Dr. Luiz DaSilva
Research Interests | Sponsors | Teaching | Publications | Education | Affiliations

Associate Professor
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech - Advanced Research Institute
4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750
Arlington, VA 22203
Phone: 703-387-6039
Fax: 703-528-5543
E-Mail: ldasilva@vt.edu
Website: http://www.ee.vt.edu/~ldasilva/, http://www.lan.ece.vt.edu

Research Interests:

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), game theory, topology control, cooperation and reputation management, energy-aware multicasting, and cognitive networks

Current or Recent Research Sponsors:

National Science Foundation,  Office of Naval Research, LG Electronics, Booz-Allen Hamilton, U.S. Customs, Intel, Microsoft Research  

Teaching Interests/Courses:

Computer networks, telecommunications, computer engineering 

Publications/Reports:

A. B. MacKenzie and L. A. DaSilva, Game Theory for Wireless Engineers, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2006.

L. Korowajczuk, B. Xavier, A. Moreira, L. Ribeiro and L. A. DaSilva, Designing CDMA 2000 Systems, Wiley, 2004.

K. S. Phanse, A. Bhat, and L. A. DaSilva, “Modeling and Evaluation of a Policy Provisioning Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” to appear in the Journal of Networking and Systems Management, 2006.

L. A. DaSilva, W. Newhall, G. E. Morgan, C. W. Bostian, D. Sweeney, S. F.
Midkiff, J. H. Reed, B. Woerner, and C. Thompson, “The Resurgence of Push to Talk Technologies,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 48-55, January 2006.

V. Srivastava, J. Neel, A. MacKenzie, R. Menon, L.A. DaSilva, J. Hicks, J.H. Reed and R. Gilles, “Using Game Theory to Analyze Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 46-56, 4th quarter 2005.

D. Gracanin, M. Eltoweissy, A. Wadaa, and L. A. DaSilva, “A Service-centric Model of Sensor Networks: Formalism and Visualization,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 23, no. 6, June 2005, pp. 1159-1166.

K. Phanse, L. A. DaSilva and S. F. Midkiff, “Design and Demonstration of Policy-based Management in a Multi-hop Ad Hoc Network,” Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 3, no. 3, May 2005, pp. 389-401.

L. A. DaSilva, S. F. Midkiff, J. S. Park, K. Phanse, T. Lin, G. Hadjichristophi, and N. J. Davis, “Network Mobility and Protocol Interoperability in Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 42, no. 11, November 2004, pp. 88-96.

K. Wood and L. A. DaSilva, “Directional Reception vs. Directional Transmission for Maximum Lifetime Multicast Delivery in Ad-Hoc Networks,” NETWORKING 2006 - Fifth IFIP Networking Conf., Coimbra, Portugal, May 15-19, 2006, pp. 1169-1175.

V. Srivastava and L. A. DaSilva, “Equilibria for Node Participation in Ad Hoc Networks – An Imperfect Monitoring Approach,” to appear in IEEE Intl. Conf. On Communications (ICC 06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15, 2006.

R. W. Thomas, L. A. DaSilva, and A. B. MacKenzie, “Cognitive Networks,”
IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2005), Baltimore, MD, November 2005, pp. 352-360.

K. Wood and L. A. DaSilva, “Optimization of Network Lifetime with Directional Listening,” 2nd Intl. Conf. on Broadband Networks (BROADNETS 2005), Boston, MA, October 2005.

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Education:

B.S., The University of Kansas, 1986 
M.S., The University of Kansas, 1988 
Ph.D., The University of Kansas,1998

Center for Wireless Telecommunications
Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute
Northern Virginia Center