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Cristina Comaniciu received the M.S. degree in electronics from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University in December 2001. From 1998 to 2001 she was with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) at Rutgers University, working on integrated access control and detection algorithms for multimedia CDMA systems. At WINLAB she worked under the supervision of Professor Narayan Mandayam . From 2002 to 2003 she was affiliated with the Electrical Engineering Department at Princeton University as a research associate, working with Professor H. Vincent Poor . Since August 2003, she is an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering . She is a recipient of the WINSEC 2004 award for outstanding contributions, and a co-author of the recent book "Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design", Springer, NY, 2005. She recently won the 2007 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications for the paper "On the Capacity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Delay Constraints", co-authored with H. Vincent Poor. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters Journal.
Her research interests include cooperative protocols for spectrum sharing and interference mitigation, cross-layer design, game theoretic approaches for design of energy aware wireless networks, radio resource management for cellular and ad hoc networks, admission/access control for multimedia wireless systems, and security tradeoffs for wireless networks.
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Research interests:
cross-layer design for wireless networks
game theory for wireless networks
cooperation for spectrum sharing and interference mitigation
radio resource management for cellular and ad hoc networks
security and robustness for wireless ad hoc/sensor networks
admission/access control for multimedia wireless systems
cognitive radio networks
Cross-Layer MAC Optimization for Wireless Sensor
Networks, Sponsored by US Army Picatinny Arsenal, September 2007-August 2008.
DistMO4wNET (Distributed Multiobjective
Optimization for Wireless Networks), postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by the
Marie Curie Program of European Union, April 2007-May 2010.
Cross-Layer
Oprtimization for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Sponsored by Fort Monmouth,
January 2007-August 2007.
"Energy Aware, Secure Adaptive Protocols for Wireless Ad
Hoc Networks", sponsored by Department of the Army, Picatinny Arsenal,
January
2007-December 2007.
“Cross-Layer Cooperation for Energy Efficiency in
Wireless Sensor Networks: Game Theoretic Solutions”, sponsored by the Office of
Naval research (ONR), October 2005 - September 2008.
“Distributed Radio Frequency Access and Networking
Testbed”, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
(AFOSR).
“NeTS:
ProWiN: Programmable Radios: Platforms for Highly Dynamic Networks”, National
Science Foundation (NSF), September 2004-August 2007.
"Optimizing
spreading and channel coding in CDMA wireless ad hoc networks: a cross-layer
perspective", WiNSeC/ US Army TACOM – ARDEC. “Support of Wireless
Network, August 2003-August 2004.
Books and Book Chapters:
Books:
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam and H.V. Poor, "Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design", Springer, NY, May 2005.
A. T. Murgan, R. Dogaru and C. Comaniciu, " Information Theory. Signals, Detection and Estimation", "Politehnica"
Publishing, Bucharest, 1996 (textbook, in romanian).
Book chapters:
N. Nie, C. Comaniciu and P. Agrawal, "A Game Theoretic Approach to Interference Management in Cognitive Networks", in Wireless Communications (The IMA Volumes of Mathematics and its Applications), Springer, November 2006, edited by P. Agrawal, D. M. Andrews, P. J. Fleming, G. Yin, and L. Zhang
C. Comaniciu, "Cooperation for Cognitive Networks: A Game Theoretic Perspective", to appear in "Cognitive Wireless Networks: Concepts, Methodologies and Visions Inspiring the Age of Enlightenment of Wireless Communications", edited by Frank Fitzek and Marcos Katz, Springer, September 2007.
N. Nie, K. Jaffres-Runser, C. Comaniciu, “On the tradeoffs of cross-layer protocols for cognitive radio networks”, in Cognitive Radio Networks ", Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, edited by Yang Xiao and Fei Hu, to appear 2008.
Journal
[15] H. Mahmood, K. Jaffres-Runser and C. Comaniciu, “A Cross-Layer Game Theoretic Solution for Interference Mitigation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, submitted to IEEE JSAC (Journal on Selected Areas in Communications) , special issue on Game Theory in Communication Systems, July 2007.
[14] D. Wang, C. Comaniciu, H. Minn, and N. Al-Dhahir, “A Game-Theoretic Approach for Exploiting Multiuser Diversity in Cooperative Slotted Aloha”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, April 2007.
[13] N. Nie, C. Comaniciu, Y. Xing, R. Chandramouli, "Balancing Load and Energy Efficiency in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: A Joint Routing and Power Control Solution", submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, April 2006.
[12] H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "Interference Aware Cooperative Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", submitted to ELSEVIER, Ad Hoc Neworks Journal, March 2006.
[11] Comaniciu, H. V. Poor, " On Energy-Efficient Hierarchical Cross-Layer Design: ", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, special issue on Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, volume 2007, 2007, Article ID 60707, 9 pages, doi:10.1155/2007/60707.
[10] Y. Liu, C. Comaniciu, H. Man, "Modeling Misbehavior in Ad Hoc Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach for Intrusion Detection", to appear International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), 2006.
[9] N. Nie, C. Comaniciu, "Adaptive Channel Allocation Spectrum Etiquette for Cognitive Radio Networks", to appear in ACM MONET (Mobile Networks and Applications), special issue on "Reconfigurable Radio Technologies in Support of Ubiquitous Seamless Computing", 2006.
[8] D. Wang, C. Comaniciu and U. Tureli, "Cooperation and Fairness for Slotted Aloha" , to appear the Special Issue of Springer Wireless Personal Communications on Cooperation in Wireless Networks, 2006.
[7] N. Nie, C. Comaniciu, "Energy Efficient AODV Routing in CDMA Ad Hoc Networks Using Beamforming", to appear, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2006.
[6] C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "On the Capacity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Delay Constraints" (this paper won 2007 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications) , IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.5, no.8, pp.2061 – 2071, August 2006.
[5] C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "Capacity Regions and Optimal Power Allocation for Groupwise Multiuser Detection", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 4, no 2, pp. 349 - 352, March 2005.
[4] R. M Rao, C. Comaniciu, and T.V. Lakshman, and H.V. Poor, ``Integrated Call Admission Control in DS-CDMA Networks for Multimedia Service'', IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Networking: An Integrated Approach, Volume: 21 , Issue: 5 , Sept. 2004 pp. 51 - 58.
[3] C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "Jointly Optimal Power and Admission Control for Delay Sensitive Traffic in CDMA Networks with LMMSE Receivers", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing in Networking, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 2031 -2042, August 2003.
[2] C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, D. Famolari, P. Agrawal, "Wireless Access to the World Wide Web in an Integrated CDMA System", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 472 -483, May 2003.
[1] C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, "Delta Modulation based Prediction for Access Control in Integrated Voice/Data CDMA Systems", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), vol 18, No 1, January 2000, pp. 112 - 122.
Conference:
[27] C. Demir and C. Comaniciu, "An Auction based AODV Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Selfish Nodes, IEEE ICC 2007.
[26] C. Comaniciu, D. Wang, H. Minn, and N. Al-Dhahiro, "A Game Theoretic Solution for Exploiting Multiuser Diversity in Cooperative Slotted Aloha", IEEE ICC 2007.
[25]N. Nie, C. Comaniciu and P. Agrawal, "A Game Theoretic Approach to Interference Management in Cognitive Networks, student poster WOCC 2007, (this poster won Outstanding Research Poster Award) .
[24] Yu Liu, Cristina Comaniciu and Hong Man, “A Bayesian game approach for intrusion detection in wireless ad hoc networks”, to appear in Proceedings of GameNets (Workshop on Game Theory for Networks), October 2006, Pisa, Italy.
[23] H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "A Cross-Layer Game Theoretic Solution for Interference Mitigation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", invited paper, submitted to IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October 2006.
[22] D. Wang, C. Comaniciu and U. Tureli, "A fair and efficient pricing strategy for slotted Aloha in MPR models", to appear, VTC fall 2006.
[21] Y. Li, H. Man and C. Comaniciu, "A Game Theoretic Approach to Efficient Mixed Strategies for Intrusion Detection ", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006).
[20] D. Wang, C. Comaniciu and U. Tureli, "Cross-Layer Design for Localization and MAC", in Proceedings of CISS (Conference on Information Sciences and Systems), March 2006, Princeton, NJ.
[19] H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "Location Assisted Routing for Near-Far Effect Mitigation in Wireless Networks" , invited paper, IEEE First International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), December 2005.
[18] N. Nie and C. Comaniciu, "Adaptive Channel Allocation Spectrum Etiquette for Cognitive Radio Networks" , in Proceedings of IEEE DySPAN, November 2005.
[17] H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "Interference Aware Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks" , in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October 2005.
[16] N. Nie and C. Comaniciu, "Energy Efficient AODV Routing in CDMA Ad Hoc Networks Using Beamforming" , in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), May-June 2005.
[15] H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "Adaptive spreading/coding gains for energy efficient routing in wireless ad hoc networks", in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), May-June 2005.
[14] Y. Xing, N. Nie and C. Comaniciu, "Avoiding Throughput Bottlenecks for Energy Efficient Joint Power Control and Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks", in Proceedings of CISS (Conference on Information Sciences and Systems), March 2004.
[13] C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "QoS Provisioning for Wireless Ad Hoc Data Networks (invited paper)", 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2003.
[12] C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "On the Performance of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Power Control, Multiuser Detection and User Capacity" (invited paper)", 41st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2003.
[11] C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "Multirate Groupwise MMSE in Multipath Fading Channels: Optimal Power Control and Asymptotic Capacity", in Proceedings of CISS (Conference on Information Sciences and Systems), March 2003.
[10] C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "Optimal Admission Control for Delay Sensitive Traffic in CDMA with LMMSE Receivers", in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2002.
[9] C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "On the Capacity of Mobile Ad hoc Networks with Delay Constraints", in Proceedings of the IEEE CAS Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking, September 2002.
[8] C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, "Integrated Access Control and Multiuser Detection for Multimedia CDMA Systems", in Proceedings of CISS, March 2002.
[7] C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, D. Famolari, P. Agrawal, "QoS Guarantees for Third Generation (3G) CDMA Systems via Admission and Flow Control", in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), September 2000, Boston.
[6] C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, D. Famolari, P. Agrawal, "Admission and Flow Control for Multimedia CDMA" , in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, July-August 2000, New York.
[5] C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, "Prediction Based Access Control in Integrated Voice/Data CDMA Systems", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Vancouver, June '99, vol 3, pp. 1447 - 1451.
[4] C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, "Analysis of a Prediction Based Access Control Mechanism for Short Message Data Service in an Integrated Voice/Data CDMA System", Proceedings of 49th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Houston, May '99, vol 1, pp. 128-132.
[3] V. Tsaoussidis, A. Deka, C. Comaniciu, C. Kulikowski, "Application - Oriented System for Quality of Service (ASQoS)", 6th IEEE Conference on Networks, IEEE ICON '98, Singapore, July 1998, (Book) World Scientific Press: NETWORKS '98, Quality of Service and Resource Sharing, pp. 239-255.
[2] D. Comaniciu and C. Comaniciu, "Vector Quantization Clustering using Lattice Growing Search", Proceedings VIII-th European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO'96), Trieste, Italy, September, vol. 1, pp. 344-346, 1996.
[1] R. Dogaru, A.T. Murgan, C. Comaniciu, "Fast Signal Recognition and Detection Using ART1 Neural Networks and Nonlinear Preprocessing Units Based on Time Delay Embeddings", Proceedings European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN'~96), Bruges, Belgium, April 24-26, pp.309-315, 1996.
Recent Invited Talks:
11. Cooperative routing, invited talk IWWAN, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, NY, June 2006.
10. On cooperation in wireless networks: benefits and tradeoffs, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, NY, April 2006.
9. On cooperation in wireless networks: benefits and tradeoffs, WINLAB seminar, Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, December 2005.
8. Cross-layer design for wireless networks, WINSEC, Stevens Institute of Technology, presentation for Lockheed Martin visitors, January 2004.
7. Cross-layer design for wireless networks, WINSEC, Stevens Institute of Technology, presentation for US Army CERDEC visitors from Forth Monmouth, October 2004.
6. Joint power control and routing with energy constraints in ad hoc networks for data service, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, December 2003 (presented by my student).
5. Cross-layer design in wireless networks, University of Delaware, March 2003.
4. Cross-layer design in CDMA wireless networks, Department seminar, Lehigh University, March 2003.
3. Cross-layer design in wireless networks, Drexel University, February 2003.
2. Cross-Layer Design in CDMA Wireless Networks, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, February 2003.
1. Integrated Access Control and Detection for QoS in Multimedia CDMA Networks, IEEE North Jersey Section Communication Society and NJIT, May 2002.
Registration Deadline:
Monday, October 1, 2007.
Students MUST register the qualifying exam with Cecilia before the deadline, including your name, choice of subjects in Part I and part II.
Exam Dates:
Monday, October 15, 2007 – Part I
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 – Part II
Exam Time:
1:00PM – 5:00PM
Exam Room:
To be decided. Students will be informed the exam room one week in advance.
Special Notes:
This is a CLOSED book exam (No books or notes permitted);
Calculator is allowed;
No cell phones and other portable electronic devices;
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Part I (Required)
1. Analytic Methods; Professor Y. Guo
Textbook: Lancaster & Tismenetsky, The Theory of Matrices, Academic Press, 1985, Chapters l-5, 9, and 13.
2. Linear Systems; Professor Y. Yao
Textbook: A. Papoulis, Signal Analysis, McGraw Hill, 1988, Part 1 & Part 2, i.e., Chapters 1-8.
3. Probability and Stochastic Processes; Professor Heffes
Textbook:
Leon-Garcia, Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering, 2nd ed, Addison Wesley, 1994; or
S. Ross, A First Course in Probability, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997
Part II (Choose any TWO subjects):
1. Digital Signal Processing; Prof. H. Li
Textbook: Sanjit K. Mitra, Digital Signal Processing - A Computer-Based Approach, 3e with DSP Laboratory using MATLAB, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill (Chapters 2 to 10).
2. Communications; Prof. Yao
Textbook:
3. Networks; Prof. Chandramouli
Textbook:
4. Control Systems, Prof. Y. Guo
Textbook: G. F. Franklin, J. D. Powell and A. Emami-Naeini, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Prentice-Hall, Chapters 1-5, 7, 9.
FAQ:
Q: When will next qualifying exam be offered?
A: For the past few years, we typically offer two exams per year, one in the Spring semester and the other in the Fall semester. The frequency of the exam might be changed in the future to once per year. Currently there is no plan for such a change. An announcement will be made from the ECE department office (e-mail) a few months before each qualifying exam.
Q: What courses should I take before selecting the EE subjects (Part II)?
A: EE subjects (Part II) are research subject oriented. The intention is to decouple each subject with individual courses.
Q: What are the typical courses covering each subject?
A: Consult the professor for each subject.
Q: How do I know the coverage for each subject?
A: Look into the textbook(s) specified.
Q: What kind of questions can I expect and can I get copies of past exam papers?
A: You may discuss with the professor for each subject and obtain old exam papers from the department office (Cecilia Jololian).