Arash Behzad, Ph.D.
  Visiting Scholar


   University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 
   Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594 
   Email: abehzad@ee.ucla.edu


       Arash Behzad received the Ph.D. degree from UCLA and was a Senior Scientist at Broadcom Corporation. He also has a background in management sciences and operations research and holds a M.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology. He has maintained his scientific activities while holding managerial positions in the field of international business administration. He was a Visiting Scholar at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2007, whose research involved WLAN integrated systems, communication theory, MAC layer protocols and algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and graph theory.
 
      Dr. Behzad, whose Erdös Number is 2, was the recipient of the Best Paper Award in the area of operations research and the Best Overall Paper Award at the Third National Conference of Industrial Engineering in 1996. He was also a recipient of the University of California MICRO fellowship for innovative research in microelectronics technology during the academic year 2000-2001. He received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage and was nominated for the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and the Juilliard School of Music Association.
 
      He holds a few issued and pending patents on the above-mentioned research topics and has served as a technical reviewer for various conferences and publications. These publications include IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, Wireless Networks Journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal special issue on Emerging Multiple Access Technologies (John Wiley & Sons), EUROSIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), and Computers and Operations Research Journal (Elsevier).



Dr. Behzad's research publications can be classified into three distinct disciplines, namely Electrical Engineering, Pure Mathematics, and Industrial Engineering and Management Science.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:*


Books/Book Chapters

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "On the Effect of Optimal Power Control in Wireless Mesh Networks," in Handbook of Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networking, G. Aggelou, Eds., New York, McGraw-Hill, 2008.

I. Rubin, A. Behzad, H. Ju, R. Zhang, X. Huang, Y. Liu and R. Khalaf, "Ad Hoc Wireless Networks using Mobile Backbones," in Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad Hoc Networks , R. Ganesh, S. Kota, K. Pahlavan and R. Agustí, Eds. Chapter 9, New York, Springer, 2004.

Journal Papers

K. Hedayati, I. Rubin and A. Behzad, "Integrated Power Controlled Rate Adaptation and Medium Access Control in Wireless Mesh Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 7, pp. 2362-2370, July 2010.

A. Behzad, M. Behzad and C. E. Praeger, "Basic Dominations in Graphs," in Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA), Volume 61, pp. 6-16, January 2011.

A. Behzad, M. Behzad and C. E. Praeger, "On the Domination Number of the Generalized Petersen Graphs," in journal of Discrete Mathematics,308 (2008) 603-610.[Full-Text]

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "Optimum Integrated Link Scheduling and Power Control for Multihop Wireless Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 194-205, January 2007. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "High Transmission Power Increases the Capacity of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 156-165, January 2006. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "Multiple Access Protocol for Power Controlled Wireless Access Nets," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 307-316, October-December 2004. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "On the Characterization of Optimal Transmit Power Levels in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," under review.

Arash Behzad Conference Papers

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "Impact of Power Control on the Performance of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM) , Vol. 1, pp. 102-113, Miami, Florida, March 13-17, 2005. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "On the Performance of Graph-based Scheduling Algorithms for Packet Radio Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM) , Vol. 6, pp. 3432-3436, San Francisco, California, December 1-5, 2003. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad, I. Rubin and A. Mojibi-Yazdi, "Distributed Power Controlled Medium Access Control for Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Annual Workshop on Computer Communications (CCW) , pp. 47-53, Dana Point, California, October 20-21, 2003. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "Power Controlled Multiple Access Control for Wireless Access Nets," in Proceedings of the 57th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) , Vol. 1, pp. 423-427, Jeju, Korea, April 22-25, 2003. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad and I. Rubin, "High Transmission Power Increases the Capacity of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) , Vol. 6, pp. 3601-3606, Paris, France, June 20-24, 2004. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad, I. Rubin and J. Hsu, "On the Performance of the Randomized Power Control Algorithms for Random Multiple Access in Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) , Vol. 2, pp. 707-711, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 13-17, 2005. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad, I. Rubin and P. Chakravarty, "Optimum Integrated Link Scheduling and Power Control for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Vol. 3, pp. 275-283, Montreal, Canada, August 22-24, 2005. [Full-Text]

I. Rubin, A. Behzad, H. Ju, R. Zhang, X. Huang, Y. Liu and R. Khalaf, "Ad Hoc Wireless Networks with Mobile Backbones," in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) , Vol. 1, pp. 566-573, Barcelona, Spain, September 5-8, 2004 (Invited Paper). [Full-Text]

I. Rubin and A. Behzad, "Cross-Layer Routing and Multiple-Access Protocol for Power-Controlled Wireless Access Nets," in Proceedings of IEEE/JPL Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking , Pasadena, California, September 5-6, 2002. [Full-Text]

I. Rubin, A. Behzad, R. Zhang, H. Luo and E. Caballero, "TBONE: A Mobile-Backbone Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference , Vol. 6, pp. 2727-2740, Big Sky, Montana, March 9-16, 2002. [Full-Text]

I. Rubin, R. Khalaf, A. Moshfegh and A. Behzad, "Delay-Throughput Performance of Load-Adaptive Power-Controlled Multihop Wireless Networks with Scheduled Transmissions," in Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) , Vol. 5, pp. 3060-3064, Orlando, Florida, October 4-9, 2003. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad and M. Behzad, "Graphs and their Fundamental Dominations," in Proceedings of the 36th Iranian Mathematics Conference , Yazd, Iran, September 10-13, 2005 (Invited Paper).

A. Behzad and M. Modarres, "A New Efficient Transformation of the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem into Traveling Salesman Problem", in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Systems Engineering (ICSE) , Las Vegas, Nevada, August 6-8, 2002. [Full-Text]

A. Behzad and M. Modarres, "Multiple Tour Plant Location Problem," Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting , San Jose, California, November 17-20, 2002. [Abstract]

Arash Behzad Technical Reports

G. Kulkarni, A. Behzad, I. Rubin and M. Srivastava, "A Unified Framework for Scheduling Problems with and without Power Control in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," TR-UCLA-NESL-200411-02, November 2004.

Arash Behzad

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