Lap Kong, Law (Eric)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Bourns College of Engineering
University of California
Riverside CA 92521
Office: Surge Building Rm.351

Email: lklaw[AT]cs[DOT]ucr[DOT].edu

 

Biography

Eric was born in Hong Kong. He finished his bachelor degree in The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Aug 2002. After that he joined the University of California, Riverside to pursue his PhD in Computer Science. His research interest is on Wireless Ad Hoc Networking.
My advisors are Srikanth Krishnamurthy & Michalis Faloutsos.

Research Interest

  • Capacity analysis of ad-hoc/cellular hybrid networks.
  • Rate control in wireless ad hoc networks.
  • Wireless Mesh networks.
  • TCP performance in wireless networks.
  • Group communications in wireless ad hoc networks.
  • Ad hoc routing protocols.
  • Wireless networks mobility models.

 

Publications

 

Journal papers

  • L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy and M. Faloutsos, " Understanding and Exploiting the Trade-Offs between Broadcasting and Multicasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, March 2007 (selected as the featured article in the above transactions and in the February issue of the IEEE Distributed Systems Online).
  • Z. Ye, L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy, Z. Xu, S. Dhirakaosal, S.K. Tripathi and M. Molle, "Predicative channel reservation for handoff prioritization in wireless cellular networks, " in Computer Networks Journal, February 2007.
  • L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy and M. Faloutsos, " A Novel Adaptive Protocol for Lightweight Efficient Multicasting in Ad Hoc Networks," in Computer Networks Journal, February 2007.

 

Book Chapters

  • L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy and M. Faloutsos, "Transport Layer Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," to appear in Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, (Editor A. Boukerche), Wiley&Sons.

 

Conference papers

  • L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy, M. Faloutsos, "Capacity of Hybrid Cellular-Adhoc Data Networks," IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ.
  • A. Vlavianos, L.K. Law, I. Broustis, S.V. Krishnamurthy, M. Faloutsos, "Assessing Link Quality in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks: Which is the right metric?, " IEEE PIMRC 2008, Cannes, France. (Invited paper)
  • V.N. Lolla, L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy, C.V. Ravishankar and D. Manjunath, "Detecting MAC Layer Back-off Timer Violations in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS 2006.
  • L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy and M. Faloutsos, "Fireworks: An Adaptive Group Communications Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2005.
  • L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy and M. Faloutsos, "On Evaluating the Trade-offs between Multicasting and Broadcasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in Proceedings of MILCOM 2004, Monterey, California, 2004.
  • L.K. Law, S.V. Krishnamurthy and M. Faloutsos, "Understanding the Interaction between Coexisting Unicast and Group Communications Sessions in Ad Hoc Networks," in Proceedings of 6th IFIP IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks, Paris, France, 25-27 Oct 2004, pp. 1-13.

 

Teaching
  • TA-ing CS164 Computer Networks (Spring 2003)