Publications     

Journal articles   [top]

• Lifeng Sang, Anish Arora, Hongwei Zhang, On Link Asymmetry and One-way Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, to appear 
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Lifeng Sang, Anish Arora, On the Convergence and Stability of Data-driven Link Estimation and Routing in Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, special issue on "Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Wireless Networking Systems", 4(3), July 2009     (Acceptance rate: 10% = 4/40; A short version appeared in WICON 2008.)     [bibtex] 
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Prasun Sinha, Link Estimation and Routing in Sensor Network Backbones: Beacon-based or Data-driven?, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, May 2009   (A short version appeared in IEEE INFOCOM 2006.)   (A related technical report on low-power wireless networks.)    [bibtex]   
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Young-ri Choi, Mohamed Gouda, Reliable Bursty Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Network, Computer Communications (Elsevier), special issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks", 30(13), September 2007   (Acceptance rate: <20%; A short version appeared in ACM MobiHoc 2005.)   [Lites traffic trace, bibtex] 
  

• Vinayak Naik, Anish Arora, Prasun Sinha, Hongwei Zhang, Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Data Dissemination Service for Extreme Scale Wireless Networks of Embedded Devices, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 6(7):762-776, July 2007  (A short version appeared in IEEE RTSS 2005)  [bibtex]
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Guaranteed Fault Containment and Local Stabilization in Routing, Computer Networks (Elsevier), 50(18):3585-3607, December 2006   [ppt, bibtex ]

• Anish Arora, Hongwei Zhang, LSRP: Local Stabilization in Shortest Path Routing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(3):520-531, June 2006   (Authors in alphabetic order; a short version appeared in IEEE-IFIP DSN 2003)   [bibtex ]

• Young-ri Choi, Mohamed Gouda, Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Stabilization of Grid Routing in Sensor Networks, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, special issue on "Self-Stabilization", 3:214-233, May 2006  [bibtex ]
  

• A. Arora, P. Dutta, S. Bapat, V. Kulathumani, Hongwei Zhang, V. Naik, V. Mittal, H. Cao, M. Demirbas, M. Gouda, Y. R. Choi, T. Herman, S. Kulkarni, U. Arumugam, Mikhail Nesterenko, A. Vora, M. Miyashita, A Line in the Sand: A Wireless Sensor Network for Target Detection, Classification, and Tracking, Computer Networks (Elsevier), 46(5):605-634, December 2004   (2nd most downloaded article of the year)    [bibtex]
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, GS³: Scalable Self-configuration and Self-healing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Networks (Elsevier), special issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks", 43(4):459-480, November 2003   [bibtex]  (Acceptance rate: 24% = 6/25; A short version appeared in ACM PODC 2002.)

Conference & workshop articles   [top]

• Qiao Xiang, Jinhong Xu, Xiaohui Liu, Hongwei Zhang, Loren J. Rittle, When In-Network Processing Meets Time: Complexity and Effects of Joint Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks, 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2009     (Acceptance rate: 12%) 
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Lifeng Sang, Anish Arora, Comparison of Data-driven Link Estimation Methods in Low-power Wireless Networks, 6th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2009    (Acceptance rate: 18.8% = 81/431)   [bibtex]
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Predictable Messaging in Wireless Automotive CPS, NITRD/NSF National Workshop on Research on Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems: Automotive, Aviation, and Rail, 2008 

• Hongwei Zhang, Lifeng Sang, Anish Arora, On Biased Link Sampling in Data-driven Link Estimation and Routing in Low-power Wireless Networks, 4th ICST/CREATE-NET/ACM International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON), 2008, to appear    (invited paper)   [bibtex]

• Lifeng Sang, Anish Arora, Hongwei Zhang, On Exploiting Asymmetric Wireless Links via One-way Estimation, 8th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2007  (Acceptance rate: 18% = 27/146)    [bibtex]

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Prasun Sinha, Learn on the Fly: Data-driven Link Estimation and Routing in Sensor Network Backbones, 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2006   (Acceptance rate: 18% = 252/1400)   [ppt, bibtex ]

• E. Ertin, A. Arora, R. Ramnath, M. Nesterenko, V. Naik, S. Bapat, V. Kulathumani, M. Sridharan, Hongwei Zhang, H. Cao, Kansei: A Testbed for Sensing at Scale, 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Special Track on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors (IPSN/SPOTS), 2006    [bibtex ]

• Vinayak Naik, Emre Ertin, Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Wireless Testbed Bonsai, 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee), 2006 

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Young-ri Choi, Mohamed Gouda, Reliable Bursty Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks, 6th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2005   (Acceptance rate: 14% = 40/281)   [Lites traffic trace, ppt, bibtex]
  

• Vinayak Naik, Anish Arora, Prasun Sinha, Hongwei Zhang, Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Data Dissemination Service for Extreme Scale Wireless Networks of Embedded Devices, 26th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2005   (Acceptance rate: 23%)   [bibtex ]
  

• A. Arora, R. Ramnath, E. Ertin, P. Sinha, S. Bapat, V. Naik, V. Kulathumani, Hongwei Zhang, H. Cao, M. Sridhara, S. Kumar, N. Seddon, C. Anderson, T. Herman, N. Trivedi, C. Zhang, M. Gouda, Y. R. Choi, M. Nesterenko, R. Shah, S. Kulkarni, M. Aramugam, L. Wang, D. Culler, P. Dutta, C. Sharp, G. Tolle, M. Grimmer, B. Ferriera, K. Parker, ExScal: Elements of an Extreme Scale Wireless Sensor Networks, 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2005    [bibtex ]
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Brief Announcement: Continuous Containment and Local Stabilization in Path-vector Routing, 24th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2005    [ppt, bibtex ] 
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Zhijun Liu, A Stability-oriented Approach to Improving BGP Convergence, 23rd IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2004)  [ppt, bibtex] 
  

• Anish Arora, Hongwei Zhang, LSRP: Local Stabilization in Shortest Path Routing, 2003 IEEE-IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2003, pages 139-148   (Authors in alphabetic order; Acceptance rate: 21%)   [ppt, bibtex]
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, GS³: Scalable Self-configuration and Self-healing in Wireless Sensor Networks, 21st ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2002   (Acceptance rate: 29%)    [ppt, bibtex ]
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Arjan Durresi, Differentiated Multi-Layer Survivability in IP/WDM Networks, 8th IEEE-IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2002   [bibtex]
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Dependable Messaging in Wireless Sensor Networks: Architecture and Protocols, VDM Publishing House Ltd., Germany, 2009. ISBN-NR: 978-3-639-11031-9   (Based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation)

• Mukundan Sridharan, Wenjie Zeng, William Leal, Xi Ju, Rajiv Ramnath, Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, KanseiGenie: Software Infrastructure for Resource Management and Programmability of Wireless Sensor Network Fabrics', Next Generation Network Architecture, Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam et at. (editors), Springer, to appear 
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Vinayak Naik, Data Transport Control in Wireless Sensor Networks, Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks, Sudip Misra, Isaac Woungang, and Subhas C. Misra (editors), Springer, 2009 
  

• Divya Sakamuri, Hongwei Zhang, Elements of Sensornet Testbed Design, Handbook of Sensor Networks, Yang Xiao, Hui Chen, and Frank H. Li (editors), World Scientific Publishing Co, 2009

• Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Prasun Sinha, Loren J. Rittle, Messaging in Sensor Networks: Addressing Wireless Communications and Application Diversity, Handbook of Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Insup Lee, Joe Leung, and Sang Son (editors), CRC Press, 2007

• Hongwei Zhang, Lifeng Sang, Anish Arora, Experimental Analysis of Link Estimation Methods in Low Power Wireless Networks, Technical Report DNC-TR-08-06, Wayne State University, 2008.

• Anish Arora, Rajiv Ramnath, Hongwei Zhang et al., Kansei Genie: Federated Sensing Platforms, 3rd NSF GENI Engineering Conference, 2008 
  

• Hongwei Zhang, Lifeng Sang, Anish Arora, Unraveling the Subtleties of Link Estimation and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM SIGCOMM, 2008  (poster)
  

• A. Arora, P. Sinha, E. Ertin, V. Naik, Hongwei Zhang, M. Sridharan, S. Bapat, ExScal Backbone Network Architecture, 3rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2005; 2nd TinyOS Technology Exchange, 2005 
  

• A. Arora, R. Ramnath, E. Ertin, P. Sinha, S. Bapat, V. Naik, V. Kulathumani, Hongwei Zhang, et al., Project ExScal, 2005 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks (DCOSS), 2005
  

• A. Arora, E. Ertin, R. Ramnath, V. Naik, S. Bapat, Hongwei Zhang, C. Anderson, G. Fox, J. Wieseman, Kansei: Sensor Network Testbed for At-Scale Experiments, 2nd TinyOS Technology Exchange, 2005  

Miscellaneous   [top]

• Hongwei Zhang, Dependable Messaging in Wireless Sensor Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, USA, 2006.

• Hongwei Zhang, An Engineering Network Security Model, Master Thesis, Chongqing University, China, 2000

• Hongwei Zhang, Efficient Database Transactions in Large Scale Networked Systems, Journal of Computer Application Research, Chinese Computer Federation, August 1999