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Research Publications and Presentations

Last Updated 13 November, 2009

Technical Area 1: Lightweight Combat Systems Survivability

Project 1–1: Multiscale Ballistic Fabric Nets

Attachment mode performance of network-modeled ballistic fabric shielding. D. Powell, T. I. Zohdi. Composites Part B: Engineering, 40 (6), 451–460, September 2009, doi:10.1016/j.compositesb.2009.01.010.

A note on flaw-induced integrity reduction of structural fabric. D. Powell, T. I. Zohdi. The International Journal of Fracture/Letters in Micromechanics, 158 (1), 89–96, July 2009. doi: 10.1007/s10704-009-9368-x.

Microfibril-based estimates of the ballistic limit of multilayered fabric shielding. T. I. Zohdi. The International Journal of Fracture/Letters in Micromechanics. 158 (1), 81–88, July 2009. doi: 10.1007/s10704-009-9367-y.

Multi-Scale Modeling and Large-Scale Transient Simulation of Ballistic Fabric. D. Powell, T. Zohdi, C. Farhat. 10th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, OH, July 2009.

Multi-Scale Modeling and Large-Scale Transient Simulation of Ballistic Fabric. C. Farhat, D. Powell, T. I. Zohdi. Presentation to Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, April 2009.

Modeling of Composite Materials at Multiple Scales. D. Arbelaez, T. I. Zohdi. Presentation to Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, April 2009.

Multi-scale Modeling and Large-scale Transient Simulation of Ballistic Fabric. D. Powell, C. Farhat, , T. I. Zohdi. Oral presentation CO-03, Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

Project 1–2: Simulation of Fracture and Penetration

Towards Long-time Simulation of Soft Tissue Simulant Penetration. Ramsharan Rangarajan, Raymond Ryckman, Adrian Lew. Poster PP-04, Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

A Discontinuous-Galerkin-Based Immersed Boundary Method. Adrian Lew and Gustavo Buscaglia. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 76 (4), 427–454, 2008. doi: 10.1002/nme.2312.

Project 1–4: Flapping and Twisting Aeroelastic Wings for Propulsion

Numerical Study of Flexible Flapping Wing Propulsion. T. Yang, M. Wei, H. Zhao. Submitted to the 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, January 2010.

Optimal Flight of Rufous Hummingbirds in Hover: An Experimental Investigation. H. B. Evans, J. J. Allen, B. J. Balakumar. Submitted to the 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, January 2010.

Study of Flow Structures Around the Wing of a Scaled Robotic Hummingbird Model at a Range of Reynolds Numbers. H. B. Evans. Master’s Thesis, New Mexico State University, 2009.

Numerical Simulation of Flexible Flapping Wings in Fully-Coupled Motion. T. Yang, M. Wei, and H. Zhao. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Symposium, Las Cruces, NM, 2008.

A Discontinuous Enrichment Method for the Numerical Solution of the Advection-Diffusion Equation. Irina Kalashnikova. 2008 Robert J. Melosh Symposium in Finite Element Analysis, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 2008.

Galerkin Reduced Order Models for Compressible Flow with Structural Interaction. Matthew F. Barone, Daniel J. Segalman, Heidi Thornquist, Irina Kalashnikova. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Paper No. 2008–0612 , 46th AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2008.
(Available at www.stanford.edu/~irinak/reno08.pdf)

Flapping and Twisting Aeroelastic Wings for Propulsion. Humberto Evans (presenter), Mingjun Wei, Poster presentation, AHPCRC exhibit, Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX.

Flight of a Rufous Hummingbird Robotic Model-PIV Measurements. H. Bocanegra Evans, R. Chavez Alarcon, P. Ferreira de Sousa, B. Tobalske, J. J. Allen. 61st Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 23–25, 2008.

A Computational Framework Based on Variational LES Method for the Multi-disciplinary Analysis of MAVs with Flapping Wings. Charbel Farhat and Ajaykumar Rajasekharan. Oral presentation CO-05, Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

Hamiltonian structure and dynamics of a neutrally buoyant rigid sphere interacting with thin vortex rings. B. N. Shashikanth, A. Sheshmani, S. Kelly, and M. Wei. Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, published online December 2008, doi: 10.1007/s00021-008-0291-0.

A Strong-coupling Approach to Simulate Flexible Flapping Wing. M. Wei, T. Yang, and H. Zhao. 61st Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 23–25, 2008.

Low-dimensional modeling for both temporally and spatially developing free shear layers. Mingjun Wei (presenter, NMSU), Clarence Rowley (Princeton University); American Physical Society, 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18–20 November 2007; Salt Lake City, Utah; http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/71710

On the Optimal Settings of Performance Parameters in Hovering MAV Flight. Mike Harff, Haibo Dong (Wright State University), Mingjun Wei (NMSU); American Physical Society, 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18–20 November 2007; Salt Lake City, Utah;

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/72681

Experimental results of harmonically oscillating flexible and rigid flat plates. Jeremy Pena, Scott Hightower, James Allen, Paulo Ferreira de Sousa, Banavara Shashikanth (NMSU); American Physical Society, 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18–20 November 2007; Salt Lake City, Utah;

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/72463

Axisymmetric interaction between a laminar vortex ring and a sphere—stationary sphere case. Paulo Ferreira de Sousa, James Allen (NMSU); American Physical Society, 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18–20 November 2007; Salt Lake City, Utah;

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/72588

High-order fluid/structure coupled numerical model. Jose Carlos Pereira (Department of Mechanical Engineering/LASEF, Instituto Superior Tecnico), Paulo Ferreira de Sousa (NMSU); American Physical Society, 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18–20 November 2007; Salt Lake City, Utah;

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/71826

Hamiltonian structure and dynamics of a neutrally buoyant rigid sphere interacting with thin vortex rings. Banavara Shashikanth (presenter, NMSU), Artan Sheshmani (UIUC), Scott Kelly (UIUC), Mingjun Wei (NMSU); 2007 Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena V, 14–19 October 2007; Bansko, Bulgaria;

http://ame-www.usc.edu/cf/Bansko2007/PROGRAM/Paper-26.pdf

Technical Area 2: Computational Nano- and Biotechnology Activities

Project 2–1: Dispersion of BWAs in Attack Zones

A piecewise-linear boundary scheme for the shallow water equations that conserves mass, energy, vorticity, and potential enstrophy. G.S. Ketefian, M.Z. Jacobson,  Journal of  Computational Physics, in review, 2009.

The global-through-urban three-dimensional simulation of near-explicit gas photochemistry. M.Z. Jacobson, D.L. Ginnebaugh, in review, 2009. (preprint available at www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/MCM0909.pdf)

Numerical simulation of scalar dispersion downstream of a square obstacle using gradient-transport type models. R. Rossi, G. Iaccarino. Atmospheric Environmen, 43(16), 2518–2531, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.02.044

A mass, energy, vorticity, and potential enstrophy conserving lateral fluid-land boundary scheme for the shallow water equations. G. Ketefian, M.Z. Jacobson, EOS Transactions, AGU, 89, Fall Meeting Supplement, 2008.

DNS and RANS Simulation of Dispersion Downstream of an Obstacle. R. Rossi, G. Iaccarino, Oral presentation QO-04, Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

Project 2–2: Micro- and Nano-fluidic Devices for Sorting and Sensing BWAs

The Microfluidics of NonSpherical Colloidal Particles and Vesicles with Application to Blood Additives. E.S.G. Shaqfeh, H. Zhao, A. Saibaba, E.Darve. AVS Inkjet Technology Topical Conference Sponsorship Form, San Jose, CA, November 8–13, 2009.

The Microfluidics of Colloidal Particle-Vesicle-Capsule Mixtures with Application to Blood Additives. E.S.G. Shaqfeh, H. Zhao, A. Saibaba, E.Darve. IMA Microfluidics: Electrokinetic and Interfacial Phenomena Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, Dec. 7–11, 2009.

The Effect of Brownian Motion on the Stability of Sedimenting Suspensions of Polarizable Rods in an Electric Field. B. Hoffman, E.S.G. Shaqfeh. J. Fluid Mech. 624, 361–388, 2009.

Simulation of Brownian, drug delivery particles in microchannel flows. A. Saibaba, E.S.G. Shaqfeh, E. Darve. Oral Presentation, 62nd Annual Americal Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 22–24, 2009.

Numerical simulation of platelet margination in microcirculation. H. Zhao, E.S.G. Shaqfeh, E. Darve. Oral Presentation, 62nd Annual Americal Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 22–24, 2009.

Hydrodynamic interactions in metal rod-like particle suspensions due to induced charge electro-osmosis. Klint A. Rose, Brendan Hoffman, David Saintillan, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Juan G. Santiago. Phys. Rev. E 79, 011402, 2009. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.011402

The Microfluidics of NonSpherical  Colloidal Particles and Vesicles with Application to Blood Additives. Eric S. G. Shaqfeh. Invited Talk, 2009 Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics Gordon Research Conference, June 28–July 3, 2009, Lucca, Italy.

Simulating the Microfluidics of Colloidal Particulates. E.S.G. Shaqfeh. SIAM, Computer Science and Engineering Conf. March 2009, Miami, Florida.

 

The Dynamics and Stability of the Microflows of Polarizeable, Colloidal Rod Suspensions. Eric S.G. Shaqfeh.  Keynote Lecture, 7th New York Complex Matter Workshop, Cornell University,  December 8, 2008. 

The Dynamics and Stability of Polarizeable, Brownian Rod Suspensions Under Flow. E.S.G. Shaqfeh, B. Hoffman. Session 01j03 In Honor of Bud Homsy III: Stability and Nonlinear Hydrodynamics, 2008 Annual AICHE Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2008.

Brownian demixing and wall effects in sedimenting suspensions of orientable particles. B. Hoffman, E.S.G. Shaqfeh, Physical Review E 78, 055301(R), 2008.

Developing Novel Empirical Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Phase Transitions in BaTiO3. Jose Solomon (presenter), Eric Darve. Poster presentation, AHPCRC exhibit, Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX.

Issues in the Issues in the Microfluidic Flows of Complex Fluids.  Eric S.G. Shaqfeh. Keynote Lecture (38), Australian-Korean Rheology Conference 2007,  Jeju Island, Korea. Sept 17, 2007.

Unique phenomena in theMicrofluidic Flows of Polymers or Particles. Eric S.G. Shaqfeh. Keynote Lecture, International Soft Matter Conference, Eurogress Aachen, Germany, Oct. 1–4, 2007.

The dynamics of colloidal rod suspensions under induced-charge electrophoresis. E.S.G. Shaqfeh, D. Saintillan Saintillan, B. Hoffman, E. Darve.  Presentation 277,  Symposium honoring 2007 ACS Colloid and Surface Chemistry Award Winner William B. Russel, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 26, 2007.

The dynamics of rod-like particles under sedimentation and induced- charge electrophoresis. E.S.G. Shaqfeh, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, April 30, 2007.

Project 2–3: (new project in 2009): Design of Antimicrobial Peptides for Nanoengineered Active Coatings

Computing Generalized Langevin Equations and Generalized Fokker-Planck Equations. E. Darve, J. Solomon, A. Kia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (27), 10884–10889, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902633106.

Adaptive biasing force method for scalar and vector free energy calculations. E. Darve, D. Rodríguez-Gómez, A. Pohorille.  J. Chem. Phys. 128 (14), 144120, 2009, doi:10.1063/1.2829861.

Project 2–4: (was Project 2–3 for 2007–2008): Protein Structure Prediction for Virus Particles

Effect of side chain anisotropy on residue contact determination. W. Sun, J. He. Proceedings of the 2009 BIBM Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop, Washington DC, November 2009.

Structure Prediction for the Helix Skeletons Detected from the Low Resolution Protein Density Map. K. Al Nasr, J. He. Submitted to Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, India, January 2010. Also, Proceedings of the 2009 BIBM Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop, Washington DC, November 2009. Accepted for publication in the supplementary issue of BMC Bioinformatics 2010.

Native Secondary Structure Topology has Near Minimum Contact Energy among All Possible Geometrically Constrained Topologies. W. Sun, J. He. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 77 (1), 159–173, 2009, doi:10.1002/prot.22427.

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Native secondary structure assignment has near minimum contact energy among all possible assignments. Jing He. 2008 Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 3–5, 2008. http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~xqin/bioworkshop/bioworkshop.htm

Characterization of Local Protein Structure Geometry from the Protein Data Bank—a Senior Project in Bioinformatics. J. Santini, B. Benson, J. He. Proceedings of the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions Annual Meeting, pp 49–51, Mountain View, CA, 2009.

An Effective Convergence Independent Loop Closure Method using Forward-Backward Cyclic Coordinate Descent. K. Al Nasr, J. He. International Journal of Data Mining in Bioinformatics, 3 (3), 346–361, 2009, doi: 10.1504/IJDMB.2009.026712.

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An Effective Convergence Independent Loop Closure Method using Forward/backward Cyclic Coordinate Descent. Kamal Al Nasr, Jing He. Biosymposium at New Mexico State University, 2008.

Parallelized Simulated Annealing for Protein Topology Prediction. K. Al Nasr (presenter), W. Sun, J. HeJ. Poster, Graduate Research and Arts Symposium, NMSU, April 22–23, 2009.

Parallel Computing in Protein Structure Topology Determination. W. Sun, S. Al-Haj, J. He. Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference, CP8, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

Reduction of the Secondary Structure Topological Space through Direct Estimation of the Contact Energy Formed by the Secondary Structures. W. Sun, J. He. BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 10, Supplement 1, S40, 2009.

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Reduction of the Secondary Structure Topological Space through Direct Estimation of the Contact Energy Formed by the Secondary Structures. W. Sun, J. He. (presenter). 2009 Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, Beijing, China, Jan. 2009.

This was also the topic of a seminar given at NMSU in September 2008.

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/CSWS/php/seminarDetail.php?colloqia_id=138

Reduction of false positive detection of helices from low resolution protein density map. Erick Rosas, Jing He. Poster, IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Conference, Nov 3–5, Philadelphia, 2008.

Protein structure prediction using geometrical constraints. Jing He. NMSU–UTEP CS–MATH Workshop, Las Cruces, NM, April 2008.

Characterizing protein side chain interactions from the Protein Data Bank. Joe Lau, Jing He. Biosymposium at New Mexico State University.

Secondary Structure Topology in Native Protein is Near a Minimum of Contact Energy. Weitao Sun, Jing He. Biosymposium at New Mexico State University, 2008.

An approximate robotics algorithm to assemble a loop between two helices. Jing He, Kamal Al Nasr; IEEE BIBM Workshop in Computational Structural Bioinformatics, 2–4 November 2007; Silicon Valley, CA

Comparison of two approaches in the parallel computation of secondary structure topology determination. Saeed Al Haj, Jing He. Poster, IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Conference, Nov 3–5, 2008, Philadelphia.

Protein structure backbone prediction for helical skeletons from low resolution protein density map. Kamal Al Nasr, Weitao Sun, Jing He. Poster, IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Conference, Nov 3–5, 2008.Philadelphia.

Improving ab initio protein Structure prediction using structure tensor calculated from electron density map of a protein. Edward Berndt, Jing He. Biosymposium at New Mexico State University, 2008.

Incorporating constraints from low resolution density map to ab initio protein structure prediction using Rosetta. Yonggang Lu, Charlie E. M. Strauss, and Jing He; IEEE BIBM Workshop in Computational Structural Bioinformatics, 2–4 November 2007; Silicon Valley, CA;

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~xqin/bioworkshop/bioworkshop.htm

An Approximate Robotics Algorithm to Assemble a Loop Between Two Helices. J. He, K. Al Nasr. Proceeding of 2007 IEEE international Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, pp 74–79, San Jose, CA, Nov. 2007.

Project 2–5 (was project 2–4 for 2007–2008): Nano-Mechanics of Metal Plasticity of Thin Films and Cylinders

Modelling Dislocations in a Free-Standing Thin Film. C. R. Weinberger, S. Aubry, S.-W. Lee, W. D. Nix and Wei Cai. Submitted to Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering (2009).

Dislocation Dynamics Simulations in a Cylinder. C. R. Weinberger, S. Aubry, S.-W. Lee and Wei Cai.
Submitted to Proceedings of the Dislocations 2008 International Conference, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (2009).

Surface controlled dislocation multiplication in metal micro-pillars. C.R. Weinberger and W. Cai, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 14304–14307, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0806118105.

Technical Area 3: Computational Battlefield Network and Information Sciences Activities

Project 3–1: Information Aggregation and Diffusion in Networks

Predictive QoS Routing to Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks. B. Kusy, HJ. Lee, M. Wicke, N. Milosavljevic, L. Guibas. International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2009.

Dynamic Resource Management and Matching in Sensor Networks. J. Gao, L. Guibas, N. Milosavljevic, D. Zhou. International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2009.

Exploiting Probabilistic Independence for Permutations. J. Huang, C. Guestrin, X. Jiang, L. Guibas. 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Clearwater Beach, FL, April 2009.

Dynamic Resource Management and Matching in Sensor Networks. J. Gao, L. Guibas, N. Milosavljevic, and D. Zhou. International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2009.

Lightweight Coloring and Desynchronization for Networks. Arik Motskin, Tim Roughgarden, Primoz Skraba and Leonidas Guibas. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2009.

Interference-Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks by a Game–Theoretic Approach. HyungJune Lee, Hyukjoon Kwon, Arik Motskin, and Leonidas Guibas. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2009.

Distributed Resource Management and Matching in Sensor Networks. Jie Gao, Leonidas Guibas, Nikola Milosavljevic, and Dengpan Zhou. Submitted for publication to IPSN 2009.

Enabling Data Interpretation through User Collaboration in Sensor Networks. Eunjoon Cho, Kevin Wong, Branislav Kusy, and Leonidas Guibas. Proc. SenSys Workshop on Applications, Systems, and Algorithms for Image Sensing, 2008.

Localization of Mobile Users Using Trajectory Matching. HJ. Lee, M. Wicke, B. Kusy, and L. Guibas. MELT/Mobicom’08, best paper award.

The Identity management problem— a short survey. Leonidas Guibas. Proc. International Conf. on Information Fusion, 2008.

Information Dissemination and Aggregation under Mobility. Branislav Kusy. Poster presentation, 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

Image Webs: Finding implicit structure in large image collections. Branislav Kusy. Poster presentation, 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

Composable Information Gradients in Wireless Sensor Networks. Huijia Lin, Maohua Lu, Nikola Milosavljevic, Jie Gao (Stony Brook), Leonidas Guibas (Stanford University). IPSN 2008, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, pp 121–132, 2008, ISBN:978-0-7695-3157-1.

Iso-Contour Queries and Gradient Descent with Guaranteed Delivery in Sensor Networks. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. R. Sarkar, X. Zhu, J. Gao, L. J. Guibas, J.S.B. Mitchell. INFOCOM. (http://www.ieee-infocom.org), April 22–24, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2008.

 

Project 3–2: Robust Wireless Communications in Complex Environments

Robust Collaborative-Relay Beamforming. G. Zheng, K.-K. Wong, A. Paulraj, B. Ottersten. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57 (8), 3130–3143, 2009, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2021456.

Code Rate–Diversity–Multiplexing Tradeoff. E. Stauffer, D. Tujkovic, A. Paulraj. IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 55 (1), 245– 254, 2009, doi: 10.1109/TIT.2008.2008127.

On the Noisy Interference Regime of the MISO Gaussian Interference Channel. B. Bandemer, A. Sezgin, and A. Paulraj. CTW 2008 (no proceedings), St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, USA , May 11–14, 2008.

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On the Noisy Interference Regime of the MISO Gaussian Interference Channel. B. Bandemer, A. Sezgin, and A. Paulraj. Presented at Asilomar CSSC 2008, Pacific Grove, October 26–29, 2008.

Antenna Selection in Space-Time Block Coded Systems: Performance Analysis and Low-Complexity Algorithm. C.-Y. Chen, A. Sezgin, J.M. Cioffi, and A. Paulraj. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56 (7), 3303–3314, 2008. doi: 10.1109/TSP.2008.917856

Passive Sensor Imaging Using Cross Correlations of Noisy Signals in a Scattering Medium. Josselin Garnier and George Papanicolaou. Eos Transactions, 89 (53), American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract S23D-04.

Feedback Reduction in Uplink MMO OFDM Systems by Chunk Optimization. E.A. Jorswieck, A. Sezgin, B. Ottersten, and A. Paulraj. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue ''MIMO Transmission with Limited Feedback'' , Vol. 2008, Article ID 597072. doi:10.1155/2008/597072

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Feedback Reduction in Uplink MIMO OFDM Systems by Chunk Optimization. E.A. Jorswieck, A.Sezgin, B. Ottersten, and A. Paulraj. ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May 19–23, 2008.

Guaranteed Performance Region in Fading Orthogonal Space-Time Coded Broadcast Channels. E.A. Jorswieck, A. Sezgin, B. Ottersten, and A. Paulraj. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Comm. and Networking, Special Issue: Theory and Applications in Multiuser/Multiterminal Communications, Vol. 2008, Article ID 268979.
doi:10.1155/2008/268979

Framework for analysis of opportunistic schedulers: average sum rate vs. average fairness. E. Jorswieck, A.Sezgin, and X. Zhang. RAWNET 2008, Berlin, Germany, March 31, 2008.
(http://www.ee.kth.se/php/modules/publications/reports/2008/IR-EE-SB_2008_011.pdf)

Opportunistic Scheduling for Multiantenna Cellular: Interference Limited Regime. S. Pereira, A. Paulraj and G. Papanicolaou. Signals, Systems and Computers, 2007. ACSSC 2007. Conference Record of the 41st Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 4–7, 2007. pp 1171–1175, doi 10.1109/ACSSC.2007.4487408

Interference Limited Broadcast: Role of Interferer Geometry. S. Pereira, A. Sezgin, A. Paulraj, and G. C. Papanicolaou. Information Theory, 2008. ISIT 2008. IEEE International Symposium, Toronto, Canada, July 6–11, 2008. pp 757–761, doi 10.1109/ISIT.2008.4595088

Interaction Between Scheduling and User Locations in an OSTBC Coded Downlink System. A. Sezgin, E.A. Jorswieck, M. Charafeddine, A. Paulraj. 7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, Ulm, Germany, January 2008.

On the relation of OSTBC and code rate one QSTBC: Average Rate, BER and Coding Gain. A. Sezgin, E.A. Jorswieck, O. Henkel, S. Pereira, and A. Paulraj. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56 (10), 4879–4891, 2008. doi: 10.1109/TSP.2008.923202

Tile based MIMO OFDMA systems: Impact of outdated feedback. Sezgin, E.A. Jorswieck, B. Bandemer, and A. Paulraj. Presented at Asilomar CSSC 2008, October 26–29, 2008.

Where to place interferers in a wireless network. A. Sezgin, E. Jorswieck, and A. Paulraj. Information Theory Workshop, 2008. ITW '08. IEEE, Porto, Portugal, May 5–9, 2008. pp 348–352, doi 10.1109/ITW.2008.4578683

Complete Characterization of the Equivalent MIMO Channel for Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Codes. A. Sezgin and T.J. Oechtering. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 54 (7), 3315–3327, 2008. doi: 10.1109/TIT.2008.924705

Mobility Dependent Feedback Scheme for point-to-point MIMO Systems. G. Vazquez-Vilar, V. Majjigi, A. Sezgin, and A. Paulraj. Presented at Asilomar CSSC 2008, October 26–29, 2008.

Statistical Opportunistic Scheduling With Tap Correlation Information for an OFDMA System in Uplink. E. Yoon, D. Tujkovic, A. Paulraj. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57, 1708–1714, 2008.

Patent Disclosure for “Signal Archiving in Ad Hoc Networks” made to Stanford University, lists AHPCRC as funding source, thus giving certain rights for the U.S. Government.

Submitted for publication

On the Broadcast Multicast Capacity of Network Coding for Random Wireless Networks. G. Altay. Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Comm.

Generalized partial feedback based Orthogonal Block Coding. A. Sezgin, G. Altay, and A. Paulraj. Submitted, March 2008.

The following papers are at: http://math.stanford.edu/~papanico/pubs.html
Adaptive coherent interferometric imaging for sensor networks. Gregoire Derveaux and George Papanicolaou. Submitted for publication.

Robustness of time-reversal focusing in changing random environments. Arnold Kim, Miguel Moscoso and George Papanicolaou. Submitted for publication.

Project 3–3: Secure Sensor Data Dissemination and Aggregation

Distributed jammer network: impact and characterization. H. Huang, A. Bhattacharya. Accepted for IEEE Milcom 2009, Boston MA, October 2009.

A protocol synthesis approach to enhance privacy in networked sensing. Somdev Chatterjee. Poster presentation at the NMSU Graduate Research and Arts Symposium, April 2–3, 2008.

Impact of Distributed Jamming on Sensor Network. Hong Huang, Amjad Abu-Baker. Poster presentation, 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

SDDA: Sparse and Dynamic In-Network Data Aggregation in Sensor Nets. Venkata Kodali, Yughandhar Katuru, Hong Huang, Amiya Bhattacharya. IEEE Milcom 2008. http://www.milcom.org/TechnicalPapers.asp

“Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce. Hong Huang; ed. David Taniar, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2007.

http://www.igi-pub.com/reference/details.asp?id=6453

Secure sensor data dissemination and aggregation. H. Huang and A. Bhattacharya, Poster, SC2007.

http://sc07.supercomputing.org/?pg=posters.html

Secure in-network processing in wireless sensor networks. H. Huang and A. Bhattacharya. Poster, High-End Computing along the Rio Grande, SC2007.

http://sc07.supercomputing.org/?pg=posters.html

Probabilistic data aggregation and security in wireless sensor networks. Venkata Kodali, MS Thesis, EE Dept., NMSU, Dec. 2007.

Impact of sensing parameters on the tradeoff between detection performance and energy consumption in sensor networks. Rama Rani Pulimamidi, MS Tech Report, EE Dept., NMSU, Dec. 2007.

Submitted for publication

A Study on a Potent Type of Denial of Service Attack on Wireless Networks: Distributed Jammer Network (DJN). Hong Huang, Amiya Bhattacharya. Submitted for publication.

DJN: Distributed Jammer Networks—Impacts, Strategies, and Counter-strategies. Hong Huang. Submitted for publication.

Technical Area 4: HPC Enabling Technologies and Advanced Algorithmic Development Activities

Project 4-1: Stream Processing for High Performance Computing

A Portable Runtime Interface for Multi-Level Memory Hierarchies. M. Houston, J.-Y. Park, M. Ren, T. Knight, K. Fatahalian, A. Aiken, W. Dally, and P. Hanrahan. Proceedings of the Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, February 2008.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1345206.1345229

A Tuning Framework for Software-Managed Memory Hierarchies. M. Ren, J. Y. Park, M. Houston, A. Aiken, W. J. Dally. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp 280–291, ISBN:978-1-60558-282-5, 2008. (Available at http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/pact08.pdf)

 

Project 4–2: Flexible Architecture Research Machine (FARM): Transactional Memory

Presentation on the FARM system (title not available). O. A. Olukotun, C. Kozyrakis. Submitted to MICRO-42, the 42nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, New York, NY, December 2009.

Project 4–3: Simulation & Modeling to Enhance the Performance of Systems of Multicore Processors

Extending the Monte Carlo Processor Modeling Technique: A Statistical Performance Model of the Niagara 2 Processor,” submitted to ISPASS 2010 (IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software).

On the Use of Shareable Resource Signature Characterization and Hardware Thread Priorities to Improve Simultaneous Multithreaded (SMT) Processor Throughput. M. R. Meswani, P. J. Teller, S. Arunagiri. Submitted to IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC 2009), Austin, TX, October 2009.

Supercomputing Research at NMSU: Processor Modeling for Large-Scale System Simulation. J. Cook. Presentation at the New Mexico State University Dean’s Council Meeting at Intel, July 2009.

Monte Carlo Processor Modeling of Contemporary Computer Architectures. J. Cook. Presentation at the Joint Operations Weapons Operations Group (JOWOG) meeting at Sandia National Laboratories, July 2009.

Modeling and Analysis of Checkpoint I/O Operations. S. Arunagiri, J. T. Daly, P. J. Teller. Proceedings of ASMTA 2009, the 16th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications, Madrid, Spain, June 9–12, 2009. Available from LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 5513, pp. 386–400, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02205-0. (Download at http://www.springerlink.com/content/h058551872nx)

Characterization of Microarchitectural Resource Utilization on Simultaneous Multithreaded (SMT) Processors using SMT Thread Signatures. M. R. Meswani, P. J. Teller, S. Arunagiri. Submitted to the 23rd International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS’09), Yorktown Heights, NY, June 2009.

Computer Architectures and Supercomputing: Past, Present, and Future. J. Cook (recipient of the Bromilow Research Award for outstanding research in the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University). Bromilow Distinguished Lecture, March 2009.

An I/O scheduling Algorithm for Storage Performance Virtualization. S. Arunagiri (poster presenter), Y. Kwok, P. J. Teller, S. Seelam. 10th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing (LCI’09), Boulder, CO, March 2009.

Improved Throughput of Simultaneous Multithreaded (SMT) Processors using SMT Thread Signatures and Hardware Thread Priorities. M. R. Meswani (poster presenter) and P. J. Teller. 10th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing (LCI’09), Boulder, CO, March 2009.

Measuring and Validating Metrics used to Estimate Microarchitecture Resource Utilization: A Case Study of the IBM POWER5 Processor. M. R. Meswani (poster presenter), P. J. Teller, S. Arunagiri. Proceedings of the 2008 ITEA Live-Virtual-Constructive Conference, El Paso, TX, Jan. 2009.

A Study of the Influence of the POWER5 Dynamic Resource Balancing Hardware on Optimal Hardware Thread Priorities. P. C. Trillo, M. R. Meswani, P. J. Teller, S. Arunagiri. Proceedings of the 2008 Live-Virtual-Constructive Conference (hosted by ITEA White Sands Chapter), January 12–15, 2009, El Paso, TX. Accepted for publication. Selected as the Best Undergraduate Student Paper.

Analysis of a Checkpoint/Restart Model to Uncover Properties that Can Lead to Improved Application Performance. S. Arunagiri. The 4th Joint NMSU/UTEP Workshop on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, November 8, 2008.

Opportunistic Checkpoint Intervals to Improve System Performance. Sarala Arunagiri, John T. Daly, Patricia J. Teller, Seetharami Seelam, Ron A. Oldfield, Maria Ruiz Varela, Rolf Riesen. Technical Report UTEP-CS-08-24, April 2008. http://www.cs.utep.edu/vladik/2008/abstr08.html#24

Monte Carlo Processor Modeling. J. Cook. Los Alamos Computer Science Symposium, Workshop on Performance of Extreme-Scale Systems and Applications, October 13–15, 2008, Santa Fe, NM.

Modeling Processor Performance Using Monte Carlo Simulation. J. Cook, D. Balise. Poster presentation, AHPCRC exhibit, Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX.

Improving Throughput of SMT Processors using Application Signatures and Thread Priorities. Mitesh Meswani. Supercomputing 2008, December 1–4, Austin, Texas.

Evaluating the Performance Impact of Hardware Thread Priorities in Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors using SPEC CPU2000. M. R. Meswani and P. J. Teller. Proceedings of Workshop on Operating Systems Interference in High Performance Applications (OSIHPA ’06), 2006, Seattle, WA.

Submitted for Publication

Impact of Checkpoint Parameters on the Optimal Checkpoint Interval and Application Execution Time. Sarala Arunagiri, Seetharami R. Seelam, Patricia J. Teller, Ron A. Oldfield, Maria Ruiz Varela, and Rolf Riesen. Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems Workshop, 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 09).

Using Decision Trees to Predict Hardware Thread Priorities that Optimize Processor Throughput in a Simultaneous Multithreaded Processor. M. R. Meswani, P. J. Teller, S. Arunagiri. (technical report)

Project 4–4: High Performance Optimization Library

Stochastic Binormalization of Symmetric Matrices. Bradley, A. SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Monterey Bay–Seaside CA, October 2009.

Optimality principles in nonequilibrium biochemical networks. R. M. T. Fleming, C. Maes, M. A. Saunders, Y. Ye, and B. O. Palsson. Physical Review Letters, , undergoing revisions prior to publication. (preprint available at www.stanford.edu/~yyye/entropyFBA4.pdf).

An active-set convex QP solver based on regularized KKT systems. C. Maes and M. A. Saunders. Presented at BIRS Workshop 09w5101, Advances and Perspectives on Numerical Methods for Saddle Point Problems, Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 12–17, 2009. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SOL/talks.html. Also presented at  SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Monterey Bay–Seaside CA, October 2009.

   also: An Active-Set Convex QP Solver Based on Regularized KKT Systems. C.-M. Fransson, T. Wik, B. Lennartson, M. A. Saunders, P.-O. Gutman. XIEEE Trans. Contr. Sys. Tech. 17 (2), 298–308, 2009.

A Smoothing Algorithm for Solving QAPs. K.-M. Ng, W. Murray. 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Chicago, IL, August 2009.

Nonconservative Robust Control: Optimized and Constrained Sensitivity Functions. C.-M. Fransson, T. Wik, B. Lennartson, M. A. Saunders, P.-O. Gutman. IEEE Trans. Contr. Sys. Tech. 17 (2), 298–308, 2009.

Stabilizing Policy Improvement for Large-Scale Infinite-Horizon Dynamic Programming. M. J. O’Sullivan, M. A. Saunders. SIAM J. Mat. Anal. Appl., 31 (2), 434–459, 2009.

An Active-Set Convex QP Solver Based on Regularized KKT Systems. C. Maes, M. A. Saunders. Presented at BIRS Workshop 09w5101, Advances and Perspectives on Numerical Methods for Saddle Point Problems, Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 12–17, 2009. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SOL/talks.html

also:

An Active-Set Convex QP Solver Based on Regularized KKT Systems. C.-M. Fransson, T. Wik, B. Lennartson, M. A. Saunders, P.-O. Gutman. XIEEE Trans. Contr. Sys. Tech. 17 (2), 298–308 (2009).

Compile-Time Symbolic Differentiation Using C++ Expression Templates. D. Kourounis, L. N. Gergidis, M. A. Saunders. ACM Trans. Math. Softw., revised 27 Mar 2009, 28 pp.

Decompositions of a rank-one corrected generator matrix of a Markov chain. M. Haythorpe (recipient, T. M. Cherry prize for best student presentation at ANZIAM 2009; paper will appear in the ANZIAM Gazette). Presented at Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) 2009, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia, February 1–5, 2009.

Optimality principles in nonequilibrium biochemical networks. R. M. T. Fleming, C. Maes, M. A. Saunders, Y. Ye, and B. O. Palsson. Physical Review Letters, submitted 6 February 2009, 4 pp.

Fast Algorithms for Convex Constrained Multiobjective Optimization. V. Pereyra, J. Castillo, M. A. Saunders. SIAM J. Scientific Computing, submitted 21 Jan 2009, 15 pp.

A Large-Scale Quadratic Programming Solver Based on Block–Lu Updates of the KKT System. Hanh M. Huynh. Doctoral dissertation, September 2008. (available at http://www.stanford.edu/group/SOL/dissertations/hanh-thesis.pdf)

An algorithm for solving nonlinear optimization problems with linear constraints and binary variables. Kien Ming Ng, Walter Murray. IMA workshop on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Algorithmic Advances and Applications, November 17–21, 2008, University of Minnesota.
(http://www.ima.umn.edu/2008-2009/SW11.17-21.08/abstracts.html#7322)

Also accepted for publication by the Journal of Computational Optimization and Applications.

IPSOL: An Interior Point Solver for Nonconvex Optimization Problems. Kaustuv. Doctoral dissertation, in progress.

Project 4–5: PFMMPACK

Fourier Based Fast Multipole Method. Cris Cecka, Eric Darve. Poster QP-04, Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

Project 4–6: Hybrid Optimization Schemes for Parameter Estimation Problems

Hybrid optimization schemes for parameter estimation problems. M. Argáez, L. Velazquez, C. Quintero, F. Zapata. XVII Mathematical Congress, Cali, Colombia, August 2–6, 2009.

A projected conjugate gradient algorithm for KKT systems. M. Argáez. XVII Mathematical Congress, Cali, Colombia, August 2–6, 2009.

The Notion of the Quasicentral Path in Linear Programming. M. Argáez, C. Ramirez, L. Velazquez, O. Mendez. XVII Mathematical Congress, Cali, Colombia, August 2–6, 2009.

A Path Following Method for Large-Scale and Dense–Underdetermined Problems. M. Argáez, C. Ramirez, R. Sanchez, C. Quintero. XVII Mathematical Congress, Cali, Colombia, August 2–6, 2009.

Comparison of Global Parameterization Schemes for Parameter Estimation Problems. L. Velazquez (presenter), M. Argáez, C. Quintero, C. Ramirez, R. Sanchez. International Symposium in Mathematical Programming, Chicago, IL, August 18–24, 2009.

The Notion of the Quasicentral Path in Linear Programming. M. Argáez, O. Mendez, L. Velazquez. Submitted to SIAM Journal in Optimization.

Invited talk, title not available. Multiphysics 2009, Lille, France, December 9–11, 2009.

Three posters (titles not available). C. Quintero, R. Sanchez, C. Ramirez. Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans (SACNAS) UTEP Expo, University of Texas at El Paso, March 2009.

Three posters (titles not available). C. Quintero, R. Sanchez, C. Ramirez. Affinity Research Group (ARG) Workshop, University of Texas at El Paso, February 2009.

A hybrid optimization approach for automated parameter estimation problems. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2007) Zürich, Switzerland, eds. Rolf Jeltsch (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Gerhard Wanner (University of Geneva, Switzerland),  ISBN 978-3-03719-056-2, published June 2009.

A Hybrid Optimization Approach for Solving Parameter Estimation Problems. NSF Constrained Programming and Decision Making Workshop, El Paso, TX,

October 2008.

A hybrid optimization approach for solving automated parameter-estimation problems. Leticia Velázquez; 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 07), 17 July 2007; Zurich, Switzerland;

http://www.iciam07.ethz.ch/timetable/web/symposium.php?nr=IC/MP/067/U/295&slot=25&db=timetable

Numerical Testing of Parameterization Schemes for Solving Parameter Estimation Problems. M. Argaez, L. Velazquez. Poster CP-06, Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2008.

Compressive Sensing Reconstruction with Prior Information by Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares. M. Argaez, L. Velazquez, C. Quintero, R. Von Borries, C. Potes, C. Mendes. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (in press).

A Sequential Quadratic Program for Nonconvex Lp-Regularized Metric Problems. Miguel Argaez. International SCAN (Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Verified Numerical Computations) Conference, UTEP, El Paso, TX, September 2008.

Poster presentation. Carlos Quintero. NSF CoPROD (Constraint Programming and Decision Making) Workshop, UTEP, El Paso, TX, October 2008. (http://coprod.cs.utep.edu)

Parallel Global Optimization Schemes for Solving Parameter Estimation Problems. Carlos Quintero. Poster presentation, AHPCRC exhibit, Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX.

Parameter optimization: Algorithms combine multiple computing methods, computer architecture innovations. Carlos Ramirez. Poster presentation, AHPCRC exhibit, Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX.

Poster presentation (title not available). Carlos Quintero. SACNAS–UTEP Expo 2008, El Paso, TX, May 2008. Hybrid methods for solving large-scale parameter estimation problems. Leticia Velazquez, Carlos Quintero (presenter), and Miguel Argaez. International SCAN Conference, UTEP, El Paso, TX, September 2008.
(http://www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/scan08quintero.ppt)

Invited talk (title not available). L. Velazquez. NSF CoPROD Workshop, UTEP, El Paso, TX, September 2008.

A Numerical Study of a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Global Optimization. Submitted to Reliable Computing Journal, December 2008. Presented at International SCAN (Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Verified Numerical Computations) Conference, UTEP, El Paso, TX, September 2008.

Solving Overdetermined Systems in lp Quasi-Norms. Submitted to Reliable Computing Journal, December 2008. Presented at International SCAN (Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Verified Numerical Computations) Conference, UTEP, El Paso, TX, September 2008.

A Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Global Optimization, Reliable Computing (Pending)