Publications and Patents

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Conferences, Jounals, Workshops, and Book Chapters

• PACE4ACE: Connecting The Future Battlespace
  K. Evans, S. Chowdhury, B. Holmes, J. LaCreta, M. Paulini, S. Blais, and S. Nelson
  IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) (Restricted Track), 2026
  
  
• Military IoT: Tactical Edge Clouds for Content Sharing Across Heterogeneous Networks
  T. Strayer, S. Nelson, D. Coffin, B. Thapa, J. Khoury, A. Caro, M. Atighetchi, and S. Blais.
  Book Chapter: IoT for Defense and National Security, 2023
  
  
• Mission-Centric Content Sharing Across Heterogeneous Networks
  T. Strayer, R. Ramanathan, D. Coffin, S. Nelson, M. Atighetchi, A. Adler, S. Blais, B. Thapa, W. Tetteh, V. Shurbanov, K. Haigh, R. Hain, C. Rock, E. Do, A. Caro, D. Ellard, S. Loos, M. Beckerle, S. Lawrence
  International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2019
  
  
• ASAP: Preventing Starvation in Backpressure Forwarding
  L. Ma, S. Nelson, G. Lauer, S. Zabele
  IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2018
  
  
• Content Sharing with Mobility in an Infrastructure-less Environment
  T. Strayer, S. Nelson, A. Caro, J. Khoury, B. Tedesco, O. DeRosa, C. Clark, K. Sadeghi, M. Matthews, J. Kurzer, P. Lundrigan, V. Kawadia, D. Ryder, K. Gremban, W. Phoel
  Computer Networks (Journal), 2018
  
  
• Realizing a Virtual Private Network using Named Data Networking
  C. Partridge, S. Nelson, D. Kong
  ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ACM ICN), 2017
  
  
• NDN in Large Detached Underwater Sensing Arrays
  C. Partridge, S. Nelson, V. Shurbanov, D. Ryder, B. Thapa
  Workshop on Named Data Networks for Challenged Communication Environments Globecom Workshop (NDN-CCE), 2016
  
  
• An Efficient and Expressive Access Control Architecture for Content-based Networks
  J. Khoury, S. Nelson, A. Caro, V. Kawadia, D. Ryder, T. Strayer
  IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2014
  
  
• CLAN: An Efficient Distributed Temporal Community Detection Protocol for MANETs
  S. Dabideen, V. Kawadia, and S. Nelson
  IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS), 2014
  
  
• Mobility-Centric Host Stack for the Future Internet
  C. Zhang, G. Chen, K. Nagaraja, I. Seskar, D. Raychaudhuri, S. Nelson
  IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2014
  
  
• CASCADE: Content Access System for the Combat-Agile Distributed Environment
  T. Strayer, V. Kawadia, A. Caro, S. Nelson, D. Ryder, C. Clark, K. Sadeghi, B. Tedesco, O. DeRosa
  IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2013
  
  
• LAP: Lightweight Anonymity and Privacy
  H-C. Hsiao, T. Kim, A. Perrig, A. Yamada, S. Nelson, M. Gruteser, W. Ming
  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2012
  
  
• Storage-Aware Routing for Robust and Efficient Services in the Future Mobile Internet
  N. Somani, A. Chanda, S. Nelson, D. Raychaudhuri
  IEEE FutureNet: International Workshop on the Network of the Future, 2012
  
  
• MobilityFirst Future Internet Architecture Project (Invited Talk/Paper)
  I. Seskar, K. Nagaraja, S. Nelson, D. Raychaudhuri
  ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC), 2011
  
  
• GSTAR: Generalized Storage-Aware Routing for MobilityFirst in the Future Mobile Internet
  S. Nelson, G. Bhanage, and D. Raychaudhuri
  ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch), 2011
  
  
• For Members Only: Local and Robust Group Management in DTNs
  S. Nelson, R. Kravets
  ACM Workshop on Challenged networks (CHANTS), 2010
  
  
• Achieving Anycast in DTNs by Enhancing Existing Unicast Protocols
  S. Nelson, R. Kravets
  ACM Workshop on Challenged networks (CHANTS), 2010
  
  
• Retiring Replicants: Congestion Control for Intermittently Connected Networks
  N. Thompson, S. Nelson, M. Bakht, T. Abdelzaher, and R. Kravets
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2010
  
  
• Encounter-based Routing in DTNs
  S. Nelson, M. Bakht, and R. Kravets.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2009
  
  
• Encounter-based Routing in DTNs (Poster Abstract for Journal)
  S. Nelson, M. Bakht, R. Kravets, and A. Harris III
  ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Vol 13, Issue 1, Jan 2009
  
  
• Event-driven, Role-based Mobility in Disaster Recovery Networks
  S. Nelson, A. Harris III, and R. Kravets
  ACM Workshop on Challenged networks (CHANTS), 2007
  
  
• A Study of On-Off Attack Models for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  L.F. Perrone, S. Nelson
  IEEE Operator-Assisted (Wireless Mesh) Community Networks, 2006
  

Theses and Notable Technical Reports

• Anycast, Multicast and Beyond: The Role of Manycast in DTN Communication
  Samuel C. Nelson, Yih-Chun Hu, Robin Kravets
  UIUC Tech Report, 2011
  
  
• Securing Vehicular Networks with VIBES
  Samuel C. Nelson, Robin Kravets
  UIUC Tech Report, 2011
  
  
• Leveraging Structure for Communication in Human-Centric DTNs
  Samuel C. Nelson
  UIUC Ph.D. Thesis, 2011 - Advisor: Robin Kravets
  
  
• Encounter-based Routing in Disaster Recovery Networks
  Samuel C. Nelson
  UIUC Masters Thesis, 2008 - Advisor: Robin Kravets
  
  
• A Simulation Study of Connectivity Metrics for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Samuel C. Nelson
  Bucknell Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2006 - Advisor: Luiz Felipe Perrone
  

Patents

• Efficient Directed Content in Pub/Sub Systems
  S. Blais, M. Atighetchi, S. Nelson, C. Willig
  Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp, 2024. Patent No. US 12,079,671 B2.
  
  
• Trust Policies for a Data Provisioning Layer
  T. Strayer, B. Kalashian, M. Atighetchi, S. Blais, S. Nelson
  Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp, 2023. Patent No. US 11,831,657.
  
  
• Subscriber Revocation In A Publish-Subscribe Network Using Attribute-based Encryption
  J. Khoury, S. Nelson, T. Strayer
  Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp, 2023. Patent No. US 11,804,949.
  
  
• Stream-Based Key Management
  J. Khoury, S. Nelson, T. Strayer
  Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp, 2023. Patent No. US 11,558,185.
  
  
• Metadata-Based Information Provenance
  M. Atighetchi, S. Nelson, S. Blais
  Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp, 2022. Patent No. US 11,233,707.
  
  
• Policy-based Access Control in Content Networks
  T. Strayer, J. Khoury, A. Caro, V. Kawadia, S. Nelson
  Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp, 2017. Patent No. US 9,571,463 B2.