Associate Professor & EE Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Wireless networks, cross-layer design, game theoretic methods, multiuser detection)
Development of deterministic and non-deterministic models for physical systems, engineering applications and simulation tools for deterministic and non-deterministic systems. Case studies and projects.
Development of deterministic and non-deterministic models for physical systems, engineering applications, and simulation tools for deterministic and non-deterministic systems. Case studies and projects.
Introduction to wireless networks and layered architecture, principles of cross-layer design, impact of cross-layer interactions for different architectures: cellular and ad hoc networks, model abstractions for layers in cross-layer design for different architectures (cellular and ad hoc networks), quality of service (QoS) provisioning at different layers of the protocol stack with emphasis on physical layer, medium access control (MAC) and network layers, examples of cross-layer design in the literature: joint optimizations involving beamforming, interference cancellation techniques, MAC protocols, admission control, power control, routing and adaptive modulation.
Part I: Introduction to game theory: games in strategic form and Nash equilibrium, existence and properties of Nash equilibrium, Pareto efficiency, extensive form games, repeated games, Bayesian games and Bayesian equilibrium, types of games and equilibrium properties, learning in games. Part II: Applications for wireless networks: resource allocation, enforcing cooperation in ad hoc networks, cognitive radios.
Part I: Introduction to game theory: games in strategic form and Nash equilibrium, Existence and properties of Nash equilibrium, Pareto efficiency, Extensive form games, repeated games, Bayesian games and Bayesian equilibrium, types of games and equilibrium properties, learning in games. Part II: Applications for wireless networks: resource allocation, enforcing cooperation in ad hoc networks, cognitive radios.
This course is an introduction on modern information networks with an emphasis on providing the student with the mathematical background and required analytical skills for performance analysis of information networks protocols. The material concentrates mostly on the bottom three layers of the protocol stack, focusing on delay and throughput analysis.Topics covered include an overview of the OSI layering model, data link layer issues, medium access control, queueing analysis, mathematical models for routing in broadcast and point-to-point networks, and flow and congestion control.
This course is an introduction on modern information networks with an emphasis on providing the student with the mathematical background and required analytical skills for performance analysis of information networks protocols. The material concentrates mostly on the bottom three layers of the protocol stack, focusing on delay and throughput analysis.Topics covered include an overview of the OSI layering model, data link layer issues, medium access control, queueing analysis, mathematical models for routing in broadcast and point-to-point networks, and flow and congestion control.
Schaefer School of Engineering & Science
Department:
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Program:
Computer Engineering
Research Center:
Center for Intelligent Networked Systems
Research & Education
Research
physical layer secrecy: energy-security tradeoffs
green radio
cross-layer design for wireless networks
game theoretic approaches for wireless networks
cooperative algorithms for interference mitigation
cognitive radio networks
radio resource management for cellular and ad hoc networks
Education
Cristina Comaniciu received the M.S. degree in electronics from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1993
Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University in December 2001
From 1998 to 2001 she was with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) at Rutgers University, working on integrated access control and detection algorithms for multimedia CDMA systems. At WINLAB she worked under the supervision of Professor Narayan Mandayam
From 2002 to 2003 she was affiliated with the Electrical Engineering Department at Princeton University as a research associate, working with Professor H. Vincent Poor
Since August 2003, she is with Stevens Institute of Technology, where she is currently and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She also serves as Electrical Engineering Graduate Program Director.
Professional Service
Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2007-2011).
Achievements & Professional Societies
Honors & Awards
2012 IEEE Communication Society, Dynamic Spectrum Etiquette paper listed as "Best reading topics on cognitive radios
2012 Rutgers School of Engineering Distinguished Young Alumnus Medal of Excellence
Professor Comaniciu's work has been sponsored by several grants awarded by NSF, ONR, and the European Union.
Patents & Inventions
"METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY VISUAL COGNITION IN WIRELESS VIDEO SENSOR NETWORKS", patent application, May 2012.
Professional Societies
Professor Comaniciu is member of IEEE.
Selected Publications
Journals
Engin Zeydan, Didem Kivanc, Ufuk Tureli and Cristina Comaniciu. (2012). "Joint Iterative Beamforming and Power Adaptation for MIMO Ad Hoc Networks", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, special issue on Recent Advances in Multiuser MIMO Systems.
Q. Shi, C. Comaniciu, D. Wang, U. Tureli. (2011). "Cross-layer MAC design for location-aware wireless sensor networks", Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, 7 (24), 872-888.
A. Apavatjrut, C. Goursaud, K. Jaffres-Runser, C. Comaniciu, J-M. Gorce. (2011). "Toward Increasing Packet Diversity for Relaying LT Fountain Codes in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Communication Letters, 1 (15), 52-54.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, H.V. Poor, J-M. Gorce. (2010). "An Auctioning Mechanism for Green Radio", Journal of Communication and Networks, 12 (2), pp. 114-121, 2010., 2 (12), 114-121.
N. Nie, C. Comaniciu. (2006). "Energy efficient AODV routing in CDMA ad hoc networks using beamforming ", Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , art. no. 76709 .
C. Comaniciu, H. Vincent Poor. (Aug 2006). "On the Capacity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Delay Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. (this paper won 2007 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications). 5 (8), 2061 – 2071.
D. Wang, C. Comaniciu, U. Tureli. (2007). "Cooperation and fairness for slotted Aloha ", special issue on Wireless Personal Communications on Cooperation in Wireless Networks, Springer. 43 (1), 13-27 .
H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu. (2009). "Interference Aware Cooperative Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier. Ad Hoc Networks 7 (1), pp. 248-263
. 7 (1), 248-263.
D. Wang, C. Comaniciu, M. Hlaing, N. Al-Dhahir. (Nov 2008). "A Game-Theoretic Approach for Exploiting Multiuser Diversity in Cooperative Slotted Aloha", Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE . 7 (11), 4215 - 4225 .
C. Comaniciu, H. V. Poor. (Jan 2007). "Joint Power Control and Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Data Networks", Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , art. no. 60707.
Y. Liu, C. Comaniciu, H. Man. (2006). "Modeling Misbehavior in Ad Hoc Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach for Intrusion Detection", International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), Download (306 KB PDF).
N. Nie, C. Comaniciu. (2006). "Adaptive Channel Allocation Spectrum Etiquette for Cognitive Radio Networks", 11 (6), 779-797 . Download (526 KB PDF).
Books
C. Comaniciu, H. Vincent Poor. (May 2005). Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design, Springer, NY.
Book Chapters
N. Nie, K. Jaffres-Runser, C. Comaniciu. (Dec 2008). "On the tradeoffs of cross-layer protocols for cognitive radio networks", Yang Xiao and Fei Hu, Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
C. Comaniciu. (Nov 2007). "Cooperation for Cognitive Networks: A Game Theoretic Perspective", Frank Fitzek and Marcos Katz, Cognitive Wireless Networks: Concepts, Methodologies and Visions Inspiring the Age of Enlightenment of Wireless Communications, Springer.
K. Jaffres-Runser, J-M. Gorce, C. Comaniciu. (Sep 2008). "A Multiobjective Tabu framework for the optimization and evaluation of wireless systems", Local Search Techniques: Focus on Tabu Search, Wassim Jaziri, I-Tech Education and Publishing.
N. Nie, C. Comaniciu and P. Agrawal. (Nov 2006). "A Game Theoretic Approach to Interference Management in Cognitive Networks", Wireless Communications , P. Agrawal, D. M. Andrews, P. J. Fleming, G. Yin, and L. Zhang , IMA Volumes of Mathematics and its Applications, Springer.
