Publications

Journal Publications

1. Veeraruna Kavitha, Richard Combs, "Mixed Polling with Rerouting and Applications", Performance Evaluation 70.11 (2013): 1001-1027. A version is avialable at http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1365

2. Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, Rachid Elazouzi, Rajesh Sundareshan, "Fair scheduling in cellular systems in the presence of noncooperative mobiles" Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on 22.2 (2014): 580-594

3. Veeraruna Kavitha, Sreenath Ramanath and Eitan Altman, "Satisfying Demands in multicellular networks: A universal power allocation algorithm", Volume 36, Issue 12, 1 Pages 1373–1386, Elsevier Computer Communications (Special issue on selected papers from WiOpt 2011) July 2013,

4. Veeraruna Kavitha, Vinod Sharma "Optimal MSE Solution for a Decision Feedback Equalizer" EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2012(1), 1-16.

5. Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Continuous Polling models and Application to Ferry Assisted WLAN" , Annals of Operations Research, Volume 198, Number 1 (2012), pp. 185-218.

6. Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, Rachid Elazouzi, Rajesh Sundareshan, "Opportunistic scheduling in cellular systems in the presence of non-cooperative mobiles" Vol 58, No 3, IEEE Trans. Information Theory, March 2012.

7. Veeraruna Kavitha, Sreenath Ramanath and Eitan Altman, "Spatial queuing analysis for design and dimensioning of Picocell networks with mobile users", vol 68, issue 8, Elsevier Performance Evaluation, August 2011 (Special issue on selected papers from WiOpt 2010).

8. Eitan Altman, Tamer Basar and Veeraruna Kavitha, "Adversarial Control in a Delay Tolerant Network", IEEE ComSoc MMTC E-Letter Special Issue on GameSec and Multimedia Security, April 2011.

9. Taposh Banerjee, Vinod Sharma, Veeraruna Kavitha and A. K. JayaPrakasam, "Generalized Analysis of a Distributed Energy Efficient Algorithm for Change Detection", vol 10, pp. 91-101, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Jan 2011.

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Journals under revision

1. Deeksha Sinha, Veeraruna Kavitha, and Abhay Karandikar, "Optimal ON-OFF Policies Based on Traffic and QoS Guarantees in HetNets", communicated

2. Veeraruna Kavitha and Raman Kumar Sinha, "Queuing with Heterogeneous Users: Block Probability and Sojourn times" communicated

3. Veearuna Kavitha, Mayur Zambre and N. Hemachandra, "Opportunistic Schedulers: Price for Fairness?" communicated

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Book chapter

• Veeraruna Kavitha, Sreenath Ramanath and Eitan Altman, "Mobility in small cell networks", Small Cell Networks: Deployment, PHY Techniques and Resource Management, 2013, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Conference Papers

1. Veeraruna Kavitha, Atul Kumar and N. Hemachandra, "Finite Horizon Risk Sensitive MDP and Linear Programming", CDC 2015

2. Veeraruna Kavitha, Atul Kumar and N. Hemachandra, "Power Constrained DTNs: Risk MDP-LP Approach" Device-to-Device Communications (D2D) workshop held in conjunction with WiOpt 2015.

3. Veeraruna Kavitha and M. Venkateswara Rao K., "Performance Analysis of Serve on the Move Wireless LANs", Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SPASWIN) workshop held in conjunction with WiOpt 2015.

4. Malhar Mehta, Veeraruna Kavitha and Hemachandra N "Price of Fairness for Opportunistic and Priority Schedulers," Infocom 2015, HongKong.

5. Ayush Rawal, Veeraruna Kavitha and Manu K. Gupta, “Optimal Surplus Capacity Utilization in Polling Systems via Fluid Models” 12th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2014 conference to be held Hammamet, Tunisia, May 2014.

6. Deeksha Sinha, Veeraruna Kavitha and Abhay Karandikar"Load Dependent Optimal ON-OFF Policy in Cellular Heterogeneous Networks" (Best paper award) 5th International Workshop on Indoor and Outdoor Small Cells, HAMMAMET, Tunisia, May 2014.

7. Veeraruna Kavitha, N. Hemachandra and Debayan Das, "Fairness via priority scheduling", Allerton 2013.

8. Veeraruna Kavitha, Veronique Capdevielle and Manu K. Gupta "Small Cell Networks: Speed Based Power Allocation" Allerton 2013.

9. Veeraruna Kavitha, Tejas Bodas and D. Manjunath, "On-Demand OFDMA: Control, Fairness and Non-Cooperation" 11th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2013.

10. Veeraruna Kavitha, Sreenath Ramanath and Eitan Altman "Analysis of Small Cell Networks with Randomly Wandering Users" WiOpt, 10th International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, 2012.

11. Veeraruna Kavitha, Sreenath Ramanath and Merouane Debbah, "Satisfying Demands in Heterogeneous Networks", RaWNet, 8th International Workshop on Resource Allocation and Cooperation in Wireless Networks 2012.

12. Veeraruna Kavitha "Continuous Polling with Rerouting and Applications to Ferry Assisted Wireless LANs", ValueTools 2011, Cachan, Paris.

13. Eitan Altman, Veeraruna Kavitha, Francesco De Pellegrini, Vijay Kamble and Vivek Borkar, "Risk sensitive optimal control framework applied to delay tolerant networks", InfoCom 2011, Shanghai, China.

14. Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, "Open Loop Optimal Control of Base Station Activation for Green Networks", WiOpt 2011

15. Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha, Merouane Debbah, "Satisfying Demands in a Multicellular Network: An Universal Power Allocation Algorithm", WiOpt 2011.

16. Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, Rachid Elazouzi and Rajesh Sundareshan, "Fair scheduling in cellular systems in the presence of noncooperative mobiles" InfoCom 2010, Mar 15-19, San Diego, USA.

17. Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Analysis and Design of Message Ferry Routes in Sensor Networks using Polling Models" WiOpt 2010, May 31-Jun 04, Avignon, France

18. Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Spatial queuing analysis for mobility in pico cell networks" WiOpt 2010, May 31-Jun 04, Avignon, France

19. Eitan Altman, Tamer Basar and Veeraruna Kavitha, "Adversarial Control in a Delay Tolerant Network" T. Alpcan, L. Buttyan, and J. Baras (Eds.): GameSec 2010, LNCS 6442, pp. 87-106, 2010.

20. Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Opportunistic Scheduling of a Message Ferry in Sensor Networks" MobiOpp 2010, February, Pisa, Italy.

21. Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, "Impact of mobility on call block, call drops and optimal cell size in small cell networks", PIMRC 2010, Workshop on Indoor and Outdoor Femto Cells, Istanbul, Turkey

22. Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, Rachid Elazouzi, Rajesh Sundareshan, "Opportunistic scheduling in cellular systems in the presence of non-cooperative mobiles" CDC 2009

23. Essaid Sabir, Rachid El-Azouzi, Veeraruna Kavitha, Yezekael Hayel and El-Houssine Bouyakhf, "Stochastic Learning Solution for Constrained Nash Equilibrium Throughput in Non Saturated Wireless Collision Channels" GameCom 2009

24. Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, "Queueing in Space: design of Message Ferry Routes in sensor networks" ITC 2009

25. Sreenath Ramanath, Eitan Altman, Vinod Kumar, Veeraruna Kavitha, Laurent Thomas, ‘Fair assignment of base stations in cellular networks’, 22nd World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) Conference, May 5-7, 2009, Paris, France

26. T. Benerjee, V. Kavitha and V. Sharma, 'Energy Efficient Change Detection over a MAC using Physical Layer Fusion', ICASSP 2008.

27. V. Kavitha and V. Sharma, "Tracking Analysis of an LMS Decision Feedback Equalizer for a Wireless Channel", 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, April 2007.

28. V. Kavitha and V. Sharma, "Analysis of an LMS Linear Equalizer for Fading Channels in Decision Directed mode", 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, April 2007.

29. V. Kavitha and V. Sharma, "Tracking performance of an LMS-Linear Equalizer for fading channels", 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, USA, September 2006.

30. V. Kavitha and V. Sharma, "LMS versus Wiener filter for a Decision Feedback Equalizer", 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, USA, September 2006.

31. V Kavitha and V Sharma, "Comparison of training, blind and semiblind equalizers in MIMO fading systems using capacity as measure", Proc.IEEE Conference, ICASSP 05, USA.

32. V Kavitha and V Sharma, "Information theoretic comparison of training, blind and semiblind signal separation algorithms in MIMO systems", International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04, 11-14 Dec. 2004, pp. 407 - 411, Bangalore, India.

33. Amaranada Reddy, Archana Nayak, Gurucharan, Veeraruna Kavitha, Sreenath Ramanath, "Implementation of a Multi-Channel Baseband CDMA Receiver on a ADSP2189M Processor", International Digital Signal Processing Conference 2001, Boston, USA.

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Thesis and Technical Reports

1. Ranbir Dhounchak, Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "A Viral Timeline Branching Process to study a Social Network", a technical report.

2. Veeraruna Kavitha and Raman Kumar Sinha, "Queuing with Heterogeneous Users: Block Probability and Sojourn times", technical report.

3. Veeraruna Kavitha and M. Venkateswara Rao K., "Performance Analysis of Serve on the Move Wireless LANs", technical report.

4. Veeraruna Kavitha, Atul Kumar and N. Hemachandra, "Finite Horizon Risk Sensitive MDP and Linear Programming", technical report.

5. Veeraruna Kavitha, Devanand R, Parmod Kumar, and Eitan Altman "User Response Based Recommendations: A Local Angle Approach" technical report.

6. Ayush Rawal, Veeraruna Kavitha and Manu K. Gupta, "Optimal Surplus Capacity Utilization in Polling Systems via Fluid Models" technical report.

7. Deeksha Sinha, Veeraruna Kavitha, and Abhay Karandikar, "Load Dependent Optimal ON-OFF Policies in Cellular Heterogeneous Networks", technical report.

8. Veeraruna Kavitha, N. Hemachandra, Debayan Das, "Fairness via priority scheduling", technical report.

9. Veeraruna Kavitha, Tejas Bodas and D. Manjunath, "On-Demand OFDMA: Control, Fairness and Non-Cooperation" full version of paper submitted to WiOpt 2013.

10. Veeraruna Kavitha, Sreenath Ramanath and Eitan Altman, "Analysis of Pico Cells with Randomly wandering Users" full version of the paper submitted to WiOpt 2012.

11. Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha and Merouane Debbah, "Satisfying Demands in a Multicellular Network: An Universal Power Allocation Algorithm" full version of the paper submitted to WiOpt 2011.

12. Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Impact of mobility on call block, call drops and optimal cell size in small cell networks", Full version of the paper submitted to PIMRC 2010.

13. Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman, "Spatial queueing analysis for mobility in pico cell networks" full version of the paper submitted to WiOpt 2010.

14. Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, Rachid Elazouzi, Rajesh Sundareshan, "Fair scheduling in cellular systems in the presence of noncooperative mobiles" full version of the paper submitted to Infocom 2010.

15. Veeraruna Kavitha, "Optimal Wireless Equalizers" Ph.D. Thesis, IISc, India, Dec 2006.