Thank you for your interest. Here is a selected list of my publications with related publications grouped together. If you have any comments, please send me an email.

Also see information on my current projects.

Recent Publications

  1. X. Su and R.V. Boppana, “On Identifying Malicious Nodes in Ad Hoc Networks,” in Proceedings of ACM Int'l Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), August 2007.
     
  2. X. Su and R.V. Boppana, “On the Impact of Noise on Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” in Proceedings of ACM Int'l Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), August 2007.
     
  3. R.V. Boppana and X. Su, “Secure Routing Techniques to Mitigate Insider Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Wireless Hive Networks Symposium, August 2007.
     
  4. X. Su and R.V. Boppana, “On Mitigating In-band Wormhole Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” in Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2007.
     
  5. S. Adams, J. Payne and R.V. Boppana, “Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Simulations Using Graphics Processors,” in Proceedings of DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference, pp. 334-338, June 2007.
     

Representative Journal Publications

  1. S. Chalasani and R. V. Boppana, “Data Architectures for RFID Transactions,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 246-257, August 2007.
     
  2. J. Sounderpandian, R.V. Boppana, S. Chalasani and A.M. Madni, “Models for Cost-benefit Analysis of RFID Implementations in Retail Stores,” IEEE Systems Journal, 2007 (in press).
     
  3. R.V. Boppana and S. Chalasani, “Fault-Tolerant Communication with Partitioned Dimension-Order Routers,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 1026-1039, October 1999.
    Based on conference publication: HPCA 1996
    Related conference publication: HiPC 1997
     
  4. R.V. Boppana, S. Chalasani, and C.S. Raghavendra, “Resource Deadlocks and Performance of  Wormhole Multicast Routing Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 9, no. 6, June 1998.
    Based on conference publication: SPDP 1994
    Related conference publication: ICPP 1995
     
  5. S. Chalasani and R.V. Boppana, “Communication in Multicomputers with Nonconvex Faults,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 616-622, May 1997.
    Based on conference publication: EURO-PAR 1995
    Also see technical report for supplementary material to the IEEE paper: UTSA Tech. Rep. 96-12
     
  6. R.V. Boppana and S. Chalasani, “A Framework for Designing Deadlock-Free Wormhole Routing Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 169-183, February 1996.
    Related conference publications: IPPS 1993, ISCA 1993
     
  7. R.V. Boppana and S. Chalasani, “Fault-Tolerant Wormhole Routing Algorithms for Mesh Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 848-864, July 1995.
    Related conference publications: ICS 1994, SC 1994, ISPAN 1994, ICPP 1995, EURO-PAR 1995, HPCA 1996
    Related journal publication: IEE Proceedings: Computers and Digital Techniques, vol. 142, no.6, 1995.
     
  8. C.S. Raghavendra and R.V. Boppana, “On Self-routing in Benes and Shuffle-Exchange Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 1057--1064, September 1991.
    Based on conference publication: ICPP 1988
     
  9. R.V. Boppana and C.S. Raghavendra, “Generalized Schemes for Access and Alignment of Data in Parallel Processors with Self-Routing Interconnection Networks,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), vol. 11, pp. 97-111, 1991.
    Related journal publication: JPDC, vol. 26, 1995.
    Related conference publications: ICPP 1990, ICPP 1991.


Significant Other Publications

  1. E. Brookes, R. V. Boppana and B. Demeler, “Computing Large Sparse Multivariate Optimization Problems with an Application in Biophysics,” Supercomputing, Nov. 2006.
     
  2. R. V. Boppana and S. Desilva, “Evaluation of a Stastical Technique to Mitigate Malicious Control Packets in Ad Hoc Networks,” First workshop on advanced EXPerimental activities ON WIRELESS networks and systems (EXPONWIRELESS), June 2006.
    Related conference publication: WCNC 2005
     
  3. R. V. Boppana and A. Mathur, “Analysis of the Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Workshop on Next Generation Wireless Networks (WoNGeN), December 2005.
     
  4. R. V. Boppana and Z. Zheng, “Designing Ad Hoc Networks with Limited Infrastructure Support,” IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC), January 2005.
    Related conference publication: WNCG 2004      WCNC 2005
    Supporting material: source code for ADV (Glomosim version)
     
  5. S. Chalasani, R.V. Boppana, and J. Sounderpandian, “RFID Tag Reader Designs for Retail Store Applications,” Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), August 2005.
     
  6. S. Desilva and R. V. Boppana, “On the Impact of Noise Sensitivity on Transport Layer Performance in 802.11 based Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2004.
     
  7. S. Desilva and R. V. Boppana, “Sustaining Performance Under Traffic Overload,” Workshop on Mobile and Ad Hoc Networking (MWAN), June 2004.
     
  8. R.V. Boppana, R.B. Boppana, and S. Chalasani, “Designing SANs to Support Low-Fanout Multicasts,” International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Dec. 2003.
     
  9. T.D. Dyer and R.V. Boppana, “On Routing Web and Multimedia Traffic in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Hawaii International Conferences on System Sciences-36, January 2003.
     
  10. T.D. Dyer and R.V. Boppana, “Routing HTTP Traffic in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network,” Milcom, October 2002.
     
  11. T.D. Dyer and R.V. Boppana, “Assessing the Impact of Buffer Refresh Time and Local Route Repair on Routing Protocol Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” SCI, July 2002.
     
  12. S. Chalasani and R.V. Boppana, “Software Architectures for E-Commerce Computing Systems with External Hosting,” International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, April 2002.
     
  13. T.D. Dyer and R.V. Boppana, “A Comparison of TCP Performance over Three Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” ACM Mobihoc, October 2001.
    Related conference publication: Infocom 2001
    Supporting material:  ns2 source files +   Readme file   and   ns2 scripts
     
  14. R.V. Boppana and S.P. Konduru, “An Adaptive Distance Vector Routing Algorithm for Mobile, Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Infocom, April 2001.
    Related conference publications: HiPC 1999, WCNC 2000
    Supporting material: source code for ADV  
     
  15. RV. Boppana and C.S. Raghavendra, “Designing Efficient Benes and Banyan Based Input-Buffered ATM Switches,” International Conference on Communications (ICC) '99, June 1999. Aslo see a preliminary version.
     
  16. R.V. Boppana and C.S. Raghavendra, “Optimal Self-Routing of Linear-Complement Permutations in Hypercubes,” Fifth Distributed Memory Computing Conference (DMCC-5), pp. 800-808, April 1990.
     
  17. R.V. Boppana and S. Chalasani, “ A Comparison of Adaptive Wormhole Routing Algorithms,” 20th Annual Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 351-360, May 1993.
     
  18. S. Chalasani and R.V. Boppana, “Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Wormhole Routing Algorithms with Low Virtual Channel Requirements,” Int. Symp. on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (ISPAN), pp. 214-221, December 1994.
     
  19. R.V. Boppana and S. Chalasani, “ Fault-Tolerant Multicast Communication in Multicomputers,” 1995 Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), vol. 1, pp. 118-125, August 1995.
     
  20. R.V. Boppana and S. Chalasani, “Adaptive Multimodule Routers,” Fourth Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing (HiPC), pp. 342-347, December 1997.
     
  21. R.V. Boppana and C. S. Raghavendra, “On Optimal and Practical Routing Methods for a Massive Data Movement Operation on Hypercubes,” Technical Report CENG 90-20, Computer Eng. Division, EE-Systems Dept., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, July 1990.
     
  22. R.V. Boppana, S. Chalasani, and J. Siegel, Wormhole Network Simulator. A C++ based simulator for wormhole switched mesh and torus networks,” Provided as is with no technical support. Available in Unix tar and tar+gzip formats.
     
  23. R.V. Boppana and S. Chalasani, An extended version of the basic wormhole simulator to simulate fault-tolerant routing in multicomputers. It is available in Unix tar and tar+gzip formats. This archive also contains simulation data for fault-tolerant routing.
     
  24. . R.V. Boppana, S. Chalasani, An extended version of the basic wormhole simulator to simulate multicast routing in 2D mesh and torus networks. It is available in Unix tar and tar+gzip formats.
 

Student Theses

  1. S. Zabel, MS 2000
  2. S. Konduru, MS 2000
  3. S. Voona, MS 2000
  4. R. Gunuganti, MS 2000
  5. R. Boppana, MS 2003
  6. T. Dyer, Ph.D., 2002
  7. Z. Zheng, MS 2004
  8. R. Murphy, MS 2004
  9. S. Desilva, PhD 2004
  10. A. Mathur, BS 2005
  11. A. Rodriguez, BS 2006

Rajendra V. Boppana
Mail: CS Department, UT San Antonio, San Antonio TX 78249, USA
Phone: 210-458-5692  Fax: 210-458-4437   Email: boppana[at]cs.utsa.edu