Cristina Comaniciu

Associate Professor

EE Graduate Program Director

Address:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 207 Burchard Building Stevens Institute of Technology Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030
Telephone:	Office: (201) 216-5606 Fax: (201) 216-8246
E-mail:	Cristina.Comaniciu AT stevens DOT edu

Cristina Comaniciu received the M.S. degree in electronics from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University in 2002. From 1998 to 2001 she was with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), Rutgers University, and from 2002 to 2003 she was a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. Since August 2003, she is with Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where she is now an Associate Professor, also serving as the Electrical Engineering Graduate Program Director. In Fall 2011 she was a visiting faculty fellow with the Department of Electical Engineering, Princeton University. She served as an associate editor for the IEEE Communication Letters Journal (2007-2011), and she is currently a member of the IEEE Interest Group on Green Multimedia Communications.

Professor Comaniciu is a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications for the paper "On the Capacity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Delay Constraints", co-authored with Vincent Poor. She was recently awarded the 2012 Rutgers School of Engineering Distinguished Young Alumnus Medal of Excellence. She is a coauthor with Vincent Poor and Narayan Mandayam of the book "Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design," Springer, NY.

Professor Comaniciu's research interests focus on energy efficient resource allocation for wireless networks, green wireless design, social based networking for opportunistic networks, dynamic spectrum management for cognitive radio networks, game theoretic approaches for cooperative algorithms in wireless networks, cross-layer design, and energy-security tradeoffs for wireless networks.

TEACHING

CPE/EE 345: Modeling and Simulation: Syllabus,

EE653 Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Networks: Syllabus

EE672: Game Theory for Wireless Networks: Syllabus

NIS/CPE 604: Analytical Methods for Networks: Syllabus

RESEARCH
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

cross-layer design for wireless networks

security-energy tradeoffs for wireless networks

game theoretic approaches for smart grids

green radio

social networking for opportunistic wireless networks

dynamic spectrum management and resource allocation

cooperation for spectrum sharing and interference mitigation

HONORS and AWARDS:

2012 Rutgers School of Engineering Distinguished Young Alumnus Medal of Excellence

2011 Women Leaders in Academia - Rutgers University

2010 IEEE Outstanding Industrial Panel Chair Award, Sarnoff Symposium

2007 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications

2004 WINSEC Award for Outstanding Contibutions

Books and Book Chapters:

Books:

Journals:

M.Schurgot, C. Comaniciu, K. Jaffress-Runser, " Beyond Traditional DTN Routing: Social Networks for Opprotunistic Communication", to appear IEEE Communication Magazine, 2012.
C. Comaniciu, "On energy-Security Tradeoffs and Cooperation for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", River Pblishers, Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, January 2012.
Engin Zeydan, Didem Kivanc, Ufuk Tureli and Cristina Comaniciu, "Energy-Efficient Routing fior Correlated Data in Wireless Sensor Networks", to appear Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, 2012.
Engin Zeydan, Didem Kivanc, Ufuk Tureli and Cristina Comaniciu, "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", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011, 2011:79 doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2011-79.
A. Apavatjrut, C. Goursaud, K. Jaffres-Runser, C. Comaniciu, J-M. Gorce, "Toward Increasing Packet Diversity for Relaying LT Fountain Codes in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Communication Letters, 15(1), art. no. 5648738, pp. 52-54, 2011.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, H.V. Poor, J-M. Gorce, "An Auctioning Mechanism for Green Radio", Journal of Communication and Networks, 12 (2), pp. 114-121, 2010.
Q. Shi, C. Comaniciu, D. Wang, U. Tureli, “Cross-layer MAC design for location-aware wireless sensor networks”, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, 24 (7) pp. 872-888, 2010.
H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu. 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, 2009.
D. Wang, C. Comaniciu, M. Hlaing, N. Al-Dhahir, A Game-Theoretic Approach for Exploiting Multiuser Diversity in Cooperative Slotted Aloha, Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE . 7 (11), 4215- 4225, November 2008.
D. Wang, C. Comaniciu, U. Tureli. Â Cooperation and fairness for slotted Aloha, special issue on Wireless Personal Communications on Cooperation in Wireless Networks, Springer. 43 (1), 13-27, 2007.
C. Comaniciu, H. V. Poor. Joint Power Control and Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Data Networks, Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , art. no. 60707, January 2007.
N. Nie, C. Comaniciu. Energy efficient AODV routing in CDMA ad hoc networks using beamforming, Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , art. no. 76709, 2006.
C. Comaniciu, H. Vincent Poor. 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, August 2006.
Y. Liu, C. Comaniciu, H. Man. Modeling Misbehavior in Ad Hoc Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach for Intrusion Detection, International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), 2006.
N. Nie, C. Comaniciu. Adaptive Channel Allocation Spectrum Etiquette for Cognitive Radio Networks, to appear in ACM MONET (Mobile Networks and Applications), special issue on "Reconfigurable Radio Technologies in Support of Ubiquitous Seamless Computing", 11 (6), 779-797, 2006.
C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "Capacity Regions and Optimal Power Allocation for Groupwise Multiuser Detection";, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 4, no 2, pp. 349 - 352, March 2005.
R. M Rao, C. Comaniciu, and T.V. Lakshman, and H.V. Poor, ``Integrated Call Admission Control in DS-CDMA Networks for Multimedia Service'', IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Networking: An Integrated Approach, Volume: 21 , Issue: 5 , Sept. 2004 pp. 51 - 58.
C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "Jointly Optimal Power and Admission Control for Delay Sensitive Traffic in CDMA Networks with LMMSE Receivers", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing in Networking, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 2031 -2042, August 2003.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, D. Famolari, P. Agrawal, "Wireless Access to the World Wide Web in an Integrated CDMA System", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 472 -483, May 2003.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, "Delta Modulation based Prediction for Access Control in Integrated Voice/Data CDMA Systems", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), vol 18, No 1, January 2000, pp. 112 - 122.

Conferences:

Q. Shi, C. Comaniciu and K. Jaffres-Runser, "An Auction-based Mechanism for Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Networks", 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (CogART), Barcelona, Spain, October 2011 (invited paper).
K. Jaffres Runser, M. Schurgot, C. Comaniciu, J-M. Gorce, "A multiobjective performance evaluation framework for routing in wireless ad hoc networks", WiOpt 2010 - 8th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, art. no. 5518821, pp. 113-121, 2010.
Q. Shi, C. Comaniciu, "Efficient cooperative detection for wireless sentinel networks", 2010 44th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2010, art. no. 5464941.
E. Zeydan, D.K. Tureli, C. Comaniciu, U. Tureli, "Bottleneck throughput maximization for correlated data routing: A game theoretic approach", 2010 44th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2010 , art. no. 5464941.
C. Comaniciu, N. Mandayam, H. Vincent Poor, "Radio Resource Management for Green Wireless Networks", Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Anchorage, Â Alaska, September 2009, invited paper.
Qiong Shi, Cristina Comaniciu and Prathima Agrawal, "A Prioritized MAC Game Framework for Event Reporting in Sensor Networks", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets), May 2009, invited paper.
E. Zeydan, D. Kivanc, C. Comaniciu, "Efficient Routing for Correlated Data in Wireless Sensor Networks", Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM, art. no. 4753332, October 2008.
S.M. Futacci, K. Jaffres Runser, "On Modeling Energy-Security Trade-offs for Distributed Monitoring in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM, art. no. 4753166, October 2008.
K. Jaffres Runser, C. Comaniciu, "A Probabilistic Interference and Energy Aware Gradient Broadcasting Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Santorini, Greece, pp. 1-5, May 2008.
D. Wang, C. Comaniciu, H. Minn, N. Al-Dhahir, "On Modeling Utility for Cooperative Slotted Aloha Games", ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, art. no. 4518221, pp. 2761-2764, March 2008.
Q. Shi, C. Comaniciu, "Cross-Layer MAC Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks", Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, SARNOFF, art. no. 4520060, March 2008.
C. Demir and C. Comaniciu, "An Auction based AODV Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Selfish Nodes", IEEE ICC 2007.
C. Comaniciu, D. Wang, H. Minn, and N. Al-Dhahiro, "A Game Theoretic Solution for Exploiting Multiuser Diversity in Cooperative Slotted Aloha", IEEE ICC 2007.
N. Nie, C. Comaniciu and P. Agrawal, "A Game Theoretic Approach to Interference Management in Cognitive Networks", student poster WOCC 2007, (this poster won Outstanding Research Poster Award)
Yu Liu, Cristina Comaniciu and Hong Man, "A Bayesian game approach for intrusion detection in wireless ad hoc networks", to appear in Proceedings of GameNets (Workshop on Game Theory for Networks), October 2006, Pisa, Italy.
H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "A Cross-Layer Game Theoretic Solution for Interference Mitigation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", invited paper, submitted to IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October 2006.
D. Wang, C. Comaniciu and U. Tureli, "A fair and efficient pricing strategy for slotted Aloha in MPR models";, to appear, VTC fall 2006.
Y. Li, H. Man and C. Comaniciu, "A Game Theoretic Approach to Efficient Mixed Strategies for Intrusion Detection", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006).
D. Wang, C. Comaniciu and U. Tureli, "Cross-Layer Design for Localization and MAC", in Proceedings of CISS (Conference on Information Sciences and Systems), March 2006, Princeton, NJ.
H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "Location Assisted Routing for Near-Far Effect Mitigation in Wireless Networks" , invited paper, IEEE First International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), December 2005.
N. Nie and C. Comaniciu, "Adaptive Channel Allocation Spectrum Etiquette for Cognitive Radio Networks" , in Proceedings of IEEE DySPAN, November 2005.
H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "Interference Aware Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks" , in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October 2005.
N. Nie and C. Comaniciu, "Energy Efficient AODV Routing in CDMA Ad Hoc Networks Using Beamforming" , in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), May-June 2005.
H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu, "Adaptive spreading/coding gains for energy efficient routing in wireless ad hoc networks", in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), May-June 2005.
Y. Xing, N. Nie and C. Comaniciu, "Avoiding Throughput Bottlenecks for Energy Efficient Joint Power Control and Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks", in Proceedings of CISS (Conference on Information Sciences and Systems), March 2004.
C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "QoS Provisioning for Wireless Ad Hoc Data Networks (invited paper)", 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2003.
C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "On the Performance of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Power Control, Multiuser Detection and User Capacity" (invited paper), 41st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2003.
C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "Multirate Groupwise MMSE in Multipath Fading Channels: Optimal Power Control and Asymptotic Capacity", in Proceedings of CISS (Conference on Information Sciences and Systems), March 2003.
C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "Optimal Admission Control for Delay Sensitive Traffic in CDMA with LMMSE Receivers", in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2002.
C. Comaniciu, H.V. Poor, "On the Capacity of Mobile Ad hoc Networks with Delay Constraints", in Proceedings of the IEEE CAS Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking, September 2002.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, "Integrated Access Control and Multiuser Detection for Multimedia CDMA Systems", in Proceedings of CISS, March 2002.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, D. Famolari, P. Agrawal, "QoS Guarantees for Third Generation (3G) CDMA Systems via Admission and Flow Control", in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), September 2000, Boston.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, D. Famolari, P. Agrawal, "Admission and Flow Control for Multimedia CDMA" , in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, July-August 2000, New York.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, "Prediction Based Access Control in Integrated Voice/Data CDMA Systems", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Vancouver, June '99, vol 3, pp. 1447 - 1451.
C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, "Analysis of a Prediction Based Access Control Mechanism for Short Message Data Service in an Integrated Voice/Data CDMA System", Proceedings of 49th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Houston, May '99, vol 1, pp. 128-132.
V. Tsaoussidis, A. Deka, C. Comaniciu, C. Kulikowski, "Application - Oriented System for Quality of Service (ASQoS)", 6th IEEE Conference on Networks, IEEE ICON '98, Singapore, July 1998, (Book) World Scientific Press: NETWORKS '98, Quality of Service and Resource Sharing, pp. 239-255.
D. Comaniciu and C. Comaniciu, "Vector Quantization Clustering using Lattice Growing Search", Proceedings VIII-th European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO'96), Trieste, Italy, September, vol. 1, pp. 344-346, 1996.
R. Dogaru, A.T. Murgan, C. Comaniciu, "Fast Signal Recognition and Detection Using ART1 Neural Networks and Nonlinear Preprocessing Units Based on Time Delay Embeddings", Proceedings European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN'~96), Bruges, Belgium, April 24-26, pp.309-315, 1996.

Invited Talks:

On Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Networks, IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Society, November 2011.
Modeling data transfer in dynamic wireless networks, NJIT research day, presented by my students Mary Schurgot, November 2011
On security-energy tradeoffs and cooperation for wireless ad hoc networks, invited talk at NIKSUN WWSMC 2011 Conference, Princeton, NJ, July 2011.
Multiobjective optimization for wireless networks, Stevens Graduate Research Day - presented by my student Mary Schurgot, Fall 2010.
Efficient spectrum sharing for cognitive radio networks, Forth Monmouth, ARDEC, May 2008
Cooperative protocols for dynamic wireless networks, Stochastic Systems Seminar, ISSA, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, April 2007
Cooperative routing, invited talk IWWAN, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, NY, June 2006.
On cooperation in wireless networks: benefits and tradeoffs, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, NY, April 2006.
On cooperation in wireless networks: benefits and tradeoffs, WINLAB seminar, Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, December 2005.
Cross-layer design for wireless networks, WINSEC, Stevens Institute of Technology, presentation for Lockheed Martin visitors, January 2004.
Cross-layer design for wireless networks, WINSEC, Stevens Institute of Technology, presentation for US Army CERDEC visitors from Forth Monmouth, October 2004.
Joint power control and routing with energy constraints in ad hoc networks for data service, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, December 2003 (presented by my student).
Cross-layer design in wireless networks, University of Delaware, March 2003.
Cross-layer design in CDMA wireless networks, Department seminar, Lehigh University, March 2003.
Cross-layer design in wireless networks, Drexel University, February 2003.
Cross-Layer Design in CDMA Wireless Networks, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, February 2003.
Integrated Access Control and Detection for QoS in Multimedia CDMA Networks, IEEE North Jersey Section Communication Society and NJIT, May 2002.

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