Publications

Jounal Papers

• Q. Han and N. Venkatasubramanian: Information Collection Services for QoS-aware Mobile Applications. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.To appear

•  N. Venkatasubramanian, C. Talcott, G. Agha: A Formal Model for Reasoning about Adaptive QoS-Enabled Middleware. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 13, No.1, January 2004.

• S. Mohapatra, C. Periera, N. Dutt, R. Gupta and N. Venkatasubramanian: Energy-Aware Adaptation for End-to-end Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices. Ultra Low Power Electronics and Design. Chapter 14. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

• Z. Fu and N. Venkatasubramanian: An Evaluation of Composite Routing and Scheduling Policies for Dynamic Multimedia Environments. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 2004.

• S. Pasricha, M. Luthra. S. Mohapatra, N. Dutt and N. Venkatasubramanian: Dynamic Backlight Adaptation for Low-Power Handheld Devices. IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Special Issue on Embedded Systems for Real Time Embedded Systems. 2004.

• I. Lazaridis, Q. Han, X. Yu, S. Mehrotra, N. Venkatasubramanian, D. Kalashnikov and W. Yang: QUASAR: Quality Aware Sensing Architecture. ACM SIGMOD Record. March 2004.

• Q. Han, S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and N. Venkatasubramanian: Reflective Middleware for Integrating Network Monitoring with Adaptive Object Messaging. IEEE Network, Special issue on Middleware Technologies for Future Communications Networks. January-Februray, 2004.

• S. Pasricha, S. Mohapatra, M. Luthra, N. Dutt and N. Venkatasubramanian: Co-optimization of Streaming Multimedia QOS and Backlight Power Consumption for Mobile Handheld Devices. Journal of the Korean Multimedia Society. December 2003

• X. Yu, K. Niyogi, S. Mehrotra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Adaptive Middleware for Distributed Sensor Environments. Middleware2003 WiP paper, IEEE DS Online, Vol. 4, No.5, May 2003

• N. Venkatasubramanian: Safe Composability of Middleware Services. Communications of the ACM. June 2002.

• Q. Han and N. Venkatasubramanian: Aggregation Based Information Collection for Mobile Environments. Journal of High Speed Networks, Vol. 11, No. 3-4, 2002.

• M. El Zarki, S. Mehrotra, G. Tsudik and N. Venkatasubramanian: Security Issues in a Future Vehicular Network. EuroWireless, February 2002

• Q. Han and N. Venkatasubramanian: AutoSeC: An Integrated Middleware Framework for Dynamic Service Brokering. Middleware WiP paper, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 2, No.7. November, 2001.

• N. Venkatasubramanian and C. Talcott: A Semantic Framework for Modeling and Reasoning about Reflective Middleware. IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 2, No. 6. October, 2001.

• N. Venkatasubramanian, G. Agha and C. Talcott: Scalable Concurrent Computing . Invited paper, Journal of The Indian Academy of Sciences, March 1992

Conference/Workshop Papers

• K. Lee, N. Dutt and N. Venkatasubramanian: An Experimental Study on Energy Consumption of Video Encryption for Mobile Handheld Devices . Poster Paper, ICME July 2005

• M. Kim, H. Oh, N. Dutt, A. Nicolau and N. Venkatasubramanian: Probability Based Power Aware Error Resilient Coding. First International Workshop on Services and Infrastructures for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet (SIUMI'05) in conjunction with ICDCS, Jun. 2005.

• S. Mohapatra, R. Cornea, H. Oh, K. Lee, M. Kim, N. Dutt, R. Gupta, A. Nicolau, S. Shukla and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Cross-Layer Approach for Power-Performance Optimization in Distributed Mobile Systems . NSF Next Generation Software Program in conjunction with IPDPS, April 2005.

• Y. Huang, S. Mohapatra and N. Venkatasubramanian: An Energy Efficient Middleware for Supporting Multimedia Services in Mobile Grid Environments. IEEE ITCC. April 2005.

• L. Cheng, S. Bossi, S. Mohapatra, M. El Zarki, N. Venkatasubramanian and N. Dutt: Quality Adapted Backlight Sealing (QABS) for Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices. IEEE/IEE/LNCS ICN. April 2005. 

• Q. Han, I. Lazaridis, S. Mehrotra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Sensor Data Collection with Reliability Guarantees. IEEE PerSeNS (in conjunction with PerCom). March 2005.

• J. Wickramsuriya, M. Alhazzazi, M.Datt, S. Mehrotra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Privacy Preserving Video Surveillance. SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging. January 2005.

• J. Wickramasuriya and N. Venkatasubramanian: Dynamic Access Control for Ubiqitous Environments. International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA 2004). October, 2004.

• S. Mohapatra and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Game Theoretic Approach for Power Aware Middleware. ACM/IFIP/USENIX 5th International Middleware Conference. October, 2004.

• V. Balasubramanian and N. Venkatasubramanian: GURU: A Multimedia Distance-Learning Framework for Users with Disabilities. Demo. ACM Multimedia. October, 2004.

• J. Wickramasuriya, M. Datt, S. Mehrotra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Privacy Protecting Data Collection in Media Spaces. ACM Multimedia. October, 2004.

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco, N. Venkatasubramanian, M.-O. Stehr and C. Talcott: Exploring Adaptability of Secure Group Communication using Formal Prototyping Techniques. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (Middleware 2004). October, 2004.

• M. Deshpande and N. Venkatasubramanian: The Different Dimensions of Dynamicity. The 4th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems. July, 2004.

• S. Mehrotra, C. Butts, D. Kalashnikov, N. Venkatasubramanian, J. Wickramasuriya: CAMAS: A Citizen Awareness System for Crisis Mitigation. Demo. ACM SIGMOD. June, 2004.

• V. Balasubramanian, D. Massaguer and N. Venkatasubramanian: Adapting Multimedia Data for Users with Motor Impairments in GURU. Poster Paper, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME-2004). June, 2004.

• Q. Han, M. Nguyen, S. Irani and N. Venkatasubramanian: Time-sensitive Computation of Aggregate Function over Distributed Approximate Data. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS). April, 2004.

• Q. Han, S. Mehrotra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Energy Efficient Data Collection in Distributed Sensor Environments. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). March, 2004.

• H. V. Antwerpen, N. Dutt, R. Gupta, S. Mohapatra, C. Periera, N. Venkatasubramanian and R. V. Vignau, Platforms and Tools for Energy-Efficient Design of Multimedia Systems. Design Automation and Test in Europe(DATE), March 2004

• S. Mohapatra, C. Bell and N. Venkatasubramanian: Device Independent Remote Adaptations for Power Optimization using Distributed Middleware. Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, January, 2004.

• X. Yu, K. Niyogi, S. Mehrotra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Adaptive Target Tracking in Sensor Networks . Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, January, 2004.

• S. Mehrotra, C.T. Butts, D. Klashnikov and N. Venkatasubramanian et al: Project RESCUE: Challenges in Responding to the Unexpected. IS&T/SPIE International Conference on Internet Imaging, January 2004.

• R. Cornea, S. Mohapatra, N. Dutt, A. Nicolau and N. Venkatasubramanian: Managing Cross-Layer Constraints for Interactive Mobile Multimedia. IEEE Workshop on Constraint-Aware Embedded Software. December, 2003.

• Y. Huang and N. Venkatasubramanian: Supporting Mobile Multimedia Services with Intermittently Available Grid Resources. International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC). December 2003.

• Q. Han and N. Venkatasubramanian: Addressing Timeliness/Accuracy/Cost Tradeoffs in Information Collection for Dynamic Environments. The 24th IEEE International Real-time Systems Symposium (RTSS). December, 2003.

• S. Mohapatra, R. Cornea, N. Dutt, A. Nicolau and N. Venkatasubramanian: Integrated Power Management for Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices. ACM Multimedia '03 (Systems Track) (ACM SIGMM-03). November, 2003.

• S. Mohapatra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Proactive Energy-Aware Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices. Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN 2003). October 2003.

• S. Pasricha, S. Mohapatra, M. Luthra, N. Dutt and N. Venkatasubramanian: Reducing Backlight Power Consumption for Streaming Video Applications on Mobile Handheld Devices. ACM/IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia, CODES-ISSS 2003). October, 2003.

• R. Cornea, N. Dutt, R. Gupta, S. Mohapatra, A. Nicolau, C. Pereira, S. Shukla and N. Venkatasubramanian: ServiceFORGE: A Software Architecture for Power and Quality Aware Services. Workshop at the International FME Symposium. September, 2003.

• R. Cornea, S. Mohapatra, N. Dutt, A. Nicolau and N. Venkatasubramanian: Power-Aware Multimedia Streaming in Heterogenous Multi-User Environments. IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Concurrent Information Processing and Computing (CIPC 2003). July, 2003.

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco, A. Weitzenfeld and N. Venkatasubramanian: Controlling Mobile Robots with Distributed Neuro-Biological Systems. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on Autonomous Intelligent Networks and Systems (AINS'03). July, 2003.

• A. Weitzenfeld , S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and N. Venkatasubramanian: MIRO: An Embedded Distributed Architecture for Biologically inspired Mobile Robots. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'03). July,2003. [ video]

• Cornea, Mohapatra, Dutt, Gupta, Kreuger, Nicolau, Schmidt, Shukla and Venkatasubramanian: A Model-Based Approach to System Specification for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems. 9th IEEE Real-time/Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium Workshop on Model-Driven Embedded Systems, (RTAS 2003). May, 2003.

• S. Mohapatra and N. Venkatasubramanian: PARM: Power Aware Reconfigurable Middleware. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems (ICDCS-23), May 2003.

• V. Balasubramanian and N. Venkatasubramanian: Adapting a Multimedia Distance Learning Environment for Vision Impairments. ITCC, April, 2003.

• V. Balasubramanian and N. Venkatasubramanian: Server Transcoding of Multimedia Information for Cross Disability Access. ACM/SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2003). January, 2003.

• J. Wickramasuriya, Q. Han and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Directory-Based Approach to Distributed Systems Middleware. IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2003), January, 2003.

• Y. Huang and N. Venkatasubramanian: Data Placement in Intermittently Available Environments. International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC). December, 2002.

• J. Wickramasuriya and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Middleware Approach to Access Control for Mobile Concurrent Objects. International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA 2002). October, 2002.

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Reflective Middleware Framework for Communication in Dynamic Environments. International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'02). October, 2002.

• Q. Han and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Cost Driven Approach to Information Collection for Mobile Environments. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN). September, 2002.

• Y. Huang and N. Venkatasubramanian: QoS-based Resource Discovery in Intermittently Available Environments. IEEE 11th High Performance Distributed Computing. July, 2002.

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and N. Venkatasubramanian: Reachability Snapshots in the Presence of Failures: An exercise in Protocol-Service Composition. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Workshop on Dependable Middleware-Based Systems, June 2002.

• S. Mohapatra and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Distributed Adaptive Scheduler for QoS Support in Compose|Q. Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2002). January, 2002.

• S. Irani and N. Venkatasubramanian: Semi-continuous Transmission in Cluster-Based Video Servers. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'2001). October, 2001.

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and N. Venkatasubramanian: Design Patterns for Safe Reflective Middleware . ACM OOPSLA Workshop on Patterns and Pattern Languages for OO Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems, October 2001.

• X. Wei and N. Venkatasubramanian: Predictive Fault Tolerant Placement in Distributed Video Servers. IEEE ICME, August 2001.

• N. Venkatasubramanian, M. Deshpande, S. Mohapatra, S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and J. Wickramasuriya: Design and Implementation of a Composable Reflective Middleware Framework. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001). April, 2001.

• Z. Fu and N. Venkatasubramanian: Adaptive Parameter Collection in Dynamic Distributed Environments. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems (ICDCS 2001). April, 2001.

• Z. Fu and N. Venkatasubramanian: Directory Based Composite Routing and Scheduling Policies for Dynamic Multimedia Environments. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). April, 2001.

• N. Venkatasubramanian, C. Talcott and G. Agha: A Formal Model for Reasoning about Adaptive QoS-Enabled Middleware. Formal Methods Europe (FME 2001). Humboldt-Universit zu Berlin, Germany. March, 2001.

• X. Wei and N. Venkatasubramanian: Middleware Services for Fault Tolerant Multimedia Applications. Short Paper. IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing. 2000.

• N. Venkatasubramanian and C. Talcott: A Reflective Framework For Providing Safe QoS-enabled Customizable Middleware. IFIP/ACM Workshop on Reflective Middleware (RM2000). April, 2000.

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Composable Reflective Communication Framework. IFIP/ACM Workshop on Reflective Middleware (RM2000). April, 2000.

• N. Venkatasubramanian, G. Agha and C. Talcott: A MetaObject Framework for QoS-Based Distributed Resource Management. Third International Symposium on Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE'99). December, 1999.

• Z. Fu and N. Venkatasubramanian: Combined Path and Server Selection in Dynamic Multimedia Environments. ACM Multimedia. November, 1999.

• N. Venkatasubramanian and C. Talcott: A Semantic Framework for Specifying Composable Distributed Resource Management Activities.14th IFIP International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques (WADT '99). September, 1999.

• N. Venkatasubramanian: ComPOSE|Q - A QoS-enabled Customizable Middleware Framework for Distributed Computing. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). Distributed Middleware Workshop. June, 1999.

• N. Venkatasubramanian, G. Agha and C. Talcott: Composable QoS Based Distributed Resource Management. Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures. Monterey, CA. January 1998.

• N. Venkatasubramanian and K. Nahrstedt: An Integrated Metric for Video QoS . ACM Multimedia, November 1997

• N. Venkatasubramanian and G. Agha: An Actor-Based Framework for Managing Multimedia QoS . Proceedings of Multimedia Information Systems Conference 1997(MISC'97).

• S. Ren, N. Venkatasubramanian, G. Agha: Formalizing QoS Constraints Using Actors . IFIP FMOODS, September 1997

• N. Venkatasubramanian and S. Ramanathan : Load Management for Distributed Video Servers . IEEE ICDCS, May 1997

• N. Venkatasubramanian and C. Talcott: Meta Architectures for Resource Management in Open Distributed Systems . ACM PODC, August 1995

• P. Garg, A. Shepherd, S. Frolund and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Model Based Approach for Distributed Applications Stability Engineering . California Symposium on Software Engineering, 1994

• N. Venkatasubramanian and C. Talcott: A Meta Architecture for Scalable Distributed Resource Management . HICSS, January 1993

• N. Venkatasubramanian, G. Agha and C. Talcott: Scalable Distributed Garbage Collection for Systems of Active Objects . IFIP International Workshop on Memory Management, September 1992

Technical Reports

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco, N. Venkatasubramanian, M.-O. Stehr and C. Talcott: A  Formal Methods Approach to Adaptive Secure Group Communication, Technical Report  DSM-TR-08, CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. November, 2004.

• M. Domenichini, J. Wickramasuriya and N. Venkatasubramanian: Multilevel Security for Mobile Agents. Technical Report DSM-TR-05, CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. July 2004

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco, N. Venkatasubramanian and C. Talcott: A Semantic Model for Safe Protocol Interaction, Technical Report  DSM-TR-07, CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. January, 2004.

• J. Wickramasuriya and N. Venkatasubramanian: Supporting Timely Revocation in Highly Mobile Environments. Technical Report DSM-TR-04, CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. August, 2003.

• R. Cornea, S. Mohapatra, N. Dutt, A. Nicolau and N. Venkatasubramanian: Integrated Power Management for Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices. CECS/CSN Technical Report #03-19, University of California, Irvine, CA. April, 2003.

• M. Panahi, S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and N. Venkatasubramanian: Adaptive Protocol Management in Resource Constrained Devices. Technical Report  DSM-TR-06, CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. April, 2003.

• N. Venkatasubramanian, S. Gutierrez-Nolasco, S. Mohapatra and J. Wickramasuriya: Design and Implementation of a Safe Reflective Middleware Framework. Technical Report DSM-TR-03, CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. January, 2003.

• S. Mohapatra, C. Bell and N. Venkatasubramanian: A Middleware based Distributed Dynamic Voltage Scaling Approach for Real Time Embedded Systems. Technical Report DSM_TR03-06,  CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. January, 2003.

• S. Mohapatra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Adaptive Middleware Techniques for Power Optimization in Ubiquitous Environments. Technical Report DSM_TR03-05,  CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. December, 2002.

• S. Mohapatra and N. Venkatasubramanian: Optimizing Power using Reconfigurable Middleware. Technical Report DSM_TR03-04, CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. November, 2002.

• S. Gutierrez-Nolasco and N.  Venkatasubramanian: A Composable Reflective Communication Framework for Distributed Environments. Technical Report TR-DSM-01, CSN, University of California, Irvine, CA. May, 2001.

• N. Venkatasubramanian: On CPU Utilization Issues in Scalable Video Servers . HP Laboratories Internal Report

• N. Venkatasubramanian: Real-time Operating Systems for Scalable Video Servers . HP Laboratories Internal Report

• N. Venkatasubramanian and C. Talcott: A Formal Correctness Proof for the Hierarchical Distributed Garbage Collection Algorithm . Work in Progress, Stanford University.

• N. Venkatasubramanian: Fifth Generation Architectures . IEEE National Level Student Paper Contest, Oct. 1988 - Best Paper Award.

• N. Venkatasubramanian: Functional Languages, Implementations, Architectures . Computer Society of India Paper Contest, Aug 1988 - Best Paper Award

• N. Venkatasubramanian: Dataflow Computation - A Candidate for Fifth Generation Computing Systems .Computer Society of India Symposium, June 1987