Publications / Patents
Issued Patents
- Mark Yarvis, W. Steven Conner, Anand Rangarajan, and Harkirat Singh, "Methods and apparatus for identifying a distance-vector route associated with a wireless mesh network," U.S. Patent No. 7,626,967, Issued December 1, 2009, assigned to Intel Corp.
- Harkirat Singh and Chiu Ngo, "Method and system for acknowledgements in wireless communications," U.S. Patent No. 7,675,911, Issued March 9, 2010, assigned to Samsung Electronics.
- W. Steven Conner, Mark Yarvis, Anand Rangarajan, and Harkirat Singh, "Methods and apparatus for identifying a distance-vector route associated with a wireless mesh network," U.S. Patent No. 7,697,589, Issued April 13, 2010, assigned to Intel Corp.
Pending Patents (list not up-to-date)
- Method and appratus of fixed size mac header with an extension in WirelessHD. (pub. app. 20080037540, assiged to Samsung)
- System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having acknowledgment (ACK) frames. (pub. app. 20080037466, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for transmission of uncompressed video over wireless channels. (pub. app. 20070291939, assiged to Samsung)
- System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a link control and bandwidth reservation scheme for control/management message exchanges and asynchronous traffic. (pub. app. 20070286130, assiged to Samsung)
- System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having multiple destination aggregation (MDA). (pub. app. 20070286107, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for establishing a channel for a wireless video area network. (pub. app. 20070270121, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for reliable broadcast or multicast communication in wireless networks. (pub. app. 20070268868, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for establishing a connection on a secondary frequency channel for wireless communication. (pub. app. 20070268862, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for channel time allocation and access control in wireless networks. (pub. app. 20070253391, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for video stream transmission over wireless channels. (pub. app. 20070245387, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for transmission of uncompressed video over wireless communication channels. (pub. app. 20070240191, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for communication of video information over wireless channels. (pub. app. 20070234170, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for enhancing transmission reliability of video information over wireless channels. (pub. app. 20070234134, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for video data packetization for transmission over wireless channels. (pub. app. 20070230461, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for channel access control for transmission of video information over wireless channels. (pub. app. 20070230338, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for transmission of different types of information in wireless communication. (pub. app. 20070223527, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for partitioning and encoding of uncompressed video for transmission over wireless medium. (pub. app. 20070202842, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for bit reorganization and packetization of uncompressed video for transmission over wireless communication channels. (pub. app. 20070189397, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for appending redundancy to uncompressed video for transmission over wireless communication channels. (pub. app. 20070189383, assiged to Samsung)
- Method and system for generating block ancknowledgements in wireless communications. (pub. app. 20070186134, assigned to Samsung)
- Method and system for power save multi-poll (PSMP) communication in wireless systems. (pub. app. 20070159982, assigned to Samsung)
Books and Chapters
- Harkirat Singh, "Medium Access Control Design,", In 60 GHz Technology for Gbps WLAN and WPAN: From Theory to Practice to published by John Wiley & Sons in 2010.
Publications
60 GHz
- Harkirat Singh, Julan Hsu, Lochan Verma, Scott Seongwook Lee, and Chiu Ngo, "Green Operation of Multi-Band Wireless LAN in 60 GHz and 2.4/5 GHz,"IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, Jan 9-12, 2011.
- Harkirat Singh, Su-Khiong Yong, Jisung Oh, and Chiu Ngo, "Principles of IEEE 802.15.3c: Multi-Gigabit Millimeter-Wave Wireless PAN," IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Network (ICCCN), San Francisco, CA, August 03-06, 2009.
- Harkirat Singh, Jisung Oh, ChangYeul Kweon, Xiangping Qin, Huai-rong Shao, and Chiu Ngo, "A 60 GHz wireless network for enabling uncompressed video communication," IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 46, Issue 12, pp.71-78, Dec., 2008.
- Harkirat Singh, Huaning Niu, Xiangping Qin, Huai-rong Shao, ChangYeul Kweon, Guoping Fan, SeongSoo Kim, "Supporting Uncompressed HD Video Streaming without retransmissions over 60GHz Wireless Networks," IEEE WCNC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, April 01-03, 2008.
- Xiangping Qin, Pengfei Xia, Chiu Ngo, Harkirat Singh, Huai-rong Shao, ChangYeul Kweon, Guoping Fan, SeongSoo Kim, "Autonomous Coordinator Selection in Beamformed 60GHz Wireless Networks," IEEE WCNC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, April 01-03, 2008.
- Huai-Rong Shao, Chiu Ngo, Harkirat Singh, Sandra Qin, ChangYeul Kweon, Guoping Fan, SeongSoo Kim, "Adaptive Multi-beam Transmission of Uncompressed Video over 60GHz Wireless Systems," IEEE International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN), Jeju-Island, Korea, Dec 6-9, 2007.
- Harkirat Singh, Xiangping Qin, Huai-rong Shao, Chiu Ngo, ChangYeul Kwon and Seong Soo Kim, "Support of Uncompressed Video Streaming over 60GHz Wireless Networks," IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, Jan 10-12, 2008.
- Harkirat Singh, ChangYeul Kwon, Chiu Ngo, "IPTV over Wireless LAN: Promises and Challenges,"IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Jan 10-12, 2008.
- Pengfei Xia, Xiangping Qin, Huaning Niu, Harkirat Singh, Huai-Rong Shao, Jisung Oh, Chang Yeul Kweon, Seong Soo Kim, Su Khiong Yong, Chiu Ngo, "Short Range Gigabit Wireless Communications Systems: Potentials, Challenges and Techniques," International Conference on Ultra Wideband (ICUWB), Singapore, Sep 21-26, 2007 (invited paper).
IEEE 802.11n MIMO
- Lochan Verma, Harkirat Singh, Scott Seongwook Lee, and Julan Hsu, "Selective Frame Transmission for QoS Provisioning in IEEE 802.11 Networks," IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days, Paris, December 15-17, 2009.
- Harkirat Singh, Huai-Rong Shao and Chiu Ngo, "Enhanced Power Saving in Next Generation Wireless LANs," IEEE VTC 2006, Montreal, Canada, Sep 2006.
- Harkirat Singh, Huai-Rong Shao and Chiu Ngo, "Support of High-Quality multimedia over Next Generation Wireless," International conference on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), San Diego, Sep 2006.
- Huai-Rong Shao, Harkirat Singh, Chiu Ngo, "MAC-Enabling Technologies for High-Throughput Wireless LAN," IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Jan 7-10, 2006.
- Harkirat Singh, Huai-Rong Shao and Chiu Ngo, "Joint ARQ and Aggregation in Next Generation Wireless LANs," Samsung Tech Conference, Suwon, Korea, Nov 2005.
Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
- Exploiting Heterogeneity in Sensor Networks
IEEE INFOCOM 2005 , Miami, FL, March 13 - 17, 2005.
- Martin Lukac, Harkirat Singh, Mark Yarvis, Nithya Ramanathan,
Intel Research, CENS UCLA, "In-Network Query Processing on Heterogeneous
Hardware," (Demo) IEEE Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2004), Oct 4-7, 2004, Santa Clara, CA.
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Cross-layer design of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol using directional (smart) antennas.
- Harkirat Singh, "On the benefits of Cross Layer Feedback in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," African Journal of Information & Communication Technology (AJICT), April 2008.
- Harkirat Singh and Suresh Singh, "Smart-802.11b MAC protocol for use with Smart Antennas," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, France, June 20 -- 24, 2004.
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- Harkirat Singh and Suresh Singh, "Smart-Aloha for Multi-hop Wireless Networks,"
ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET) Journal on Special Issue on
"WLAN Optimization at the MAC and Network Levels".
PDF format (251KB)
- Harkirat Singh, Suresh Singh, "Tone based MAC protocol for use with Adaptive Array Antennas,"
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2004), Atlanta, GA, March 21-25, 2004.
PDF format (98KB)
- Harkirat Singh, Suresh Singh, "DOA-ALOHA: Slotted ALOHA for Ad Hoc Networking Using Smart Antennas,"
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2003) (Fall), October 6 - 9, 2003, Orlando, FL.
PDF format (120KB)
- Harkirat Singh, Suresh Singh, "A MAC protocol based on Adaptive Beamforming for Ad Hoc Networks,"
14th Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Communications (PIMRC'03), Bejing, China, Sept. 7-10, 2003, pp. 1346 -- 1350.
PDF format (120KB)
- Harkirat Singh, Suresh Singh, "Improving Wireless Network Capacity using Smart Antennas in OPNET," OPNET WORK 2003, Washington DC, August 25-29, 2003.PDF format (120KB)
Cross-layer design of TCP suitable for wireless links
- Harkirat Singh, Shiv Saxena, and Suresh Singh, "Energy Consumption of TCP in Ad Hoc Networks," Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET),
Vol. 10(5), Sept. 2004.
PDF format (290KB)
- Harkirat Singh, Shiv Saxena, and Suresh Singh, "Comparison of ECN-ELFN and SACK on TCP's Energy Performaance for Ad Hoc Networks,"
The fifth ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) Sept' 2002. PDF format (250KB)
- Harkirat Singh and Suresh Singh, "Energy Consumption of TCP Reno, Newreno and SACK in Multi-Hop Wireless Network,"
ACM SIGMETRICS, June' 2002, LA, CA. PDF format (250KB)