Wei Ye's Publications

Wireless Networking and Sensor Networks

 *  Book chapters

• Carrier Sense Multiple Access Protocols
  Wei Ye
  The Handbook of Computer Networks, Hossein Bidgoli,(ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., To appear, 2007.
  

• Energy Conservation in Sensor Networks at the Link and Network Layers
  John Heidemann and Wei Ye
  Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systems Perspective, Nirupama Bulusu and Sanjay Jha (eds.), Artech House, 2005.
  Also available as a Technical Report (PDF) (PS), ISI-TR-599, USC Information Sciences Institute, November 2004.

• Tiered Architectures in Sensor Networks
  Mark Yarvis and Wei Ye
  Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems, Chapter 13, Editors: Mohammad Ilyas, Imad Mahgoub (ed.), CRC Press, July 2004.

• Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Wei Ye and John Heidemann
  Wireless Sensor Networks, Chapter 4, Taieb Znati, Krishna M. Sivalingam and Cauligi Raghavendra (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, May 2004.
  Also available as a Technical Report (PDF) (PS), ISI-TR-580, USC Information Sciences Institute, October 2003.

 *  Journals, Conferences and Technical Reports

• Design and Evaluation of Network Reconfiguration Protocols for Mostly-Off Sensor Networks (PDF)
  Yuan Li, Wei Ye, John Heidemann, and Rohit Kulkarni,
  To appear in Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, Special Issue on Energy Efficient Design in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, 2008.
  

• T-Lohi: A New Class of MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (PDF)
  Affan Syed, Wei Ye, and John Heidemann
  Technical Report, ISI-TR-638, USC Information Sciences Institute, April 2007. To appear at IEEE INFOCOM 2008.
  

• Understanding Spatio-Temporal Uncertainty in Medium Access with ALOHA Protocols (PDF)
  Affan Syed, Wei Ye, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, and John Heidemann
  To appear in Proceedings of the Second ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September, 2007.
  

• Enabling Interoperability and Extensibility of Future SCADA Systems (PDF)
  Wei Ye and John Heidemann
  In Proceedings of the National Workshop on Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Critical Physical Infrastructures, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November, 2006.
  Also available as a Technical Report (PDF), ISI-TR-625, USC Information Sciences Institute, October 2006.

• Towards Full-disclosure: Broadening Access to SCADA Data to Improve Safety, Reliability, and Security (PDF)
  John Heidemann and Wei Ye
  In Proceedings of the National Workshop on Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Critical Physical Infrastructures, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November, 2006.
  

• Ultra-Low Duty Cycle MAC with Scheduled Channel Polling (PDF)
  Wei Ye, Fabio Silva, and John Heidemann
  In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Boulder, Colorado, USA, November, 2006.
  An earlier version is available as a Technical Report (PDF), ISI-TR-604, USC Information Sciences Institute, July 2005.

• Medium Access in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (PDF)
  Affan Syed, Wei Ye, and John Heidemann
  Technical Report, ISI-TR-624, USC Information Sciences Institute, October 2006.
  Also presented as a work-in-progress poster at the First ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), Marina del Rey, CA, September 2006.

• Low-Power Acoustic Modem for Dense Underwater Sensor Networks (PDF)
  Jack Wills, Wei Ye, and John Heidemann
  In Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), Los Angeles, CA, USA, September, 2006.
  

• Energy Efficient Network Reconfiguration for Mostly-Off Sensor Networks (PDF)
  Yuan Li, Wei Ye, and John Heidemann
  In Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Reston, VA, USA, September, 2006.
  

• Research Challenges and Applications for Underwater Sensor Networking (PDF)
  John Heidemann, Wei Ye, Jack Wills, Affan Syed, and Yuan Li
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, IEEE. April, 2006.
  An earlier version is available as a Technical Report (PDF), ISI-TR-603, USC Information Sciences Institute, July, 2005.

• Energy and Latency Control in Low Duty Cycle MAC Protocols (PDF)
  Yuan Li, Wei Ye and John Heidemann
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, LA, USA, March, 2005.
  An earlier version is available as a Technical Report (PDF), ISI-TR-595, USC Information Sciences Institute, August, 2004.

• Networking Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (PDF)
  Deepak Ganesan, Alberto Cerpa, Wei Ye, Yan Yu, Jerry Zhao, and Deborah Estrin
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Special issue on Computing and Communication in Distributed Sensor Networks, Elsevier Publishers, Vol. 64, No. 7, pp. 799-814, July, 2004.
  

• Medium Access Control with Coordinated Adaptive Sleeping for Wireless Sensor Networks (PDF)
  Wei Ye, John Heidemann and Deborah Estrin
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 493-506, June 2004.
  An earlier version is available as a Technical Report(PDF) (PS) ISI-TR567, USC Information Sciences Institute, January 2003.

• Demonstration of Schedule and Latency Control in S-MAC (PDF) (PS)
  Yuan Li, Wei Ye and John Heidemann
  Technical Report ISI-TR-581, USC Information Sciences Institute, November 2003.

• A Flexible and Reliable Radio Communication Stack on Motes (PDF) (PS)
  Wei Ye, John Heidemann and Deborah Estrin.
  Technical Report ISI-TR-565, USC Information Sciences Institute, September 2002.

• An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (PDF) (PS)
  Wei Ye, John Heidemann and Deborah Estrin
  In Proceedings of the 21st International Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM), Vol.3, pp. 1567-1576, New York, NY, USA, June, 2002.
  An earlier version is available as a Technical Report (PDF) (PS), ISI-TR-543, USC/ISI, Sept, 2001.

The above paper is one of the most widely cited computer science papers published in 2002, according to Citeseer statistics.

• Evaluating Control Strategies for Wireless-Networked Robots Using an Integrated Robot and Network Simulation (PDF) (PS)
  Wei Ye, Richard T. Vaughan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin, and Maja J. Mataric
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2001), Vol. 3, pp. 2941-2947, Seoul, Korea, May, 2001.

• Radio Propagation Models (PDF) (PS)
  Wei Ye
  A chapter in ns Manual

• Effects of Detail in Wireless Network Simulation
  John Heidemann, Nirupama Bulusu, Jeremy Elson, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Kun-chan Lan, Ya Xu, Wei Ye, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan.
  In SCS Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference. September, 2000.
  

Radar Signal Processing and Remote Sensing

 *  Book chapter

• Radar Signal Processing
  Wei Ye and Tat Soon Yeo.
  Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sppl. 1, pp. 577-592, John G. Webster (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.

 *  Journals and Conferences

• Weighted Least Square Estimation of Phase Errors for SAR/ISAR Autofocus
  Wei Ye, Tat Soon Yeo and Zheng Bao
  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 2487- 2494, 1999.

• Correction of the Geometric Distortion in Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery
  Wei Ye, Tat Soon Yeo, Cheng-Bo Zhang and Yi-Hui Lu
  International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 979-992, 1999.

• An Optimal Method for Phase Error Estimation in SAR Imagery
  Wei Ye, Tat Soon Yeo and Zheng Bao
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Vol. 2, pp. 1165-1167, Seattle, USA, July, 1998.

• An Efficient Algorithm to Correct Range Curvature Image Distortion in Spotlight SAR
  Wei Ye, Tat Soon Yeo, Cheng-Bo Zhang and Yi-Hui Lu
  In Proceedings of European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, Germany, May, 1998.

• A New Autofocus Method in the Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar --- Local Dominant Scatterer Synthesizing
  Wei Ye and Zheng Bao
  Science in China, Series E, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 653-660, Dec. 1997.

• An Effective Autofocus Algorithm for ISAR Imaging
  Wei Ye and Zheng Bao
  In Proceedings of the CIE International Radar Conference, pp. 350-353, Beijing, China, Oct., 1996.

• Simulation of Compound K-distribution Sea Clutter
  Chanjuan Yang, Wei Ye and Wanhai Yang
  In Proceedings of the CIE International Radar Conference, pp. 219-222, Beijing, China, Oct., 1996

• Radar Target Recognition Based on the Neural Network
  Qun Zhao, Zheng Bao and Wei Ye
  Journal of Electronics (China), Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-10, 1996.

• Improvements of Autofocus Techniques for ISAR Motion Compensation
  Zheng Bao and Wei Ye
  Chinese Journal of Electronics, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 1-8, 1995.