Publications

Books

1. Kozat, U.C., Xiang, A., Saboorian, T. and Kaippallimalil, J. (2020). The Requirements and Architectural Advances to Support URLLC Verticals. In 5G Verticals (eds R. Vannithamby and A.C. Soong). doi:10.1002/9781119514848.ch6

2. Ulas C. Kozat and Guanfeng Liang (2015), "Building Reliable Storage Clouds: Models, Fundamental Tradeoffs, and Solutions", Foundations and Trends® in Networking: Vol. 9: No. 4, pp 219-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1300000051

3. Guvenc, I., Gezici, S., Sahinoglu, Z., & Kozat, U. (Eds.). (2011). Reliable Communications for Short-Range Wireless Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511974366

Journal

1. Ulas C. Kozat, Guanfeng Liang, Koray Kokten, Janos Tapolcai, "On Optimal Topology Verification and Failure Localization for Software Defined Networks," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

2. Guanfeng Liang and Ulas C. Kozat, "On Throughput-Delay Optimal Access to Storage Clouds via Load Adaptive Coding and Chunking," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

3. F. Malandrino, M. Kurant, A. Markopoulou, C. Westphal, U. C. Kozat, "Minimizing Peak Load from Information Cascades: Social Networks Meet Cellular Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, May, 2015.

4. Volkan Yazici, Ulas C. Kozat, Oguz Sunay, "A new control plane for 5G network architecture with a case study on unified handoff, mobility and routing management," in IEEE Communications Magazine, Nov., 2014.

5. Ulas C. Kozat, "When Mobile Networks meet Big Data and SDN," IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letter, Vol.8, No.4, pp. 35-37, July 2013. (invited letter for special issue on content distribution in future mobile networks) 

6. Guanfeng Liang and Ulas C. Kozat, "FAST CLOUD: Pushing the Envelope on Delay Performance of Cloud Storage with Coding," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (also available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1294)

7. Fangwen Fu and Ulas C. Kozat, "Stochastic Game for Wireless Network Virtualization," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 84-97, 2013.

8. A. Kangarlou, D. Xu, U.C. Kozat, P. Padala, B. Lantz, K. Igarashi, "In-Network Live Snapshot Service for Recovering Virtual Infrastructures," in IEEE Network, special issue on cloud computing, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 12-19, 2011.

9. Ulas C. Kozat, "Permutation/Silence Coding in Partially Under-Utilized Cellular Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp.716-728, 2011.

10. W.-L. Yeow, C. Westphal, U.C. Kozat, "Designing and Embedding Reliable Virtual Infrastructure," in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Vol. 41, No. 2, pp.57-64, 2011.

11. Hulya Seferoglu, Athina Markopoulou, Ulas C. Kozat, M. Reha Civanlar, James Kempf, "Dynamic FEC Algorithms for TFRC Flows," in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 12, No. 8, 2010.

12. Ulas C. Kozat, Oztan Harmanci, Sandeep Kanumuri, M. Umut Demircin, M. Reha Civanlar, "Peer Assisted Video Streaming with Supply-Demand based Cache Optimization," in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2009.

13. Sean A. Ramprashad, Danjue Li, Ulas C. Kozat, Christine Pepin, "An analysis of joint aggregation, bursting and rate adaptation mechanisms for increasing VoIP capacity in multi-hop 802.11 networks," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp.3128-3139, 2008.

14. Ismail Guvenc, Ulas C. Kozat, Moo-Ryong Jeong, Fujio Watanabe, Chia-Chin Chong, "Reliable Multicast and Broadcast Services in Relay-Based Emergency Communications," IEEE Wireless Communications special issue on "Wireless Technologies Advances for Emergency and Rural Communications", Vol. 15, No.3, pp.40-47, June 2008.

15. Ulas C. Kozat, Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Leandros Tassiulas; "Cross-layer design for Power Efficiency and QoS Provisioning in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.5, No. 11, pp.3306-3315, 2006.

16. Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Ulas C. Kozat, Leandros Tassiulas; "Dynamic resource allocation in CDMA systems with deterministic codes and multirate provisioning," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 1780-1792, 2006.

17. Ulas C. Kozat and Leandros Tassiulas; "Throughput Scalability of Wireless Hybrid Networks over a Random Geometric Graph," in Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal , Vol. 11, pp. 435-449, 2005, ACM/KLUWER.

18. Ulas C. Kozat and Leandros Tassiulas; "Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: An Overall Perspective on Architectural Choices and Network Layer Support Issues," in Ad Hoc Networks Journal , Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 23-44, 2004, ELSEVIER.

19. Can E. Korman, Richard Barry, Ulas C. Kozat; "On Binary Detection with Hysteresis," SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics , Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 1794-1809, 2002.

Conference

1. S. Hasan, et al., "Building flexible, low-cost wireless access networks with Magma," NSDI'23, Boston, MA, USA, April 2023 (Community Award Winner).

2. U. C. Kozat and A. C. K. Soong, "On the Impact of Slicing Granularity on the Availability and Scalability of 5G Networks," ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, 2019, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICC.2019.8761729.

3. J. Kaippallimalil, Y. Lee, T. Saboorian, M. Shalash and U. Kozat, "Traffic Engineered Transport for 5G Networks," 2019 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), GRANADA, Spain, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CSCN.2019.8931385.

4. Yikai Lin, Ulaş C. Kozat, John Kaippallimalil, Mehrdad Moradi, Anthony C.K. Soong, and Z. Morley Mao. 2018. Pausing and Resuming Network Flows using Programmable Buffers. In Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 1–14. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3185467.3185473

5. Mathieu Leconte, Georgios S. Paschos, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Ulas C. Kozat, "A Resource Allocation Framework for Network Slicing," to appear in IEEE Infocom 2018, Hawaii, USA, April 2018.

6. Ioannis Gasparis, Ulas C. Kozat, Oguz Sunay, "Programming Flows in Dense Mobile Environments: A Multi-user Diversity Perspective," in Proc. of IEEE ICC-2015, London, UK, June 2015.

7. Ulas C. Kozat and Guanfeng Liang, "Demand Estimation in Dense and Efficient Small Cell Architectures," in Proc. of IEEE ICC-2015, London, UK, June 2015.

8. Guanfeng Liang and Ulas C. Kozat, "Use of Erasure Code for Low Latency Cloud Storage," in 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Oct. 2014. (invited paper)

9. Chris Xiao Cai, Guanfeng Liang, Ulas C. Kozat, "Load Balancing and Dynamic Scaling of Cache Storage Against Zipfian Workloads,"  in Proceedings of IEEE ICC-2014, Sydney, Australia, June 2014.

10. Guanfeng Liang and Ulas C. Kozat, "TOFEC: Achieving Optimal Throughput-Delay Trade-off of Cloud Storage Using Erasure Codes," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom-2014, Toronto, Canada, April 2014. (also available in http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.8083)

11. Ulas C. Kozat, Guanfeng Liang, Koray Kokten, "On Diagnosis of Forwarding Plane via Static Forwarding Rules in Software Defined Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom-2014, Toronto, Canada, April 2014. (also available in http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4465)

12. Shengbo Chen, Yin Sun, Ulas C. Kozat, Longbo Huang, Prasun Sinha, Guanfeng Liang, Xin Liu, Ness B. Shroff, "When Queueing Meets Coding: Optimal-Latency Data Retrieving Scheme in Storage Clouds," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom-2014, Toronto, Canada, April 2014. (NOTE)

13. Ulas C. Kozat, Guanfeng Liang, Koray Kokten, "Verifying Forwarding Plane Connectivity and Locating Link Failures using Static Rules in Software Defined Networks," in ACM Sigcomm Workshop HotSDN'13 (extended abstract), Hong Kong, China, August 2013. 

14. Hiroyuki Kubo and Ulas C. Kozat, "On Improving Latency of Geographically Distributed Key-Value Stores via Load Balancing with Side Information," in Proceedings of IEEE ICC-2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.

15. Francesco Malandrino, Maciej Kuran, Athina Markopoulou, Cedric Westphal, Ulas Kozat, "Proactive Seeding for Information Cascades in Cellular Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom-2012, Orlando, Florida, March 2012.

16. Hossam Sharara, Cedric Westphal, Svetlana Radosavac, Ulas C. Kozat, "Utilizing Social Influence in Content Distribution Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE ICC-2011, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011. (Best Paper Award)

17. W.-L. Yeow, Cedric Westphal, Ulas C. Kozat, "Highly Available Virtual Machines with Network Coding," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom-2011 (mini-conference paper), Shanghai, China, April 2011.

18. W.-L. Yeow, Cedric Westphal, Ulas C. Kozat, "Designing and Embedding Reliable Virtual Infrastructure," in VISA 2010:The Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, New Delhi, India, Sept. 2010.

19. Fangwen Fu and Ulas C. Kozat, "Wireless Network Virtualization as A Sequential Auction Game" in Proc. of IEEE Infocom 2010, San Diego, CA, March 2010.

20. Rahul Urgaonkar, Ulas C. Kozat, Ken Igarashi, Michael J. Neely, "Dynamic Resource Allocation and Power Management in Virtualized Data Centers," in Proc. of IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2010 , Osaka, Japan, April 2010. 

21. W.-L. Yeow, Cedric Westphal, Ulas C. Kozat, "A Resilient Architecture for Automated Fault Tolerance in Virtualized Data Centers," in Proc. of IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2010 , Osaka, Japan, April 2010.

22. I. Guvenc and U. C. Kozat, "Impact of Spreading on the Capacity of Neighboring Femtocells," in Proc. of IEEE PIMRC 2009, Tokyo, Sept. 2009.

23. Hulya Seferoglu, Athina Markopoulou, Ulas C. Kozat, "Network Coding-aware Rate Control and Scheduling in Wireless Networks," in Proc. of ICME 2009 (special session on network coding), NYC, 2009.

24. Hulya Seferoglu, Ulas C. Kozat, Reha Civanlar, and James Kempf, "Congestion State-Based Dynamic FEC Algorithm for Media Friendly Transport Layer," in PV-2009, Seattle, WA, 2009.

25. Svetlana Radosavac, Ulas C. Kozat and James Kempf, "On the Use of Admission Control for Better Quality of Security," in Proceedings of ICC-2009, Dresden, Germany, 2009.

26. Oztan Harmanci, Sandeep Kanumuri, Ulas C. Kozat, M. Umut Demircin, M. Reha Civanlar, "Peer Assisted Streaming of Scalable Video via Optimized Distributed Caching," in IEEE CCNC 2009, Las Vegas, 2009.

27. Svetlana Radosavac, James Kempf and Ulas C. Kozat, "Using Insurance for Increasing Internet Security", in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation (NetEcon '08), Seattle, WA, 2008.

28. Qi Qu and Ulas C. Kozat, "On the opportunistic multicasting in OFDM-based Cellular Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE ICC-2008, Beijing, China, 2008.

29. Ulas C. Kozat, "On the throughput capacity of opportunistic multicasting with erasure codes," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom-2008, Phoenix, Arizona, 2008.

30. Haralabos Papadopoulos, Ulas C. Kozat, Christine Pepin, Carl-Erik W. Sundberg, Sean Ramprashad, "Network coding over time-varying networks by means of virtual graphs," in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2007, Washington DC, 2007.

31. Ulas C. Kozat and Sean A. Ramprashad; "Unequal Error Protection Rateless Codes for Scalable Information Delivery in Mobile Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom-2007 (minisymposium paper), Anchorage, Alaska, 2007.

32. Ulas C. Kozat, Youngjune Gwon, Ravi Jain; "An Overlay Server System (OSS) Platform for Multiplayer Online Games", in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom-2006 , San Francisco, 2006.

33. Sean Ramprashad, Christine Pepin, Ulas C. Kozat; "Distortion Tradeoffs of Different Layered Speech and Media Transmission Techniques Over Wireless MIMO Systems", in Proceedings of Asilomar-2006 .

34. Dan Lelescu, Ulas C. Kozat, Ravi Jain, Mahadevan Balakrishnan; "Model T++: An Empirical Joint Space-Time Registration Model", in Proceedings of ACM Mobihoc , Florence, Italy, 2006.

35. Christine Pepin, Ulas C. Kozat, Sean Ramprashad; "A Joint Traffic Shaping and Routing Approach to improve the performance of 802.11 Mesh Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE WiOpt06 , Boston, 2006.

36. Libo Song, Udayan Deshpande, Ulas C. Kozat, David Kotz, Ravi Jain; "Predictability of WLAN Mobility and its Effects on Bandwidth Provisioning", in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM-2006 , Barcelona, 2006.

37. Onur G. Guleryuz and Ulas C. Kozat; "Joint Compression, Detection, and Routing in Capacity Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE SSP, Bordeaux, France, 2005.

38. Xia Gao, Ravi Jain, Zulfikar Ramzan, Ulas Kozat; "Resource Optimization for Web Service Composition," in Proceedings of IEEE SCC2005 , Orlando, Florida, 2005.

39. Ulas C. Kozat, Mariusz Fecko, Sunil Samtani; "Optimal Allocation of Pooled Servers for Situation Awareness Applications," in Proceedings of IASTED CCN 2005 , Marina del Ray, CA, 2005.

40. Ulas C. Kozat, Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Leandros Tassiulas; "A Framework for Cross-layer Design of Energy-efficient Communication with QoS Provisioning in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM-2004 , Hong Kong, 2004.

41. M.A. Fecko, Ulas C. Kozat, S. Samtani, M.U. Uyar, and I. Hokelek; "Reliable and dynamic access to services in battlefield ad hoc networks," in Proc. IEEE Mil. Commun. Conf. (MILCOM) , Monterey, CA, 2004.

42. M.A. Fecko, Ulas C. Kozat, S. Samtani, M.U. Uyar, and I. Hokelek; "Dynamic survivable resource pooling in mobile ad hoc networks," in Proc. IEEE Int’l Symp. Comput. Commun. (ISCC) , pp. 196-201, Alexandria, Egypt, 2004.

43. M.A. Fecko, Ulas C. Kozat, S. Samtani, M.U. Uyar, and I. Hokelek; "Architecture and applications of dynamic survivable resource pooling in battlefield networks," in Battlespace Digitization and Network-Centric Systems IV, Proc. SPIE 5441 , pp. 204-214. (SPIE, Bellingham, WA), 2004.

44. Ulas C. Kozat and Leandros Tassiulas; "Throughput Capacity of Random Ad Hoc Networks with Infrastructure Support," in Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM-2003 , San Diego, September 2003. (Runner-up paper for Best Student Paper Award)

45. Ulas C. Kozat and Leandros Tassiulas; "Network Layer Support for Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM-2003 , San Francisco, April 2003.

46. Ulas C. Kozat, Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Leandros Tassiulas; "Dynamic Code Assignment and Spreading Gain Adaptation in Synchronous CDMA Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (IEEE ISSSTA 2002) , Prague, Sept. 2002.

47. Ulas C. Kozat, George Kondylis, Bong Ryu, Mahesh Marina; "Virtual Dynamic Backbone for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE ICC-2001 , Helsinki, June 2001.

48. Mahesh Marina, George Kondylis, Ulas C. Kozat; "RBRP: A Robust Broadcast Reservation Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE ICC-2001 , Helsinki, June 2001 (Also appeared in MMT-2000, Duck Key, Florida).

49. Mehmet Ozgur, Ulas C. Kozat, Mona E. Zaghloul, Michael Gaitan; "Internally Ground Equalized Micro-machined Ka-Band Branch Line Coupler," in Proceedings of IEEE MTT-2000 , Boston, 2000.