Computer Vision and Visual Perception

• Statistical Physics of Visual Perception, K. Kumaran, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Physics, Rutgers Univ., Jan 1996.
• Illusory Surface Perception and Visual Organization, K. Kumaran, D. Geiger and L. Gurvits, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, Feb. 1996 .
• Visual Organization of Illusory Surfaces, D. Geiger and K. Kumaran, Euro. Conf. on Computer Vision, (ECCV), Cambridge Univ., April 1996.
• Salient and Illusory Surfaces, D. Geiger and K. Kumaran, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 1996.
• Stereo Vision via Markov Models, D. Geiger, L. Maloney and K. Kumaran, Allerton Conference - Urbana Champaign, Ill., Sept. 1994.
• A Non-Linear Diffusion Algorithm for Smoothing and Clustering Application to Aerial and Satellite Images, K. Kumaran and A. Gupta, Technical Report at Siemens Corp. Research, Princeton, NJ, Oct. 1995.

Parallel Simulation

• Massively Parallel Simulations of ATM Systems, K. Kumaran, B. Lubachevsky and A. Elwalid, Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS), June 1996.

Wireless

Propagation

• Statistical Model of Spatially Correlated Shadow-Fading Patterns in Wireless Systems, K. Kumaran and S. C. Borst, WINLAB Wireless Workshop, Mar. 1997.
• Correlated Shadow-Fading in Wireless Networks and its Effect on Call Dropping K. Kumaran, S. E. Golowich and S. C. Borst, CISS'98, 1998 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 1998.

TDMA Spectrum Allocation

• Wireless Simulation and Self-Organizing Spectrum Management, S. C. Borst, S. Grandhi, C. Kahn, K. Kumaran, B. Lubachevsky and D. Sand, Bell Labs Technical Journal, Summer 1997.
• Dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithms for high-speed data wireless networks, M. Andrews, S. C. Borst, F. Dominique, P. R. Jelenkovic, K. Kumaran, K. G. Ramakrishnan and P. Whiting, Bell Labs Technical Journal, 1998.
• On Wireless Spectrum Estimation and Generalized Graph Coloring, S. Khanna and K. Kumaran, INFOCOM'98, Mar. 1998.

Network Design

• Design and Performance of Underlay-Overlay Cellular Networks, K. Kumaran and P. Whiting, Proc. of {\em Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 1999.

CDMA Resource Allocation

• Scheduling on CDMA Uplink with Successive Interference Cancellation., K. Kumaran and L. Qian, To Appear in Proc. of WCNC Conference, 2003.
• Uplink Scheduling in CDMA Packet Data Systems., K. Kumaran and L. Qian, To Appear in Proc. of IEEE Infocom, 2003.
• Rate Scheduling in Multiple Antenna Downlink Wireless Systems., H. Viswanathan and K. Kumaran, Proc. of Allerton Conference, 2001.
• Rate Processor Sharing: A Robust Technique for Scheduling Data Transmissions in CDMA Wireless Networks., K. Kumaran and P. Whiting, Proc. of Multiaccess Mobility and Teletraffic (MMT) for Wireless Communications, 1999.
• CDMA Data QoS Scheduling on the Forward Link with Variable Channel Conditions, M. Andrews, K. Kumaran, K. Ramanan, S. Stolyar, R. Vijayakumar and P. Whiting, Bell Labs Technical Memorandum, 2000.

Optical Networking

• Effects of OADM modularity and connectivity on deployment K. Kumaran, N. Nithi, C. Nuzman, D. Levy, P. Mitev, I. Saniee, To Appear in Proc. of OFC , 2003.
• Selective Transparency in Optical Networks R. Giles, K. Kumaran, D. Mitra, C. Nuzman, I. Saniee, Proc. of ECOC2002, Copenhagen, , Oct 2002.
• Wavelength Usage Efficiency Versus Recovery Time in Path Protected DWDM Mesh Networks E. Bouillet, K. Kumaran, G. Liu, I. Saniee, Proc. of OFC , 2001.
• SPIDER: A Simple and Flexible Tool for Design and Provisioning of Protected Lightpaths in Optical Networks D. Davis, K. Kumaran, G. Liu, I. Saniee, Bell Labs Technical Journal , June 2001.
• Shared Recovery in Transparent Optical Networks K.Kumaran and I.Saniee, Proc. of Allerton Conference , 2001.

Networking

Buffer Management

• Performance and Fluid Simulations of a Novel Shared Buffer Management System, K. Kumaran and D.Mitra, INFOCOM'98, also appearing in ACM TOMACS Journal, Mar. 1998.

Bandwidth Allocation, Scheduling, GPS,..

• Integrated scheduling of unicast and multicast traffic in an input-queued switch, D. M. Andrews, S. Khanna and K. Kumaran, IEEE INFOCOM'99, Mar. 1999.
• Novel Techniques for the Design and Control of Generalized processor Sharing Schedulers for Multiple QoS Classes, K. Kumaran, G. Margrave, D. Mitra and K. Stanley, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2000.
• Multiplexing Regulated Traffic Streams: Design and Performance, K. Kumaran and M. Mandjes, Proc. of IEEE Infocom , 2001.
• The Buffer-Bandwidth Trade-off Curve is Convex , K. Kumaran and M. Mandjes, Queueing Systems 38(4): 471-483 , 2002.
• Convexity Properties of Loss and Overflow Functions , K. Kumaran, M. Mandjes and S. Stolyar, To appear in OR Letters journal , 2003.

Network Design

• Optimal Design of Signaling Networks for Internet Telephony, A. Srinivasan, K. G. Ramakrishnan, K. Kumaran, M. Aravamudan and S. Naqvi, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2000.
• Efficient Algorithms for Location and Sizing Problems in Communication Network Design, K. Kumaran, S. Lanning, K. G. Ramakrishnan, A. Srinivasan and Q. Wang, Bell Labs Technical Memorandum, 2000.

Pricing and Economics

• Resource Usage and Charging in a Multi-Service Multi-QoS Packet Network, K.Kumaran, M.Mandjes, D.Mitra and I.Saniee, Workshop on Internet Service Quality Economics, MIT, Dec.2-3, 1999.