Selected Publications

• Distributed dynamic load balancing in wireless networks
  Sem Borst, Iraj Saniee, Philip Whiting
  Proceedings of the ITC 20, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Ottawa, June 2007.
• Combined network design and multi-period pricing: modeling, solution techniques and computation
  D. Bienstock, O. Raskina, I. Saniee, Q. Wang
  Operations Research, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp261-276, March-April 2006.
• Dynamic optimization in cellular networks
  S. C. Borst, A. Buvaneswari, L. M. Drabeck, M. J. Flanagan, J. M. Graybeal, G. K. Hampel, M. Haner,
  W. M. MacDonald, P. A. Polakos, G. Rittenhouse, I. Saniee, A. Weiss, P. A. Whiting
  Bell Labs Technical Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2
  Special Issue on Future Wireless Communications, p 99-119, Wiley Interscience, Summer 2005.
• Load characterization and load anomaly detection for Voice over IP traffic
  M. Mandjes, I. Saniee, S. Stolyar
  IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Special Issues on Adaptive Learning Systems in Communication Networks
  Edtr. A. Parlos, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp1019-1026, Sep 2005.
• Analytic description of shared restoration capacity for mesh networks
  M. Bhardwaj, L. McCaughan, S.K. Korotky, I. Saniee
  Journal of Optical Networking, Vol 4, No. 3, pp130-141, Feb. 2005.
• Simplified layering and flexible bandwidth with TWIN
  Indra Widjaja, Iraj Saniee
  Proceedings of Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture,
  SIGComm 2004, Portland, Oregon, Aug 2004.

General Publications

• Joint scheduling and congestion control in mobile ad hoc networks
  Umut Akyol, Matthew Andrews, Piyush Gupta, John Hobby, Iraj Saniee, Sasha Stolyar
  to appear in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, June 2008.
• Distributed Dynamic Load Balancing in Wireless Networks
  Sem Borst, Iraj Saniee, Philip Whiting
  to apear in Proceedings of the ITC 20, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Ottawa, June 2007.
• Design tools for transparent optical networks
  C. Chekuri, P. Claisse, R. Essiambre, S. Fortune, D. Kilper, W. Lee, K. Nithi, I. Saniee, B. Shepherd,
  C. White, G. Wilfong, L. Zhang
  Bell Labs Technical Journal, to appear in 2006
  Special Issue on Optical Systems and Networks, Wiley InterScience, Summer 2006.
• Intelligent media gateway selection in carrier-grade VoIP networks
  Adiseshu Hari, Volker Hilt, Markus Hofmann, Debasis Mitra, Iraj Saniee, Anwar Walid, Indra Widjaja
  Bell Labs Technical Journal, Volume 10, Number 4
  Special Issue on the IP Multimedia Subsystem,, pp 133-150, Wiley InterScience, Winter 2006.
• Dynamic optimization in cellular networks
  S. C. Borst, A. Buvaneswari, L. M. Drabeck, M. J. Flanagan, J. M. Graybeal, G. K. Hampel, M. Haner,
  W. M. MacDonald, P. A. Polakos, G. Rittenhouse, I. Saniee, A. Weiss, P. A. Whiting
  Bell Labs Technical Journal, Volume 10, Number 2
  Special Issue on Future Wireless Communications, p 99-119, Wiley Interscience, Summer 2005.
• Load characterization and load anomaly detection for Voice over IP traffic
  M. Mandjes, I. Saniee, S. Stolyar
  IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Special Issues on Adaptive Learning Systems in Communication Networks
  Edtr. A. Parlos, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp1019-1026, Sep 2005.
• Analytic description of shared restoration capacity for mesh networks
  M. Bhardwaj, L. McCaughan, S.K. Korotky, I. Saniee
  Journal of Optical Networking, Vol 4, No. 3, pp130-141, Feb. 2005.
• Flow control and congestion management for distributed scheduling in TWIN
  A. Brzezinski, I. Saniee, I. Widjaja, E. Modiano
  Proc. OFC-NFOEC Conf., Los Angeles, March, 2005.
• SRLG diversity-aware protection-routing in optical mesh networks
  M. Alicherry, I. Saniee, S. Sengupta
  Proc. NFOEC-OFC Conf., Los Angeles, March, 2005.
• Simplified layering and flexible bandwidth with TWIN
  Indra Widjaja, Iraj Saniee
  Proceedings of Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture, SIGComm 2004, Portland, Oregon, Aug 2004.
• Performance of a distributed scheduling protocol for TWIN
  I. Saniee, I. Widjaja, J. Morrison
  ACM SIGMetrics Performance Evaluation Review, Vol 32, Issues 2, Sep 2004.
• A Topology Based Dynamic Traffic Scheduling in TWIN
  Y. Qin, D. Xue, C. Siew, I. Saniee, I. Widjaja
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Networks, Singapore, Nov. 2004.
• Global expectation values of shared restoration capacity for general mesh networks
  M. Bhardwaj, L. McCaughan, S.K. Korotky. I. Saniee
  Proc. Conf. Optical Fiber Commun., Los Angeles, 2004.
• Design and performance of randomized network schedules for time-domain wavelength interleaved networks
  J. Morrison, I. Saniee, I. Widjaja, submitted.
• A new optical network architecture that exploits joint time and wavelength interleaving
  I. Saniee, I. Widjaja
  IEEE/OFC Technical Digest, Feb. 2004.
• Routing and protection in GMPLS networks: From shortest paths to optimized designs
  A. Elwalid, D. Mitra, I. Saniee, I. Widjaja
  IEEE Journal on Lightwave Technology, Vol 21, No. 11, pp2828-2838, 2003.
• Dynamic scheduling of optical data bursts in time-domain wavelength interleaved networks
  K. Ross, N. Bambos, K. Kumaran, I. Saniee, I. Widjaja
  Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, IEEE CS Press, Aug 2003.
• Scheduling bursts in time-domain wavelength interleaved networks
  K. Ross, N. Bambos, K. Kumaran, I. Saniee, I. Widjaja
  IEEE JSAC OCN Vol 21, No. 9, pp1441-1451, Nov, 2003.
• Scalable optimization for multi-period optical network capacity expansion with elastic demand
  D. Bienstock, O. Raskina, I. Saniee, Q. Wang
  Columbia University CORC Report 02-8, 2002.
• Light core and intelligent edge for a flexible, thin-layered and cost-effective optical transport network
  I. Widjaja, I. Saniee, R. Giles and D. Mitra
  IEEE Optical Communications Vol. 1, No. 2
  IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp S31-36, May 2003 .
• Effects of modularity and connectivity on OADM deployment in ring networks
  K. Kumaran, N. Nithi, C. Nuzman, D. Levy, P. Mitev, I. Saniee
  IEEE/OFC Technical Digest, March 2003.
• Online traffic engineering with design-based routing
  I. Widjaja, I. Saniee, D. Mitra, A. Elwalid
  ITC Specialist Workshop, Wurzburg, July, 2002.
• A new approach for autonomous grooming of SONET circuits to optical express links
  I. Widjaja, I. Saniee, L Quan, L. Cheng, A. Elwalid, J. Elson
  Proceedings of IEEE/ICC 2003, May, 2003.
• Optical crossconnect with shared wavelength conversion under dynamic load
  D. Mitra, C. Nuzman, I. Saniee, P. Whiting
  IEEE/OFC Technical Digest, pp 160-162, March 2002
• Selective transparency in optical networks
  R. Giles, K. Kumaran, D. Mitra, C. Nuzman, I. Saniee
  Proc. of ECOC2002, Copenhagen, Oct 2002.
• A Framework for Internet Network Engineering
  Y. Cao, J. Ellson, A. Elwalid, T. Hashimoto, H. Ishimatsu, A. Jukan, L. Mo, A. Nagarajan, Y. Oyama, L. Qian
  I. Saniee, E. Snyder, S. Tanaka, M. Vissers, I. Widjaja, Y. Xu, S. Yoneda
  Network Working Group, IETF Internet Draft, July 2001.
• A compound model for TCP connection arrivals with applications to LAN and WAN
  C. Nuzman, I. Saniee, A. Weiss, W. Sweldens
  Computer Networks,, Vol 40, Issue 3, pp 319-337, Elsevier Science, 2002.
• Shared recovery in transparent optical networks
  K. Kumaran, I. Saniee
  Proceedings of the 39th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Nov, 2001.
• A Compound model for TCP connection arrivals: Empirical study with a general framework
  C. Nuzman, I. Saniee, Al. Weiss, W. Sweldens
  Proceedings of ITC 2001, Brazil, Dec 2001.
• A scalable algorithm for the minimum expected cost restorable flow problem
  L. Fleischer, A. Meyerson, I. Saniee, A. Srinivasan, Bruce Shepherd
  Columbia University CORC Report 03-10, submitted for publication.
• Wavelength usage efficiency versus recovery time in path protected DWDM mesh networks
  E. Bouillet, K. Kumaran, G. Liu. I. Saniee
  IEEE/OFC Technical Digest, March 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 Vol. 6, Issue 1, June 2001, pp.82-97.
• Load characterization and load anomaly detection for voice over IP traffic (extended abstract)
  M. Mandjes, I. Saniee, S. Stolyar
  ACM SIGMETRICS'01 poster session, 2001.
• Resource usage and charging in a multi-service multi-QoS packet network
  K. Kumaran, M. Mandjes, Debasis Mitra, I. Saniee
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Internet Service Quality Economics, Dec 1999 and
  book with same title to be published by MIT Press, 2001.
• Multi-scaling models of sub-frame VBR video and TCP/IP traffic
  A. Erramilli, O. Narayan, A. Neidhardt, I. Saniee
  IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks Vol 3, No. 4, Dec 2001.
• ATM network design: traffic models and optimization heuristics
  D. Bienstock, I. Saniee
  DIMACS Report 98-20, and Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 16(3-4),pp399-421, June 2001.
• Load characterization, overload prediction and load anomaly detection for voice over IP traffic
  M. Mandjes, I. Saniee, S. Stolyar, R. Schmidt
  Proceedings of the 38th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Nov, 2000.
• A compound model for TCP connection arrivals
  C. Nuzman, I. Saniee, A. Weiss, W. Sweldens
  Proceedings of the ITC Specialist Seminar in IP Modeling, Sep 2000.
• Virtual path design in ATM networks
  I. Saniee, J. Sokol
  Journal of Heuristics (Special issue on telecomm networks), Vol 6, No. 1, pp61-79, April, 2000.
• Multi-scaling models of sub-frame VBR video traffic
  I. Saniee, A. Neidhardt, O. Narayan, A. Erramilli
  Proceedings of Networking 2000 Conference, Springer Verlag, June 2000.
• Performance impacts of multi-scaling in wide area TCP/IP traffic
  A. Erramilli, O. Narayan, A. Neidhardt, I. Saniee
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM2000, March 2000.
• Estimation of traffic parameters in high-speed data networks
  M. Caglar, K. R. Krishnan, I. Saniee
  Proc of 1999 ITC Cong, Edinburgh, June 1999.
• Multiscaling in low-aggregate fast packet network traffic
  I. Saniee
  Bellcore, Sep 1998.
• Studies of random demands on network costs
  T. Carpenter, D. Heyman, I. Saniee
  Telecommunication Systems, Vol 10, pp409-421, 1998.
• A simple approximation algorithm for two problems in circuit design
  T. Carpenter, S. Cosares, J. Ganley, I. Saniee
  IEEE Trans on Computers Vol 47, No. 11, pp1310-1312, Nov 1998.
• The economics of statistical multiplexing for broadband networks
  Ashok Erramilli, Charles Pack, Iraj Saniee
  Teletraffic Contrib for the Info Age, Proc of the of 1997 ITC Cong June 1997.
• Demand routing and slotting on ring networks
  Tami Carpenter, Steve Cosares, Iraj Saniee
  DIMACS Report 97-02, Jan 1997.
• Why broadband networks need plenty of foresight
  I. Saniee
  Bellcore NetTRAM (Center for Applied Research in Information Networking), Vol.2, No.2, 1996.
• Numerical approximation of equivalent bandwidths for general traffic streams via an on-off projection method
  I. Saniee
  IEEE Globecom 1996 Proc, Vol 3, pp 2098-2103, 1996.
• Optimal routing designs in self-healing communications networks
  I. Saniee
  Inter Trans in OR, Vol 3, No 2, 1996.
• An efficient algorithm for multiperiod capacity expansion
  I. Saniee
  Operations Research, Vol 43, pp 187-190, Jan-Feb 1995.
• SONET Toolkit, a decision support system for the design of cost-effective fiber optic networks
  S. Cosares, D. Deutsch, I. Saniee, O. Wasem
  Interfaces Vol 25, pp 20-40, Jan-Feb 1995.
• An optimization problem related to balancing loads on SONET rings
  S. Cosares, I. Saniee
  Telecom Systems Vol 3, pp 165-181, Dec 1994.
• Network planning with the SONET toolkit
  S. Cosares, I. Saniee, O. Wasem
  Bellcore EXCHANGE, pp8-13, Sep-Oct 1992.
• Optimizing fiber planning in the loop
  A. Salasso, I. Saniee
  ISSLS '88 Proc, IEEE Comm Soc, pp 156-160, Sep, 1988.
• A call-processing traffic study for integrated digital loop carrier applications
  H. Jablecki, R. Misra, I. Saniee
  IEEE Trans. on Comm. Vol 36, pp1053-1061, No. 9, Nov. 1987.
• A note on optimal waiting strategies at bus stops
  I. Saniee
  SIAM Review, Vol. 29 (pp 625-629), No. 4, Dec. 1987.
• Planning for fiber in the loop
  R. F. Laing, I. Saniee
  Proc. of the Nat. Fiber Optics Conf., Virginia Beach, April 21, 1987.

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  Related to Software Tools

  • 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 Vol. 6, Issue 1, June 2001, pp.82-97.
  • ATM network design: traffic models and optimization heuristics
    D. Bienstock, I. Saniee
    DIMACS Report 98-20, Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 16(3-4),pp399-421, June 2001.
  • SONET Toolkit, a decision support system for the design of cost-effective fiber optic networks
    S. Cosares, D. Deutsch, I. Saniee, O. Wasem
    Interfaces Vol 25, pp 20-40, Jan-Feb 1995.
  • Network planning with the SONET toolkit
    S. Cosares, I. Saniee, O. Wasem
    Bellcore EXCHANGE, pp8-13, Sep-Oct 1992.
  • Optimizing fiber planning in the loop
    A. Salasoo, I. Saniee
    ISSLS '88 Proc, IEEE Comm Soc, pp 156-160, Sep, 1988.

Books and Book Chapters

• New Trends in Network Design
  Edited by Walid Ben-Ameur, Daniel Bienstock and Iraj Saniee
  Special issue of Annals of Operation Research
  (in conjunction with the International Network Optimization Conference
  Evry/Paris, 27-29 October, 2003), Vol. 146, No. 1, Sep 2006.
• Load balancing in dynamic CDMA networks
  Sem Borst, Georg Hampel, Iraj Saniee, Philip Whiting
  Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications
  Ed. P.M. Pardalos and M.G.C. Resende, Springer Science, 2006.
• Heuristic Approaches for Telecommunications Network Management, Planning and Expansion
  Edited by Robert Doverspike and Iraj Saniee
  Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2000.

TALKS, ETC.

• Four dozen or so invited/contributed talks given at conferences, professional societies, etc. (some of which I have electronic copies of) as well as numerous Technical Reports

PRESS

• Doing the Math: Bell Labs' Analysis Tools Optimize VoIP Networks
  today@lucent (online), May 18, 2004.
• The Problem Solvers,
  Telephony.Online, Jan 12, 2004.
• Oh, What a Tangled Web We've Woven
  SIAM News, Vol. 33, No. 2, March 2000.
• Why broadband networks need plenty of foresight
  Bellcore NetTRAM (Center for Applied Research in Information Networking), Vol.2, No.2, 1996.

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