Research Activities

My research activities while at Macquarie University was focused on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), mainly in energy efficient and distributed topology control aspects of MANET.

Publications

• N. Shrestha, “Reception-Awareness for Energy Conservation in Ad Hoc Networks, ” PhD thesis, Macquarie University, 2007.
• N. Shrestha and B. Mans, “Exploiting Overhearing: Flow-Aware Routing for Improved Lifetime in Ad Hoc Networks , ” The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2007), Pisa, Italy, October 2007.
• N. Shrestha, "Reception-Aware Routing for Energy Conservation in Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings, The Fourth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN2007), Toronto, Canada, June 2007.
• G. Allard, P. Minet, D. Nguyen and N. Shrestha, "Evaluation of the Energy Consumption in MANET", 5th International Conference on AD-HOC Networks & Wireless (AdHoc-Now2006), LNCS proceedings, pp 170-183, Ottawa, Canada, August 17-19, 2006.
• G. Allard, P. Minet, D. Nguyen and N. Shrestha, "Evaluation of the Energy Consumption in MANET", Research Report, INRIA-RR-5851, INRIA, France, February 2006.
• N. Shrestha and B. Mans, "Reception-Aware Power Control in Ad Hoc Mobile Networks", The Third International Conference on Innovative Applications of Information Technology for Developing World (Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC 2005)), Kathmandu, Nepal, 10-12 December 2005.
• B. Mans and N. Shrestha, " Performance Evaluation of Approximation Algorithms for Multipoint Relay Selection", Med-Hoc-Net 2004, The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Bodrum, Turkey, June 27-30, 2004.
• N. Shrestha, " Performance Evaluation of Multipoint Relays: Collision and Energy efficiency Issues", Technical Report, Macquarie University, 6 April 2003.
• B. Lloyd-Smith, A.A. Kist, R. J. Harris, and N. Shrestha, "Shortest Paths In Stochastic Networks", in proceedings of ICON 2004, pp 492-496, IEEE International Conference on Neworks, 16-19 Nov 2004.

Other Links

These are my favourite links for MANET:

• MANET (general)
  • MANET Charter
  • Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Bibliography
  • Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Project
  • MANET papers
  • Power aware Ad Hoc Network Papers
• Routing Protocols
  • OLSR
• MANET links listings from others on the web
  • by Anne Saaranen
  • by Ankur Jain
• Conferences/ Workshops
  • MobiHoc (ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing) 2005
  • MobiCom (The ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking)
  • IEEE InfoCom - The Conference on Computer Communications 2004 2005
  • ATNAC 2004
  • Med-Hoc-Net 2004 (The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop)
  • Ad Hoc Now 2004
  • ICON (IEEE International Conference On Networks) 2004
  • Minitrack on Quality of Service Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks
  • WITSP'2004 - The 3rd Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing Adelaide, 20-22 December 2004
  • ICWN: The 2005 International Conference on Wireless Networks
  • EWSN (European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks) 2005
  • WMAN (IEEE International Workshop on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks) 2005
  • WoWMoM (IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks) 2005
  • The 2004 International Workshop on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Interoperability Issues (MANETII'04)
  • Others
    • IASTED CIIT 2004
    • Globecom 2004
  • Lists
  • General List by Networking lab at HUT, Helsinki
  • List by Bikash Agrawal
  • List at ComSoc
• Simulators and tools
  • Network Simulator NS2
  • Glomosim
  • OPNET
  • Rice Monarch Project Wireles and mobility extension to NS2
  • ANSim
  • Mobility Model (obstacle mobility project)