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This research is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Award Number DE-FG02-04ER46136 and by the Board of Regents, State of Louisiana, under Contract Number DOE/LEQSF(2004-07)-ULL.

Information about research facilities, research publications, and software and prototyping development relevant to this project is outlined below.

Publications by multiple UCoMS partners or jointly by external partners can also be found here.


Facilities     Publications Software and Prototyping
Facilities

(1) Wireless and Sensor Network Systems

Sensors and wireless devices can be placed at strategic locations for data collection and information distribution. Sensors interface with the data sources either directly (e.g., with the security sensors around the production infrastructure for intrusion protection) or indirectly (e.g., with the Drillstem Server that receives high-bandwidth measured data from downhole sensors through the telemetry drill pipe). Certain sensors also serve as data sources themselves, and they will be equipped with TinyOS (open source software) and loaded with the proposed MAC, routing, and transport protocols. One or multiple sensor nodes may be designated (with Ethernet interface) to act as block gateways (BGWs).

Wireless base routers and Ethernet bridges are employed to create wireless mesh networks for connecting BGWs and also for delivering sensor data and production management information. An integrated wireless mesh network testbed has been developed and deployed, aiming to interconnect scattered BGWs. It consists of wireless mesh routers, each of which contains one Soekris motherboard and two IEEE 802.11a/b/g radio cards, running an optimized link state routing protocol. Specific design, implementation, and application issues are identified and being addressed.

Multiple wireless mesh networks located far apart are to be connected using long-haul communication gear, including Proxim Tsunami MP.11 base station units, Proxim Tsunami MP.11 subscriber units, 7 dBi omni, 5 dBi omni, and 24 dBi directional parabolic antennae. A completely functional, preliminary indoor/outdoor testbed has been developed and under evaluation.

Research topics being pursued under this project include the following.

  • Enhancement to MAC (medium access control) Protocols
    This research has enhanced the SYN-MAC protocol for providing priority channel access and Quality-of-Service (QoS) support in wireless networks to make it possible for selected users to conduct critical communications. Meanwhile, a tree-based MAC protocol is being studied, intending to achieve the advantages of both contention-based and contention-free MAC mechanisms.

  • Optimal Gateway Deployment in Wireless Mesh Networks
    It is critical for a wireless mesh network to identify a set of optimal gateway nodes through which traffic entering and leaving the network passes. To this end, we have developed a linear programming model and a heuristic algorithm.

  • Self-Configurable Localization
    An effective and flexible technique for localizing nodes of a multi-hop wireless network has been developed. It makes use of selected nodes at the "corners" of such a network as landmarks to estimate the distances by a Euclidean distance estimation model for establishing the coordinates themselves, with an error objective function minimized. The other nodes calculate their coordinates according to the landmarks. The coordinate error of this localization technique is dictated by node density, one-hop distance measurement inaccuracy, and the number of landmarks.

  • CDMA-Based Wireless Mesh Networks
    Employed traditionally in cellular systems, the CDMA technology exhibits high traffic capacity and permits efficient medium access control. As a result, this project has pursued applying the CDMA technology to wireless mesh networks for capacity and QoS enhancement.

  • 3-D Positioning Using RFID Gear
    The widespread deployment of RFID gear is expected soon. For any RFID application, positioning information is usually vital. Two RFID-oriented localization techniques have been investigated, aiming to determine the position of a given object in a 3-D space making use of RFID tags and readers.

  • Multipath Routing in Wireless Networks
    As a research topic key to the UCoMS project, this routing issue has been scheduled for investigation. We have evaluated performance of our proposed modifications to buffer and timer management for TCP applications, under several random network scenarios.

  • Automated Scene Surveillance by Network of Sensors
    This work has devised a framework for automated video surveillance, which involves efficient algorithm development and core hardware design and implementation.

  • Development of Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Processors
    Power consumption is the chief concern of any sensor application, and the sensor processor often accounts for a major part of overall power consumed by a given sensor. To reduce power consumption, we have arrived at a detailed VLSI layout of our designed sensor processor which operates asynchronously without a central clock and makes use of a mixed signal design domain for the very first time.

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(2) Computational and Data Grids

Many interconnected workstations, servers, and storage devices are housed in the research laboratories, mainly, Computer Architecture and Networking (CAN) Lab at Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) of UL Lafayette, while Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) at LSU manages a large computer cluster with 1024 processors. A computational Grid for evaluating our new techniques and facilitating software development has been formed by linking the computer resources of UL Lafayette and CCT at LSU, built using Globus software and tool kits (GT 4.0). It makes use of the Grid Application Toolkit (GAT) provided by GridLab work and intends to connect with cluster nodes and computer resources in other locations to arrive at a large and versatile testbed. As an essential part of GridLab, GAT provides a simple, generic and easy-to-use API for computational applications, such as reservoir simulation. Three critical GAT adaptors for the Globus toolkit have been designed and implemented: GridFTP adaptor, GRAM adaptor, and RLS adaptor, which ease the application use, and also improve the performance, of Grid services.

To facilitte logging and analyzing massive sensor data and production information, an efficient data Grid is being implemented and evaluated on the basis of available storage devices at CAN and CCT connected by links with high data rates realized through LONI (Louisiana Optical Network Initiative) facilities. Secure, high bandwidth and availability, and short access latencies of data and information files kept in the data Grid are basic features required by applications, and they are to be supported using scalable RLS and stripped GridFTP techniques under our development. Scalable RLS built on a DHT (distributed hash table) overlay permits secure replications of file chunks at any location at any time.

Research topics pertinent to Grid computing under investigation include:

  • ResGrid Toolkit and UCoMS Grid Portal
    We have advanced considerably toward technical milestones on Grid middleware tool development and on GAT (Grid Application Toolkit) extensions, which have been undertaken since the beginning of this project. The ResGrid toolkit has been designed and implemented for reservoir uncertainty analyses. Based on GridSphere technology, the UCoMS Grid portal is in the final development stage to become the de facto standard for the general Grid portal.
  • Peer-to-Peer Checkpointing for Mobile Grid Systems
    Checkpointing and task migration for mobile Grid systems are being investigated under this research. Considered to be very challenging, it needs to deal with node mobility and high link failure rates, and the system has no base stations with reliable storage to hold checkpointing data. Built on a theoretical treatment of optimal checkpointing arrangement for mobile Grid systems, this work has devised heuristics for checkpointing arrangement to yield highly successful recovery probability, serving as the basis of our Reliability Driven (ReD) protocol. Proposed ReD has resulted in favorable performance metrics of interest.
  • Decentralized Multilayered Resource Discovery
    This research aims to develop a distributed mechanism for monitoring and discoveing resources (MDS), composed of a flat MDS structure among nodes which make resource announcements (like cluster heads which run MDS). Nodes are segregated according to their resource types offered, constituting layers of resource nodes to allow efficient announcement delivery and resource request fulfilment. This decentralized MDS represents an important project research milestone, based on a flat layered structure to exhibit better scalability and lower MDS traffic overhead without compromising its capability.
  • Large-Scale Data Management
    In this research, a lightweight data replica mechanism based on GAT has been developed and under evaluation, intending to offer replica location service and data transfer service across the Grid.
  • Real-Time Performance Visualization and Monitoring
    We have installed and tested a drilling data visualization application and also been establishing a real-time drilling performance analysis system in a collaborative workspace.

Discussion forums dedicated for research activities related to Grid computing and its application to petroleum engineering have been established. They intends to facilitate collaborative software and application development. Click LSU or ULL to enter the established wiki's.

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(3) Applications

Petroleum applications software related to this research are being developed. They are:

  • Reservoir Uncertainty Analyses
    Working toward the technical milestones of real-time drilling study and reservoir simulation, we have conducted large-scale reservoir uncertainty analyses using ResGrid, executed on the UCoMS Grid testbed composed of computer clusters at the participating institutions.

  • Real-Time Production and Drilling Problems Identification
    Essential to well production and drilling management, research has extended our pursuit to real-time problems identification using a more accurate diagnostic method and a new mathematical model for incorporation in an integrated identification procedure.

  • Reservoir Simulation Speedup
    As reservoir simulation is generally very time-consuming and the simulation speed is dictated by time step granularity, we have devised two techniques to enlarge the simulation time step while maintaining low error amounts via making use of the second- and third-order accuracy finite differences.

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Publications

(1) Archival Journals

  • E. Yildirim, D. Yin, and T. Kosar, "Prediction of Optimal Parallelism Level in Wide Area Data Transfers," accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2010.

  • Sherine Abdelhak, R. Chaudhuri, C. Gurram, S. Ghosh, and M. Bayoumi, "Energy-aware Distributed QR Decomposition on Wireless Sensor Networks," accepted for publication in The Computer Journal, special issue on Agent Technologies for Sensor Networks, 2010.

  • M. Balman and T. Kosar, "Error Detection and Error Classification: Failure Awareness in Data Transfer Scheduling," accepted for publication in International Journal of Autonomic Computing, 2010.

  • Boyun Guo, "Corrections to Horizontal Drain Hole Productivity Equations for Wellbore Friction Effect," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 70, pp. 344-349, January 2010.

  • B. Guo, X. Yu, and M. Khoshgahdam, "A Simple Analytical Model for Predicting Productivity of Multifractured Horizontal Wells," SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Journal, vol. 12, no. 6, December 2009.

  • Lei Pan, Xiaojun Cao, and Hongyi Wu, "Design and Modeling a Distributed and Fair Access MAC Protocol (DFA) for Multihop Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, pp. 2434-2442, May 2009. (PDF)

  • T. Kosar and and M. Balman, "A New Paradigm: Data-Aware Scheduling in Grid Computing," Future Generation computer Systems, vol. 24, pp. 406-413, April 2009. (Abstract)

  • Rajesh Prasad, Ravi Nelavelli, and Hongyi Wu, "A Non-Constant Weight Code Approach for Fast Link Assessment in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks," International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Special Issue on Resource Allocation and Management in Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 5, no. 3, 2009.

  • X. Wang, D. Huang, I. Akturk, M. Balman, G. Allen, and T. Kosar, "Semantic Enabled Metadata Management in PetaShare," International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 275-286, 2009.

  • Yu Wang, Hongyi Wu, Feng Lin, and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "Cross-Layer Protocol Design and Optimization for Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks (DFT-MSN's)," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 809-819, June 2008. (PDF)

  • Zhou Lei, Zhifeng Yun, and Gabrielle Allen, "Grid Resource Allocation," Book Chapter in Grid Computing: Technology, Service, and Applications. CRC Press, 2008, ISBN: 10-1420067664.

  • Boyun Guo, J. Zhou, K. Ling, and A. Ghalambor, "A Rigorous Composite-IPR Model for Multilateral Wells," Journal of SPE Production & Operations, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 241-248, May 2008. (PDF)

  • Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen, Promita Chakraborty, Dayong Huang, John Lewis, Xin Li, Christopher D. White, "A Grid-Enabled Problem-Solving Environment for Advanced Reservoir Uncertainty Analysis," Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 20, June 2008, pp. 2123-2140. (Abstract)

  • Q. Fang, Boyun Guo, and A. Ghalambor, "Formation of Underwater Cuttings Piles in Offshore Drilling," Journal of SPE Drilling and Completion, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 23-28, March 2008. (PDF)

  • Haining Chen, Hongyi Wu, Sundara Kumar, and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "Minimum-Cost Data Delivery in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 3511-3523, Nov. 2007. (PDF)

  • Yu Wong, Hongyi Wu, and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "Energy-Efficient Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Integrated Approach on Power Control and Load Balancing," International Journal on Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Old City Publishing, vol. 3, no. 4, 2007, pp. 287-310. (Abstract)

  • Walid M. Elgharbawy, Pradeep Golconda, Abdelhamid G. Moursy, and Magdy A. Bayoumi, "Novel Adaptive Body Biasing Techniques for Energy Efficient Subthreshold CMOS Circuits," Journal of Low Power Electronics, American Scientific Publishers, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 175-188, Aug. 2007. (Abstract)

  • Yijun Li, Hongyi Wu, Nian-Feng Tzeng, Dmitri Perkins, and Magdy Bayoumi, "MAC-SCC: A Medium Access Control Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, pp. 1805-1817, July 2006. (PDF)

  • Mitun Bhattacharyya, Ashok Kumar, and Magdy Bayoumi, "A Framework for Assessing Residual Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Sensor Networks, InderScience Publishers, vol. 2, pp. 256-272, 2007.

  • Ruth Aguilar-Ponce, Ashok Kumar, Jose-Luis Tecpanectl-Xihuitl, and Magdy Bayoumi, "A Network of Sensors Based Framework for Automated Visual Surveillance," Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier.

  • M. Bhattacharyya and M. Bayoumi, "Intelligent Mechanisms for Energy Reduction in Design of Wireless Sensor Networks using Learning Methods," Book Chapter in Integrated Intelligent Systems for Engineering Design, IOS Press, Nov. 2006.

  • Rajesh Prasad and Hongyi Wu, "Gateway Deployment Optimization in Cellular Wi-Fi Mesh Networks," Journal of Networks (JNW), Academy Publisher, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 31-39, July 2006. (PDF)

  • Ruth Aguilar-Ponce, Ashok Kumar, J. Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl, and M. Bayoumi, "Automated Object Detection and Tracking for Intelligent Visual Surveillance Based on Sensor Networks," Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Intelligent Information Systems: Emerging Techniques and Applications (Chapter XI, pp. 209-232), Idea-Group Press, 2006. (PDF)

  • B. Guo and A. Ghalambor, "Characterization and Analysis of Pressure Instability in Aerated Liquid Drilling," Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, vol. 45, 2006.

  • Ruth Aguilar-Ponce, Ashok Kumar, J. Tecpancatl-Xihuitl, and Magdy Bayoumi, "A Network of Sensors Based Framework for Automated Visual Surveillance," Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 2006. (PDF)

  • K. Sun, B. Guo, and A. Ghalambor, "An Analytical Solution for Aerated Mud and Foam Drilling Hydraulics in Deviated Holes," Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, vol. 45, Mar. 2006.

  • Ruth Aguilar-Ponce, Ashok Kumar, J. Luis Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl, and Magdy Bayoumi, "Autonomous Decentralized Systems-Based Approach to Object Detection in Sensor Clusters", IEICE Transactions on Communication Systems, vol. E88-B, pp. 4462-4469, Dec. 2005. (PDF)

  • Hongyi Wu, Anant Utgikar, and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "SYN-MAC: A Distributed Medium Access Control Protocol for Synchronized Wireless Networks," Mobile Networks & Applications: The Journal of Special Issues on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing, Springer, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 627-637, Oct. 2005. (PDF).

  • Boyun Guo and X. Wang, "Testing of New High-Order Finite Difference Methods for Solving the Convection-Diffusion Equation," Petroleum Journals Online, Oct. 2005. (PDF)

  • Hongyi Wu, Chong Wang, and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "Novel Self-Configurable Positioning Techniques for Multi-hop Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, pp. 609-621, June 2005. (PDF)

  • Garbrielle Allen et al., "The Grid Application Toolkit: Towards Generic and Easy Application Programming Interfaces for the Grid," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, pp. 534-550, Mar. 2005. (PDF)

  • Dmitri Perkins et al., "A QoS-Aware Routing Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," International Journal of Computer Systems, Science & Engineering, CRL Publishing, vol. 19, pp. 289 - 299, 2004.

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(2) Conference Proceedings

  • Van Nguyen and Dmitri Perkins, "An Opportunitistic Virtual MISO (OVM) Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Networks," accepted for presentation at IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, May 2010.

  • M. Tyagi, C, D. White, Y. Feng, and T. Plaksina, "Natural Convection due to the Fluid Circulation in the Energy Extraction from the Sub-Surface in Geopressured Brine Reservoirs," accepted for presentation at 3rd International Conference on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry, June 2010.

  • M. Al-Najjar, S. Ghosh, and M. A. Bayoumi, "Robust Object Tracking Using Correspondence Voting for Smart Surveillance Visual Sensing Nodes," Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '09), November 2009. (PDF)

  • M. Ghantous, S. Ghosh, and M. A. Bayoumi, "A Multi-modal Automatic Image Registration Technique based on Complex Wavelets," Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '09), November 2009, pp. 173-176. (PDF)

  • D. Yin, E. Yildirim, and T. Kosar, "A Data Throughput Prediction and Optimization Service for Widely Distributed Many-Task Computing," Proceedings of Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers, November 2009.

  • Bin Huang, Yan He, and Dmitri Perkins, "Investigating Deployment Strategies for Multi-radio Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, October 2009, pp. 147-153.

  • S. Abdelhak, S. Ghosh, and M. A. Bayoumi, "Resource-Aware Distributed Split Radix FFT on Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 13th Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC 2009), September 2009, Poster A-11. (PDF)

  • S. Kalla, C. D. White et al., "Stratigraphic Stacking Patterns in Downscaling Seismic Data to Fine-Scale Flow Models," Proceedings of 2009 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, June 2009.

  • L. Pei, H. Wu, and N.-F. Tzeng, "An Efficient and Scalable Prioritized MAC Protocol (PMAC) for Backbone Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of Third International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2009), June 2009.

  • Van Nguyen and D. Perkins, "CDMR: Cooperative Diversity-based Multi-Copy Relaying in Mesh Networks," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks & Workshop, June 2009.

  • M. Al-Najjar, S. Ghosh, and M. A. Bayoumi, "A Hybrid Adaptive Scheme Based on Selective Gaussian Modeling for Real-Time Object Detection," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2009), May 2009, pp. 936-939. (PDF)

  • Y. He, V. Nguyen, D. Perkins, N.-F. Tzeng, "Exploring 700mhz WiFi-based wireless mesh networking," Proceedings of 10th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2009), May 2009, pp. 349-350.

  • M. Balman and T. Kosar, "Early Error Detection and Classification in Data Transfer Scheduling," Proceedings of 2009 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, March 2009, pp. 457-462. (PDF)

  • A. Lewis, S. Ghosh, and N.-F. Tzeng, "Run-time Energy Consumption Estimation Based on Workload in Server Systems," Proceedings of 2008 Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower '08, held in conjunction with 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation), December 2008. (Details; PDF)

  • M. Ghantous, S. Ghosh, and M. Bayoumi, "A Gradient-Based Hybrid Image Fusion Scheme Using Object Extraction," Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October 2008, pp. 1300-1303. (PDF)

  • C. Wong and H. Wu, "Landmark Selection and Applications in Self-Configurable Wireless Networks," Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS '08), September/October 2008, pp. 243-254. (PDF)

  • X. Xie, H. Chen, and H. Wu, "A Queuing Model-based Incentive Scheme for Optimal Data Transmission in Wireless Networks with Selfish Nodes," Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS '08), September/October 2008, pp. 463-468. (PDF)

  • H. Dang and H. Wu, "Cluster-Based Data Transmission Protocol in Delay-Tolerant Mobile Networks," Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS '08), September/October 2008.

  • S. Abdelhak, S. Ghosh, and M. Bayoumi, "Resource and Energy-aware Distributed Block-based LU Decomposition on Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 12th Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC 2008), September 2008. (PDF)

  • E. Yildirim, I. Suslu, and T. Kosar, "Which Network Measurement Tool Is Right for You? A Multidimensional Comparison Study," Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), September 2008, pp. 266-275. (PDF)

  • D. Smith, N.-F. Tzeng, and M. Ghantous, "FaSRed: Fast and Scalable Resource Discovery in Support of Multiple Resource Range Requirements for Computational Grids," Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA '08), July 2008, pp. 45-51. (PDF)

  • Y. He, D. Perkins, and B. Huang, "S-Box: A Scalability Analysis Framework for Ad Hoc Routing Protocols," Proceedings of 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '08), July 2008, pp. 572-578. (PDF)

  • Z. Lei, Z. Yun, G. Allen, X. Li, and N.-F. Tzeng, "Improving Application Execution in Multicluster Grids," Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, July 2008, pp. 163-170. (PDF)

  • Z. yun, M. Xie, F. Zhou, G. Allen, T. Kosar, Z. Lei, "Collaborating Mechanical Design Phases across a Grid," Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, July 2008, pp. 65-70. (PDF)

  • Y. He and D. Perkins, "BASH: A Backhaul-Aided Smooth Handoff Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, June 2008, pp. 1-8.

  • R. Prasad, H. Wu, D. Perkins, and N.-F. Tzeng, "Local Topology Assisted XOR Coding in Wireless Mesh Networks," Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN2008, in conjunction with 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems), June 2008, pp. 156-161. (PDF)

  • R. Nelavelli, R. Prasad, and H. Wu, "Fast Link Assessment in Wireless Mesh Networks By Using Non-constant Weight Code," Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN2008, in conjunction with 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems), June 2008, pp. 120-125. (PDF)

  • A. Sil, S. Ghosh, N. Gogineni, and M. Bayoumi, "A Novel High Write Speed, Low Power, Read-SNM-Free 6T SRAM Cell," Proceedings of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, June 2008.

  • E. Ceyhan, G. Allen, C. White, and T. Kosar, "A Grid-Enabled Workflow System for Reservoir Uncertainty Analysis," Proceedings of 6th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE 2008, in conjunction with HPDC'08), June 2008, pp. 45-52. (PDF)

  • A. Lewis, A. Abdelgawad, and N.-F. Tzeng, "Wireless Sensor Data Acquisition Design for Engineering Applications," Proceedings of IEEE International conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, May 2008. (PDF)

  • A. Sil, E. Kolli, S. Ghosh, and M. Bayoumi, "High Speed Single-Ended Pseudo Differential Current Sense Amplifier for SRAM Cells," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2008.

  • A. Moursy, I. Ajbar, D. Perkins, and M. Bayoumi, "Empirical Model-Based Adaptive Control of MANETs," Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Automated Network Management (held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2008), April 2008.

  • Boyun Guo, C. Ai, and L. Zhang, "A Simple Analytical Model for Predicting Gas Productivity of Horizontal Drain Holes with High-Friction," Proceedings of SPE Western Regional Meeting, Paper No. SPE 108390, March/April 2008.

  • X. Wang and D. Perkins, "Cross-Layer Hop-by-Hop Congestion Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, March 2008.

  • I. Chang-Yen, D. Smith, and N.-F. Tzeng, "Structured Peer-to-Peer Resource Discovery for Computational Grids," Proceedings of 15th ACM Mardi Gras Conference, January/February 2008.

  • Z. Yun, S. Chang, Z. Lei, G. Allen, and A. Bommathanahalli, "Grid-Enabled Sawing Optimization: From Scanning Images to Cutting Solution," Proceedings of 15th Mardi Gras Conference, January/February 2008.

  • Nian-Feng Tzeng, Hongyi Wu, and Gui-Liang Feng, "ADENS: Efficient Address Determination for Mobile Grids," Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2007), December 2007, pp. 1-8. (PDF)

  • P. Chakraborty, G. Allen, Z. Lei, J. Lewis, A. Lewis, I. Chang-Yen, I. Jangjaimon, and N.-F. Tzeng, "An Integrated Grid Portal for Managing Energy Resources," Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, December 2007, pp. 25-33.

  • X. Li, Z. Lei, C. White, G. Allen, G. Qin, and F. Tsai, "Grid-Enabled Ensemble Subsurface Modeling," Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2007), November 2007.

  • B. Guo, J. Zhou, and A. Ghalambor, "Effects of Friction in Drain Hole on Productivity of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells," Proceedings of SPE 2007 Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference & Exhibition (APOGCE), Paper No. SPE 106948, October/November 2007.

  • Lei Pan and Hongyi Wu, "Performance Evaluation of the SYN-MAC Protocol in Multihop Wireless Networks," Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 2007.

  • I. Ajbar and Dmitri Perkins, "A Performance Indes and Statistical Model for Evaluating Multihop Wireless Networks," Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 2007.

  • X. Cao, Lei Pan, and Hongyi Wu, "Enhanced Synchronized Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 2007.

  • Z. Yun, S. Keasler, M. Xie, Z. Lei, B. Chen, and G. Allen, "An Innovative Simulation Approach for Water Mediated Attraction Based on Grid Computing," Proceedings of International Multi-Symposiums on Computer and Computational Sciences (IMSCCS|07), August 2007.

  • A. Bommathanahalli, M. Xie, Z. Yun, S. J. Chang, Z. Lei and G. Allen, "TOPSAW Sawing Optimization Analysis Using Grid Computing," Proceedings of International Multi-Symposiums on Computer and Computational Sciences (IMSCCS|07), August 2007.

  • M. Xie, F. Zhou, Z. Yun, G. Allen, T. Kosar and Z. Lei, "Collaborating Mechanical Design Phases across a Grid," Proceedings of International Multi-Symposiums on Computer and Computational Sciences (IMSCCS|07), August 2007.

  • A. Moursy, I. Ajbar, Dmitri Perkins, and Magdy Bayoumi, "Building Empirical Models of Multihop Wireless Networks," Proceedings of SCS/IEEE International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, July 2007.

  • Paul J. Darby and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "Peer-to-Peer Checkpointing Arrangement for Mobile Grid computing systems," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2007), June 2007. (PDF)

  • Yu Wang, Hongyi Wu, Feng Lin, and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "Protocol Design and Optimization for Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 27th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007), June 2007. (PDF)

  • Chong Wang, Hongyi Wu, and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "RFID-Based 3-D Positioning Schemes," Proceedings of 26th Annuual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2007), May 2007. (PDF)

  • A. Sil, S. Ghosh, and M. Bayoumi, "A Novel 90nm 8T SRAM with Enhanced Stability," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on IC Design & Technology, May 2007.

  • X. Li, C. White et al., "Beyond Queues: Using Grid Computing for Simulation Studies," Proceedings of 2007 Digital Energy Conference and Exhibition, Paper No. SPE 106949, April 2007.

  • Richard Duff and Yaakoub El-Khamra, "Real Time Simulation in Grid Envirohments: Communicating Data from Sensors to Scientific Simulations," Proceedings of 2007 Digital Energy Conference and Exhibition, Paper No. SPE 107561, April 2007. (PDF)

  • Z. Li and B. Guo, "Analysis of Longitudinal Vibration of Drillstring in Air and Gas Drilling," Proceedings of 2007 SPE Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Technology Symposium, Paper No. SPE 107697, April 2007.

  • Richard Duff, "Observation and Modeling of Identified Regimens of Torsional Vibration," Proceedings of 2007 AADE (American Association of Drilling Engineers) National Technical Conference and Exhibition, April 2007.

  • B. Guo, J. Zhou, Y. Liu, and A. Ghalambor, "A Rigorous Analytical Model for Fluid Flow in Drain Holes of Finite Conductivity Applied to Horizontal and Multilateral Wells," Proceedings of SPE 2007 Production Operations Symposium, Paper No. SPE 106947, April 2007.

  • Z. Lei, G. Allen et al., "Utilizing Grid Computing for Advanced Reservoir Studies," IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2006 (SC|06), poster presentation, November 2006.

  • A. Abdelgawad, Adam Lewis, M. Shaheen, Fadi Issa, N.-F. Tzeng, and M. Bayoumi, "Remote Measuring of Flow Meters for Petroleum Engineering and Other Industrial Applications," Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception and Sensing, September 2006. (PDF)

  • Ruth Aguilar-Ponce, Jose-Luis Tecpanectl-Xihuitl, Ashok Kumar, and Magdy Bayoumi, "A Data Fusion Scheme for Tenet Architecture," Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception and Sensing, September 2006.

  • S. Kalla, C. D. White et al., "Consistent Downscaling of Seismic Inversions to Cornerpoint Flow Models," Proceedings of SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE 2006), Paper No. SPE 103268, September 2006. (PDF)

  • B. Guo, K. Lin, and A. Ghalambor, "A Rigorous Composite-IPR Model for Multilateral Wells," Proceedings of SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE 2006), Paper No. SPE 100923, September 2006. (PDF)

  • Santiago Pena, Dayong Huang, Xin Li, Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen, and Chris White, "A Generic Task-Farming Framework for Reservoir Analysis in a Grid Environment," Proceedings of 8th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing (HPSEC-06), August 2006.

  • Mitun Bhattacharyya, Ashok Kumar, and Magdy Bayoumi, "Design and Analysis of Energy Reference Metric in a Cluster Based Wireless Sensor Network," Proceedings of IEEE 3rd International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, July 2006.

  • Zhou Lei, Dayong Huang, Archit Kulshrestha, Santiago Pena, Gabrielle Allen, Xin Li, Richard Duff, Subhash Kalla, Chris D. White, and John R. Smith, "ResGrid: A Grid-aware Toolkit for Reservoir Uncertainty Analysis," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2006), May 2006, pp. 249-252. (PDF)

  • Dayong Huang, Gabrielle Allen, Chirag Dekate, Hartmut Kaiser, Zhou Lei, and Jon MacLaren, "GetData: A Grid Enabled Data Client for Coastal Modeling," Proceedings of High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2006), April 2006. (PDF)

  • Zhou Lei, Dayong Huang, Archit Kulshrestha, Santiago Pena, Gabrielle Allen, Xin Li, Richard Duff, Subhash Kalla, Chris D. White, and John R. Smith, "Leveraging Grid Technologies for Reservoir Uncertainty Analysis," Proceedings of High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2006), April 2006. (PDF)

  • Rajesh Prasad and Hongyi Wu, "Minimum-Cost Gateway Deployment in Cellular Wi-Fi Networks," Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), January 2006, pp. 706-710. (PDF)

  • R. Aguilar-Ponce, J. Tesier, A. Baker, C. Emmela, J. Das, J. L. Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl, A. Kumar, and M. Bayoumi, "VLSI Architecture for an Object Change Detector for Visual Sensors," Proceedings of 2005 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS'05), November 2005. (PDF)

  • Michael W. Totaro and Dmitri D. Perkins, "Using Statistical Design of Experiments for Analyzing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), October 2005, pp. 159 - 168. (PDF)

  • R. Aguilar-Ponce, J. Tesier, A. Baker, C. Emmela, J. Das, J. L. Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl, A. Kumar, and M. Bayoumi, "Real-Time VLSI Architecture for Detection of Moving Objects using Wronskian Determinant," Proceedings of IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), August 2005. (PDF)

  • Nian-Feng Tzeng, Bhanurekha Kasula, and Hongyi Wu, "Efficient Barrier Synchronization on Wireless Computing Systems," Proceedings of 11th Int'l Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), July 2005, pp. 782 - 788. (PDF)

  • R. Aguilar-Ponce, A. Kumar, J. L. Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl, and Magdy Bayoumi, "An Architecture for Automated Scene Understanding," Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Workshop on Comp. Arch. for Mach. Perception, July 2005. (PDF)

  • Yu Wang, Hongyi Wu, and Nian-Feng Tzeng, "Energy-Efficient Data Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 2005 DOE/NSF EPSCoR Conference, June 2005. (PDF)

  • M. Bhattacharyya, A. Kumar, and Magdy Bayoumi, "An Energy Efficient Protocol Exploiting Cache Data for Sensor Network," Proceedings of Int'l Conf. on Telecommunications (CONTEL), June 2005.

  • Z. Lei, S. Liu, R. Dooley, and G. Allen, "Enabling GRAM Applications Using GAT: A GAT Resource Broker Adaptor," Proceedings of 13th Annual Mardi Gras Conference, Feb. 2005.

  • J. Denemark, A. Kulshrestha, and G. Allen, "Deploying Legacy Applications on Grids," Proceedings of 13th Annual Mardi Gras Conference, Feb. 2005.

  • M. Bhattacharyya, A. Kumar, and Magdy Bayoumi "A Communication Protocol with Interference Awareness," Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICEEC) , Sept. 2004.


(3) Technical Reports

  • Nian-Feng Tzeng, Magdy Bayoumi, Hongyi Wu, Edward Seidel, Gabrielle Allen, Dmitri Perkins, Zhou Lei, and Douglas Moreman, "Techniques for Meeting the Communication and Computing Needs in Energy Resource Discovery and Management," submitted to IEEE Distributed Systems Online in July 2006 for possible publication; now under revision for resubmission.

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Software and Prototyping

(1) Wireless and Sensor Networks

  • Grid tool, GridSphere, employed to manage data acquisition, and to control the operations, of wireless sensor networks. Successful demonstration of this portal application carried out at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2006 (SC|06) in November 2006.

  • Wireless mesh testbed development. Using Soekirt boards as mesh routers, a testbed composed of 7 routers to cover some 70 acres on the UL Lafayette campus in this Phase I implementation has completed and been used for evaluating new algorithms and communication protocols developed for petro-engineering and other applications.

(2) Grid Computing

  • ResGrid: a framework for reservoir uncertainty analysis developed as a Grid portal and Grid middleware for use. Demonstrated successfully at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2006 (SC|06) in November 2006. Part of developed software adopted for mechanical design. Available on cct's cvs server.

  • GAT-based Data replication tool. Done and is used also by the SURAGrid SCOOP project. Available on cct's cvs server.

  • Simulator for distributed Grid resource monitoring and discovery completed and assessed. Such distributed MDS yields far less traffic overhead and yet maintains a compatible service level as its centralized MDS counterpart (used in existing Grid tools, like GT2, GT3, and GT4).

  • A multi-cluster information tool prototyped, and a multi-cluster job management tool designed.

  • A testbed for peer-to-peer checkpointing arrangements in mobile Grids developed and evaluated. Testbed results demonstrated at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2006 (SC|06) in November 2006.

(3) Applications

  • Black oil simulator prototyping with an aid of the Cactus tool.

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