Conference Publications

[C112] S. Ndlovu and N. Meghanathan, "Beyond Accuracy: A Resource-Centric Analysis of Machine Learning Approaches for DDoS Detection," Springer Proceedings of the CSOC 2025 Online Conference, April 2025.

[C111] N. Meghanathan, "Spatio-Temporal Analysis of a Crime Dataset Using Principal Component Analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis," In: Latifi, S. (eds), The 22nd International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (ITNG 2025), ITNG 2025, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1463, pp. 204-213, Springer.

[C110] O. Williams and N. Meghanathan, "Predictive Modeling of Crime Trends using Time-Series Analysis," In: Latifi, S. (eds), The 22nd International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (ITNG 2025), ITNG 2025, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1463, pp. 380-388, Springer.

[C109] N. Meghanathan, “Crime Assortativity Analysis of Coterminous Wards,” Proceedings of the CSOC 2024 Online Conference, Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1119, pp. 745-753, April 2024. Link

[C108] S. Ndlovu and N. Meghanathan, “Geospatial and Temporal Modeling of Crime Rates using Neural Networks,” Proceedings of the CSOC 2024 Online Conference, Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1118, pp. 599-608, April 2024. . 

[C107] N. Meghanathan, “Principal Components-based Classification using a Linear Discriminant Analyzer and Enhancement of its Prediction Accuracy,” Proceedings of the CSOC 2024 Online Conference, Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1118, pp. 203-212, April 2024. 

[C106] N. Meghanathan, “Varimax Rotation-based Exploratory Factor Analysis of Crime Dataset,” Proceedings of the CSOC 2024 Online Conference, Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1120, pp. 41-50, April 2024.

[C105] N. Meghanathan, "Quarantine Centrality: Principal Component Analysis of SIS Model Simulation Results to Quantify the Vulnerability of Nodes to Stay Infected in Complex Networks,” Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (published by Springer), Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 497-504, April 2024. .

[C104] Y. Wu and N. Meghanathan, "Offense Severity Prediction Under Partial Knowledge: Trigger Factor Detection Using Machine Learning and Network Science Methods,” Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (published by Springer), Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 325-330, April 2024. .

[C103] N. Meghanathan, "Principal Components-based Node Dissimilarity Index for Complex Network Analysis," Springer Proceedings of the 7th Computational Methods in Systems and Software, LNNS 934, pp. 386-394, October 2023. 

[C102] N. Meghanathan, "Core-Intermediate-Peripheral Index: Factor Analysis of Neighborhood and Shortest Paths-based Centrality Metrics," Proceedings of the 7th Computational Methods in Systems and Software, Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 910, pp. 363-372, October 2023. 

[C101] N. Meghanathan, K. Burden* and M. Robinson*, "Use of Neighborhood-based Bridge Node Centrality Tuple for Preferential Vaccination of Nodes to Reduce the Number of Infected Nodes in a Complex Real-World Network," Proceedings of the 7th Computational Methods in Systems and Software, Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 910, pp. 27-36, October 2023.

[C100] N. Meghanathan, "Canonical Correlation Analysis of Neighborhood-based Centrality Metrics vs. Shortest Path-based Centrality Metrics," IEEE Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA'23 part of CSCE 2023), pp. 1433-1438, July 24-27, 2023, Las Vegas, USA.

[C99] Y. Wu^ and N. Meghanathan, "Crime Hot Spots Detection with Network Science-enhanced Method in Major Cities of the U.S.," IEEE Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA'23 part of CSCE 2023), pp. 1425-1432, July 24-27, 2023, Las Vegas, USA.

[C98] V. Sunchu^ and N. Meghanathan, "A Web Application to Visualize the Marine Highway Routes in the US," IEEE Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Internet Computing & IoT (ICOMP'23 part of CSCE 2023), pp. 1686-1690, July 24-27, 2023, Las Vegas, USA.

[C97] N. Meghanathan, O. Ikome^, O. Williams^ and C. Rutto^, "Complex Network Analysis of the US Marine Intermodal Port Network," Proceedings of the CSOC 2023 Online Conference, published in Springer  Artificial Intelligence Application in Networks and Systems, pp. 275-284, April 2023.

[C96] N. Meghanathan, “A Neighborhood Overlap-based Binary Search Algorithm for Edge Classification to Satisfy the Strong Triadic Closure Property in Complex Networks,” Proceedings of the CSOC 2023 Online Conference, published in Springer  Artificial Intelligence Application in Networks and Systems, pp. 160-169, April 2023. 

[C95] N. Meghanathan, "Complex Network Analysis of the US Marine Highway Network,” Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (ITNG 2023), Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 1445. pp. 437-443, April 2023.

[C94] Y. Wu^ and N. Meghanathan, "A Principal Component Analysis-Based Scoring Mechanism to Quantify Crime Hot Spots in a City," Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (ITNG 2023), Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 1445. pp. 45-51, April 2023.

[C93] Y. Wu^ and N. Meghanathan, “A Network Science-Based Approach for Temporal Hot Spot Policing,” In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Data Science and Algorithms in Systems. CoMeSySo, Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 597, pp. 700-709, October 2022.

[C92] N. Meghanathan, “Quantifying the Theory vs. Programming Disparity using Spectral Analysis,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CSITY 2022), Toronto, Canada, vol. 12, no. 16, pp. 135-145, September 24-25, 2022.

[C91] Y. Wu^ and N. Meghanathan, “A Network Science Approach to Quantify the Extent of Co-occurrence of an Offense with other Offenses in a Crime Event,” Proceedings of the 11th Computer Science Online Conference, Springer Cybernetics Perspectives in Systems, pp 442–451, April 2022.

[C90]  N. Meghanathan, “Multi-variable Linear Regression-based Prediction of a Computationally-Heavy Link Stability Metric for Mobile Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Modeling, Computing and Applications, pp. 29-38, Vienna, Austria, August 24-25, 2019.

[C89] N. Meghanathan, “Computationally-Light Metrics to Quantify Link Stability in Mobile Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies, Namakkal, India, April 29-30, 2019; published in Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 89: Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies, pp. 227-235, 2020.

[C88] Md. Rahman^ and N. Meghanathan, “Logical Clustering of Similar Vertices in Complex Real-World Networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies, Namakkal, India, April 29-30, 2019; published in Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 89: Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies, pp. 891-899, 2020.

[C87]  Md. Rahman^ and N. Meghanathan, “Analyzing the Similarity-Based Clusterability of the Vertices in a Complex Network,” Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations: published in Springer AISC vol. 800, pp. 237-243, Las Vegas, USA, April 1-3, 2019.

[C86]  Md. Rahman^, M. Akhter^ and N. Meghanathan, " Use of Eigenvector Centrality to Rank the Vertices in a DiseaseDisease Network," Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations: published in Springer AISC vol. 800, pp. 429-434, Las Vegas, USA, April 1-3, 2019.

[C85]  N. Meghanathan, "Kurtosis: Is it an Appropriate Measure to Compare the Extent of Fat- Tailedness of the Degree Distribution for any Two Real-World Networks?," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science & Technology (FCST-2017), Sydney, Australia, June 24-25, 2017.

[C84]  N. Meghanathan and Q. Hart*, "Jaccard Similarity-based Quantification of the Neighborhood Stability of a Node in  Mobile Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the SPIE Cyber Sensing Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 9-13, 2017. [Publication as part of the AFRL/Clarkson Aerospace Grant]

[C83]  N. Meghanathan, "Correlation Analysis of Decay Centrality," Proceedings of the 6th Computer Science Online Conference, (CSOC-2017), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 574, pp. 407-418, April 26-29, 2017.

[C82] N. Meghanathan, "Algebraic Connectivity based Stable Data Gathering Trees for Mobile Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'16), Las Vegas, USA, Dec 15-17, 2016. [Publication as part of the AFRL/Clarkson Aerospace Grant]

[C81] X. He^ and N. Meghanathan, "Alternatives to Betweenness Centrality: A Measure of Correlation Coefficient," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Advanced Information Technologies and Applications (ICAITA), pp. 1-10, Dubai, UAE, November 12-13, 2016.

[C80] X. He^ and N. Meghanathan, "Correlation of Eigenvector Centrality to other Centrality Measures: Random, Small-World and Real-World Networks," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networks and Communications (NeCoM), pp.,  9-18, Chennai, India, October 22-23, 2016.

[C79] N. Meghanathan and R. Lawrence, "Centrality Analysis of the United States Network Graph," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Engineering Trends, Communication, Optimization and Sciences, pp. 23-28, Tadepalligudem, India, June 1-2, 2016.

[C78] Y. Zhou, F. Wang, N. Meghanathan and Y. Huang, "Seed Based Approach for Automated Crack Detection from Pavement Images," Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), 17 pages (#16-4415), Washington DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

[C77] N. Meghanathan, "A Random Network Model with High Clustering Coefficient and Variation in Node Degree," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control and Automation, pp. 54-57, Jeju Island, Korea, November 25-28, 2015. 

[C76] N. Meghanathan, "Use of Eigenvector Centrality to Detect Graph Isomorphism," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Advanced Information Technologies and Applications, pp. 1-9, Dubai, UAE, November 6-7, 2015.

[C75] N. Meghanathan, "Node Lifetime-Network Lifetime Tradeoff for Data Gathering Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the International conference on Intelligent Information Processing, Security and Advanced Communication, Article # 18, Algeria, Batna, November 23-25, 2015.

[C74]  N. Meghanathan, “Maximal Clique Size vs. Centrality: A Correlation Analysis for Complex Real-World Network Graphs,” Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics, June 23-25, 2015.

[C73]  N. Meghanathan, “Performance of the Maximum Stable Connected Dominating Sets in the Presence of Static Nodes in a Mobile Ad hoc Network,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Networks, pp. 37-48, Vienna, Austria, May 23-24, 2015.

[C72] N. Meghanathan, “Correlation Coefficient Analysis of Centrality Metrics for Complex Network Graphs,” Proceedings of the 4th Computer Science Online Conference, (CSOC-2015), Springer Intelligent Systems in Cybernetics and Automation Theory: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 348, pp. 11-20, April 27-30, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18503-3_2.

[C71] N. Meghanathan, “On the Distribution of the Maximal Clique Size for the Vertices in Real-World Network Graphs and Correlation Studies,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, pp. 1-12, Bangalore, India, April 25-26, 2015. DOI: 10.5121/csit.2015.50901.

[C70]  N. Meghanathan, “Use of Centrality Metrics to Determine Connected Dominating Sets for Real-World Network Graphs,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, pp. 243-248, Las Vegas, USA, April 13-15, 2015.

[C69]  N. Meghanathan and M. Fanuel, “A Minimum Channel Switch Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, pp. 280-285, Las Vegas, USA, April 13-15, 2015. [Publication as part of the JSU 2014 Creative Awards for Faculty and Staff Program]

[C68]  N. Meghanathan, “Using Spectral Radius Ratio for Node Degree to Analyze the Evolution of Scale-Free Networks and Small-World Networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, pp. 21-28, Geneva, Switzerland, March 21-22, 2015.

[C67] N. Meghanathan, "A Benchmarking Algorithm to Determine Maximum Lifetime Communication Topologies in Cognitive Radio Ad hoc Networks," ACM Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Research in Computer Science Engineering & Technology, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India, March 6-7, 2015, DOI: 10.1145/2743065.2743069.

[C66] N. Meghanathan, "Use of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors to Analyze Bipartivity of Network Graphs," Proceedings of the International conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, pp. 221-230, Sydney, Australia, December 27-28, 2014.

[C65] N. Meghanathan, "Spectral Radius as a Measure of Variation in Node Degree for Complex Network Graphs," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Digital Contents and Applications, pp. 30-33, Hainan, China, December 20-23, 2014.

[C64] N. Meghanathan, "A Distributed Trust Evaluation Model for Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations , ITNG, pp. 186-191, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2014.

[C63]  N. Meghanathan and P. Mumford+, "Node Failure Time Analysis for Maximum Stability Vs Minimum Distance Spanning Tree based Data Gathering in Mobile Sensor Networks," Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Networks & Communications, NETCOM-2013, Chennai, India, December 27-29, 2013, published in Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, LNEE 284, pp. 55-68, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03692-2_5.

[C62] N. Meghanathan, "Design of a Secure Data Aggregation Framework for Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the ISCA 26th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, (CAINE-2013), September 25-27, 2013, Los Angeles, USA. [Publication as part of the Clarkson Aerospace/AFRL Subcontract]

[C61]  N. Meghanathan and M. Terrell^, "Design of a Secure Framework for Session Mobility as a Service in Cloud Computing Environment," Proceedings of the ISCA International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, ACC-2013, Los Angeles, September 2013. [Publication as part of the Clarkson Aerospace/AFRL Subcontract]

[C60]  N. Meghanathan and I. Dasari^, "A Generic Algorithm to Determine Connected Dominating Sets for Mobile Ad hoc Networks and Performance Evaluation under Different Mobility Models," Fifth International workshop on Networks & Communications, NeCoM, Proceedings of the Computer Science and Information Technology Series, vol. 3, no.4, pp. 239-248, July 27, 2013, Chennai, India. DOI: 10.5121/csit.2013.3425.

[C59]  H. Kim+, N.Meghanathan and L. Moore+, "Enhancement of an Undergraduate Software Engineering Course by Infusing Security Lecture Modules," Proceedings of the 7th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2013, July 9-12, 2013, Orlando, FL, USA. [Publication as part of the NSF CCLI/TUES Grant] 

[C58]  N. Meghanathan, "A Critical Review of the Routing Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks and a Proposal for Load Balancing Local Spectrum Knowledge-based Routing," Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Networks, WiMoN, published in Springer CCIS series, vol. 367, pp. 1-12, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1-2, 2013. 

[C57]  N. Meghanathan, "Review of Access Control Models for Cloud Computing," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering & Applications , ICCSEA, Chennai, India, pp. 77-85, May 24-26, 2013. DOI : 10.5121/csit.2013.3508.

[C56]  N. Meghanathan and P. D. Mumford+, "A Benchmarking Algorithm to Determine Maximum Stability Data Gathering Trees for Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks," 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations , ITNG, pp. 492-497, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 15-17, 2013. [Publication as part of the AFOSR/AFRL/SFFP 2012 Research]

[C55] M. Terrell^ and N. Meghanathan, "Setting up of a Cloud Cyber Infrastructure using Xen Hypervisor," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations , ITNG, pp. 648-652, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 15-17, 2013.[Publication as part of the NSF CCLI/TUES Grant] 

[C54]  N. Meghanathan, “Source Code Analysis of a Connection-Oriented File Reader Server Socket Program in Java and Removal of the Security Vulnerabilities,” The Fourth International Workshop on Network & Communications Security, Chennai, India, Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), vol. 131, pp. 621-629, December 22-24, 2012. [Publication as part of the NSF CCLI/TUES Grant]

[C53]  N. Meghanathan, “Data Gathering Algorithms to Optimize Stability-Delay and Node-Network Lifetime for Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Sensor Networks and Applications (SNA-2012), pp. 237-242, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 14-16, 2012.

[C52]  N. Meghanathan, “Virtualization of Virtual Memory Address Space,” ACM Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT 2012), pp. 732-737, Coimbatore, India, October 26-28, 2012. DOI: 10.1145/2393216.2393338. ISBN: 978-1-4503-1310-0. Acceptance Rate: 23%.

[C51]  F. C. Dancer+, D. A. Dampier+, J. M. Jackson+ and N. Meghanathan, “A Theoretical Process Model for Smartphones,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ACITY-2012), Delhi, India, Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 3, pp. 279-290, July 2012.

[C50]  N. Meghanathan and A. R. Geoghegan*, “Testing for Software Security: A Case Study on Static Code Analysis of a File Reader Java Program,” Proceedings of the Springer LNICST 2nd International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Applications, ICCSEA, Delhi, India, pp. 529-538, May 25-27, 2012. [Publication as part of the NSF CCLI/TUES Grant]

[C49]  N. Meghanathan and M. Terrell*, “Strong Neighborhood based Stable Connected Dominating Sets for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless, Mobile Network and Applications, WiMoA, Delhi, India, pp. 415-424, May 25-27, 2012. [Publication as part of the NSF REU Grant]

[C48]  N. Meghanathan, “A Unicast MANET Routing Protocol to Simultaneously Minimize the Stability-Hop Count Tradeoff and End-to-End Delay,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, ITNG, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 16-18, 2012.

[C47] N. Meghanathan, H. Kim+ and L. A. Moore+, “Incorporation of Aspects of Systems Security and Software Security in Senior Capstone Projects,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, ITNG, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 16-18, 2012. [Publication as part of the NSF CCLI/TUES Grant]

[C46]  N. Meghanathan and B. Chituri+, “A Secure Session Transfer Protocol for Downloading a Large File across a Cluster of Servers in the Presence of Network Congestion,” The 3rd International Conference on Networks and Communication Security, Bangalore, India, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Series, LNICST 84, pp. 552-562, January 2012. [Publication as part of the NSF CCLI/TUES Grant]

[C45]  N. Meghanathan, “A Link Distance Ratio based Stable Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” The 3rd International Conference on Wireless & Mobile Networks, Bangalore, India, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Series, LNICST 84, pp. 253-262, January 2012.

[C44]  N. Meghanathan, “A Node Stability Index-based Connected Dominating Set Algorithm for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” The 3rd International Conference on Networks and Communications, Bangalore, India, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Series, LNICST 84, pp. 31-40, January 2012.

[C43]  N. Meghanathan, “A MANET Multicast Routing Protocol for Stable Trees based on the Inverse of Link Expiration Times,” Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 947-951, January 2012.

[C42] N. Meghanathan, “Minimum Hop vs. Minimum Edge Based Multicast Routing for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” The Third International Conference on Wireless, Mobile Networks and Applications, Dubai, UAE, Springer-Verlag Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 154, pp. 1-10, May 2011.

[C41] N. Meghanathan and L. A. Moore+, “Experiences in Running a NSF-CISE REU Site at a HBCU,” Proceedings of The 2011 Annual Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions (ADMI), Clemson, SC, USA, April 14-16, 2011. [Publication as part of the NSF REU Grant]

[C40] N. Meghanathan, “A Performance Comparison Study of Two Position-based Routing Protocols and their Improved Versions for Mobile Ad hoc Networks," The First International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Bangalore, India, Springer-Verlag Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 131, Part I, pp. 14-23, January 2011.

[C39] N. Meghanathan, “Optimum Routing Approach vs. Least Overhead Routing Approach for Minimum Hop Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” The First International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Bangalore, India, Springer-Verlag Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 131, Part II, pp. 606-616, January 2011.

[C38]  N. Meghanathan, “An Algorithm to Determine Minimum Velocity-based Stable Connected Dominating Sets for Ad hoc Networks,” The 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Computing, Noida, India, Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 94, pp. 206-217, August 2010.

[C37] N. Meghanathan and S. R. Vavilala^, “An Algorithm to Determine Multicast Meshes with Maximum Lifetime for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” The Second International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiMoN-2010), Chennai, India, Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 90, pp. 250-259, July 2010.

[C36]  N. Meghanathan, “Design of a Reliability-based Source Routing Protocol for Wireless Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” The First International Workshop on Trust Management in P2P Systems (IWTMP2PS), Chennai, India, Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 89, pp. 463-472, July 2010.

[C35]  N. Meghanathan, “On the Time between Successive Multi-Path Discoveries and Hop Count per Multi-Path for Zone-Disjoint Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” The Second International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiMo 2010), Ankara, Turkey, Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 84, pp. 254-265, June 2010.

[C34]   N. Meghanathan, N. Kostyuk+, R. Isokpehi+ and H. Cohly+, “Clustering Model to Identify Biological Signatures for English Language Anxiety,” Proceedings of The Second Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference (BSEC), Oakridge, TN, USA, May 2010.

[C33] N. Meghanathan and L. Nayak^, “A Review of the Audio and Video Steganalysis Algorithms,” Proceedings of the 48th ACM Southeast Conference, Oxford, MS, April 15 – 17, 2010.

[C32] N. Meghanathan, “Grid Block Energy based Data Gathering Algorithm for Lower Energy*Delay and Longer Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks and Applications (SNA 2009), San Francisco, USA, November 4 – 6, 2009.

[C31] N. Meghanathan, D. Thomas* and E. S. Addison*, “Multicast Extensions to the Flow-Oriented Routing Protocol and Node Velocity-based Stable Path Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing and Networking Technologies, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 12-14, 2009.

[C30] N. Meghanathan, “A Node-Disjoint Multi-path Extension of the Location Prediction Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, September 28-30, 2009.

[C29]  N. Meghanathan, “Multicast Extensions to the Location-Prediction Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, Boston, USA, August 16-18, 2009, published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes of Computer Science Series, LNCS 5682, B. Liu et al. (Eds.), pp. 190-199, 2009.

[C28]  N. Meghanathan, “On the Connectivity, Lifetime and Hop Count of Routes Determined using the City Section and Manhattan Mobility Models for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks,” International Conference on Contemporary Computing, Noida, India, August 17-19, 2009, Springer Verlag Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 40, pp. 170-181, 2009. Acceptance Rate: 31%

[C27]  N. Meghanathan and M. Sugumar^, “A Beaconless Minimum Interference Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” International Conference on Contemporary Computing, Noida, India, August 17-19, 2009, published in the Springer Verlag Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, CCIS 40, pp. 58-69, 2009. Acceptance Rate: 31%

[C26]  N. Meghanathan, “A Density and Mobility Aware Energy-Efficient Broadcast Strategy to Minimize the Number of Route Discoveries in Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks, ICWN 09, Las Vegas, pp. 167 – 173, July 13-16, 2009, Acceptance Rate = 25%, ECI: 0.87

[C25] N. Meghanathan, “An Algorithm to Determine Energy-aware Connected Dominating Set and Data Gathering Tree for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks, ICWN 09, Las Vegas, July 13-16, 2009, Acceptance Rate = 25%, ECI: 0.87

[C24] N. Meghanathan and G. W. Skelton+, “An Energy Efficient Risk Notification Message Dissemination Protocol for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communications Systems, HPCNCS-09, Orlando, July 13-16, 2009.

[C23] N. Meghanathan, “A Beaconless Node Velocity-based Stable Path Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium Conference, pp. 9-13, Princeton, NJ, March 30-April 1, 2009.

[C22] N. Meghanathan, “Impact of Range of Simulation Time and Network Shape on the Hop Count and Stability of Routes for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 47th ACM Southeast Conference, Clemson, March 19-21, 2009.

[C21] N. Meghanathan and L. C. Milton^, “A Simulation-Based Performance Comparison Study of Stability-Based Routing, Power-Aware Routing and Load-Balancing Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, Snowbird, Utah, Feb 2 – 4, 2009.

[C20] N. Meghanathan, “Location Prediction Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications (GLOBECOM) Conference, pp. 569-573, New Orleans, Nov-Dec 2008.

[C19]  N. Meghanathan, “Stability and Link Efficiency of On-Demand Source Tree-Based Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems, pp. 159-166, July 2008.

[C18]  N. Meghanathan and G. W. Skelton+, “A Two Layer Architecture of Mobile Sinks and Static Sensors,” Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication, pp. 249-254, December 2007

[C17]  N. Meghanathan, “Stability and Hop Count of Node-Disjoint and Link-Disjoint Multi-Path Routes in Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), New York, October 2007 (acceptance rate: 44%).

[C16]  N. Meghanathan, “Impact of Broadcast Route Discovery Strategies on the Performance of Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols,” Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems, pp. 144 – 151, July 2007 (acceptance rate: 30%).

[C15] S. Knight^, H. Kim+, N. Meghanathan and C. Bland+, “Fast Determination of Ancestor-Descendant Relationships using Bit Patterns,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge and Engineering, June 2007 (acceptance rate: 22%).

[C14] N. Meghanathan, “Stability-Energy Consumption Tradeoff among Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols,” Proceedings of the 3rd IARIA International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, March 2007 (acceptance rate: 31%), extended version invited for publication in the Journal of Networks.

[C13]  N. Meghanathan, “A Simulation Study on the Stability-Oriented Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE and IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communication Networks, April 2006.

[C12] N. Meghanathan, “Comparison of Stable Path Selection Strategies for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,

Proceedings of the 5th IFIP International Conference on Networking, April 2006 (acceptance rate: 39%)

[C11] N. Meghanathan, “On-demand Maximum Battery Lifetime Routing with Power Sensitive Power Control,” Proceedings of the 5th IFIP International Conference on Networking, April 2006 (acceptance rate: 39%).

[C10] N. Meghanathan, “Determining a Sequence of Stable Multicast Steiner Trees in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 44th ACM-Southeast Conference, pp. 102-106, March 2006.

[C9]   N. Meghanathan, “An Algorithm to Determine the Sequence of Stable Connected Dominating Sets in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, February 2006 (acceptance rate: 37%).

[C8]  N. Meghanathan and A. Farago+, “Comparison of Routing Strategies for Minimizing Energy Consumption in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 4th Asian International Mobile Computing Conference, January 2006.

[C7]   N. Meghanathan and A. Farago+, “An Efficient Algorithm for the Optimal Number of Route Transitions in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of 1st IEEE – International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, August 2005.

[C6]   N. Meghanathan and A. Farago+, “On the Route Refresh Frequency for On-demand Maximum Battery Life Routing in Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of 1st IEEE – International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, August 2005.

[C5]   N. Meghanathan and A. Farago+, “Maximizing Network Lifetime under Fixed Energy Budget in Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of 6th IEEE– Southeast Conference, pp. 319 – 326, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, April 8 – 10, 2005.

[C4]   N. Meghanathan and A. Farago+, “Power Sensitive Power Control in Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of 43rd ACM- Southeast Conference, March 2005.

[C3]   N. Meghanathan and A. Farago+, “Looking at Protocol Efficiency from a New Angle: Stability – Delay Analysis,” Proceedings of 2nd ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC), in conjunction with Mobicom ’04, October 2004.

[C2]   S. Baskiyar+ and N. Meghanathan, “Scheduling and Load Sharing in Mobile Computing Environments using Tickets,” Proceedings of 39th ACM- Southeast Conference, March 2001.

[C1]   N. Meghanathan, V. M. Saucedo+ and G. A. Krishnagopalan+, “Modeling of Kraft Pulping Process Based on On-line Data from Near Infrared Analyzer,” AIChE Symposium Series 324, vol. 96, Fundamentals & Numerical Modeling of Unit Operations in Forest Products Industries, pp. 36-41, 2001.

    *undergraduate student co-authors, ^graduate student co-authors, +faculty/other collaborators as co-authors