Research

Ad hoc networks and sensor networks: network protocol issues, middleware, and innovative applications, e.g. Quality of Service (QoS) support; maximizing the network capacity through appropriate MAC and routing protocols; performance and fairness of TCP; clock synchronization and localization protocols; smart grid/smart homes.

Activities

• Technical Adviser for Communications Research Centre, Industry Canada
• Technical Program Committee Member for International Conferences and Workshops
• Editorial Board Member of Open Source Business Resource (2007)
• Guest Editor for Open Source Business Resource special issue on Open Mobile Platforms (2010)
• TPC Co-Chair of Wireless Models, Simulations and Experiments Track – IFIP Wireless Days (2011)
• Workshop Co-Chair for Workshop on Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments,
  Istanbul, Turkey (2011)

Journal Articles

Carlos H. Rentel, and Thomas Kunz (2008), “A mutual network synchronization method for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pages 7(5): 633-646.

Li Li, and Thomas Kunz (2008), “Cooperative node localization using non-linear data projection,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks: 30 (publication pending).
Note: Accepted March 2008

Conference Publications

Liang Qin, and Thomas Kunz, “Adaptive MANET routing: A case study,” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, Nice, France, Sep 2008 (publication pending).

Thomas Kunz, “Energy-efficient Variations of OLSR,” Proceedings of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Crete, Greece, Aug 2008 (publication pending).

Thomas Kunz, “Energy-efficient OLSR: Ideal vs. realistic performance,” Proceedings of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Crete, Greece, Aug 2008 (publication pending).

Gerhard Hasslinger, and Thomas Kunz, “Efficiency of search methods in dynamic wireless networks,” Proceedings of the Fourth EuroFGI Workshop on Wireless and Mobility, Barcelona, Spain (to appear as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Jan 2008.

David Kidston, and Thomas Kunz, “Using simulation to evaluate traffic engineering management services in maritime networks,” Proceedings of the Military Modeling and Simulation Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, April. 2008.
Note: Winner of the Best Paper Award

Abdulbaset Gaddah, and Thomas Kunz, “A pro-active mobility extension for pub/sub systems,” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria, Feb 2008.

Weishan Zhang, Thomas Kunz, and Klaus Marius Hansen, “Product line enabled intelligent mobile middleware,” Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Jul 2007.

Weishan Zhang, and Thomas Kunz, “Enhancing the intelligence of mobile middleware environment,” Proceedings of the International Workshop on Context Management for Self-Managing Systems (Devices, Applications, and Networks) (CASEMANS), May 2007.

Weishan Zhang, Dong Han, Thomas Kunz, and Klaus Marius Hansen, “Mobile game development: Object-orientation (OO) or not,” Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Jul 2007.

Weishan Zhang, Dong Han, Thomas Kunz, and Klaus Marius Hansen, “Object-orientation is evil to mobile game: Experience from industrial mobile RPGs,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, May 2007.

David Kidston, Isabelle Labbe, Francis St-Onge, and Thomas Kunz, “A policy-based resource reservation service for maritime tactical networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS, San Jose, USA, November 2007 2007.

Rana Alhalimi, and Thomas Kunz, “Energy level accuracy in mobile ad-hoc networks using OLSR,” Proceedings of the Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference, Austin, USA, Oct 2007.

Li Li, and Thomas Kunz, “Localization applying an efficient neural network mapping,” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems, Rome, Italy, Oct 2007.

Carlos H. Rentel, and Thomas Kunz, “Clock-sampling mutual network synchronization for mobile multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks,” Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (Milcom), Orlando, USA, October, Oct 2007.

Li Li, and Thomas Kunz, “Cooperative node localization for tactical wireless sensor networks,” Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (Milcom), Orlando, USA, October, Oct 2007.

Thomas Kunz, and Rana Alhalimi, “Load-balanced routing in wireless networks: State information accuracy using OLSR,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob, New York, USA, October 2007, Oct 2007.

Thomas Kunz, and Hao Zhang, “Transport layer fairness and congestion control in multihop wireless networks,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob, New York, USA, October 2007, Sep 2007.