Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Ottawa, Canada

Dr. Thomas Kunz: List of Publications

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Books and Book Chapters

  1. Thomas Kunz, Abdulbaset Gaddah, and Li Li, "Mobility support in a P2P system for publish/subscribe applications", in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing for Next Generation Distributed Environments: Advancing Conceptual and Algorithmic Applications, edited by Boon-Chong Seet, pp. 68-93, Information Science Reference 2009, ISBN 978-1-60566-715-7.
  2. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "Topology-transparent scheduling protocols for QoS-robust wireless ad hoc and sensor networks", in Wireless Quality of Service: Techniques, Standards and Applications, edited by Maode Ma, Mieso Denko, and Yan Zhang, pp. 219-249, Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group 2009, ISBN 978-1-4200-5130-8.
  3. Thomas Kunz and S.S. Ravi, editors, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4104, Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-37246-4.
  4. Thomas Kunz and Abdulbaset Gaddah, "Adaptive mobile applications", in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, pp. 47-52, Idea Group Publishing 2005, ISBN 1-59140-553-X. Second edition published September 2008, ISBN 978-1-60566-026-4.
  5. Thomas Kunz, Salim Omar, and Xinan Zhou, "Mobile agents for adaptive mobile applications", in Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, edited by Eric Horlait, pp. 61-75, Hermes Penton Science 2002, ISBN 1903996287.
  6. Thomas Kunz, "Multicasting: From fixed networks to ad hoc networks", in Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, edited by Ivan Stojmenovic, pp. 495-507, John Wiley & Sons 2002, ISBN 0-471-41902-8.
  7. Thomas Kunz, "Adaptive mobile applications: Experiences with an approach based on mobile code", in Managing Telecommunications and Networking Technologies in the 21st Century: Issues and Trends, edited by Dr. Gerald Grant, pp. 45-63, Idea Group Publishing 2001, ISBN 1-878289-96-9.
  8. Thomas Kunz, "The influence of different workload descriptions on a heuristic load balancing scheme", in Scheduling and Load Balancing in Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 497 - 502, IEEE Computer Society Press 1995, ISBN 0-8186-65874.
    Reprint of the paper in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 725-730, July 1991.

Publications in Refereed Journals

  1. Thomas Kunz and Rana Alhalimi, "Energy-efficient proactive routing in MANET: Energy metrics accuracy", to appear in Ad Hoc Networks, accepted January 2010, 24 pp in ms. DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2010.02.004
  2. Weishan Zhang, Klaus Marius Hansen, and Thomas Kunz, "Enhancing intelligence and dependability of a product line enabled pervasive middleware", to appear in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, accepted July 2009, 35 pp in ms. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2009.07.002
  3. Ereth McKnight-MacNeil, Carlos H. Rentel, and Thomas Kunz, "Behavior of clock-sampling mutual network synchronization in wireless sensor networks: Convergence and security", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, special issue on Recent Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks, Vol. 10, No. 1, pages 158-170, January 2010. DOI: 10.1002/wcm.905
  4. Abdulbaset Gaddah, Li Li, and Thomas Kunz, "Subscriber mobility management for a P2P publish/subscribe overlay in mobile tactical networks", Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer US, Vol. 2, No. 3, pages 267-280, 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s12083-009-0038-6
  5. Li Li and Thomas Kunz, "Cooperative node localization using non-linear data projection", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 5, No. 1, Article 1, February 2009. DOI: 10.1145/1464420.1464421
  6. Thomas Kunz, "Energy-efficient routing in MANETs: A cautionary tale", invited paper, International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAASCS), Vol. 2, No. 1, pages 70-86, 2009. DOI: 10.1504/IJAACS.2009.024284
  7. David Kidston and Thomas Kunz, "Challenges and opportunities in managing maritime networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 10, pages 162-168, October 2008. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2008.4644135
  8. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "A mutual network synchronization method for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 7, No. 5, pages 633-646, May 2008. DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.70787
  9. Yasser L. Morgan and Thomas Kunz, "PYLON-Lite: QoS model for gateways to ad-hoc networks", Special issue on Recent Advances in Wireless Networks and Systems, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1-3, pages 193-211, 2006.
  10. Yasser Gadallah and Thomas Kunz, "A protocol independent energy saving technique for mobile ad hoc networks", Special Issue on Mobile and Wireless Networking, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), Vol. 4, No. 1/2, pages 39-50, 2006.
  11. Thomas Kunz, "Mobile code middleware for mobile multimedia information access", ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 68-70, October 2002.
  12. Liang Qin and Thomas Kunz, "Pro-active route maintenance in DSR", ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 79-89, July 2002.
  13. Thomas Kunz, Atif A. Siddiqi, and John Scourias, "The peril of evaluating location management proposals through simulations", Wireless Networks, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 635-643, November 2001.
  14. Thomas Kunz, Salim Omar, and Xinan Zhou, "Mobile agents for adaptive mobile applications", Networking and Information Systems Journal, Vol. 3, No. 5/6, pp. 709-723, 2000.
  15. Thomas Kunz and Marc Khouzam, "Concurrent single stepping in event-visualization tools", Cluster Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 231-243, 2000.
  16. Thomas Kunz, James P. Black, David J. Taylor, and Twan Basten, "POET: Target-system-independent visualizations of complex distributed-application executions. Computer Journal, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 499-512, February 1998.
  17. Twan Basten, Thomas Kunz, James P. Black, Mike H. Coffin and David J. Taylor, "Vector time and causality among abstract events in distributed computations", Distributed Computing, pp. 21-39, November 1997.
  18. Michael A. Bauer, Richard B. Bunt, Asham El Rayess, Patrick J. Finnigan, Thomas Kunz, Hanan L. Lutfiyya, Andrew D. Marshall, Patrick Martin, Gregory M. Oster, Wendy Powley, Jerome Rolia, David Taylor, and C. Murray Woodside, "Services supporting management of distributed applications and systems", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 508-526
  19. Thomas Kunz, "High-level views of distributed executions: Convex abstract events", Journal of Automated Software Engineering, special issue on Automated Debugging, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 179 -197, April 1997.
  20. Thomas Kunz and James P. Black, "Using automatic process clustering for design recovery and distributed debugging", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 515 - 527, June 1995.
  21. Thomas Kunz and James P. Black, "Understanding the behaviour of distributed applications through reverse-engineering", Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 345 - 353, December 1994.
  22. Thomas Kunz, "Reverse engineering distributed applications: An event abstraction tool", International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 303 - 323, September 1994.
  23. Thomas Kunz, "The influence of different workload descriptions on a heuristic load balancing scheme", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 725-730, July 1991.
  24. Hans-Christian Pfohl, Norbert Linn, and Thomas Kunz, "Zum Problem der Unabhaengigkeit der Determinanten von Reorganisationsprozessen", Journal fuer Betriebswirtschaft pp. 220 - 243, Heft 4-5, 1989. (English translation: Some comments on the independence of success factors in reorganisation processes, Journal of Business Science.)

Refereed Conference and Workshop Publications

  1. Abdulbaset Gaddah, Thomas Kunz, and Ross Kouhi, "Scalable semantic overlay routing in MANETs," to appear in Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Communications Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2010), Montreal, Canada, May 2010.
  2. Xiaoying Zhang, Thomas Kunz, Li Li, and Oliver Yang, "An energy-efficient broadcast protocol in MANETs: Design and evaluation," to appear in Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Communications Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2010), Montreal, Canada, May 2010.
  3. Raheleh Niati, Amir H.Banihashemi, and Thomas Kunz, "On code design in joint MAC scheduling and wireless network coding," to appear in Proceedings of 25th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Canada, May 2010.
  4. Shafagh Alikhani, Marc St-Hilaire, and Thomas Kunz, "iCCA-MAP: A new mobile node localization algorithm," Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2009), Marrakech, Morocco, pages 382-387, October 2009.
  5. Li Li and Thomas Kunz, "Efficient mobile networking for tactical radios", Proceedings of the 2009 Military Communications Conference (Milcom 2009), Boston, USA, October 2009.
  6. Gerhard Hasslinger and Thomas Kunz, "Challenges for routing and search in dynamic and self-organizing networks," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5793, Murcia, Spain, pages 42-54, September 2009.
  7. Ereth McKnight-MacNeil and Thomas Kunz, "Behavior of clock-sampling mutual network synchronization in wireless sensor networks", Proceedings of the 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Leipzig, Germany, pages 633-638, June 2009.
  8. Abdulbaset Gaddah and Thomas Kunz, "A pro-active mobility management scheme for Pub/Sub systems using neighborhood graph", Proceedings of the 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Leipzig, Germany, pages 1-6, June 2009.
  9. David Knox and Thomas Kunz, "Secure authentication in wireless sensor networks using RF fingerprints", Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, Shanghai, China, pages 230-237, December 2008.
  10. Li Li, Abdulbaset Gaddah, and Thomas Kunz, "Mobility support in tactical P2P Publish/Subscriber overlay", Proceedings of the 2008 Military Communications Conference (Milcom 2008), San Diego, USA, November 2008.
  11. David Kidston and Thomas Kunz, "Evaluation of a resource reservation service for maritime mobile networks", Proceedings of the 2008 Military Communications Conference (Milcom 2008), San Diego, USA, November 2008.
  12. David Kidston and Thomas Kunz, "Towards network simulations credibility: Lessons from applying five key principles", Proceedings of the 2008 Military Communications Conference (Milcom 2008), San Diego, USA, November 2008.
  13. Abdulbaset Gaddah and Thomas Kunz, "Subscriber mobility in pub/sub systems: Pro-active vs. reactive handoffs", Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008), Avignon, France, October 2008.
  14. Thomas Kunz, "Accurately predicting residual energy levels in MANETs", Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008), Avignon, France, October 2008.
  15. David Knox and Thomas Kunz, "RF fingerprints for secure authentication in single-hop WSN", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, Avignon, France, October 2008.
  16. Liang Qin and Thomas Kunz, "Adaptive MANET routing: A case study", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5198, Sophia-Antipolis, France, pages 43-57, September 2008.
  17. Thomas Kunz, "Energy-efficient Variations of OLSR", Proceedings of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2008), Crete, Greece, pages 517-522, August 2008.
  18. Thomas Kunz, "Energy-efficient MANET Routing: Ideal vs. realistic performance", Proceedings of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2008), Crete, Greece, pages 786-793, August 2008.
  19. David Kidston and Thomas Kunz, "Using simulation to evaluate traffic engineering management services in maritime networks", Proceedings of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference, Military Modeling and Simulation Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, pages 699-706, April 2008. Winner of the Best Paper Award.
  20. Abdulbaset Gaddah and Thomas Kunz, "A pro-active mobility extension for pub/sub systems", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria, Article No. 32, February 2008.
  21. Gerhard Hasslinger and Thomas Kunz, "Efficiency of search methods in dynamic wireless networks", Proceedings of the Fourth EuroFGI Workshop on Wireless and Mobility, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5122, Barcelona, Spain, pages 142-156, January 2008.
  22. David Kidston, Isabelle Labbe, Francis St-Onge, and Thomas Kunz, "A policy-based resource reservation service for maritime tactical networks", Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2007), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4787, San Jose, USA, pages 149-160, November 2007.
  23. Rana Alhalimi and Thomas Kunz, "Energy level accuracy in mobile ad-hoc networks using OLSR", Proceedings of the Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference, Austin, USA, October 2007.
  24. Li Li and Thomas Kunz, "Localization applying an efficient neural network mapping", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems, Rome, Italy, Article No. 1, October 2007.
  25. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "Clock-sampling mutual network synchronization for mobile multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks", Proceedings of the 2007 Military Communications Conference (Milcom 2007), Orlando, USA, October 2007.
  26. Li Li and Thomas Kunz, "Cooperative node localization for tactical wireless sensor networks", Proceedings of the 2007 Military Communications Conference (Milcom 2007), Orlando, USA, October 2007.
  27. Thomas Kunz and Rana Alhalimi, "Load-balanced routing in wireless networks: State information accuracy using OLSR," Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2007), New York, USA, October 2007.
  28. Thomas Kunz and Hao Zhang, "Transport layer fairness and congestion control in multihop wireless networks", Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2007), New York, USA, October 2007.
  29. Weishan Zhang, Dong Han, Thomas Kunz, and Klaus Marius Hansen, "Mobile game development: Object-orientation (OO) or not", Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Beijing, China, pages 601-608, July 2007.
  30. Weishan Zhang, Thomas Kunz, and Klaus Marius Hansen, "Product line enabled intelligent mobile middleware", Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Interational Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2007), Auckland, New Zealand, pages 148-157, July 2007.
  31. Weishan Zhang, Dong Han, Thomas Kunz, and Klaus Marius Hansen, "Object-orientation is evil to mobile game: Experience from industrial mobile RPGs", Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, Deagu, South Korea, pages 1-12, May 2007.
  32. Weishan Zhang and Thomas Kunz, "Enhancing the intelligence of mobile middleware environment", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Context Management for Self-Managing Systems (Devices, Applications, and Networks) (CASEMANS), Toronto, Canada, pages 46-61, May 2007.
  33. Weishan Zhang and Thomas Kunz, "Product line based ontology development for semantic web service", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2006), Shanghai, China, pages 183-186, October 2006.
  34. Weishan Zhang and Thomas Kunz, "Product line based ontology reuse in context-aware e-business environment", Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Shanghai, China, pages 138-145, October 2006.
  35. Pedro E. Villanueva-Pena, Thomas Kunz, and Pramod Dhakal, "Extending network knowledge: Making OLSR a Quality of Service conducive protocol", Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, Vancouver, Canada, pages 103-108, July 2006.
  36. Mohamed Abou El Saoud, Thomas Kunz, and Samy Mahmoud, "SLPManet: Service location protocol for MANET", Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, Vancouver, Canada, pages 701-706, July 2006.
  37. Liang Qian and Thomas Kunz, "Mobility metrics for adaptive routing", Proceedings of the 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Volume 3, pages 803-808, June 2006.
  38. Mohamed Abou El Saoud, Thomas Kunz, and Samy Mahmoud, "BENCHManet: An evaluation framework for service discovery protocols in MANET", Proceedings of the 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Volume 3, pages 860-865, June 2006.
  39. Yasser Gadallah and Thomas Kunz, "An evaluation study of a fair energy-efficient technique for mobile ad hoc networks", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2006), Montreal, Canada, pages 77-84, June 2006.
  40. Pedro E. Villanueva-Pena, Thomas Kunz, and Pramod Dhakal, "Extended topology knowledge for localization and Quality of Service with OLSR", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2006), Montreal, Canada, pages 449-456, June 2006.
  41. Liang Qin and Thomas Kunz, "Mobility metrics to enable adaptive routing in MANET", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2006), Montreal, Canada, pages 1-8, June 2006.
  42. Weishan Zhang and Thomas Kunz, "A product line enhanced Unified Process", Proceedings of the Software Process Workshop/Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling (SPW/ProSim 2006), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3966, Shanghai, China, pages 142-148, May 2006.
  43. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "MAC coding for QoS guarantees in multi-hop mobile wireless networks", Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks, Montreal, Canada, pages 39-46, October 2005.
  44. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "Reed-Solomon and Hermitian code-based scheduling protocols for wireless ad hoc networks," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3738), Cancun, Mexico, pages 221-234, October 2005, ISBN 3-540-29132-6.
  45. Yasser L. Morgan and Thomas Kunz, "A proposal for an ad-hoc network QoS gateway", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2005), Montreal, Canada, pages 221-228, August 2005.
  46. Thomas Kunz, "On the inadequacy of MANET routing to efficiently use the wireless capacity", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2005), Montreal, Canada, pages 109-116, August 2005.
  47. Xiaojing Tao, Thomas Kunz, and David Falconer, "Traffic Balancing in wireless MESH networks", Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (WirelessCom 2005), Maui, USA, vol. 1, pages 169-174, June 2005.
  48. Xiaojing Tao, Thomas Kunz, and David Falconer, "Throughput maximizing routing in a MANET: Protocol and analysis", Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (WirelessCom 2005), Maui, USA, vol. 1, pages 175-180, June 2005.
  49. Furqan Haq and Thomas Kunz, "Simulation vs. emulation: Evaluating mobile ad hoc network routing protocols", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (IWWAN 2005), London, England, May 2005. Winner of a Best Student Paper Award, see http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/IWWAN2005/html/present.html.
  50. Yasser L. Morgan and Thomas Kunz, "A design framework for wireless MANET QoS gateway", Proceedings of the Sixth Internationl Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing and First ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN 2005), Maryland, USA, pages 420-427, May 2005.
  51. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "A clock-sampling mutual network synchronization algorithm for wireless ad hoc networks", Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2005, New Orleans, USA, pages 638-644, March 2005.
  52. Thomas Kunz, "Implementation vs. simulation: Evaluating a MANET multicast protocol", Proceedings of the Global Mobile Congress 2004, Shanghai, China, pages 129-134, October 2004, Delson Group 2004.
  53. Yasser Gadallah and Thomas Kunz, "PIES: Protocol independent energy saving algorithm", Proceedings of the 2004 Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networking, Montreal, Canada, pages 4-12, August 2004, IEEE Computer Society Press 2004, ISBN 0-7695-2198-3.
  54. Thomas Kunz, "Multicast vs. broadcast in a MANET", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3158), Vancouver, Canada, pages 14-27, July 2004, ISBN 3-540-22543-9.
  55. Thomas Kunz, "Multicasting in mobile ad-hoc networks: Achieving high packet delivery ratios", Proceedings of the 2003 CAS Conference, IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Studies, Toronto, Canada, pages 156-170, October 2003.
  56. Ying Ge, Thomas Kunz, and Louise Lamont, "Proactive QoS routing in ad-hoc networks - but at what cost?", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2865), Montreal, Canada, pages 60-71, October 2003, ISBN 3-540-20260-9.
  57. Liang Qin and Thomas Kunz, "On-demand routing in MANETs: The impact of a realistic physical layer model", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (Springer Lecture Notes in Coputer Science 2865), Montreal, Canada, pages 37-48, October 2003, ISBN 3-540-20260-9.
  58. Yasser Morgan and Thomas Kunz, "PYLON: An architectural framework for ad-hoc QoS interconnectivity with access domains", Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36), Hawaii, USA, pages 309-318, January 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press 2003, ISBN 0-7695-1874-5.
  59. Liang Qin and Thomas Kunz, "Increasing packet delivery ratio in DSR by link prediction", Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36), Hawaii, USA, pages 300-309, January 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press 2003, ISBN 0-7695-1874-5.
  60. Yang Wang and Thomas Kunz, "A dynamic assignment problem in a mobile system with limited bandwidth", Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36), Hawaii, USA, pages 293-302, January 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press 2003, ISBN 0-7695-1874-5.
  61. Ying Ge, Thomas Kunz, and Louise Lamont, "Quality of Service routing in ad-hoc networks using OLSR", Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36), Hawaii, USA, January 2003, pages 300-308, IEEE Computer Society Press 2003, ISBN 0-7695-1874-5.
  62. Yasser Gaddallah and Thomas Kunz, "Energy consumption in ad-hoc routing protocols: Comparing DSR, AODV and TORA", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, Toronto, Canada, pages 161-176, September 2002.
  63. Yasser Morgan and Thomas Kunz, "An architectural framework for MANET QoS interaction with access domains", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, Toronto, Canada, pages 33-47, September 2002.
  64. Thomas Kunz and Ed Cheng, "On-demand multicasting in ad-hoc networks: Comparing AODV and ODMRP", Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, pages 453-454, July 2002.
  65. Thomas Kunz, Mohamed El Shentenawy, Abdulbaset Gaddah and Roshdy Hafez, "Image transcoding for wireless WWW access: The user perspective", Proceedings of Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002, editors M. Kienzle and P. Shenoy, SPIE, Vol. 4673, pages 28-33, January 2002.
  66. Thomas Kunz and Salim Omar, "An adaptive MP3 player: Reducing power consumption and increasing application performance", Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35), Hawaii, USA, pages 3843-3852, January 2002, IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7695-1435-9.
  67. Thomas Kunz and Ed Cheng, "Multicasting in ad-hoc networks: Comparing MAODV and ODMRP", Proceedings of the Workshop on Ad hoc Communications, Bonn, Germany, September 2001.
  68. Thomas Kunz and Salim Omar, "A mobile code toolkit for adaptive mobile applications", Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2000), Monterey, California, USA, pp. 51-59, December 2000.
  69. Thomas Kunz, Thomas Barry, Xinan Zhou, James P. Black, and Hugh Mahoney, "WAP traffic: Description and comparison to WWW traffic", Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2000), Boston, USA, pp. 11-19, August 2000.
  70. Nataljia Vlajic, Howard C. Card, and Thomas Kunz, "Image-compression for wireless World Wide Web browsing: a neural network approach", Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Como, Italy, pp. I-169 - I-175, July 2000.
  71. John Scourias and Thomas Kunz, "An activity-based mobility model and location management simulation framework", Proceedings of the Second ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'99), Seattle, USA, pp. 61-68, August 1999.
  72. Atif A. Siddiqi and Thomas Kunz, "The peril of evaluating location management proposals through simulations", Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications (DIALM), Seattle, USA, pp. 78-85, August 1999.
  73. Salim Omar and Thomas Kunz,  "Reducing power consumption and increasing application performance for PDAs through mobile code", Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Vol. II, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 1005-1011, June 1999.
  74. David Kidston, James P. Black, and Thomas Kunz, "Transparent communication management in wireless networks", Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Rio Rico Resort and Country Club, Rio Rico, AZ, USA, pp. 64-69, March 1999.
  75. Thomas Kunz and Grace Hai Yan Lo, "Adaptive mobile applications: A case study", Proceedings of the 3rd European Personal Mobile Communications Conference, Paris, France, pp. 25-30, March 1999.
  76. Thomas Kunz and Michiel Seuren, "Understanding distributed executions through communications patterns", Proceedings of the Second IASTED European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Euro-PDS '98), Vienna, Austria, pp. 45-51, July 1998.
  77. Thomas Kunz and Marc Khouzam, "Single stepping in concurrent executions: dealing with partial orders and clustering", High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, pp. 423-437, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998.
  78. Thomas Kunz and Michiel Seuren, "Fast detection of communication patterns in distributed executions", Proceedings of the 1997 CAS Conference, IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory, Toronto, Canada, pp. 30-42, November 1997.
  79. John Scourias and Thomas Kunz, "A dynamic individualized location management algorithm", Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications , Helsinki, Finland, pp. 1004 - 1008, September 1997.
  80. Thomas Kunz, David J. Taylor, and James P. Black, "POET: Target-system-independent visualizations of complex distributed executions", Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. 1, Maui, Hawaii, USA, pp. 452 - 461, January 1997.
  81. Marc Khouzam and Thomas Kunz, "Single stepping in event-visualization tools", Proceedings of the 1996 CAS Conference, IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Studies, Toronto, Ont., Canada, pp. 103 - 114, November 1996.
  82. David J. Taylor, T. Kunz, and James P. Black, "A tool for debugging OSF DCE applications", Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Seoul, Korea, pp. 440 - 446, August 1996.
  83. Thomas Kunz, "Evaluating process clusters to support automatic program understanding", Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Program Comprehension, Berlin, Germany, pp. 198 - 207, March 1996. ISBN 0-8186-7283-8.
  84. P. S.C. Alencar, D.D. Cowan, T. Kunz, and C.J.P. Lucena, "A formal architectural design patterns-based approach to software understanding", Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Program Comprehension, Berlin, Germany, pp. 154 - 163, March 1996. ISBN 0-8186-7283-8.
  85. David J. Taylor, Thomas Kunz, and James P. Black, "Achieving target-system independence in event visualisations", CD-ROM Proceedings of the 1995 CAS Conference, IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Studies, Toronto, Ont., Canada, 10 pp., November 1995.
  86. J.A. Rolia, C.M. Woodside, V. Vetland, R.B. Bunt, D.L. Eager, M.A. Bauer, J.W. Hong, H.L. Lutfiyya, J.P. Black, T. Kunz, D.J. Taylor, T.P. Martin, T.J. Teorey, and P.J. Finnigan, "Distributed application management, the MANDAS project", Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, Ottawa, Canada, 7 pp., October 1995.
  87. M.A. Bauer, H.L. Lutfiyya, J.W. Hong, J.P. Black, T. Kunz, D.J. Taylor, T.P. Martin, R.B. Bunt, D.L. Eager, P.J. Finnigan, J.A. Rolia, C.M. Woodside, and T.J. Teorey, "MANDAS: Management of Distributed Applications and Systems", Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, Cheju Island, Korea, pp. 200-206, August 1995.
  88. Thomas Kunz, "High-level views of distributed executions", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Automated and Algorithmic Debugging, St. Malo, France, May 1995.
  89. Thomas Kunz, "Visualizing abstract events", Proceedings of the 1994 CAS Conference, IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Studies, Toronto, Ont., Canada, pp. 334-343, November 1994. Winner of the Best Student Paper Award.
  90. Thomas Kunz and James P. Black, "Abstract debugging of distributed applications", Proceedings of the IFIP WG10.3 Working Conference on Programming Environments for Massively Parallel Distributed Systems, pp. 353-358, April 1994. Birkhaeuser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, ISBN 3-7643-5090-3.
  91. Thomas Kunz, "Issues in event abstraction", Proceedings of the 1993 Conference on Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe (PARLE), Munich, Germany, pp. 668-671, June 1993.
  92. Thomas Kunz, "Process clustering for distributed debugging, Proceedings of the Third ACM/ONR Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging, San Diego, California, pp. 75-84, May 1993.
  93. Dan C. Marinescu, John R. Rice, Bernard Waltsburger, Catherine E. Houstis, Thomas Kunz, and Helmut Waldschmidt, "Distributed supercomputing", Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 381-387, September 1990.

Other Conferences and Workshops (by invitation, refereed extended abstract, etc.)

  1. Hui Zhou, Thomas Kunz, and Howard Schwartz, "Adaptive correction method for an OCXO", to appear in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Newport Beach, USA, June 2010.
  2. Pedro E. Villanueva-Pena and Thomas Kunz, "OLSR implementation using GP-Pro: The automatic protocol generator", Proceedings of the 4th OLSR Interop/Workshop, Ottawa, Canada, October 2008.
  3. Pedro E. Villanueva-Pena and Thomas Kunz, "GP-Pro: A protocol generator based on user specifications for QoS routing in mobile ad hoc networks", Proceedings of the Workshop on Generative Programming and Component Engineering for QoS Provisioning in Distributed Systems, Portland, USA, October 2006.
  4. Pedro E. Villanueva-Pena and Thomas Kunz, "GP-Pro: The generative programming protocol generator for routing in mobile ad hoc networks", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh 2006), Reston, USA, pp. 129-131, September 2006.
  5. Abdulbaset Gaddah and Thomas Kunz, "Performance of Pub/Sub systems in wired/wireless networks", in Proceedings of 64th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, Canada, pages 1-5, September 2006.
  6. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "On the Average-Throughput Performance of Code-based Scheduling Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", poster presentation at the Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, USA, May 2005.
  7. Xiaojing Tao, Thomas Kunz, and David D. Falconer, "Adaptive traffic balancing in wireless ad hoc networks", presented at the Wireless World Research Forum Meeting 13, Jeju Island, Korea, March 2005.
  8. Xiaojing Tao, Thomas Kunz, and David D. Falconer, "Implementing traffic balancing for exploring system capacity in wireless ad hoc networks", Proceedings of the Wireless World Research Forum Meeting 12, Toronto, Canada, November 2004.
  9. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "A non-hierarchical and convergent timing synchronization function for real-time QoS support in wireless LANs: Towards an autonomous network synchronization algorithm for wireless ad hoc networks", Proceedings of the Wireless World Research Forum Meeting 12, Toronto, Canada, November 2004.
  10. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "A distributed network synchronization algorithm for wireless ad hoc networks", Student Poster Session, MobiCom 2004, Philadelphia, USA, October 2004.
  11. Abdulbaset Gaddah and Thomas Kunz, "Does modern middleware address mobile computing requirements?", in Proceedings of the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, USA, Vol. 5, pp. 493-499, July 2004.
  12. Yasser Morgan and Thomas Kunz, "Enhancing SWAN QoS model by adopting destination-based regulation (ESWAN)", in Proceedings of WiOpt'04: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, Cambridge, UK, pp. 112-121, March 2004.
  13. Abdulbaset Gaddah and Thomas Kunz, "Why current middleware fails for mobile peer-to-peer computing", NATO IST-030/RTG-012 Workshop on the Role of Middleware in Systems Functioning over Mobile Wireless Networks, Wachtberg, Germany, August 2003, see http://www.valcartier.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/tgonimdg/middleware.html.
  14. Abdulbaset Gaddah, Mohamed El-Shentenawy, Thomas Kunz, and Roshdy Hafez, "Image transcoding proxy for mobile Internet access", in Proceedings of the IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Vol. 2, pp. 807-811, September 2002.
  15. Xiaojing Tao, David D. Falconer, and Thomas Kunz, "Traffic balancing in wireless ad-hoc networks: Extending system capacity and improving system performance", in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Vol. 2, pp. 418-423, July 2002.
  16. Yang Wang and Thomas Kunz, "A middleware approach for multimedia information access in mobile environments", Poster presented at the Advanced Topic Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Computing, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2001.
  17. Thomas Kunz and Yang Wang, "KMOT: A mobile code toolkit for resource-constrained portable devices", in Proceedings of the Symposium on Software Mobility and Adaptive Behaviour, York, United Kingdom, pp. 89-96, March 2001.
  18. Thomas Kunz, "Is the WAP a Winner", book review of The Wireless Application Protocol: Writing Applications for the Mobile Internet, in IEEE Spectrum, pp. 78-80, February 2001.
  19. Salim Omar, Xinan Zhou, and Thomas Kunz, "Mobile code, adaptive mobile applications, and network architectures", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA'00), Paris, France, pp. 17-28, September 2000.
  20. Yi Wang and Thomas Kunz, "Visualizing mobile agent executions", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA'00), Paris, France, pp. 105-116, September 2000.
  21. M. El Shentenawy, A. Gaddah, Q. Guo, T. Kunz and R. Hafez, "Image transcoding for proxy Internet wireless access", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pp. 542-552, July 2000.
  22. Jianwen Wang and Thomas Kunz, "A proxy server infrastructure for adaptive mobile applications", Proceedings of the Eighteenth IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics, Innbruck, Austria, pp. 561-567, February 2000.
  23. Thomas Kunz, Salim Omar, and Herve Rivano, "Low-bandwidth communication links and multimedia data: A GIS application for Handheld PCs", Proceedings of the Eighteenth IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 556-560, February 2000.
  24. Uvaiz Ahmed, Ioannis Lambadaris, Thomas Kunz, Jamal Hadi Salim, Biswajit Nandy, and Nabil Seddigh, "Performance evaluation of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in IP networks", Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Palm Springs Desert, California, USA, October 1999.
  25. John Scourias and Thomas Kunz, "Activity-based mobility modeling: realistic evaluation of location management schemes for cellular networks", Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, New Orleans, USA, Vol. 1, pp. 296-300, September 1999.
  26. Thomas Kunz and James P. Black, "An architecture for adaptive mobile applications", Proceedings of Wireless 99, the 11th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pp. 27-38, July 1999.
  27. Thomas Kunz and James P. Black, "Adaptive mobile applications based on mobile code", presentation at the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'99), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 1999. See http://www.research.att.com/conf/wmcsa99/program.html.
  28. Thomas Kunz, "An architecture for adaptive mobile applications based on mobile code", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics (AI'99), Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 308-311, February 1999.
  29. David Kidston, James P. Black, Thomas Kunz, Michael E. Nidd, Marcello Lioy, Brent Elphick, and Michal Ostrowski, "Comma, a Communication Manager for Mobile Applications", Proceedings of Wireless 98, the 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pp. 103-116, July 1998.
  30. Thomas Kunz, "Distributed Debugging", Encyclopedia of Distributed Computing, Joseph Urban and Partha Dasgupta, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, (publication data/status unknown).
  31. Thomas Kunz "Adaptive mobile applications", presented at NOMADIC '97, Santa Clara, CA, USA, August 1997.
  32. Michael Nidd, Thomas Kunz, and Ertugrul Arik, "Prefetching DNS lookup for efficient wireless WWW browsing", Proceedings of Wireless 97, the 9th Annual International Conference on Wireless Communications, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pp. 409-414, July 1997.
  33. Grace Hai Yan Lo and Thomas Kunz, "A case study of dynamic application partitioning in mobile computing - an e-mail browser", discussion paper, presented at the OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Object Replication and Mobile Computing (ORMC'96), San Jose, CA, 6 pages, October 1996. URL: http://www.diku.dk/distlab/workshops/ormc96/
  34. Michael Nidd, Thomas Kunz, and James P. Black, "Wireless application and API design", Proceedings of the Fourth International IFIP Workshop on Quality of Service, Paris, France, pp. 83-85, March 1996. Appeared as GMD-Studien Nr. 282, Quality of Service - Description Modelling and Management.
  35. Thomas Kunz, "Automatic support for understanding complex applications", Proceedings of the 1995 International Workshop on Network and Systems Management, Kyongju, Korea, pp. 125 -132, August 1995.
  36. Thomas Kunz and David J. Taylor, "Visualizing PVM executions", Proceedings of the 3rd PVM User's Group Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 13 pp., May 1995. URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/pvmug95.html.
  37. Thomas Kunz and David J. Taylor, "Distributed debugging using a reverse-engineering tool", Proceedings of the 3rd Reverse Engineering Forum, Burlington, Massachusetts, September 1992.

Technical Reports

  1. Jin Cheng and Thomas Kunz, "A Survey on Smart Home Networking", Technical Report SCE-09-10, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, September 2009.
  2. Monageng Kgwadi and Thomas Kunz, "Securing RDS broadcast messages for Smart Grid applications", Technical Report SCE-09-06, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, April 2009.
  3. Hui Zhou, Charles Nicholls, Thomas Kunz, Howard Schwartz, "Frequency accuracy & stability dependencies of crystal oscillators", Technical Report SCE-08-12, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, November 2008.
  4. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "Multicarrier medium access control coding for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks", Technical Report SCE-08-10, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, October 2008.
  5. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "Medium access control coding for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks", Technical Report SCE-08-09, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, October 2008.
  6. Abdulbaset Gaddah, Thomas Kunz, and Ross Kouhi, "Subscription aggregation for scalability and efficiency in XPath/XML-based Publish/Subscribe systems", Technical Report SCE-08-04, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, April 2008.
  7. Pedro Eduardo Villanueva-Pena, and Thomas Kunz, "Extending network knowledge: Making OLSR a Quality of Service Conducive protocol", Technical Report SCE-06-01, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, January 2006.
  8. Abdulbaset Gaddah and Thomas Kunz, "Evaluating the impact of application design factors on performance in Publish/Subscribe systems over wireline and wireless networks", Technical Report SCE-05-14, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, August 2005.
  9. Liang Qin and Thomas Kunz, "Survey on mobile ad hoc network routing protocols and cross-layer design", Technical Report SCE-04-14, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, August 2004.
  10. Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz, "Network synchronization in wireless ad hoc networks", Technical Report SCE-04-08, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, July 2004.
  11. Thomas Kunz, "Implementing BCAST", Contractor Report, Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, March 2004.
  12. Yufang Zhu and Thomas Kunz, "MAODV implementation for NS-2.26", Technical Report SCE-04-01, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, January 2004.
  13. Thomas Kunz, "Reliable multicasting in MANETs", Contractor Report, Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, July 2003.
  14. Abdulbaset Gaddah and Thomas Kunz, "A survey of middleware paradigms for mobile computing", Technical Report SCE-03-16, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, July 2003.
  15. Ying Ge, Louise Lamont, and Thomas Kunz, "Proactive QoS routing in ad-hoc networks", Technical Report CRC-RP-2003-005, Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, April 2003.
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