Research

Computer networks; Telecommunications network planning; network architecture; network optimization; mobile computing; wired and wireless communication networks; wireless sensor networks; smart home networking.

Application

Wireless/wireline communication systems; planning algorithms for service providers; smart homes.

Activities

• Technical Program Co-Chair of 5th IFIP Wireless Days (2011)
• Workshop Co-Chair of Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments Workshop, IWCMC (2011)
• Technical program committee member for several international conferences

Journal Articles

OSAIS, Y., ST-HILAIRE, M. and YU, F.R., “Directional Sensor Placement with Optimal Sensing Range, Field of View and Orientation”, to appear in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 2009.

ST-HILAIRE, M., “A New Approximative Algorithm for the Expansion Problem of 3G Networks” to appear in Information Systems and Operational Research (INFOR), 2009.

ST-HILAIRE, M, “Topological Planning and Design of UMTS Mobile Networks: A Survey”, to appear in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2009.

ST-HILAIRE, M., CHAMBERLAND, S. and PIERRE, S., “A Tabu Search Algorithm for the Global Planning Problem of Third Generation Mobile Networks”, Computers & Electrical Engineering, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 470-487, 2008.

 Conference Publications

LIU, S. and ST-HILAIRE, M., “Global Planning of 3G Networks using Simulated Annealing”, 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009), Leipzig, Germany, June 2009.

OSAIS, Y., ST-HILAIRE, M. and YU, F.R., “The Minimum Sensor Placement Problem for Directional Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 2009.