, Application-Layer Anycast. GIT-CC-96/25, College of Computing, Georgia Inst. of Technology, 1996.

  • PhD Dissertations
    1. Lixia Zhang, A New Architecture for Packet Switching Network Protocols. PhD Thesis, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, MIT, 1989.
    2. O.D. Incel, Multi-Channel Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols, Design and Evaluation. PhD Thesis, Univ. of Twente, March 2009.
    3. Olga Zlydareva, Reconfiguable and Reprogrammable Multi-Standard Mobile Terminal Baseband Level Based on Software Defined Radio Module for WiMAX and UMTS Protocols. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Trento, Italy, 2009.

  • MS Theses
    1. S. Doi, Design, implementation and evaluation of routing protocols for IPv6 anycast communicaiton. MS thesis, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka Univ., Feb. 2004.