Ruben Merz' Publications

Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Widmer, Jörg and Radunovic, Bozidar (2004). A Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Low-Power Ultra-Wide Band Ad-hoc Networks. Ad-Hoc Now 04, 3rd International Conference on AD-HOC Networks, 306–311.

Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Merz, Ruben and Radunovic, Bozidar and Widmer, Jörg (2004). DCC-MAC: A Decentralized MAC Protocol for 802.15.4a-like UWB Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Based on Dynamic Channel Coding. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Broadband Networks (Broadnets'04). IEEE Computer Society, 396–405.

Merz, Ruben and Widmer, Jörg and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Radunovic, Bozidar (2005). A Joint PHY/MAC Architecture for Low-Radiated Power TH-UWB Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Special Issue on Ultrawideband (UWB) Communications. John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 567–580.

Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2005). Conditional Bit Error Rate for an Impulse Radio UWB Channel with Interfering Users. IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICU '05), 130–135.

Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2005). Effect of Interfering Users on the Modulation Order and Code Rate for UWB Impulse-Radio Bit-Interleaved Coded M-ary PPM. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Broadband Networks (Broadnets '05), 1156–1162.

El Fawal, Alaeddine and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Merz, Ruben and Radunovic, Bozidar and Widmer, Jörg and Maggio, Gian Mario (2005). Tradeoff Analysis of PHY-aware MAC in Low-Rate, Low-Power UWB networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, 147–155.

Merz, Ruben and El Fawal, Alaeddine and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Radunovic, Bozidar and Widmer, Jörg (2006). The Optimal MAC Layer for Low-Power UWB is Non-Coordinated. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2006), 2429–2432.

Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Vijayakumaran, Saravanan (2006). Effect on Network Performance of Common versus Private Acquisition Sequences for Impulse Radio UWB Networks. IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2006), 375–380.

Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Widmer, Jörg (2007). An Architecture for Wireless Simulation in NS-2 Applied to Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wide Band Networks. SpringSim '07: Proceedings of the 2007 spring simulation multiconference. Society for Computer Simulation International, 256–263.

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2007). Managing Impulsive Interference in Impulse Radio UWB Networks. ST Journal of Research

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Zory, Julien (2007). Performance Evaluation of an IEEE 802.15.4a Physical Layer with Energy Detection and Multi-User Interference. IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2007), 663–668.

Merz, Ruben (2008). Interference management in impulse-radio ultra-wide band networks. Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2008). Method for retrieving data from Ultra Wideband radio transmission signals. (Patent US Patent Application 61/006,972)

Le Boudec, Jean-Yves and Merz, Ruben (2008). Concurrent and Parallel Transmissions are Optimal for Low Data-Rate IR-UWB Networks. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008)

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2008). An Energy Detection Receiver Robust to Multi-User Interference for IEEE 802.15.4a Networks. IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2008), 149–152.

Merz, Ruben and Sengul, Cigdem and Al-Bado, Mustafa (2009). Accurate Physical Layer Modeling for Realistic Wireless Simulation. 2009 ns-3 Workshop

Schiöberg, Harald and Merz, Ruben and Sengul, Cigdem (2009). A Failsafe Architecture for Mesh Testbeds with Real Users. Proceedings of the ACM MobiHoc Wireless S$^3$ Workshop 2009. ACM Press, 29–31.

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2009). Clock-Offset Tracking Software Algorithms For IR-UWB Energy-Detection Receivers. Proceedings of the 2009 NCCR MICS Workshop, Cluster 2 on Mobile communication and processing platforms (posters and abstracts collection)

Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2009). Performance Evaluation of Impulse Radio UWB Networks using Common or Private Acquisition Preambles. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. IEEE Computer Society, 865–879.

Al-Bado, Mustafa and Feldmann, Anja and Fischer, Thorsten and Hühn, Thomas and Merz, Ruben and Schiöberg, Harald and Schulz-Zander, Julius and Sengul, Cigdem and Vahl, Benjamin (2009). Automated Online Reconfigurations in an Outdoor Live Wireless Mesh Network. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference (demo session)

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2009). Robust Non-Coherent Timing Acquisition in IEEE 802.15.4a IR-UWB Networks. Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC '09), 1642–1646.

Colli-Vignarelli, James and Vernez, Jerome and Merz, Ruben and Dehollain, Catherine and Robert, Stephan and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2009). Concurrent Transmissions in IR-UWB Networks: an Experimental Validation. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wide Band (ICUWB '09). ACM, 534–539.

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2009). Clock-Offset Tracking Software Algorithms For IR-UWB Energy-Detection Receivers. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wide Band (ICUWB '09). ACM, 337–342.

Al-Bado, Mustafa and Feldmann, Anja and Fischer, Thorsten and Hühn, Thomas and Merz, Ruben and Schiöberg, Harald and Schulz-Zander, Julius and Sengul, Cigdem and Vahl, Benjamin (2009). Disruption Free Live Reconfiguration in a Wireless Testbed. Symposium on Click Modular Router (SyClick!, demo session)

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2009). Robust IEEE 802.15.4a Energy Detection Receiver Using Statistical Interference Modeling. Proceedings of 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 952–956.

Villa, Tania and Merz, Ruben and Vidales, Pablo (2010). Performance Evaluation of OFDMA Femtocells Link-Layer in Uncontrolled Deployments. Proceedings of European Wireless '10. IEEE, 825–832.

Merz, Ruben and Schiöberg, Harald and Sengul, Cigdem (2010). Design of a Configurable Wireless Network Testbed with Live Traffic. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom '10). Springer, 189–198.

Hühn, Thomas and Merz, Ruben and Sengul, Cigdem (2010). Joint Transmission Rate, Power, and Carrier Sense Settings: An Initial Measurement Study. Fifth IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WIMESH 2010). IEEE, 1–6.

Levin, Dan and Schiöberg, Harald and Merz, Ruben and Sengul, Cigdem (2010). TCPSpeaker: Clean And Dirty Side Of The Same Slate. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM 2010 (poster session). ACM, 1–3.

Levin, Dan and Schiöberg, Harald and Merz, Ruben and Sengul, Cigdem (2010). TCPSpeaker: Clean And Dirty Side Of The Same Slate. Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), 43–45.

Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (2011). Synchronization for Impulse-Radio UWB with Energy-Detection and Multi-User Interference: Algorithms and Application to IEEE 802.15.4a. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 5458–5472.

Suresh Puthalath, Lalith and Merz, Ruben (2011). NS-3-Click: Click Modular Router Integration for NS-3. Workshop on NS-3 (WNS-3 '11). ACM.

Al-Bado, Mustafa and Merz, Ruben and Sengul, Cigdem and Feldmann, Anja (2011). A Site-specific Indoor Link Model for Realistic Wireless Network Simulations. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SimuTools '11)

Yoo, Jaeyong and Sengul, Cigdem and Merz, Ruben and Kim, JongWon (2011). Experimental Analysis of Backpressure Scheduling in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks. Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC '11). IEEE, 1–5.

Herzen, Julien and Aziz, Adel and Merz, Ruben and Shneer, Seva and Thiran, Patrick (2011). A Measurement-Based Algorithm to Maximize the Utility of Wireless Networks. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Wireless of the students, by the students, for the students (S3 '11). ACM, 13–16.

Aziz, Adel and Herzen, Julien and Merz, Ruben and Shneer, Seva and Thiran, Patrick (2011). Enhance & Explore: an Adaptive Algorithm to Maximize the Utility of Wireless Networks. 17th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom '11). ACM, 157–168.

Ferrer Almirall, Marc and Iannone, Luigi and Merz, Ruben (2011). Managing Fast Mobility in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks with LISP. Proceedings of the 3rd Extreme Workshop on Communication – The Amazon Expedition (ExtremeCom '11)

Villa, Tania and Merz, Ruben and Knopp, Raymond (2011). Interference Management in Femtocell Networks with Hybrid-ARQ and Interference Cancellation. 45th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers

Fischer, Thorsten and Hühn, Thomas and Kuck, Robin and Merz, Ruben and Schulz-Zander, Julius and Sengul, Cigdem (2011). Experiences with BOWL: Managing an Outdoor WiFi Network (or How to Keep Both Internet Users and Researchers Happy?). Proceedings of the 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '11), 287–292.

Villa, Tania and Merz, Ruben and Knopp, Raymond and Takyar, Uday (2012). Adaptive Modulation and Coding with Hybrid-ARQ for Latency-constrained Networks. 18th European Wireless Conference (EW '12)

Schmidt, Philipp S. and Merz, Ruben and Feldmann, Anja (2012). A first look at multi-access connectivity for mobile networking. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM workshop on Capacity sharing. ACM, 9–14.

Yoo, Jaeyong and Sengul, Cigdem and Merz, Ruben and Kim, JongWon (2012). Backpressure Scheduling in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks: The Gap Between Theory and Practice. Computer Networks

Al-Bado, Mustafa and Sengul, Cigdem and Merz, Ruben (2012). What Details are Needed for Wireless Simulations? – A Study of a Site-Specific Indoor Wireless Model. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM '12). IEEE.

Al-Bado, Mustafa and Sengul, Cigdem and Merz, Ruben (2012). Accuracy-preserving Measurement Collection for Realistic Wireless Simulations. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '12)

Suresh, Lalith and Schulz-Zander, Julius and Merz, Ruben and Feldmann, Anja and Vazao, Teresa (2012). Towards Programmable Enterprise WLANs With Odin. Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN '12)

Suresh, Lalith and Schulz-Zander, Julius and Merz, Ruben and Feldmann, Anja (2012). Programming Enterprise WLANs With Odin. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2012 (demo session)

Schulz-Zander, Julius and Suresh, Lalith and Sarrar, Nadi and Feldmann, Anja and Hühn, Thomas and Merz, Ruben (2014). Programmatic Orchestration of WiFi Networks. 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 14). USENIX Association, 347–358.