Publications
Energy-Efficient Protocols for Sensor Networks
- Kevin Almeroth, Katia Obraczka and Dante De Lucia,
"A Lightweight Protocol for Interconnecting Heterogeneous Devices in Dynamic
Environments", Proceedings of the IEEE ICMCS'99, June 1999.
- Ignacio Solis, Katia Obraczka and Julio Marcos, "FLIP: A Flexible
Protocol for Communication Between Heterogeneous Devices",
Proceedings of the IEEE ISCC 2001, July 2001.
- Ignacio Solis and Katia Obraczka, The Case for a Flexible-Header Protocol
(FLIP) in Power Constrained Networks, Proceedings of the WCNC 2003.
- Ignacio Solis and Katia Obraczka, FLIP: A Flexible Interconnection Protocol for
Heterogeneous Internetworking, MONET (03)
- Ignacio Solis and Katia Obraczka, Exploring Data Aggregation in
Power-Constrained Sensor Networks, Under Revision
Reliable Multicasting in MANETs
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Scalable Team Multicast in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Exploiting Coordinated Motion, Yunjung Yi, Mario Gerla, and Katia Obraczka, to appear in the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal.
- Ken Tang, Katia Obraczka, Sung-Ju Lee and Mario Gerla, Reliable Adaptive Lightweight Multicast Protocol,
Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2003, May 2003.
- Ken Tang, Katia Obraczka, Sung-Ju Lee and Mario Gerla,
A Reliable, Congestion-Controlled Multicast Transport Protocol in Multimedia Multi-hop Networks,
Proceedings of IEEE WPMC 2002, October 2002.
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Ken Tang, Katia Obraczka, Sung-Ju Lee and Mario Gerla, Congestion Controlled Adaptive Lightweight Multicast in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,
Proceedings of IEEE ISCC, July 2002.
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V. Rajendran, Y. Yi, K. Obraczka, S.J.Lee, K.Tang and M. Gerla, Reliable, Adaptive, Congestion-Controlled Adhoc Multicast Transport Protocol: Combining Source-based and Local Recovery, UCSC Technical Report, 2003.
Medium Access Control
- V. Rajendran, K. Obraczka, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Energy-Efficient, Collision-Free Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. ACM SenSys 03, Los Angeles, California, 5-7 November 2003.
- V. Rajendran, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, and K. Obraczka, "An Energy-Efficient Channel Access Scheduling for Sensor Networks," Proc. The Fifth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communication (WPMC), October 27--30, 2002, Honolulu, HI.
- V. Rajendran, K. Obraczka, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "TRAMA: Traffic-Adaptive Media Access Protocol", Under Revision
Integrated Multicast for Ad Hoc Networks
- Kumar Viswanath, and Katia Obraczka, "An Adaptive Approach to Group Communications in Multi-Hop Ad hoc Networks",
International Conference on Networking (ICN 2002).
- Kumar Viswanath,and Katia Obraczka, "An Adaptive, Integrated Approach to Reliable Group Communications in Multi-Hop Ad hoc Networks",
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2002.
- Katia Obraczka, Gene Tsudik, and Kumar Viswanath, Pushing
the Limits of Multicast in Ad Hoc Networks, International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems (ICDCS -21).
- Christopher Ho, Katia Obraczka, Gene Tsudik and Kumar Viswanath, Flooding for Reliable
Multicast in Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Networks (WINET
2001).
- Christopher Ho, Katia Obraczka, Gene Tsudik and Kumar Viswanath,
Flooding for Reliable Multicast in Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks, MobiCom Workshop
on Discrete Algorithms Methods for Mobility (DialM
'99), August 1999.
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Katia Obraczka and Gene Tsudik, Multicast Routing Issues in Ad Hoc Networks,
IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communication, (ICUPC
'98), October 1998.
Hybrid systems modelling framework for data communications
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Stephan Bohacek, Joao Hespanha, Junsoo Lee, Katia Obraczka. A Hybrid Systems Modeling Framework for Fast and Accurate Simulation of Data Communication Networks. In Proc. SIGMETRICS, June 2003.
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Stephan Bohacek, Joao Hespanha, Junsoo Lee, Katia Obraczka. Analysis of a TCP hybrid model. In Proc. of the 39th Annual Allerton Conf. on Comm., Contr., and Computing, Oct. 2001.
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Joao Hespanha, Stephan Bohacek, Katia Obraczka, Junsoo Lee. Hybrid Modeling of TCP Congestion Control. In Maria Domenica Di Benedetto, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, number 2034 in Lect. Notes in Comput. Science, pages 291-304, Mar. 2001.
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Stephan Bohacek, Joao Hespanha, Junsoo Lee, Katia Obraczka. A Hybrid Systems Framework for TCP Congestion Control: A Theorical Model and its Simulation-based Validation, Technical Report, July 2002.
Power-Aware Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
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D. Kim, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, K. Obraczka, J-C. Cano, and P. Manzoni, " Routing Mechanisms for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks based on the Energy Drain Rate," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 161-173, April-June 2003.
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D. Kim, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, K. Obraczka, J-C. Cano, and P. Manzoni, "Conditional Minimum Drain Rate Protocol for Route Selection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," The International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) 2003, Feb. 12-14, 2003 Jeju Island, Korea.
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D. Kim, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, K. Obraczka, J-C. Cano, and P. Manzoni, " Power-Aware Routing Based on The Energy Drain Rate for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Proc. IEEE ICCCN2002: International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks, Miami, Florida, October 14-16, 2002.
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D. Kim, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, K. Obraczka, J-C. Cano, and P. Manzoni, " Performance Analysis of Power-Aware Route Selection Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Proc. IEEE Networks 2002, Atlanta, GA, 26--29 August, 2002.
Stochastic Multipath Routing and TCP for Persistent Reordering
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Stephan Bohacek, Joao Hespanha, Junsoo Lee, Chansook Lim, Katia Obraczka. Enhancing security via stochastic routing. In Proc. of the 11th IEEE Int. Conf. on Comput. Communications and Networks, May 2002
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Stephan Bohacek, Joao Hespanha, Katia Obraczka. Saddle Policies for Secure Routing in Communication Networks. In Proc. of the 41th Conf. on Decision and Contr., volume 2, pages 1416-1421, Dec. 2002.
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Stephan Bohacek, Joao Hespanha, Junsoo Lee, Chansook Lim, Katia Obraczka. TCP-PR: TCP for Persistent Packet Reordering. In Proc. of the IEEE 23rd Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, pages 222-231, May 2003.
Network Systems and Architectures
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K. Obraczka, R. Manduchi, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, ``Managing the Information Flow in Visual Sensor Networks,'' Proc. WPMC 2002: The Fifth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communication, October 27--30, 2002, Honolulu, HI.
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Application-oriented Self-organizing Hierarchical Clustering in Dynamic Networks: A Position Paper", Andrea Richa, Katia Obraczka, and Arunhaba Sen, in ACM Workshop on Principles of Mobile Computing (POMC'01) 2001.
Internet Service Replication
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"Evaluating the Performance of Flood-d: A Tool for Efficiently
Replicating Internet Information Services", Katia Obraczka and
Peter Danzig, IEEE JSAC, August 1997.
- "A Tool for Massively Replicating Internet Archives: Design,
Implementation and Experience", Katia Obraczka, Peter Danzig, Dante
DeLucia, and Erh-Yuan Tsai, Proceedings of the 16th. International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1996.
- "Finding
Low-Diameter, Low Edge-Cost Networks", Katia Obraczka, Peter
Danzig, Kitinon Wangpattanamongkol, Computer Science Department -
University of Southern California - Tecnical Report, May 1997.
- Massively Replicating Services in Wide Area Internetworks , Katia Obraczka,
PhD dissertation, Computer Science Department, University of Southern
California, December 1994.
- Massively Replicating
Services in Autonomously Managed, Wide-Area Internetworks , Katia
Obraczka, Peter Danzig, and Dante DeLucia, Computer Science Department -
University of Southern California - Tecnical Report No. 93-541.
Congestion Control for Internet Multicast
- "Multicast Transport Mechanisms: A Survey and Taxonomy", Katia
Obraczka, IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1998.
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"Multicast Feedback Suppression Using Representatives", Dante
DeLucia, Katia Obraczka, IEEE Infocom97.

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"A Multicast Congestion Control Mechanism for Reliable Multicast", Dante
DeLucia, Katia Obraczka, Proceedings of the IEEE ISCC'98 (also Computer
Science Department - University of Southern California - Technical
Report 97-658), August 1997.
- "Congestion Control Performance of a Reliable Multicast Protocol", Dante
DeLucia, Katia Obraczka, Proceedings of the IEEE ICNP'98, August 1998.
- "A Multicast Congestion Control Mechanism Using Representatives", Dante
DeLucia, Katia Obraczka, Computer Science Department - University of
Southern California - Technical Report 97-651, May 1997.
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"Multicast Feedback Suppression Using Representatives", Dante
DeLucia, Katia Obraczka, Computer Science Department - University of
Southern California - Technical Report No. 96-638, June 1996.
Internet Measurements
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"The Performance of a Service for Network-Aware Applications",
Katia Obraczka and Grig Gheorghiu, Proceedings of the
ACM Sigmetrics SPDT'98; also Computer Science Department -
University of Southern California - Technical Report 97-660, October
1997.
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"Network Latency Metrics for Server Proximity",
Katia Obraczka and Fabio Silva, Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom 2000,
December 2000.
Web Caching
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"World Wide Web Caching: Trends and Techniques", Greg Barish and
Katia Obraczka, to appear at the IEEE Communications Magazine Internet
Technology Series, May 2000.
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"Scalable, Highly-Available Web Caching", Katia Obraczka, Peter
Danzig, Solos Arthachinda and Muhammad Yousuf Computer Science
Department - University of Southern California - Technical Report
97-662, December 1997.
Performance of Transport and Above Protocols
- "Performance
of a Reliable, Request-Response Transport Protocol", Nader Salehi,
Katia Obraczka and Clifford Neuman, IEEE ISCC'99, July 1999.
- "Modeling the Performance of HTTP Over Several
Transport Protocols", John Heidemann, Katia Obraczka, and Joe
Touch, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 5, number 5, October
1997.
- "Analysis of HTTP Performance", Joe Touch,
John Heidemann, and Katia Obraczka. Released as web page
http://www.isi.edu/lsam/ib/http-perf/, June, 1996.
Resource Discovery
- Internet Resource Discovery Services , Katia Obraczka, Peter Danzig, and
Shih-Hao Li, IEEE Computer Magazine, Vol. 26, Number 5, September 1993,
pp. 8-22.
- Distributed Indexing
of Autonomous Internet Services, Peter Danzig, Katia Obraczka, and
Shih-Hao Li, Journal of Computing Systems, Vol. 5, Number 4, Fall 1992.
- Distributed
Indexing: A Scalable Mechanism for Distributed Information Retrieval,
Peter Danzig, Katia Obraczka, John Noll, and Jong-Suk Ahn, Proceedings of
the 14th. Annual Internation ACM-SIGIR, October 1991, pp. 220-229.1991 ACM
SIGIR.
The Domain Name System
- An Analysis of
Wide-Area Name Server Traffic: A Study of the Domain Name System,
Peter Danzig, Katia Obraczka, and Anant Kumar, Proceedings of the ACM
SIGCOM'92, August 1992.

Inter-Domain Policy Routing
- Connectivity Database Overhead for Inter-Domain Policy Routing,
Katia Obraczka and Deborah Estrin, Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom'91,
April 1991.
Other Publications
- Evaluation of a RISC Architecture for Modula-2, Katia Obraczka, M.Sc. Thesis,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, March 1987.