Refereed Publications / Presentations–

 

…. Last updated – 08/2006

 

 

[48] S. Kumar, “Smurf-based Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Internet,” Under review

 

 

[47] S. Kumar, “PING Attack – How Bad Is It?”  Computers & Security Journal, Vol.25, July 2006.

 

 

[46] S. Kumar, R. Valdez, O. Gomez, S. Bose, “Survivability Evaluation of a Wireless Sensor Network” – International Conference on Networking (ICN’06), April 2006.

 

 

[45] S. Kumar, M. Azad, O. Gomez, and R. Valdez, “Can Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 (SP2) Security Software Prevent Smurf Attacks?” Proceedings of the Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications (AICT’06), Feb 2006.

 

 

[44] S. Kumar and A. Munoz, “Performance Comparison of Switch Architectures with Parallel Memory Modules,”

 IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.9, No.11, November 2005. (Journal’s Acceptance Rate ~ 12%)

 

 

[43]  S. Kumar and A. Munoz, “Memory-Bandwidth Performance of Shared Multi-Buffer Switch Versus Sliding-Window Switch,”

IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 41, No.18, September 2005.

 

 

[42] S. Kumar and A. Munoz, “Switch Architecture for Efficient Transfer of High-Volume Data in Distributed Computing Environment,” – Proceedings of the  Workshop on High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing (HPI-DC 2005), in conjunction with IEEE HPDC’05, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, July 2005.

 

 

[41] S. Kumar and T. Doganer, “Effect of Scan-Planes on the Memory Bandwidth of Sliding-Window Switch Architecture,” - Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR05), May 2005.

 

 

[40] S. Kumar "On Impact of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack due to ARP storm," – Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceBook Series, LNCS-3421, Networking - ICN 2005, Part-II, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, April 2005. 

 

 

[39] A. Munoz and S. Kumar, “Effect of Unbalanced Bursty Traffic on Memory-Sharing Schemes for Internet Switching Architecture,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science- Book Series, LNCS-3420, Networking - ICN 2005, Part-I, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, April 2005.

 

 

[38] S. Kumar and Charles Harlow, “Networking Research for BioMedical Applications,” GM Wireless Networking Seminar Presentation,  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, Oct. 2004.

 

 

[37] A. Munoz and S. Kumar, “On Design of Internet Routers/Switches Deploying Parallel Memory Modules,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control, Austin, Texas, August, 2004.

 

 

[36] H. Robles and S. Kumar, “Throughput Measurements of a Cisco-2600 Router,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control, Austin, Texas, August, 2004.

 

 

[35] S. Kumar and T. Doganer, “Memory-Bandwidth Performance of the Sliding-Window based Internet Routers/Switches,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, San Francisco, CA, April 2004.

 

 

[34] S. Kumar, T. Doganer, A. Munoz, “Effect of Traffic Burstiness on Memory-Bandwidth of the Sliding-Window Switch Architecture,” Proceedings of the  International Conference on Networking, March 2004.

 

 

[33] S. Kumar, A. Munoz, T. Doganer, “Performance Comparison of Memory-Sharing Schemes for Internet Switching Architecture,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Networking, March 2004.

 

 

[32] S. Kumar, “A Novel Architecture for High Performance Internet Routing and Switching,” IEEE  Dallas Chapter meeting, Richardson, Texas, December 16, 2003. (Invited presentation).

 

 

[31] S. Kumar, “The Sliding-Window Packet Switch: A New Class of Packet Switch Architecture with Plural Memory Modules and Decentralized Control,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol.21, No. 4, pp. 656-673, May 2003.

 

 

[30] S. Kumar, “Are Packet-Switches Delivering Bandwidth Capacity as Advertised?” 8th Annual The University of Texas System ITDE conference, May 2002.

 

 

[29] S. Kumar and J. Rios, “Trends in Optical Networking,” 8th Annual The University of Texas System ITDE conference, May 2002.

 

 

[28] S. Kumar, “Multistage subtended DSLAM for cost effective deployment of ADSL networks,” Comprehensive xDSL, International Engineering Consortium, 1999, ISBN: 0933-217-59-5. (Book Chapter)

 

 

[27] S. Kumar, “Lowering the Cost of Broadband Access in the local loop,” AMTC, Aug. 1999, San Diego, CA.

 

 

        [26] S. Kumar, “ADSL deployment issues & low-cost ADSL architecture,” ISPcon, Oct. 1998, San Jose, CA.

       

 

        [25] S. Kumar, “Commercial Deployment of DSL with DSLAM+,” AiC, September 1998, Atlanta, GA.

       

 

[24] S. Kumar, “Impact of Backbone Switch Architecture on the Performance of ATM based ADSL network,” AMTC, August 1998, Atlanta, GA

 

 

[23] S. Kumar, “DSLAM+ for Cost Effective Residential Broadband Deployment,” XIWT (Cross Industry Working Team) meeting, August, 1998, Intel Corporation Facility, Hillsboro, Oregon. (Invited Presentation).

 

 

        [22] S. Kumar, “DSLAM+: The multistage subtended DSLAM for cost effective deployment of ADSL networks,” XDSL COMFORUM, International Engineering Consortium, July 21-22, 1998, Chicago.     

 

 

[21] S. Kumar, “ADSL Deployment Realities – A Cost Effective approach,” DSLcon, March 98, San Jose, CA.

               

 

[20] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “Design and Performance of Shared-Buffer Direct-Access (SBDA) ATM Switch Architecture for Broadband Networks,” International Journal of Computer Systems and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 69-79, March 1997.

 

 

[19] S. Kumar and R. Dantu, “The Era of the Full Service Networks,” America’s Network, March 15, 1997.

 

 

[18] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “The Sliding-Window Approach to High Performance ATM Switching for Broadband Networks, ” IEEE    GlobeCom,  November 1996.

                               

 

[17] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “On multicast support for Shared-Memory based ATM Switching Architectures,” IEEE Network, pp. 34-39, January 1996.

 

 

        [16] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “Performance of the class of Sliding-Window ATM Switch Architectures for Broadband Communications Networks," IEEE SOUTHEASTCON , March 1995.

 

 

        [15] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “A Shared-Buffer Direct-Access Switch Architecture for ATM-based Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp 101-105, May 1994.

               

 

        [14] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “On Design of a Shared-Buffer based ATM-Switch for B-ISDN,” IEEE Int'l Phoenix Conference on Computers & Communications, pp 377-383, April 1994.

 

 

        [13] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “Efficient Reconfiguration of 2-D Rectangular Systolic Arrays,” IEEE Int'l Phoenix Conference on Computers &Communications, pp 16-22, March 1993.

 

 

        [12] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “On Design of Easily Reconfigurable Systolic Computation Networks,” International Conference on Signals,Data and Systems, pp 86-93, December 1992.

 

 

        [11] S. Kumar and D.P. Agrawal, “Design And Analysis of a Highly Reconfigurable Hexagonal Systolic Arrays,” Government Microcircuit Applications Conference, Vol XVII, pp 53-56, June 1991.

 

 

Internal publications with companies:

 

[10] S. Kumar, “Requirements Specification for Ericsson’s Broadband Access Networks,” Ericsson Network Systems Inc., October 1999.

 

 

        [9] S. Kumar, “Standards Activities for ATM based HFC Access Networks,” Ericsson Network Systems Inc., December 1997.

 

 

        [8] S. Kumar, “Requirements Specification for Ericsson’s ANx-HFC Broadband Access System,” December 1997.

 

 

[7] S. Kumar, “Performance of Data Application over ATM,” File Number: 3.1.11, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc., October 1996.              

 

 

        [6] S. Kumar “Integration Testing of a Video-On-Demand Network,” File Number: 3.1.11, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc., September, 1996.

 

 

        [5] S. Kumar, “Strategies for Available Bit Rate (ABR) traffic support in ATM access network,” File Number: 3.1.11, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc., September, 1996.

 

 

[4] S. Kumar, “Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Quality of Service (QoS) Performance Evaluation of the Cell Bus Interface (CBI) device for the Broadband Fiber in the loop (FITL) System,” File Number: 3.1.11, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc., March, 1996.

 

 

        [3] S. Kumar, “A Study of HDT Unit Requirements and Configurations for Broadband FITL Systems,” File Number: 3.1.11. Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc., January 1996.

 

 

[2] S. Kumar, “On Performance of HDT Architecture for Broadband FITL System under Constant Bit Rate (CBR) and Variable Bit Rate (VBR) Traffic,” File Number: 3.1.11, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc., September, 1995.

 

 

[1] S. Kumar, “FETEX-150 performance model for Video on Demand (VoD) traffic,” Technical report - PM-0025-0063-72, May 1994, Fujitsu Network Switching of America, Inc.