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  • 2002 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to systems for advanced broadband, mobile data and mobile telecommunication networks

Overview

Thomas F. La Porta is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their research concentrates on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, as well as related subfields such as Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their recent publications include:

  • Service Placement and Request Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications in Edge Clouds, 2021, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Context-Aware and Energy-Aware Video Streaming on Smartphones, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Preventing Outages Under Coordinated Cyber-Physical Attack With Secured PMUs, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • Reducing the Cost of Consistency: Performance Improvements in Next Generation Cellular Networks with Optimal Resource Reallocation, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Enforcing Multilevel Security Policies in Unstable Networks, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

They frequently publish in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Smart Grid Security and Resilience
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Power System Optimization and Stability
  • Image and Video Quality Assessment
  • Optimal Power Flow Distribution

Throughout their career, Thomas F. La Porta has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Ting He, Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Patrick McDaniel, Fidan Mehmeti, and Quinn Burke.

In 2002, they were recognized as an IEEE Fellow for their contributions to systems for advanced broadband, mobile data, and mobile telecommunication networks.

Best Publications

  • Movement-assisted sensor deployment

    Guiling Wang;Guohong Cao;Tom La Porta

  • Movement-assisted sensor deployment

    Guiling Wang;Guohong Cao;T. La Porta

  • HAWAII: a domain-based approach for supporting mobility in wide-area wireless networks

    R. Ramjee;K. Varadhan;L. Salgarelli;S.R. Thuel

  • Sensor relocation in mobile sensor networks

    Guiling Wang;Guohong Cao;T.La Porta;Wensheng Zhang

  • Bidding Protocols for Deploying Mobile Sensors

    G. Wang;Guohong Cao;P. Berman;T.F. La Porta

  • Demo: Medusa: a programming framework for crowd-sensing applications

    Moo-Ryong Ra;Bin Liu;Tom F. La Porta;Ramesh Govindan

  • IP micro-mobility support using HAWAII

    S. Thuel;Thomas Porta;L. Salgarelli;R. Ramjee

  • AIRMAIL: a link-layer protocol for wireless networks

    Ender Ayanoglu;Sanjoy Paul;Thomas F. LaPorta;Krishan K. Sabnani

  • Demo: Medusa: a programming framework for crowd-sensing applications

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  • On cellular botnets: measuring the impact of malicious devices on a cellular network core

    Patrick Traynor;Michael Lin;Machigar Ongtang;Vikhyath Rao

  • Exploiting open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks

    William Enck;Patrick Traynor;Patrick McDaniel;Thomas La Porta

  • Two phase local mobility scheme for wireless access to packet based networks

    Thomas F. La Porta;Kazutaka Murakami;Ramachandran Ramjee;Sandra R. Thuel

  • SET: Detecting node clones in sensor networks

    Heesook Choi;Sencun Zhu;Thomas F. La Porta

  • A bidding protocol for deploying mobile sensors

    Guiling Wang;Guohong Cao;T. LaPorta

  • Service Placement and Request Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications in Edge Clouds

    Vajiheh Farhadi;Fidan Mehmeti;Ting He;Thomas F. La Porta

  • IP-based access network infrastructure for next-generation wireless data networks

    R. Ramjee;T.F. La Porta;L. Salgarelli;S. Thuel

  • Verteilte Datenverarbeitungsarchitektur zum Steuern von Breitband- und Schmalband Netzwerken

    Porta Thomas F La;Malathi Veeraraghavan

  • A Survey of Sensor Selection Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Hosam Rowaihy;Sharanya Eswaran;Matthew Johnson;Dinesh Verma

  • It's Hard to Share: Joint Service Placement and Request Scheduling in Edge Clouds with Sharable and Non-Sharable Resources

    Ting He;Hana Khamfroush;Shiqiang Wang;Tom La Porta

  • Interactive Call Identification

    Thomas F. La Porta;Arun Narayan Netravali

  • Service Placement and Request Scheduling for Data-intensive Applications in Edge Clouds

    Vajiheh Farhadi;Fidan Mehmeti;Ting He;Tom La Porta

  • Exploiting open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks

    Patrick Traynor;William Enck;Patrick Mcdaniel;Thomas La Porta

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick McDaniel
Patrick McDaniel University of Wisconsin–Madison
Guohong Cao
Guohong Cao Pennsylvania State University
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy University of California, Riverside
Amotz Bar-Noy
Amotz Bar-Noy City University of New York
Ramachandran Ramjee
Ramachandran Ramjee Microsoft (United States)
Patrick Traynor
Patrick Traynor University of Florida
Ananthram Swami
Ananthram Swami United States Army Research Laboratory
Malathi Veeraraghavan
Malathi Veeraraghavan University of Virginia
Krishan Kumar Sabnani
Krishan Kumar Sabnani Johns Hopkins University
Alun Preece
Alun Preece Cardiff University

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