Publications
(Links to only journal and full conference publications are provided below. In case a journal or a more complete version of a conference paper exists, the conference paper points to the corresponding journal/more complete version. If you are interested in the the conference paper manuscript in those cases, or if you would like to have a copy of any conference abstract or short paper, please send me an email.)
Book Chapters
- N. Jaggi, K. Kar, A. Krishnamurthy, ``Distributed Activation Policies in Rechargeable Sensor Networks’’, Book Chapter, G. Aggelou (ed.), Handbook of Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networking, McGraw-Hill International, New York, 2007.
- R. Iyengar, K. Kar, B. Sikdar, X. Luo, ``Scheduling Algorithms for OFDMA based WiMAX Systems with QoS Constraints’’, Book Chapter, S. A. Ahson et al. (ed.), WiMAX: Technologies, Performance Analysis and QoS, CRC Press, 2007.
Journal Publications
- K. Kar, M. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, Minimum
Interference Routing of Bandwidth Guaranteed Tunnels with MPLS Traffic
Engineering Applications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, Vol. 18, No. 12, December 2000.
- K. Kar, S. Sarkar, L. Tassiulas, A
Scalable, Low-Overhead Rate Control
for Multirate Multicast Sessions, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, Vol.
20, No. 8, October 2002, pp. 1541-1557.
- K. Kar, M. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, Routing
Restorable Bandwidth Guaranteed Connections Using Maximum 2-route Flows,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, Vol. 11,
No. 5, October 2003, pp. 772-781.
- K. Kar, T. V. Lakshman, D. Stiliadis, L. Tassiulas, Scheduling
Algorithms for Optical Packet Fabrics, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 7, September 2003, pp.
1143-1155.
- K. Kar, S. Sarkar, L. Tassiulas, Achieving
Proportionally Fair Rates using Local
Information in Aloha Networks, IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, Vol . 49, No. 10, October 2004, pp. 1858-1862.
- S. Banerjee, C. Kommareddy,
K. Kar, B. Bhattacharjee, S. Khuller,
OMNI: An Efficient Infrastructure for Real-time Applications, Computer Networks Journal, Vol.50, No. 6, pp. 826-841, April 2006.
- K. Kar, A. Krishnamurthy and N. Jaggi, Dynamic Node Activation in Networks of Rechargeable Sensors, IEEE/ACM Transactions in Networking, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 15-26, February 2006.
- K. Kar and L. Tassiulas, Layered Multicast Rate Control based on Lagrangian Relaxation and Dynamic Programming, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 1464-1474, August 2006.
- X. Wang and K. Kar, Cross-Layer Rate Optimization in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Random Access, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 1548-1559, August 2006.
- V. Sharma, K. Kar, R. La and L. Tassiulas, Dynamic Network Provisioning for Time-Varying Traffic, To appear in Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2007.
- P. Chaporkar, K. Kar, X. Luo and S. Sarkar, Throughput and Fairness Guarantees Through Maximal Scheduling in Wireless Networks, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 2, February 2008.
- N. Jaggi, K. Kar and A. Krishnamurthy, Near-optimal Activation Policies in Rechargeable Sensor Networks under Spatial Correlations, Accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, September 2007.
- N. Jaggi, K. Kar and A. Krishnamurthy, Rechargeable Sensor Activation under Temporal Correlations, Accepted for publication in Wireless Networks, September 2007.
- R. Iyengar, K. Kar and S. Banerjee, Low-Coordination Topologies for Redundancy in Sensor Networks, Accepted for publication in International Journal of Sensor Networks, November 2007.
- K. Kar, X. Luo and S. Sarkar, Throughput-optimal Scheduling in Multichannel Access Point Networks under Time-Varying Channel Rates, Submitted, December 2006; Revised, December 2007.
- Q. Dong, V. Shrivastava, A. Shukla, D. Agrawal, S. Banerjee and K. Kar, Load Balancing in Large-Scale RFID Systems, Submitted, March 2007; Revised, September 2007.
- S. Sarkar and K. Kar, Queue Length Stability under Slowly Convergent Traffic using Sequential Maximal Scheduling, Submitted, December 2006; Revised, September 2007.
- R. Iyengar, K. Kar, B. Sikdar, X. Luo, QoS Provisioning and Radio Resource Allocation in OFDMA based WiMAX Systems, Submitted, February 2007.
- X. Wang, K. Kar and S. Low, End-to-end Fair Rate Optimization in Wired-cum Wireless Networks, Submitted, August 2007.
Referred Conference Publications
- K. Kar, M. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, MPLS
Traffic Engineering Using Enhanced Minimum Interference Routing: An
Approach Based On Lexicographic Max-Flow , Proceedings of Eighth
International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS),
Pittsburgh, USA
,
June 2000.
- K. Kar, T. V. Lakshman, D. Stiliadis, L. Tassiulas, Reduced
Complexity Input Buffered Switches, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium o High Performance
Interconnects VIII,
Palo Alto,
August 2000.
- K. Kar, S. Sarkar, L. Tassiulas, Optimization
Based Rate Control for Multirate Multicast
Sessions , Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2001, Anchorage,
USA, April 2001.
- K. Kar, S. Sarkar, L. Tassiulas, A
Simple Rate Control Algorithm for Maximizing Total User Utility , Proceedings
of IEEE Infocom 2001, Anchorage, USA, April 2001.
- K. Kar, S. Sarkar, L. Tassiulas, A
Scalable, Low-Overhead Rate Control Algorithm for Multirate
Multicast Sessions, Proceedings of SPIE - ITCom
2001, Denver, USA, August 2001.
- K. Kar, S. Sarkar, L. Tassiulas, Optimization
Based Rate Control for Multipath Sessions , Proceedings
of Seventeenth International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), Salvador da Bahia,
Brazil, December 2001.
- K. Kar, M. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, Routing
Restorable Bandwidth Guaranteed Connections Using Maximum 2-route Flows,
Proceedings of Infocom 2002, New
York, USA
,
June 2002. (Best Paper Award Finalist)
- K. Kar, T. V. Lakshman, M. Kodialam, L. Tassiulas, Online
Routing in Energy-constrained Ad-hoc Networks, Proceedings
of Infocom 2003, San Francisco, USA, April 2003.
- S. Banerjee,
C. Kommareddy, K. Kar, B. Bhattacharjee,
S. Khuller, Construction
of an Efficient Infrastructure for Real-time Applications, Proceedings of Infocom 2003, San
Francisco, USA, April 2003.
- K. Kar, S.
Sarkar
, L. Tassiulas,
Achieving
Proportionally Fair Rates using Local
Information in Multi-hop Aloha Networks, Extended
Abstract. Proceedings of 41st Annual Allerton
Conference,
Urbana-Champaign,
USA, October 2003.
- K. Kar, L. Tassiulas, Multicast
Rate Control using Lagrangian Relaxation and
Dynamic Programming, Proceedings of the
43rd IEEE Conf. On Decision and Control,
Atlantis,
Bahamas,
December 2004.
- X. Wang and K. Kar, Distributed
Algorithms for Max-min Fair Rate Allocation in Aloha Networks, Proceedings of 42nd Annual Allerton Conference, Urbana-Champaign, USA,
October 2004.
- K. Kar, A. Krishnamurthy and N. Jaggi, Dynamic Node Activation in Networks of Rechargeable Sensors, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2005, Miami, March 2005. (Best Paper Award Runner-up)
- X. Wang and K. Kar, Throughput Modelling and Fairness Issues in CSMA/CA Based Ad-Hoc Networks, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2005, Miami, March 2005.
- V. Sharma and K. Kar, Adaptive Dimensioning of Bandwidth Tunnels for Time-Varying Real-time Traffic, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005, Seoul, Korea, May 2005.
- X. Wang and K. Kar, Decentralized Cross-layer Rate Optimization in Random Access Networks, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005, Seoul, Korea, May 2005.
- R. Iyengar, K. Kar and S. Banerjee, Low-Coordination Topologies for Redundancy in Sensor Networks, Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc 2005, Urbana-Champaign, May 2005.
- X. Wang and K. Kar, Cross-layer Rate Control for End-to-end Proportional Fairness in Wireless Networks with Random Access, Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc 2005, Urbana-Champaign, May 2005.
- N. Jaggi, A. Krishnamurthy and K. Kar, Utility Maximizing Node Activation Policies in Networks of Partially Rechargeable Sensors, Proceedings of 39th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2005.
- N. Jaggi and K. Kar, Distributed Authentication Mechanism for Mobile IP Route Optimization, Proceedings of WirelessCom 2005, Maui, Hawaii, June 2005.
- V. Sharma and K. Kar, Dynamic Network Provisioning for Time-Varying Traffic, Proceedings of Nineteenth International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), Beijing, China, August 2005.
- X. Wang, K. Kar and S. Low, Cross-layer Rate Optimization in Wired-cum-Wireless Networks, Proceedings of Nineteenth International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), Beijing, China, August 2005.
- P. Chaporkar, K. Kar and S. Sarkar, Throughput Guarantees through Maximal Scheduling in Multi-hop Wireless Networks, Proceedings of 43rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, September 2005.
- S. Sarkar, P. Chaporkar and K. Kar, Fairness and Throughput Guarantees with Maximal Scheduling in Wireless Networks, Proceedings of 4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Boston, April 2006.
- P. Chaporkar, K. Kar and S. Sarkar, Achieving Queue-length Stability Through Maximal Scheduling in Wireless Networks, Proceedings of Information Theory and Applications: Inaugural Workshop, San Diego, February 2006.
- R. Iyengar, K. Kar and B. Sikdar, Scheduling Algorithms for Point-to-Multipoint Operation in IEEE 802.16 Networks, Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks (RAWNET), April 2006.
- Q. Dong, V. Shrivastava, A. Shukla, D. Agrawal, S. Banerjee and K. Kar, Load Balancing in Large-Scale RFID Systems, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2007 Mini-Symposium, Anchorage, May 2007.
- K. Kar, X. Luo and S. Sarkar, Throughput-optimal Scheduling in Multichannel Access Point Networks under Infrequent Channel Measurements, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2007, Anchorage, May 2007.
- X. Wang, K. Kar and J-S. Pang, Lexicographic Max-Min Fair Rate Allocation in Random Access Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conf. On Decision and Control (CDC), San Diego, December 2006.
- X. Luo, R. Iyengar and K. Kar, Channel Assignment for Maximum Throughput in Multi-Channel Access Point Networks, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Hong Kong, March 2007.
- N. Jaggi, K. Kar and A. Krishnamurthy, Rechargeable Sensor Activation under Temporally Correlated Events, Proceedings of the 5th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad-hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Cyprus, Greece, April 2007. (Specially invited for fast-track journal publication.)
- V. Sharma, V. Subramanian, K. K. Ramakrishnan, S. Kalyanaraman and K. Kar, ``Multi-Path Loss-Tolerant TCP: A Transport Protocol for Efficient Aggregation of Heterogeneous, Lossy Paths’’, To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2008, Phoenix, April 2008.
- X. Luo and K. Kar, ``Joint Scheduling and Power Allocation in 802.16 Networks under QoS Constraints”, Submitted, September 2007.
Referred Conference Abstracts and Short Papers
- K. Kar, S. Banerjee, ``Node Placement for Connected Coverage in Sensor Networks'', Extended Abstract. Proceedings of 1st Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad-hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Sophia-Antipolis, France, March 2003.
- K. Kar, S. Sarkar, L. Tassiulas, ``Achieving Proportionally Fair Rates using Local Information in Multi-hop Aloha Networks'', Short Paper, Proceedings of 41st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, October 2003.
- R. Iyengar, V. Sharma, K. Kar and B. Sikdar, ``Analysis of Contention Based Multichannel MAC for Point-to-Multipoint Networks”, Short paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Buffalo, June 2006.
Non-Referred Conference Abstracts and Short Papers
- K. Kar, L. Tassiulas, ``Multicast Rate Control with Discrete Bandwidth Constraints”, Invited Short Paper, Proceedings on the 41st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, October 2003.
- X. Wang and K. Kar, ``Distributed Approaches for Proportional and Max-Min Fairness in Random Access Adhoc Networks”, Invited Paper, Proceedings of 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, March 2006.
- N. Jaggi and K. Kar,``Near-Optimal Sleep Scheduling of Rechargeable Sensors under Spatio-temporal Correlations”, Invited Paper, Proceedings on the 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, September 2007.
Patents
- ``Routing restorable service-level-guaranteed connections using maximum 2-route flows” filed on February 2003. Application No. 10/357,558. (with Kodialam et al.), Pending.