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Publications in 2011

These are the publications by staff of the Computer Science department in 2011.

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See also: Technical reports.



Associate Professor Brendan McCane

Integration of parts in the facial skeleton and cervical vertebrae
Brendan McCane, Martin R. Kean
American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, Vol 139(1), pp e13-e30, doi 10.1016/j.ajodo.2010.06.016, Jan 2011.
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Homography based Visual Bag of Word Model for Scene Matching in Indoor Environments
Nabeel Younus Khan, Brendan McCane, Geoff Wyvill
Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, pp 70-75, Nov 2011. ISBN 978-0-473-20281-1.
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Model-based Estimation of Vertebrae from Uncalibrated Bi-Planar XRays
Brendan McCane
Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, pp 305-310, Nov 2011. ISBN 978-0-473-20281-1.
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Visualising Kernel Spaces
Lech Szymanski, Brendan McCane
Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, pp 449-452, Nov 2011. ISBN 978-0-473-20281-1.
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SIFT and SURF Performance Evaluation Against Various Image Deformations on Benchmark Dataset
Nabeel Younus Khan, Brendan McCane, Geoff Wyvill
Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, pp 501-506, 2011. IEEE Computer Society, DOI:10.1109/DICTA.2011.90.
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Professor Mike Atkinson

Substitution-closed pattern classes
(with R. Smith, N. Ruskuc)
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A 118 (2011) 317-340
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Subclasses of the Separable Permutations
(with M. H. Albert and V. Vatter)
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 2011;
doi: 10.1112/blms/bdr022
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Counting permutations avoiding 2341 and 4123
(with B. E. Sagan and V. Vatter)
European Journal of Combinatorics 33 (2012, on-line 17/9/2011) 49-61
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On the inverse image of pattern classes under Bubble Sort
(with M. H. Albert, Mathilde Bouvel, Anders Claesson, Mark Dukes).
Journal of Combinatorics 2 (2011) 231-243
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Professor Geoff Wyvill

Homography based Visual Bag of Word Model for Scene Matching in Indoor Environments
Nabeel Younus Khan, Brendan McCane, Geoff Wyvill
Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, pp 70-75, Nov 2011. ISBN 978-0-473-20281-1.
PDF

SIFT and SURF Performance Evaluation Against Various Image Deformations on Benchmark Dataset
Nabeel Younus Khan, Brendan McCane, Geoff Wyvill
Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, pp 501-506, 2011. IEEE Computer Society, DOI:10.1109/DICTA.2011.90.
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Associate Professor Michael Albert

On the inverse image of pattern classes under bubble sort
Michael H. Albert, M.D. Atkinson, Mathilde Bouvel, Anders Claesson and Mark Dukes
Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 2, Number 2, 231-243, 2011
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Subclasses of the separable permutations
Albert, M. H., Atkinson, M. D., and Vatter, V. (2011).
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 43(5), 859-870.
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Secure communication of local states in interpreted systems
Albert, M., Cordon-Franco, A., van Ditmarsch, H., Fernandez-Duque, D., Joosten, J. J., and Soler-Toscano, F.
In A. Abraham, J. M. Corchado, S. Rodriguez Gonzalez, &J. F. De Paz Santana (Eds.),
International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Vol. 91, 117-124
DOI Link

Lattices of Games
Michael Albert, Richard Nowakowski
Order (to appear)
DOI Link

On convex permutations
Michael H. Albert, Steve Linton, Nik Ruskuc, Vincent Vatter, Steve Waton
Discrete Mathematics,Volume 311, Issues 8-9, 6 May 2011, Pages 715-722
DOI Link

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Associate Professor Ali Knott

Click Log Based Evaluation of Link Discovery.
D. Alexander, A. Trotman, A Knott
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS) 2011.

A domain-independent natural language tutor.
J McDonald, A Knott, R Zeng and A Cohen: Learning from student responses:
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Conference (ALTA) 2011.

Chomsky and embodied cognition: A sensorimotor interpretation of Minimalist Logical Form.
A Knott.
Proceedings of CogSci2011 (the 33rd Meeting of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society), Boston MA 2011 pp 2621-2626.

Meanings as sensorimotor sequences: A sentence generation model.
M Takac, L Benuskova and A Knott.
Proceedings of ICANN 2011 (the 21st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6792 (2011) pp 341-348.

Mapping sensorimotor sequences to word sequences: A connectionist model of language acquisition and sentence generation
Takac M, Knott A, Benuskova L
Technical report, University of Otago, OUCS-2011-01.
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Other publications by Associate Professor Ali Knott, and full text links




Associate Professor Anthony Robins

Learning Edge Momentum
Robins, A.
In Norbert Seel (Ed) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Berlin: Springer. Volume 4, 1845 - 1848 (2011)

Research Design: Necessary Bricolage
Fincher, S., Tenenberg, J. &Robins, A.
Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Computing education research (ICER2011), Providence RI, USA: ACM (2011) 27 - 32

Assessing coordination stability by means of a second SOM
Lamb, P., Bartlett, R. &Robins, A.
Sportinformatik trifft Sporttechnologie, Hamburg: Feldhaus / Czwalina (2011) 65 - 69

Artificial neural network analysis of coordination between different types of shoe orthotics
Lamb, P., Mündermann, A., Bartlett, R. &Robins, A.
Sportinformatik trifft Sporttechnologie, Hamburg: Feldhaus / Czwalina (2011) 70 - 74

Neural network modelling and dynamical system theory: Are they relevant to study the governing dynamics of association football players?
Dutt-Mazumder, A., Button, C., Robins, A., &Bartlett, R.
Sports Medicine, 41(12), 1003-1017, 2011. doi: 10.2165/11593950-000000000-00000
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Artificial neural networks for analyzing inter-limb coordination: The golf chip shot.
Lamb, P. F., Bartlett, R. M., &Robins, A.
Human Movement Science, 30, 1129-1143, 2011. doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2010.12.006
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Visualizing changes in lower body coordination with different types of foot orthoses using self-organizing maps (SOM).
Lamb, P. F., Mundermann, A., Bartlett, R. M., &Robins, A.
Gait and Posture, 34(4), 485-489, 2011. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.06.024
DOI Link

COMP160: A case for the learning edge momentum?
Ott, C., Robins, A., &Shephard, K. (2011).
In K. Shephard, T. Harland, &A. Cohen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Spotlight on Teaching and Learning Colloquium, (pp. 46).
Dunedin, New Zealand: HEDC, University of Otago.

Other publications by Associate Professor Anthony Robins




Dr Lubica Benuskova

Mapping sensorimotor sequences to word sequences: A connectionist model of language acquisition and sentence generation
Takac M, Knott A, Benuskova L
Technical report, University of Otago, OUCS-2011-01.
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Brain-Like system for audiovisual person authentication based on time-to-first spike coding.
Wysoski S.G., Benuskova L. and Kasabov N. (2011)
In: B. Igelnik (editor) Computational Modeling and Simulation of Intellect: Current State and Future Perspectives, IGI Global, pp. 384--412. ISBN 978-1-60960-551-3.
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A Sentence generation network that learns surface and abstract syntactic structures.
Takac M., Benuskova L., Knott A. (2011)
In: T. Honkela, W. Duch, M. Girolami, S. Kaski (Eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning: ICANN 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6792, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 341-348. ISBN 978-3-642-21737-1.
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Characterisation of Alzheimer's disease using graph theoretical analysis of fMRI data.
McCarthy P., Benuskova L., Franz L.
Proc. 5th Australian Workshop on Computational Neuroscience, Sydney, Australia, 13-14 Dec 2011, p. 15.
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Bistability in LTP-related gene regulatory networks.
Nido G. S., Williams J.M., Benuskova L.
Proc. 5th Australian Workshop on Computational Neuroscience, Sydney, Australia, 13-14 Dec 2011, p. 49. URL

Invited talk at the Brain Health Research Centre (BHRC) conference. Title: Effect of age and dementia on the topology of brain functional networks.
Benuskova, L.: , 8 July 2011, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Other publications by Dr Lubica Benuskova, and full text links


Dr Zhiyi Huang

Performance Evaluation of Quality of VoIP in WiMAX and UMTS
Jadhav S., Zhang H., and Huang Z.,
in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2011, Best Paper Award), pp.375-380, ISBN 978-0-7695-4564-6, 2011.
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Handover Delay in Mobile WiMAX: A Simulation Study
Ashoka B., Eyers D., Huang Z.,
in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2011), pp.305-312, ISBN 978-0-7695-4564-6, 2011.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2011.2115255 View-Oriented Transactional Memory
Leung K.C. and Huang Z.,
The Fourth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing, in Workshop Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPPW 2011), pp.335-344, 2011,
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CAB: Cache Aware Bi-tier Task-stealing in Multi-socket Multi-core Architecture
Chen Q., Huang Z., Guo M., and Zhou J.,
in Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2011), pp.722-732, 2011
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Dr Willem Labuschagne

Leibniz to Lakoff: Language as Instrument for Peace
Willem Labuschagne and Johannes Heidema (2011)
Junctures 14:51-60.
ISSN: 1179-8912.
http://www.junctures.org/index.php/junctures/issue/view/17/showToc

Review of Amy Poteete et al., "Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice"
Willem Labuschagne (2011)
(NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010). Junctures 14:82-86.
ISSN: 1179-8912.
http://www.junctures.org/index.php/junctures/issue/view/17/showToc

Review of Van Benthem et al., "Dynamic Update with Probabilities"
Willem Labuschagne (2011)
Studia Logica 93(1):67-96, 2009.
Mathematical Reviews, ISSN: 0025-5629, review number MR2546679, electronically published in MathSciNet by the American Mathematical Society.
Electronic link to MathSciNet location
(Reviewer's name given at bottom of review.)
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Review of Leitgeb, "On the Ramsey Test without Triviality"
Willem Labuschagne (2011)
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 51(1):21-54, 2010.
Mathematical Reviews, ISSN: 0025-5629, review number MR2666568, electronically published in MathSciNet by the American Mathematical Society.
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Review of Kuznets, "Self-referential Justifications in Epistemic Logic
Willem Labuschagne (2011)
Theory Comput. Syst. 46(4):636-661, 2010.
Mathematical Reviews, ISSN: 0025-5629, review number MR2608018, electronically published in MathSciNet by the American Mathematical Society.
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Dr Andrew Trotman

ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2011: Secretary's Notes
A. Trotman (2011)
SIGIR Forum 45(2):2-7
[Full Text]

Automated Cross-lingual Link Discovery in Wikipedia
L.-X. Tang, D. Cavanagh1, A. Trotman, S. Geva, Y. Xu, L. Sitbon (2011)
Proceedings of the NTCIR-9
[Full Text]

Overview of the NTCIR-9 Crosslink Task: Cross-lingual Link Discovery
L.-X. Tang, S. Geva, A. Trotman, Y. Xu, K.Y. Itakura (2011)
Proceedings of the NTCIR-9
[Full Text]

Fast Search Engine Vocabulary Lookup
X.-F. Jia, A. Trotman, J. Holdsworth (2011)
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011)
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Mobile Applications of Focused Link Discovery
W.C. Huang, S. Geva, A. Trotman, K.Y. Itakura (2011)
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011)
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Efficient sorting of search results by string attributes
N. Sherlock, A. Trotman (2011)
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011)
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Click Log Based Evaluation of Link Discovery
D. Alexander, A. Trotman,A Knot (2011)
Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011)
[Full Text]

The Effectiveness of Cross-lingual Link Discovery
L.-X. Tang, K.Y. Itakura, S. Geva, A. Trotman, Y. Xu (2011)
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2011)
[Full Text]

Using Mobile Phones to Improve Offline Access to Online Information: Distributed Content Delivery
J. Zhang, S. Geva, A. Trotman (2011)
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Mobile IT Convergence (ICMIC2011)
[Full Text]

Ad Hoc IR - Not Much Room for Improvement
A. Trotman, D. Keeler (2011)
Proceedings of SIGIR 2011, pp. 1095-1096
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Report on INEX 2010
D. Alexander, P.Arvola, T. Beckers, P. Bellot, T. Chappell, C.M. DeVries, A. Doucet, N. Fuhr, S. Geva, J. Kamps, G. Kazai, M. Koolen, S. Kutty, M. Landoni, V. Moriceau, R. Nayak, R. Nordlie, N. Pharo, E. SanJuan, R. Schenkel, A.Tagarelli, X.Tannier, J.A. Thom, A.Trotman, J.Vainio, Q.Wang, C.Wu (2011)
SIGIR Forum 45(1):2-17
[Full Text]

Topical and Structural Linkage in Wikipedia
K.Y. Itakura, C.L.A. Clarke, S. Geva, A. Trotman, W.C. Huang (2011)
Proceedings of ECIR 2011, pp. 460-465
[Full Text]


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Dr Yawen Chen

Embedding Meshes and Tori on Double-Loop Networks of the Same Size
Yawen Chen and Hong Shen
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 60(8):1157-1168, 2011.
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2010.275
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Routing and Wavelength Assignment for Hypercube Communications Embedded on Optical Chordal Ring Networks of Degrees 3 and 4
Yawen Chen, Hong Shen and Haibo Zhang
Computer Communication, 34(7):875-882, 2011.
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2010.10.007
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Dr David Eyers

Data compression on the sphere
Jason D. McEwen and Yves Wiaux and David M. Eyers
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 531, 2011
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Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems
Shand, Brian and Pietzuch, Peter and Papagiannis, Ioannis and Moody, Ken and Migliavacca, Matteo and Eyers, David and Bacon, Jean
Editors: Helmer, Sven and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Xhafa, Fatos
Book Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Pages 151-172, Security Policy and Information Sharing in Distributed Event-Based Systems
Volume 347, 2011
Isbn 978-3-642-19723-9
Issn 1860-949X
DOI Link

Configuring large-scale storage using a middleware with machine learning
David M. Eyers and Ramani Routray and Rui Zhang and Douglas Willcocks and Peter Pietzuch
Concurrency and Computation, 17, Volume 23, 2011, pages 2063-2077
Doi 10.1002/cpe.1716
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IO Tetris: Deep Storage Consolidation for the Cloud via Fine-Grained Workload Analysis
Rui Zhang and Ramani Routray and David M. Eyers and David Chambliss and Prasenjit Sarkar and Douglas Willcocks and Peter Pietzuch
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Pages 700-707,July 2011
Isbn 978-0-7695-4460-1
DOI Link

Disclosure control in multi-domain publish/subscribe systems
Jatinder Singh and David M. Eyers and Jean Bacon
Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'11), pages 159-170
ACM, July 2011
Isbn 978-1-4503-0423-8

SafeWeb: A Middleware for Securing Ruby-based Web Applications
Petr Hosek and Matteo Migliavacca and Ioannis Papagiannis and David M. Eyers and David Evans and Brian Shand and Jean Bacon and Peter Pietzuch
Middleware 2011 - ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, December 12-16, 2011. Proceedings, pages 491--511
Doi 10.1007/978-3-642-25821-3_25
Isbn 978-3-642-25820-6
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Handover Delay in Mobile WiMAX: A Simulation Study
Ashoka, B. and Eyers, D. and Huang, Z.
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), 2011 12th International Conference
DOI link

Managing sensitive data across the data life cycle
David Eyers and Russell Butson
Presentation at eResearch Australasia, November, 2011

Managing sensitive 'Big Data'
David Eyers and Russell Butson
Presentation at the 2011 New Zealand eResearch Symposium, July 2011

Optimising power consumption in large-scale eResearch infrastructure
David Eyers and Jason K. Mair and Yawen Chen and Haibo Zhang and Zhiyi Huang
Presentation at the 2011 New Zealand eResearch Symposium, July 2011


Dr Shawn Martin

Graphs: Flexible Representations of Molecular Structures and Biological Networks
M. Misra, S. Martin, and J.-L. Faulon (2011),
Computational Approaches in Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics ,
R. Guha and A. Bender, Eds., Wiley. &Sons.
Publisher

Non-Manifold Surface Reconstruction from High Dimensional Point Cloud Data
S. Martin and J.-P. Watson (2011),
Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 44(8):427-441.
Journal, Software

OpenOrd: An Open-Source Toolbox for Large Graph Layout
S. Martin, W. M. Brown, R. Klavans, and K. Boyack (2011)
Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA): 7868-06.
(Proceedings, Software)

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Dr Steven Mills

Incorporating Vegetation into Visual Exposure Modelling in Urban Environments,
P. Bartie, F. Reitsma, S. Kingham, and S. Mills,
International Journal of Geospatial Information Science, 25(5), pages 851--868
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A Combined GIS and Stereo Vision Approach to Identify Building Pixels in Images and Determine Appropriate Colour Terms,
P. Bartie, F. Reitsma, and S. Mills,
Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2, pages 59--83
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Bag-of-Words Driven Single Camera SLAM,
T. Botterill, S. Mills, and R. Green,
Journal of Field Robotics, 28(2), pages 294--226
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Design and Calibration of a Hybrid Computer Vision and Structured Light 3D Imaging System,
T. Botterill, S. Mills, and R. Green,
Int. Conf. on Automation, Robotics, and Applications (ICARA)
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Fast RANSAC Hypothesis Generation for Essential Matrix Generation,
T. Botterill, S. Mills, and R. Green,
Int. Conf. on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
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Refining Essential Matrix Estimates from RANSAC,
T. Botterill, S. Mills, and R. Green,
Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ)

Other publications by Dr Steven Mills


Dr Haibo Zhang

Time- and channel-efficient link scheduling for convergecast in wirelessHART networks
Zhang, Haibo, Soldati, Pablo and Johansson, Mikael,
IEEE 13th International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2011.
Digital Object Identifier : 10.1109/ICCT.2011.6157841
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Hidden Terminal-Aware Contention Resolution with an Optimal Distribution
Euhanna Ghadimi, Pablo Soldati, Fredrik Osterlind, Haibo Zhang, Mikael Johansson,
The 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2011.
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MASS.2011.139
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Routing and Wavelength Assignment for Hypercube Communications Embedded on Optical Chordal Ring Networks of Degrees 3 and 4
Yawen Chen, Hong Shen and Haibo Zhang,
Computer Communications, vol. 34(7), pp.875-882, 2011.
Link

Performance Evaluation of Quality of VoIP in WiMAX and UMTS
Sheetal Jadhav, Haibo Zhang and Zhiyi Huang
Proceeding of The 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), 2011.

Hidden Terminal-Aware Contention Resolution with an Optimal Distribution
Euhanna Ghadimi, Pablo Soldati,Fredrik Osterlind, Haibo Zhang and Mikael Johansson,
Proceeding of the the 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2011.

Understanding the energy-reliability tradeoff in deadline-constrained packet transmission over lossy links
Zhenhua Zou, Pablo Soldati,Haibo Zhang and Mikael Johansson,
Workshop on Real-Time Wireless for Industrial Applications (REALWIN), 2011.

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