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IEEE 802.11/15/16/20 Standardization Contributions

• Qiang Ni, T. Li, T. Turletti and Y. Xiao. "AFR MAC Proposal Summary". IEEE 802.11n Working Group Document: IEEE 802.11-04-1383-00-000n, November 5, 2004. (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni, T. Li, T. Turletti and Y. Xiao. "AFR Partial MAC Proposal for IEEE 802.11n". IEEE 802.11n Working Group Document: IEEE 802.11-04-0950-00-000n, August 13, 2004. (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni, T. Li, T. Turletti and Y. Xiao. "AFR Partial MAC Proposal for IEEE 802.11n: Presentation". IEEE 802.11n Working Group Document: IEEE 802.11-04-0949-00-000n, August 13, 2004. (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni, P. Ansel, and Thierry Turletti. "A Fair Scheduling Scheme for HCF". IEEE 802.11e Working Group Document: IEEE 802.11-03-0577-01-000e, July 23, 2003. (.pdf)

• I. Aad, Qiang Ni, C. Castelluccia, and T. Turletti. "Enhancing IEEE 802.11 Performance with Slow CW Decrease". IEEE 802.11e Working Group Document: IEEE 802.11-02/674r0, November 11, 2002. (.pdf)

• K. Sethom, H. Afifi, and Qiang Ni. "Adaptation Interface for Seamless Handover between IEEE 802.20 MBWA/802.11/802.15".  IEEE 802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Working Group Document: IEEE 802.20-03-104, Nov. 12, 2003. (.pdf)

Journal Papers

• T. Li, Qiang Ni, D. Malone, D. Leith, Y. Xiao, T. Turletti. "Aggregation with Fragment Retransmission for Very High-Speed WLANs". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 17, No. 2, April 2009, pp. 591-604.

• A. Vinel, Qiang Ni, D. Staehle, A. Turlikov. "Capacity analysis of reservation-based random access for broadband wireless access networks". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 27,  Issue 2,  February 2009, pp. 172 - 181.
  

• D. Skordoulis, Qiang Ni, H. Chen, A. Stephens, C. Liu, and A. Jamalipour. "IEEE 802.11n MAC Frame Aggregation Mechanisms for Next-Generation High-Throughput WLANs". IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2008.

• T. Jiang, W. Xiang, H. Chen and Qiang Ni. "Multicast Broadcast Services Support in OFDMA-Based WiMAX Systems". IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 45, Issue 8, Aug. 2007.

• Qiang Ni, A. Vinel, Y. Xiao, et al. "Investigation of Bandwidth Request Mechanisms under Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) Mode of WiMAX Networks". IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 5, May 2007, pp. 132-138 <This paper was rated as one of the ten most popular articles published in ComSoc (IEEE Communications Society) and as a 47th of the IEEE Top-100 in June 2007 and as a 82nd of the IEEE Top-100 in August 2007> (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni. "Performance Analysis and Enhancements for IEEE 802.11e Wireless Networks". IEEE Network, Vol. 19, No. 4, July/August 2005, pp. 21-27. <This paper was rated as the Top 100 downloaded IEEE documents as measured by the IEEE Xplore - Top 60th in Aug. 2005 and Top 78th in Oct. 2005> (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni, T. Li, T. Turletti, and Y. Xiao. "Saturation Throughput Analysis of Error-Prone 802.11 Wireless Networks". Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (JWCMC), Vol. 5, Issue 8, Dec. 2005, pp. 945-956. (.pdf)

• Y. Xiao, H. Li, K. Wu, K. K. Leung, and Qiang Ni. "On Optimizing Backoff Counter Reservation and Classifying Stations for the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Wireless LANs". IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 17, No. 7, July 2006, pp. 713-722. (.pdf)

• T. Li, Qiang Ni, and Y. Xiao, "Investigation of the Block ACK Scheme in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks". Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (JWCMC), Vol. 6, Issue 6, Sept. 2006, pp. 877-888.

• G. Cantieni, Qiang Ni, C. Barakat, and T. Turletti. "Performance Analysis under Finite Load and Improvements for Multirate 802.11b". Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 28, Issue 10, June 2005, pp. 1095-1109. (.pdf) <This paper was rated as the Top 4-th hottest article within the Elsevier Computer Communications Journal during the period of April 2005 - June 2005>

• I. Aad, Qiang Ni, C. Barakat, and T. Turletti. "Enhancing IEEE 802.11 MAC in Congested Environments". Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 28, Issue 14, September 2005, pp. 1605-1617. (.pdf)

• P. Ansel, Qiang Ni, and T. Turletti. "FHCF: A Simple and Efficient Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.11e". Springer/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Vol. 11, Issue 3, 2006, pp. 391-403. (.pdf)

• Y. Xiao, S. Yu, K. Wu, Qiang Ni, C. Janecek, and J. Nordstad. "Radio Frequency Identification: Technologies, Applications, and Research Issues". Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (JWCMC), March 2007, Vol. 7, Issue 4: pp. 457-472. (.pdf)

• Q. Zhang, Q. Guo, Qiang Ni, W. Zhu and Y. Zhang. "Sender-adaptive and Receiver-driven Layered Multicasting for Scalable Video over the Internet". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology (CSVT), Vol. 15, Issue 4, April 2005, pp. 482-495. (.pdf)

• H. Yin, C. Lin, J. Zhuang, B. Li, and Qiang Ni. "Effective Video Multicast over Wireless Internet: Rate Allocation and End-System Based Adaptation". IEICE Transactions on Communications Journal, Vol. E88-B, No. 4, April 2005, pp. 1395-1402. (.pdf)

• X. Hong, Y. Xiao, Qiang Ni, T. Li. "A Connection-level Call Admission Control using Genetic Algorithm for MultiClass Multimedia Services in Wireless Networks". International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC), Vol. 4, No. 5, 2006, pp. 568-580.

• Qiang Ni, L. Romdhani, and T. Turletti. "A Survey of QoS Enhancements for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN". Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (JWCMC), John Wiley & Sons Publisher, Vol. 4, Issue 5, August 2004, pp. 547-566. (.pdf)

Conference Papers

• C. Zarakovitis, Qiang Ni, D. Skordoulis. "Cross-Layer Design for Single-Cell OFDMA Systems with Heterogeneous QoS and Partial CSIT". IEEE WCNC 09, April 5-8 2009, Budapest.

•  Qiang Ni, J. Jehanzeb et al. "A Minimum Distance guided Genetic Algorithm for Multi-User Detection in a Multi-Carrier CDMA Wireless Broadband System". Broadnets 08, Sept. 2008, pp. 500 - 505.

• A. G Gravalos, M. Hadjinicolaou, Qiang Ni. "Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11n Under Different STBC Rates using 64-QAM". IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 07), San Juan, Pureto Rico, February 2007.

• H. Yuan, Qiang Ni, Wenbing Yao and Yonghua Song. "Optimizing Distribution of Location Sensor in Location System". London Communications Symposium (LCS06), UCL, London, Sept 14-15, 2006.

• Z. Niu, W. Yao, Qiang Ni and Y. Song. "Link Reliability Model for Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks". London Communications Symposium (LCS06), UCL, London, Sept 14-15, 2006.

• H. Yuan, Qiang Ni, W. Yao and Y. Song. "Design of A Novel Indoor Location Sensing Mechanism using IEEE 802.11e WLANs". The Seventh Annual PostGraduate Symposium in Telecommunications and Network System (PGNet), Liverpool, UK, June 26-27, 2006.

• A. Vinel, Y. Zhang, Qiang Ni, A. Lyakhov. "Efficient Request Mechanisms Usage in IEEE 802.16". The 49th IEEE Globecom Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, Nov.27-Dec. 1, 2006.

• Tianji Li, Qiang Ni, D. Malone, D. leith, Y. Xiao and T. Turletti. "A New MAC Scheme for Very High-Speed WLANs", IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Buffalo-NY, USA, June 26-29, 2006.

• T. Li, Qiang Ni, T. Turletti, and Y. Xiao. "Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11e Block ACK Scheme in a Noisy Channel". IEEE BroadNets 2005, Wireless Networking Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, October 3-7, 2005. (.pdf)

• Y. Xiao, H. Li, K. Wu, K. K. Leung, and Qiang Ni. "Reservation and Grouping Stations for the IEEE 802.11 DCF". IFIP Networking 2005, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 2-6, 2005. (.pdf)

• I. Aad, Qiang Ni, C. Barakat, and T. Turletti. "Enhancing IEEE 802.11 MAC in Congested Environments". IEEE Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN 2004), Boston, August 2004. (.pdf)

• M. Malli, Qiang Ni, T. Turletti, and C. Barakat. "Adaptive Fair Channel Allocation for QoS Enhancement in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs". IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, June 2004. (.pdf)

• P. Ansel, Qiang Ni, and T. Turletti. "An Efficient Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.11e". Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2004), Cambridge, UK, March 2004. (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni, I. Aad, C. Barakat, and T. Turletti. "Modelling and Analysis of Slow CW Decrease for IEEE 802.11 WLAN". Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Personnel, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2003), Beijing, China, September 2003. (.pdf)

• Z. Chen, W. Cai, Qiang Ni and G. Zhu. "Differential Space-Time Block-Coded OFDMA for Frequency-Selective Channel". IEEE International Symposium on Personnel, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2003), Beijing, China, September 2003, pp 2171 - 2175. (.pdf)

• A. Trad, Qiang Ni and H. Afifi. "Adaptive VoIP Transmission over Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks". The Second International Workshop on Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems (MIPS 2004), Grenoble, France, November 16-19, 2004. (.pdf)

• L. Romdhani, Qiang Ni, and T. Turletti. "Adaptive EDCF: Enhanced Service Differentiation for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks". IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2003), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 16-20, 2003. (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni, T. Turletti and W. Fu. "Simulation-based Analysis of TCP Behaviour over Hybrid Wireless & Wired Networks". The 1st International Workshop on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2002), in conjunction with Internet Computing 02, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 24-27, 2002. (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni, Q. Zhang, W. Zhu. "SARLM: Sender-adaptive and Receiver-driven Layered Multicast for Scalable Video". IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2001), Japan, August 22-25,2001. (.pdf).

Book Chapters

• Qiang Ni, David Malone, Peter Clifford, Ken Duffy, Douglas Leith, Tianji Li. "Modeling and Simulation Analysis of the  802.11/802.11e MAC Layers". invited chapter contribution to appear in Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Networks (Book), Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: , New York, USA. (Edited by Dr. Geyong Min, Prof. Yi Pan, and Prof. Pingzhi Fan) (.pdf)

• Qiang Ni, and T. Turletti. "QoS Support for IEEE 802.11 WLAN". A chapter in Wireless LANs and Bluetooth (Book), Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: 1-59454-432-8, New York, USA, 2005. (Edited by Prof. Yang Xiao, and Prof. Yi Pan) (.pdf)

• H. Yin, B. Li, C. Lin, Qiang Ni. "Adaptive Video Multicasting over Wireless Internet". A chapter to appear in Adaptation Techniques in Wireless Multimedia Networks (Book), Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: , New York, USA, 2005. (Edited by Prof. Wei Li, and Prof. Yang Xiao) (.pdf)