Personal Information

Biography
Dr. Gerla was born in Milan, Italy. He received a graduate degree in engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, in 1966, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from UCLA in 1970 and 1973, respectively. From 1973 to 1976, Dr. Gerla was a manager in Network Analysis Corporation, Glen Cove, NY, where he was involved in several computer network design projects for both government and industry, including performance analysis and topological updating of the ARPANET under a contract from DoD. From 1976 to 1977, he was with Tran Telecommunication, Los Angeles, CA, where he participated in the development of an integrated packet and circuit network. Since 1977, he has been on the Faculty of the Computer Science Department of UCLA. His research interests include the design, performance evaluation, and control of distributed computer communication systems and networks. His current research projects cover the following areas: design and performance evaluation of protocols and control schemes for Ad Hoc wireless networks; routing, congestion control and bandwidth allocation in wide area networks, and; traffic measurements and characterization.

Projects

Research Interest
Design and performance evaluation of protocols and control schemes for Ad Hoc wireless networks;
Routing, congestion control and bandwidth allocation in wide area networks
Traffic measurements and characterization

Projects
Indoor Localization and Navigation of Wheelchair Users

Localization indoor is a great challenge.
The proposed here localization system consists of the wheelchair, mounted magnets (8 on each wheel), two reed switches (one per wheel), and a Bluetooth mouse. Both reed switches are connected to the mouse buttons. Ones the mouse is connected to a smartphone via Bluetooth the proposed system begins to operate. Each time a magnet comes closer to a reed switch a “mouse button is clicked” event occurs. Knowing the diameter of the wheels, the distance that the wheelchair made can be estimated. We get a relative localization.
To enhance the provided accuracy, an accelerometer of a smartphone can be used.

Ocean-TUNE : A Community Ocean Testbed for Underwater Wireless Networks

This project involves nine researchers from four institutions, University of Connecticut (UCONN), University of Washington (UW), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Texas A&M University (TAMU). A variety of expertise on acoustics, communication, networking, engineering, and oceanography is unified to develop a community Ocean Testbed for Underwater Networks Experiments (Ocean-TUNE).

The Ocean-TUNE is an open testbed “suite”, accessible to the public. It consists four testbeds to be deployed at four different sites, namely, Long Island Sound (CT), Hood Canal (WA), Santa Monica Bay (CA), and Galveston Bay (TX), which have a diverse coverage of the US coast in terms of geography and weather.

With each testbed deployed for 6 months, Ocean-TUNE could provide 24/7 ubiquitous access to two testbeds, where a good web-based user scheduler will be developed. Further, all testbeds are different in size and configuration, with flexible choices of surface nodes, bottom nodes, and mobile nodes (gliders and drifters). The network nodes in each testbed are all equipped with high-speed orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) acoustic modems, which could provide high data rates and strong networking support. All layers of the networking protocol stack can be easily configured. Furthermore, three testbeds (UCONN, UW, and TAMU) also include two reconfigurable modems with multi-input multi-output (MIMO) capabilities, allowing tests of various acoustic communication strategies from the users. In addition to radio control of the surface nodes, an acoustic remote control will be developed to configure all underwater nodes.

Recent Publications

Conference Papers

"Software Defined Multi-Path TCP Solution for Mobile Wireless Tactical Networks",
Qi Zhao, Pengyuan Du, Mario Gerla, Adam Brown, Jae H. Kim,
Milcom'18, Los Angeles, CA, October. 2018

"Energy efficient, context-aware cache coding for mobile information-centric networks",
Josh Joy, Yu-Ting Yu, Mario Gerla, Ashish Gehani, Hasnain Lakhani, Minyoung Kim,
DEBS 2016, , May. 2016

"Traffic Optimization in Software Defined Naval Network for Satellite Communications",
Pengyuan Du, Fan Pang, Torsten Braun, Mario Gerla, Ceilidh Hoffmann, Jae H. Kim,
Milcom'17, Baltimore, MD, October. 2017

"A Relay Selection Strategy Based on Power-Law and Exponentially Distributed Contacts in DTNs",
Tuan Le, Pengyuan Du, Mario Gerla,
MASS'17, Orlando, Florida, USA, October. 2017

"An Evolutionary Multi-player Game Model for Two-hop Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks",
Pengyuan Du, Mario Gerla,
MASS'17, Orlando, FL, October. 2017

"Privacy Risks in Vehicle Grids and Autonomous Cars",
Josh Joy, Mario Gerla,
CarSys 2017, Snowbird, Utah, October. 2017

"Internet of Vehicles and Autonomous Connected Car - Privacy and Security Issues",
Josh Joy, Mario Gerla,
ICCCN 2017, , July. 2017

"Contact Duration-Aware Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Mario Gerla,
NAS'17, Shenzhen, China, August. 2017

"An Anycast Routing Strategy with Time Constraint in Delay Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Mario Gerla,
Med-Hoc-Net'17, Budva, Montenegro, June. 2017

"A New Approach to Coding in Content-Based MANETs",
Josh Joy, Yu-Ting Yu, Victor Perez, Dennis Lu, Mario Gerla,
ICNC'14, Honolulu, Hawaii, February. 2014

"LocationSafe: granular location privacy for IoT devices",
Josh Joy, Minh Le, Mario Gerla,
S3@MobiCom 2016, , May. 2016

"Participation cost estimation: Private versus non-private study",
Josh Joy, Sayali Rajwade, Mario Gerla,
Med-Hoc-Net 2016, , May. 2016

" DT-ICAN: A Distruption-Tolerant Information-Centric Ad-Hoc Network",
Yu-Ting Yu, Josh Joy, Ruolin Fan, You Lu, Mario Gerla, M. Sanadidi,
Milcom'14, Baltimore, MD, October. 2014

"An SDN Architecture for Under Water Search and Surveillance",
Ruolin Fan, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Mario Gerla,
WONS'17, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, February. 2017

"Promotion of Cooperation in Public Goods Game by Socialized Speed-Restricted Movement",
Pengyuan Du, Mario Gerla,
WONS'17, Wyoming, USA, February. 2017

"Multipath TCP in SDN-enabled LEO Satellite Networks",
Pengyuan Du, Sobhan Nazari, Jorge Mena, Ruolin Fan, Mario Gerla, Riten Gupta,
MilCom'16, Baltimore, MD, USA, November. 2016

"Software Defined Naval Network for Satellite Communications (SDN-SAT)",
Sobhan Nazari, Pengyuan Du, Mario Gerla, Ceilidh Hoffmann, Jae H. Kim, Antonio Capone,
MilCom'16, Baltimore, MD, USA, November. 2016

"Social-Distance Based Anycast Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Mario Gerla,
Med-Hoc-Net'16, Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain, June. 2016

"A Two-Level Multicast Routing Strategy for Delay Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Haik Kalantarian, Mario Gerla,
Med-Hoc-Net'15, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, June. 2015

"Socially-Aware Content Retrieval using Random Walks in Disruption Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Haik Kalantarian, Mario Gerla,
AOC'15, Boston, Massachusetts, June. 2015

"A Novel Social Contact Graph Based Routing Strategy for Delay Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Haik Kalantarian, Mario Gerla,
IWCMC'15, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August. 2015

"A Security Framework for Content Retrieval in DTNs",
Tuan Le, Mario Gerla,
IWCMC'16, Paphos, Cyprus, September. 2016

"A Buffer Management Strategy Based on Power-Law Distributed Contacts in Delay Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Haik Kalantarian, Mario Gerla,
ICCCN'16, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, August. 2016

"A Joint Relay Selection and Buffer Management Scheme for Delivery Rate Optimization in DTNs",
Tuan Le, Haik Kalantarian, Mario Gerla,
WoWMoM'16, Coimbra, Portugal, June. 2016

"A Load Balanced Social-Tie Routing Strategy for DTNs Based on Queue Length Control",
Tuan Le, Mario Gerla,
MILCOM'15, Tampa, Florida, USA, October. 2015

"A DTN Routing and Buffer Management Strategy for Message Delivery Delay Optimization",
Tuan Le, Haik Kalantarian, Mario Gerla,
WMNC'15, Munich, Germany, October. 2015

"A SDN-Controlled Underwater MAC and Routing Testbed",
Ruolin Fan, Li Wei, Pengyuan Du, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Mario Gerla,
MilCom'06, Baltimore, MD, November. 2016

"Efficient Sink Location Service for Prolonging the Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks",
Jeongcheol Lee, Jae-Young Jang, Euisin Lee, Sang-Ha Kim, Mario Gerla,
CCNC, Las Vegas, USA, January. 2016

"Farthest Destination Selection and Shortest Path Connection Strategy for Efficient Multicasting in V",
Jeongcheol Lee, Hoewon Kim, Euisin Lee, Sang-Ha Kim, Mario Gerla,
CCNC, Las Vegas, USA, January. 2016

"Energy-Efficient Mobile Groupcasting Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks",
Jeongcheol Lee, Min Yoon, Hyun-Kyu Lee, Yongje Shin, Euisin Lee, Mario Gerla,
PIMRC, Valencia, Spain, September. 2016

"WaterCom - A Multilevel, Multipurpose Underwater Communications Test Platform ",
Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Mark Matney, Enrique Segura, Youngtae Noh, Mario Gerla,
WUWNet'15, Washington DC, October. 2015

"CONET: COntrolled Data Packets Propagation in Vehicular Named Data NETworks",
Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Dongkyun Kim, Mario Gerla,
CCNC, Las Vegas, USA, January. 2016

"Improving Reliability of Platooning Control Messages Using Radio and Visible Light Hybrid Communicat",
Susumu Ishihara, Vince Rabsatt, Mario Gerla,
Vehicular Network Conference (VNC), Kyoto, Japan, December. 2015

"Throughput and Delay Scaling of Cognitive Radio Networks with Heterogeneous Mobile Users",
Pengyuan Du, Mario Gerla, Xinbing Wang,
ICCCN 2015, Las Vegas, NV, August. 2015

"Safety Message Dissemination in NLOS Environments of Intersection using TV White Space",
Jae-Han Lim, Katsuhiro Naito, Ji-Hoon Yun, Danijela Cabric, Mario Gerla,
ICNC 2015, Anaheim, California, February. 2015

"RobustGeo: A Disruption-Tolerant Geo-routing Protocol",
Ruolin Fan, Yu-Ting Yu, Mario Gerla,
ICCCN'15, Las Vegas, NV, August. 2015

"Incentive Driven LTE Content Distribution in VANETs",
Chuchu Wu, Mario Gerla, Nicholas Mastronarde,
Med-Hoc-Net 2015, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, June. 2015

"On Heterogeneous Neighbor Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks",
Lin Chen (Yale), Ruolin Fan, Kaigui Bian, Lin Chen (Paris-Sud), Mario Gerla, Tao Wang, Xiaoming Li,
INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, China, May. 2015

"Congestion-Aware Edge Caching for Adaptive Video Streaming in Information-Centric Networks",
Yu-Ting Yu, Francesco Bronzino, Ruolin Fan, Cedric Westphal, Mario Gerla,
CCNC'15, Las Vegas, NV, January. 2015

"Enhancing the Quality Level Support for Real-time Multimedia Applications in Software-Defined Networ",
Francesco Ongaro, Eduardo Cerqueira, Luca Foschini, Antonio Corradi, Mario Gerla,
ICNC 2015, Anaheim, CA, February. 2015

"Optimal Content Placement in ICN Vehicular Networks",
Federico Bruno, Matteo Cesana, Mario Gerla, Giulia Mauri, Giacomo Verticale,
Network of the Future 2014, Paris, France, December. 2014

"Revisiting Overlapped Channels: Efficient Broadcast in Multi-channel Wireless Networks",
Jae-Han Lim, Katsuhiro Naito, Ji-Hoon Yun, Mario Gerla,
INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, China, April. 2015

"Social Caching and Content Retrieval in Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs)",
Tuan Le, You Lu, Mario Gerla,
ICNC 2015, Anaheim, California, USA, February. 2015

"1-to-N and N-to-1 Communication for Optical Networks",
Tuan Le, Mario Gerla,
LANC 2014, Montevideo, Uruguay, September. 2014

"Real-time Video Streaming from Mobile Underwater Sensors",
Seongwon Han, Roy Chen, Youngtae Noh, Mario Gerla,
ACM WUWNet'14, Rome, Italy, November. 2014

"Towards Inter-Vehicle Communication Strategies for Platooning Support",
Michele Segata, Bastian Bloessl, Stefan Joerer, Christoph Sommer, Mario Gerla, Renato Lo Cigno, Falko Dressler,
Nets4Cars 2014, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, October. 2014

"A distributed backbone-based framework for live video sharing in VANETs",
Mario de Felice, Adalberto Melo, Eduardo Cerqueira, Mario Gerla, Francesca Cuomo, Andrea Baiocchi ,
The 11th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (ACM PE-WASUN 2014), Montreal, September. 2014

"Recent Advances and Challenges in Human-centric Multimedia Mobile Cloud Computing",
Eduardo Cerqueira, Euisin Lee, Jui-Ting Weng, Jae-Han Lim, Josh Joy, Mario Gerla,
ICNC 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii, February. 2014

"Fairness Evaluation of Pipeline Coded and non Coded TCP Flows",
Paul-Louis AGENEAU, Nadia BOUKHATEM, Mario Gerla,
ICC 14, Sydney, Austrailia, August. 2014

"Cognitive Routing with the ETX Metric",
Tuan Le, Vince Rabsatt, Mario Gerla,
Med-Hoc-Net 2014, Piran, Slovenia, June. 2014

"ICAN: Information-Centric Context-Aware Ad-Hoc Network ",
Yu-Ting Yu, Chris Tandiono, Xiao Li, You Lu, M. Y. Sanadidi, Mario Gerla,
ICNC'14, Honolulu, Hawaii, February. 2014

"Information-Centric Delay-Tolerant Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks",
You Lu, Xiao Li, Yu-Ting Yu, Mario Gerla,
INFOCOM 2014, Workshop on Name Oriented Mobility, Toronto, Canada, April. 2014

"Software-Defined Mobile Cloud: Architecture, Services and Use Cases",
Ian Ku, You Lu, Mario Gerla,
IWCMC 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus, August. 2014

"Towards Software-Defined VANET: Architectures and Services",
Ian Ku, You Lu, Eduardo Cerqueira, Rafael Gomes, Francesco Ongaro, Mario Gerla,
Med-Hoc-Net 2014, Piran Slovenia, June. 2014

"Community aware Content Retrieval in Disruption-Tolerant Networks",
You Lu, Tuan Le, Vince Rabsatt, Haik Kalantarian, Mario Gerla,
Med-Hoc-Net 2014, Piran Slovenia, June. 2014

"Game Theoretic Model for Cluster-based Content Distribution in Vehicular Networks",
Chuchu Wu, Mario Gerla,
The Fifth Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless, Are, Sweden, April. 2014

"Internet of Vehicles: From Intelligent Grid to Autonomous Cars and Vehicular Clouds",
Mario Gerla, Eun-Kyu Lee, Giovanni Pau, Uichin Lee,
IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, , March. 2014

"WARP: A ICN architecture for social data",
Fabio Angius, Cedric Westphal, Mario Gerla, Giovanni Pau,
(DySon) INFOCOM '14, Toronto, April. 2014

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Journal Papers

"Time-Constrained Anycast Routing under Short Contact Duration in Delay Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Mario Gerla,
, Springer Annals of Telecommunications Journal, , June. 2018

"Internet of Vehicles: Enabling Safe, Secure, and Private Vehicular Crowdsourcing",
Josh Joy, Vince Rabsatt, Mario Gerla,
Internet Technology Letters, , December. 2017

"Reliable Safety Message Dissemination in NLOS intersections using TV White Spectrum",
Jae-Han Lim, Katsuhiro Naito, Ji-Hoon Yun, Mario Gerla,
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, , May. 2017

"ICEMAN: A Practical Architecture for Situational Awareness at the Network Edge",
Samuel Wood, James Mathewson, Josh Joy, Mark-Oliver Stehr, Minyoung Kim, Ashish Gehani, Mario Gerla, Hamid Sadjadpour, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves,
, , June. 2015

"DiscoverFriends: secure social network communication in mobile ad hoc networks",
Josh Joy, Eric Chung, Zengwen Yuan, Jiayao Li, Leqi Zou, Mario Gerla,
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, , May. 2016

"A New Approach to Coding in Content-Based MANETs",
Josh Joy, Yu-Ting Yu, Victor Perez, Dennis Lu, Mario Gerla,
Journal of Communications, , November. 2014

"Social Norm Incentives for Network Coding in MANETs",
Chuchu Wu, Mario Gerla, Mihaela van der Schaar,
Transactions on Networking, , February. 2017

"Social Contact Graph-Based Group Communication Schemes for Delay Tolerant Networks",
Tuan Le, Mario Gerla,
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems, , February. 2017

"A Novel Social Contact Graph Based Routing Strategy for Workload and Throughput Fairness in Delay To",
Tuan Le, Haik Kalantarian, Mario Gerla,
Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, , June. 2016

"Exploiting Overlapped Bands for Efficient Broadcast in Multi-channel Wireless Networks",
Jae-Han Lim, Katsuhiro Naito, Ji-Hoon Yun, Mario Gerla,
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, , September. 2016

"Improving the Delivery Rate of Digital Inclusion Applications for Amazon Riverside Communities by Us",
Ronedo Ferreira, Waldir Moreira, Paulo Mendes, Mario Gerla, Eduardo Cerqueira,
IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, , January. 2014

"DPEL: Dynamic PIT Entry Lifetime in Vehicular Named Data Networks",
Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Dongkyun Kim, Mario Gerla,
Communications Letters, , March. 2016

"Software-defined underwater acoustic networking platform and its applications",
Youngtae Noh, Dustin Torres, Mario Gerla,
Ad Hoc Networks Journal, , April. 2015

"Scalable VANET Content Routing Using Hierarchical Bloom Filters",
Yu-Ting Yu, Mario Gerla, M. Y. Sanadidi,
Wireless Communications And Mobile Computing, DOI: 10.1002/wcm.2495, November. 2014

"A Distributed Beaconless Routing Protocol for Real-time Video Dissemination in Multimedia VANETs",
Mario de Felice, Eduardo Cerqueira, Adalberto Melo, Mario Gerla, Francesca Cuomo, Andrea Baiocchi ,
Computer Communications, , September. 2014

"Improving the Delivery Rate of Digital Inclusion Applications for Amazon Riverside Communities by Us",
Ronedo Ferreira, Waldir Moreira Júnior, Paulo Mendes, Eduardo Cerqueira, Mario Gerla,
International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, , January. 2014

"Evaluation of underwater optical-acoustic hybrid network",
Seongwon Han, Youngtae Noh, Richard Liang, Roy Chen, Yung-Ju Cheng, Mario Gerla,
Communications, China, , May. 2014

"DOTS: A Propagation Delay-aware Opportunistic MAC Protocol for Mobile Underwater Networks",
Youngtae Noh, Uichin Lee, Seongwon Han, Paul Wang, Dustin Torres, Jinwhan Kim, Mario Gerla,
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), , April. 2014

"Interplay Between TVWS and DSRC: Optimal Strategy for Safety Message Dissemination in VANET",
Jae-Han Lim, Wooseong Kim, Katsuhiro Naito, Ji-Hoon Yun, Danijela Cabric, Mario Gerla,
Journal on Selected Area in Communications, Vol.32, No.11 , , November. 2014

"Vehicular Cloud Networking: Archtecture and Design Principles",
Euisin Lee, Eun-Kyu Lee, Mario Gerla, Soon Young Oh,
IEEE Communications Magazine, , February. 2014

"Content Distribution in VANETs",
Mario Gerla, Chuchu Wu, Giovanni Pau, Xiaoqing Zhu,
Elsevier Journal in Vehicle Communications, , January. 2014

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Technical Reports

"Autonomic Communications in Software-Driven Networks",
Zhongliang Zhao, Eryk Jerzy Schiller, Eirini Kalogeiton, Torsten Braun, Stiller Burkhard, Josh Joy, Mario Gerla, Nabeel Akhtar, Ibrahim Matta,
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"Multi-Factor Authentication and Authorization using Attribute Based Identification",
Eun-Kyu Lee, Jae-Han Lim, Josh Joy, Mario Gerla, Rajit Gadh,
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"LocationSafe: Granular Location Privacy for Mobile IoT",
Josh Joy, Minh Le, Mario Gerla,
MobiCom 2016, New York City, NY

"Throughput and Delay Scaling of Cognitive Radio Networks with Heterogeneous Mobile Users",
Pengyuan Du, Mario Gerla, Xinbing Wang,
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Books

"RobustGeo: A Disruption-Tolerant Geo-Routing Protocol",
Ruolin Fan, Yu-Ting Yu, Mario Gerla,
Security, Privacy and Reliability in Computer Communications and Networks, River Publishers, February. 2017

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Posters

"A Multi-path TCP Solution for Software-Defined Military Heterogeneous Network",
Qi Zhao, Pengyuan Du, Mario Gerla,
WCNC'18, Barcelona, Spain, April. 2018

"Demand-driven Cache Allocation Based on Context-aware Collaborative Filtering",
Muhao Chen, Qi Zhao, Pengyuan Du, Carlo Zaniolo, Mario Gerla,
MobiHoc'18, Los Angeles, CA, June. 2018

"Towards Opportunistic Resource Sharing in Mobile Social Networks-an Evolutionary Game Theoretic Appr",
Pengyuan Du, Seunghyun Yoo, Qi Zhao, Muhao Chen, Mario Gerla,
MobiHoc'18, Los Angeles, June. 2018

" Secure Autonomous Platooning with Hybrid Vehicular Communication",
Susumu Ishihara, Vince Rabsatt, Mario Gerla,
HotMobile 2015, Santa Fe, NM, February. 2015

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PhD. Dissertations/Master Thesis

"Enhancing Quality of Service in Software-Defined Networks",
Francesco Ongaro, Antonio Corradi, Mario Gerla, Eduardo Cerqueira, Luca Foschini,
UNIBO, Bologna, Italy, July. 2014