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We strive to publish in highly competitive venues such as MobiCom, MobiHoc, INFOCOM, SenSys, MobiSys, IPSN, Sigmetrics, CHI, among others. Sometimes, we succeed, other times we try harder. Our goal is to publish research work that makes a difference. To make it specific and measurable, we have set a goal for ourselves:

Maintain an m-value of at least 1, i.e., increase the h-index by at least 1 per year. (Our current m-index is 8/5.)

We have been fortunate to have met this goal so far. Only time will tell whether we will continue to be fortunate 10 years into the future.

Key Publications:

(The 2007 Impact Factor of MobiCom and MobiHoc are 17.21 and 12.41 respectively when computed using Google Scholar. See here for details.)

Paul Balister, Zizhan Zheng, Santosh Kumar, and Prasun Sinha, "Trap Coverage: Allowing Coverage Holed of Bounded Diameter in Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, 2009. (.pdf) (CiteSee Impact Factor: 1.39, Acceptance Rate < 19.7%).

Paul Balister and Santosh Kumar, "Random vs. Deterministic Deployment of Sensors in the Presence of Failures and Placement Errors," In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE INFOCOM Miniconference, Rio de Janeiro, 2009. (.pdf) (Acceptance Rate < 26.7%).

Zizhan Zheng, Prasun Sinha, and Santosh Kumar "Alpha Coverage: Bounding the Interconnection Gap for Vehicular Internet Access," In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE INFOCOM Miniconference, Rio de Janeiro, 2009. (.pdf) (Acceptance Rate < 26.7%).

Paul Balister, Bela Bollobas, Amites Sarkar, and Santosh Kumar "Reliable Density Estimates for Achieving Coverage and Connectivity in Thin Strips of Finite Length," In Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), Montreal, Canada, 2007. (.pdf) (CiteSeer Impact Factor: 2.76, Acceptance Rate < 11.2%). Times Cited: 34

Ai Chen, Santosh Kumar, and Ten H. Lai "Designing Localized Algorithms for Barrier Coverage," In Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), Montreal, Canada, 2007. (.pdf) (CiteSee Impact Factor: 2.76, Acceptance Rate < 11.2%). Times Cited: 31

Santosh Kumar, Ten H. Lai, Marc E. Posner, and Prasun Sinha "Optimal Sleep Wakeup Algorithms for Barriers of Wireless Sensors," In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (IEEE BROADNETS), Raleigh, NC, 2007. (.pdf) (Acceptance Rate = 35%). Times Cited: 13

Xiaole Bai, Santosh Kumar, Ziqiu Yun, Dong Xuan, and Ten H. Lai, "Deploying Wireless Sensors to Achieve Both Coverage and Connectivity," In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc), Florence, Italy, 2006. (.pdf) (Acceptance Rate < 9.75%). Times Cited: 118

Santosh Kumar, Ten H. Lai, and Anish Arora, "Barrier Coverage With Wireless Sensors," In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), Cologne, Germany, 2005, pp. 284-298. (.pdf) (Impact Factor: 2.76, Acceptance Rate < 10.3%). Times Cited: 110

Note: The proof of Theorem 4.2 is incomplete. See the Wireless Network journal version (.pdf) for details.

Santosh Kumar, Ten H. Lai, and Jozsef Balogh, "On k-Coverage in a Mostly Sleeping Sensor Network," In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), Philadelphia, PA, 2004, pp.144-158. (.pdf, slides) (Impact Factor: 2.76, Acceptance Rate < 8%). Times Cited: 267

Santosh Kumar, Bruce W. Weide, Paolo A. G. Sivilloti, Nigamanth Sridhar, Jason O. Hallstrom, and Scott M. Pike, "Encapsulating Concurrency as an Approach to Unification," The Third Workshop on Specification and Verification of Component-Based Systems (SAVCBS) at ACM SIGSOFT/FSE, Newport Beach, CA, 2004. (.pdf, slides) (Acceptance Rate: 42%). Times Cited: 2

Other Publications:

Santosh Kumar, Anish Arora, and Ten H. Lai, "Maximizing the Lifetime of an Always-On Wireless Sensor Network Application: A Case Study," book chapter in Wireless Sensor Networks, edited by Y. Li, M. Thai, and W. Wu, Springer, 2008. (.pdf)

Anish Arora, et. al., "ExScal: Elements of an Extreme Scale Wireless Sensor Network," In Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real Time Computing Systems and Applications (IEEE RTCSA) 2005, Hong Kong, 2005. (.pdf) Times Cited: 145

Santosh Kumar, Anish Arora, and Ten H. Lai, "On the Lifetime Analysis of Always-On Wireless Sensor Network Applications," In Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference of Mobile and Ad Hoc Sensor Systems (MASS), Washington, D.C., 2005. (.pdf of the 3-page conference version, .pdf of the full Technical Report Version). Times Cited: 11

Santosh Kumar and Alok Kumar Mishra, "Indian Railways - Backbone of Information Transport in India," Seventeenth Indian Engineering Congress on Infrastructure Development - Retrospects and Prospects, December 2002. (.pdf) (Reprinted in the SECR-IT journal because of its popularity in the Indian Railways Community).

Impact Factor of MobiCom and MobiHoc for Year 2007:

As per our calculation, based on citation data provided by Google Scholar, the 2007 Impact Factor for these two premier conferences are:

MobiCom Impact Factor = 17.21
MobiHoc Impact Factor = 12.41

The above values are based on citations for papers published in Years 2005 and 2006. The citation data was collected on 11/13/2007.

For comparison purposes, the Impact Factor of MobiCom was listed as 2.76 by CiteSeer in 2003, which was fifth highest of all Computer Science publication venues in that year. The significant increase in the impact factor may be attributed partly to the increasing popularity of MobiCom but mostly to the comprehensive and timely citation data made available by Google Scholar, in our opinion. It is plausible that if the impact factor of other premier conferences (such as SIGCOMM, SIGGRAPH, INFOCOM, SenSys, KDD, STOC, FOCS, ICSE, FSE/SIGSOFT) are computed using Google Scholar, their values will be significantly higher than that reported in CiteSeer in 2003.

For independent verification, find below a paper by paper citation for MobiCom and MobiHoc for Years 2005 and 2006 as reported in Google Scholar on 11/13/2007. The citations are listed in the order they appear in DBLP. The list includes challenge papers but excludes plenary talks.

For MobiCom 2005, the citations were: 19, 29, 106, 78, 113, 88, 13, 9, 16, 3, 1, 32, 37, 16, 57, 20, 1, 8, 16, 6, 32, 35, 5.
For MobiCom 2006, the citations were: 10, 3, 13, 10, 22, 0, 17, 7, 3, 3, 13, 4, 11, 4, 13, 4, 1, 1, 1, 12, 10, 4, 5, 4, 4, 8, 3, 8, 23, 3, 3, 10, 13, 8, 0.

For MobiHoc 2005, the citations were: 25, 3, 4, 35, 43, 32, 44, 19, 8, 34, 16, 6, 3, 22, 29, 3, 24, 5, 14, 6, 25, 6, 10, 22, 20, 22, 33, 24, 10, 16, 21, 7, 14, 14, 15, 17, 27, 3, 5, 16.
For MobiHoc 2006, the citations were: 5, 1, 1, 7, 14, 6, 3, 6, 2, 15, 5, 11, 3, 4, 1, 2, 10, 3, 9, 2, 6, 1, 5, 3, 2, 1, 11, 7, 8, 4, 21.