My Books

Mobile Database Systems


Publisher: John Wiley.
ISBN: 978-0-471-46792-2

A first graduate level book on Mobile Database System.
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DATABASE RECOVERY


Publisher: Kluwer.
ISBN: 0-7923-8192-0.

Database Recovery presents an in-depth discussion on all aspects of database recovery.
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Database Recovery mechanisms and Their Performance
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN: 01361-4215X.

This book is a contributed volume containing chapters from the world's experts in the field of database recovery.
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Database Concurrency Control Mechanisms and Their Performance

Publisher: Prentice Hall.
ISBN: 0-13-065442-6

This book gathers in to one volume the important and significant research works, past and present, on the performance and development aspects of CCMs.
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My Publications

Referred Journal Papers


1. Vijay Kumar, Nitin Prabhu, Maggie Dunham, and Yasemin A. Seydim,"TCOT - A Timeout-based Mobile Transaction Commitment Protocol", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 51, No. 10, October 2002.
2. Qun Ren, Maggie Dunham, and Vijay Kumar, "Semantic Caching and Query Processing". Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
3. Vijay Kumar and Narayan Gaddipati, "An Efficient CCM KRISHNA for High Contention Environment and its Performance Comparison with WDL". Data and Knowledge Engineering, 34(2000), pp: 39--76.
4. Anindya Datta, Sang Son, and Vijay Kumar, "Is a Bird in Hand Worth More than Two in the Bush? Limitations of Priority Cognizance in Conflict Resolution for Firm Real Time Database Systems", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 49, No. 5, May 2000, pp: 482--502.
5. Anindya Datta, Ashlihan Celik, Debra E. VanderMeer and V. Kumar, "Adaptive Broadcast Protocols to Support Efficient and Energy Conserving Retrieval from databases in Mobile Computing Environments", ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). Vol. 24, No. 1, March 1999, pp: 1--79.
6. Albert Burger, Vijay Kumar and Mary Lou Hines, "Performance of Multiversion and Distributed Two-Phase locking Concurrency Control Mechanisms in Distributed Databases", Information Sciences, An International Journal. Volume 1-2, 1997, pp: 129--152.
7. V. Kumar, "KRISHNA - An efficient CCM based on Dynamic Attributes of Transactions and its Performance", Data and Knowledge Engineering. Vol. 21, 1997, pp: 281--296.
8. V. Kumar and Shawn Moe, "Performance of Recovery Algorithms for Centralized database Management Systems", Information Sciences, An International Journal, Vol. 86, Nos. 1-3, September 1995, pp: 101--147.
9. Vijay Kumar and Judy Mullins, "An Integrated Data Structure with Multiple Access Paths for Database Systems and its Performance", Data and Knowledge Engineering, 16 (1995), pp: 51--72.
10. Aris Ouksel, V. Kumar and Chayanika Majumdar, "Management of Concurrency in Interpolation Based Grid File Organization and its Performance", Information Sciences, An International Journal, Vol. 78, Nos. 1 and 2, May 1994, pp: 129--158.
11. V. Kumar and Albert Burger,"Performance of Distributed Multiversion Concurency Control Mechanisms in Partitioned and Partially Replicated Databases", Computer Science and Informatics, Vol 23, No. 1, 1993, pp: 47--58.
12. V. Kumar and Albert Burger, "Performance Measurement of Main Memory Database Recovery Algorithms Based on Update-in-Place and Shadow Approaches", Special Issue of IEEE Trans on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1992, pp: 567--571.
13. V. Kumar, Jerry Place and Gi-Chul Yang, "An Efficient Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion using Queue Migration in Computer Network", IEEE Trans on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, Sep. 1991, pp: 380--384.
14. V. Kumar and M. Hsu "A Superior Two-Phase Locking Algorithm and its Performance", Information Sciences, An International Journal, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2.,1991, pp: 147--168.
15. V. Kumar, "Concurrent Operations on Extendible Hashing and its Performance", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 33, No. 6, June 1990, pp: 681--694.
16. Jerry Place, V. Kumar and Appie van de Liefvoort, "The Behavior of Database Concurrency Control Mechanisms under Bursty Arrivals", Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 468, Edited by S.G. Akl, F. Fiala and W.W. Koczkodaj, 1990, pp:
17. V. Kumar, "Performance Comparison of Some Database Concurrency Control Mechanisms based on Two-Phase Locking, Timestamping and Mixed Approach", Information Sciences, Vol. 51, No. 3.,1990, pp: 221-261.
18. V. Kumar, "Concurrency Control and Recovery in Main Memory Database Systems", The Journal of Computer Information Systems, Vol. 34, No. 1,1990, pp: 24--30.
19. V. Kumar, "Current Trends in Transaction Processing Systems", The Journal of Systems Management, January 1990, pp: 10--20.
20. V. Kumar, "Concurrency on extendible Hashing", Information Processing Letters, Vol. 30, No. 6, April 1989, pp: 35--41.
21. V. Kumar, "Behavior of Read:Write Ratio and Read-Only Transactions", Information Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1., 1989, pp: 1--12.
22. V. Kumar, "Synchronization and Recovery in Database Systems", Infotech State of the Art Reports, England, Series 9, No. 8., 1981, pp: 469--481.



National and International Refereed Conferences


1. Deendayal Dinakarpandian and Vijay Kumar, "BIOMIND-Protein Property Prediction by Property Proximity Profiles", 17th ACM Symp. on Applied Computing (SAC) 2002. March 10-14, 2002, Madrid, Spain.
2. Vinode Vulupala and Vijay Kumar, "Dynamic Mobile IP for Improving TCP/IP Performance", Workshop on Reliable and Secure Applications in Mobile Environment, In conjunction with 20th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems SRDS'2001, New Orleans, October 28-31, 2001.
3. Ayse Seyedim, Maggie Dunham, and Vijay Kumar, "An Architecture for Location Dependent Query Processing", 4th Int. Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany, September 3-7, 2001.
4. Vonode Vulupulla and Vijay Kumar, "Mobile IP", The 4th World Multiconference on Systematic, Cybernatics, and Informatics (SCI2001), Orlando, Florida, July 22-25, 2001, pp: 352--360.
5. Kiran Chelluri and Vijay Kumar, ( Invited paper), "Data Classification and Management in Very Large Data Warehouses", 3rd Int. Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-commerce and Web-based Information Systems, San Jose, California, June 21-22, 2001, pp: 52--57.
6. M. Dunham, A. Al-Mogren, A. Seydim, and Vijay Kumar, "Data in Your Space", (Invited Paper), 3rd Int. Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-commerce and Web-based Information Systems, San Jose, California, June 21-22, 2001, pp: 66--73.
7. Yasemin Seydim, Margaret Dunham, and Vijay Kumar, "Location Dependent Query Processing", 2nd ACM Int. Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MOBIDE01), Santa Barbara, May 20, 2001, pp: 47--53.
8. Mukesh Mohania, Vijay Kumar, (Invited paper) Yahiko Kambayashi, and Bharat Bhargava, "Secured Web Access", International conference on Digital Libraries, Kyoto, Japan, Nov 13-17, 2000, pp: 340--347.
9. Vijay Kumar, "A Timeout-based Mobile Transaction Commitment Protocol", 2000 ADBIS-DASFAA Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1884. In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, Moscow, Prague, Czech Republic, September 5-8, 2000, pp: 339--345.
10. S. K. Madria, Bharat Bhargava, E. Pitoura, and Vijay Kumar, "Data Organization Issues for Location-Dependent Queries in Mobile Computing", 2000 ADBIS-DASFAA Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1884. In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, Moscow, Prague, Czech Republic, September 5-8, 2000, pp: 142--156.
11. Lein Harn, H.-Y Lin, and Vijay Kumar, "A fair E-lottery without the assistance of a mutually trusted drawing party", Proc. of the 10th National Conference on Information Security Information Security Conference, Taiwan, May 5-6, 2000, pp: 323--336.
12. Kalpana Dash, R. B. Mohapatra, and Vijay Kumar, "A Transaction Processing Model for Mobile Computing Environment", Conference on Information Technology, Bhubaneshwar, India, Dec. 20-22, 1999, pp: 15--25.
13. Sunil Samtani, Vijay Kumar, and Mukesh Mohania, "Self Maintenance of Multiple Views in Data Warehousing", 8th International Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '99), Kansas City, MO, November 2-6, 1999, pp: 292--299.
14. Vijay Kumar, "Challenges and Opportunities in the Management of Location Dependent Data and Transaction Processing in Mobile Databases", (A pannel and discussion paper), Int. Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems (MDDS99), Florence, Italy, September 3, 1999, pp: 5--6.
15. Margaret Dunham and Vijay Kumar, "Impact of Mobility on Transaction Management", Int. Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE99), Seattle, Washington, August 20, 1999, pp: 14--21.
16. Sunil Samtani, Mukesh Mohania, Vijay Kumar, and Yahiko Kambayashi, "Recent Advances and Research Problems in Data Warehousing", Int. Workshop on Data Warehousing and Data Mining (ER '98), Singapore, Nov. 1998, pp: 81--92.
17. Margaret H. Dunham, and Vijay Kumar, "Location Dependent Data and its Management in Mobile Databases", Proc. of the Ninth Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'98), Vienna, Austria, August 26-28, 1998, pp: 549--555.
18. Sunil Samtani and Vijay Kumar, "Maintaining Consistency in Partially Self-Maintainable Views at the data Warehouse", Int. Workshop on Data Warehouse Design and OLAP Technology (DWDOT' 98), Vienna, Austria, August 26-28, 1998, pp: 206--211.
19. Vijay Kumar (Invited Paper), "Gharelu Viddyapeeth: An Educational Institution on the Air", Int. Conference on Technical Education in 21st Century (ICTE-21), Indore, India, January 8-10, 1998, pp: 22--32.
20. Yutong Wang and Vijay Kumar, "Performance of Main Memory Recovery Algorithms", COMAD 97, India, 1997, pp: 55-63. Raju V. J. Chintalapati, Vijay Kumar and Anindya Datta, "An Adaptive Location Management Algorithm for Mobile Computing", 22nd Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN '97), Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2--5, 1997, pp: 107--114.
21. Anindya Datta, Igor R. Viguier, Sang H. Son and Vijay Kumar, "A Study of Priority Cognizance in Conflict Resolution for Firm Real Time Database Systems", Second International Workshop on Real-Time Databases, RTDB '97, September 18-19, 1997, Burlington, Vermont, USA. The paper also appeared in Azer Bestavros and Victor Fay Wolfe (eds.) Real-Time and Database and Information Systems -- Research Advances, Azer Bestavros and Victor Fay Wolfe (eds.), pp: 167--180.
22. Anindya Datta, Aslihan Celik, Jeong G. Kim, Debra E. VanderMeer and Vijay Kumar, "Adaptive Broadcast Protocols to Support Efficient and Energy Conserving Retrieval from Databases in Mobile Computing Environments", 13th IEEE International Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE '97), Birmingham, England, April 7-11, 1997, pp: 124--133.
23. V. Kumar, "Recovery in Main Memory Database Systems", 7th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 96), Zurich, Switzerland, September, 1996, pp: 768--778.
24. Hung-Yu Lin, Lein Harn and V. Kumar, "Authentication Protocols in Wireless Communications", International Conference on Automation, Indore, India, Dec. 12-14, 1995, pp: 49--57.
25. V. Kumar, "An Efficient Algorithm for Managing Concurrent Operations on Data Using Dynamic Attributes of Transactions", 5th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD '93), Calcutta, India, pp: 68--95.
26. V. Kumar and Judy Mullins, "An Integrated data Structure with Multiple Access Paths for Database Systems and its Performance", IEEE COMPSAC, Phoenix, Arizona, April, 1993, pp: 241--247.
27. V. Kumar and Albert Burger, "Performance Measurement of Distributed Concurrency Control Mechanisms with Object-Oriented Simulation Approach", The 23rd Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, May 1992.
28. V. Kumar and Judy Mullins, "An Integrated data Structure with Multiple Access Paths for Database Systems", ACM Annual Computer Science Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, March 3-5, 1992, pp: 57--64.
29. V. Kumar and Albert Burger, "Performance Measurement of Some main Memory Database Recovery Algorithms", 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Kobe, Japan, 1991, pp: 436--443.
30. V. Kumar and James Mumper, "KRISHNA - Concurrency Control Algorithms based on Dynamic Attributes", 2nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 91), Berlin, Germany, 1991, pp: 185--190.
31. Margaret Easter and V. Kumar, "Extendible hashing for Distributed database Systems", 2nd International Conference of the Information Resource Management Association, Memphis, Tennessee, 1991, pp: 124--131.
32. Albert Burger, V. Kumar and Pat Simpson, "An Integrated Data Structure with Multiple Access Paths", IFIP WG 2.6, 2nd Conference on Visual Database Systems, Budapest, Hungry 1991, pp: 301--315.
33. V. Kumar and Albert Burger, "Main Memory Database Recovery Algorithms and their Performance", 2nd IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, TX, December, 1990, pp: 152--155.
34. B. Unger, L. Harn and V. Kumar, "Entropy as a measure of database information", 6th Annual Computer Security Applications, April, 1990, pp: 80--87.
35. Albert Burger and V. Kumar, "PRABHA- A distributed concurrency control mechanism", ACM Annual Computer Science Conference, Washington, D.C., February 20-22, 1990, pp: 392--397.
36. V. Kumar, Jerry Place and Appie van de Liefvoort, "The behavior of database Concurrency control mechanisms under bursty traffic", International Conference on Computing and Information, ICCI'90, Toronto, Canada, May, 1990, pp: 250--254.
37. V. Kumar and Albert Burger, "Recovery in Main Memory Systems", International Conference on Computing and Information, ICCI'90, Toronto, Canada, May, 1990, pp: 215--220.
38. V. Kumar, Gi-Chul Yang and Jerry Place "A Superior Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion in Computer Networks-VISHNU", IFIP 11th World Computer Congress, San Jose, CA, August, 1989, pp: 169--174.
39. V. Kumar, Gi-Chul Yang and Jerry Place, "An Efficient Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion in Distributed Systems", ACM/IEEE Workshop on Applied Computing, Stillwater, OK, August, 1989.
40. V. Kumar and Lingling Polican, "Managing Concurrent Transactions on Extendible Hashing", ACM/IEEE Workshop on Applied Computing, Stillwater, OK, August, 1989.
41. V. Kumar, Al Goerner, Jerry Place and Appie van de Liefvoort, "Database Concurrency Control Algorithms and Stochastic Predicate Event Nets", International Conference on Computing and Information, ICCI'89, Toronto, Canada, July, 1989, pp: 135--138.
42. V. Kumar, Alan Goerner, Jerry Place and Appie van de liefvoort, "Stochastic Predicate Event Nets for Modeling Database Concurrency Control Mechanisms", ACM/IEEE Workshop on Applied Computing, Stillwater, OK, June, 1989, pp: 210-215.
43. V. Kumar, "A Concurrency Control Mechanism based on Extendible Hashing for Main Memory Database Systems", ACM Annual Computer Sci. Conf., Louisville, Kentucky, February 21-23, 1989, pp: 109--113.
44. Gi-Chul Yang, Jerry Place, and V. Kumar, "A Floating Queue Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion in Computer Networks", International, Computer Symp. (ICS'88), Taipei, Taiwan, December, 1988, pp: 1022-1030.
45. V. Kumar and Jerry Place, "An Analysis of the Behavior of a New Non-Preemptive Two-Phase Locking Mechanism Using an Open Queuing Network", National Conf. of Decision Science Institute, Las Vegas, August, 1988, pp: 45--51.
46. V. Kumar, "An Analysis of Roll-Back and Blocking Operations of Three Concurrency Control Mechanisms", AFIP Conf. Proceedings 56, National Computer Conference, Chicago, May, 1987, pp: 485--497.
47. V. Kumar, "Two-Phase Locking Schemes and Read-Only Transactions", National Conference of Decision Science Institute, Boston, September, 1987.
48. V. Kumar and Prashant Palvia, "Physical Database Design to Improve Concurrency", SE Decision Science Institute Conference, Richmond, Virginia, July, 1987, pp: 81--91.
49. V. Kumar, "Transaction Roll-Back and Blocking, and Read-Only Transactions" North American Conference International Business School Computer User Group, Flint, Michigan, May, 1987.