Mark Coates' Publications

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Recent Papers Submitted or In Press

• F. Thouin, M. Coates, and M. Rabbat, Real-time multi-path tracking of probabilistic available bandwidth, Technical Report, Jul. 2010.

2011

• B. Oreshkin, X. Liu and M.J. Coates, Efficient delay-tolerant particle filtering, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc., 20 Mar. 2011.
• F. Thouin, M.J. Coates, and M.G. Rabbat, Large scale probabilistic available bandwidth estimation, accepted for publication in Computer Networks, 17 Feb. 2011.
• B. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, Analysis of error propagation in particle filters with approximation, accepted for publication in Annals of Applied Probability, 2 Jan. 2011.
• Y. Li, X. Chen, M.J. Coates and B. Yen, Sequential Monte Carlo radio-frequency tomographic tracking, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Proc., Prague, May 2011.
• D. Üstebay, M.J. Coates, and M.G. Rabbat, Distributed auxiliary particle filters using selective gossip, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Proc., Prague, May 2011.
• X. Chen, A. Edelstein, Y. Li, M.J. Coates, A. Men, and M.G. Rabbat, Sequential Monte Carlo for simultaneous passive device-free tracking and sensor localization using received signal strength measurements, in Proc. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Chicago, USA, Apr. 2011.
• E. Kirshin, G. Zhu, M.J. Coates and M. Popovich, Evaluation of the mono-static microwave radar algorithms for breast imaging, in Proc. Eur. Conf. Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy, Apr. 2011.
• E. Porter, A. Santorelli, M.J. Coates and M. Popovich, An experimental system for time-domain microwave breast imaging, in Proc. Eur. Conf. Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy, Apr. 2011.
• Y. Pointurier, M.J. Coates and M.G. Rabbat, Cross-layer monitoring in transparent optical networks, IEEE/OSA J. Optical Comm. and Networking, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 189-198, Mar. 2011.
• E. Kirshin, B. Oreshkin, G. Zhu, M.J. Coates and M. Popovich, Fusing microwave radar and microwave-induced thermoacoustics for breast cancer detection, in Proc. Int. Symp. Biomedical Imaging, Chicago, IL, USA, Mar. 2011.

2010

• X. Liu, B.N. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates, Efficient delay-tolerant particle filtering through selective processing of out-of-sequence measurements, in Proc. ISIF Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2010.
• B. N. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, Asynchronous distributed particle filter via decentralized evaluation of Gaussian products, in Proc. ISIF Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2010. Runner Up, Best Paper Award.
• D. Üstebay, B. Oreshkin, M. Coates, and M. Rabbat, Greedy gossip with eavesdropping, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 3765-3776, July 2010. Matlab code available here!!
• B. Oreshkin, M. Coates, and M. Rabbat, Optimization and analysis of distributed averaging with short node memory, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 2850-2865, May, 2010. Matlab code available here!!
• E. Porter, J. Fakhoury, R. Oprisor, M.J. Coates and M. Popović, Improved tissue phantoms for experimental validation of microwave breast cancer detection in Proc. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Barcelona, Spain, Mar. 2010.

2009

• B. N. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, Particle filters with approximation steps, in Proc. Int. Workshop Comp. Adv. Multi-Sensor Adapt. Processing, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, Dec. 2009.
• B. N. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates and M. G. Rabbat, Optimization and analysis of distributed averaging with memory, in Proc. Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton, IL, Oct. 2009.
• D. Üstebay, B.N. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates, and M. Rabbat, Multi-hop greedy gossip with eavesdropping, in Proc. ISIF International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle, July 2009.
• F. Thouin, M. Coates, and M. Rabbat, Efficient network-wide feasible rate estimation, in ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on Learning for Networking, Seattle, June, 2009.
• D. Nechay, Y. Pointurier and M.J. Coates, Controlling false alarm/discovery rates in online Internet traffic flow classification, in Proc. IEEE Infocom, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
• T.C. Aysal, B. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, Accelerated distributed average consensus via localized node state prediction, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 1563-1576, April 2009.
• N. Saberi and M.J. Coates, Scheduling in overlaid star all-photonic networks with large propagation delays, Photonic Network Communications, vol. 17, no. 2, April 2009, pp 157-169.
• D. Üstebay, B. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates, and M. Rabbat, The speed of greed: Characterizing myopic gossip through network voracity, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
• G. Zhu, B. Oreshkin, E. Porter, M.J. Coates, and M. Popović, Numerical breast models for commercial FDTD simulators, in Proc. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Berlin, Germany, Mar. 2009.
• F. Thouin and M.J. Coates, Equipment allocation in video-on-demand network deployments, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, vol. 5, no. 1, Feb. 2009.

2008

• T.C. Aysal, M.J. Coates and M. Rabbat, Distributed average consensus using dithered quantization, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 4905-4918, Oct. 2008.
• D. Ustebay, B.N. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates and M. Rabbat, Rates of convergence for greedy gossip with eavesdropping, in Proc. Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL, USA, Oct. 2008.
• B.N. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, Weak sense Lp error bounds for leader-node distributed particle filters, in Proc. ISIF Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, July 2008. Runner-up, Best Student Paper Award.
• Y. Pointurier, M. J. Coates and M. Rabbat, Active monitoring of all-optical networks, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Athens, Greece, June 2008.
• D. Ustebay, M.J. Coates and M. Rabbat, Greedy gossip with eavesdropping, in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Wireless Perv. Comp., Santorini, Greece, May 2008.
• B.N. Oreshkin, T.C. Aysal and M.J. Coates, Distributed average consensus with increased convergence rate, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Apr. 2008.
• F. Thouin, M.J. Coates, B. Erikkson, R. Nowak, C. Scott, Learning to satisfy, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Apr. 2008.

2007

• M.J. Coates, Y. Pointurier and M. Rabbat, Compressed network monitoring for IP and all-optical networks, in Proc. of the ACM/Usenix Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 2007.
• T.C. Aysal, M.J. Coates and M. Rabbat, Rates of convergence of distributed average consensus using probabilistic quantization, in Proc. of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Urbana, IL, Sept. 2007.
• T.C. Aysal, M.J. Coates and M. Rabbat, Distributed average consensus using probabilistic quantization, in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Madison, WI, Aug. 2007.
• M.J. Coates, Y. Pointurier and M. Rabbat, Compressed network monitoring, in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Madison, WI, Aug. 2007.
• F. Thouin and M.J. Coates, Video-on-demand server selection and placement, in Proc. International Teletraffic Congress, Ottawa, Canada, June 2007.
• T. Ahmed, M. Coates and A. Lakhina, Multivariate online anomaly detection using kernel recursive least squares, in Proc. IEEE Infocom, Anchorage, AK, May 2007.
• T. Ahmed, B. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, Machine learning approaches to network anomaly detection, in Proc. SysML, Boston MA, April 2007.
• F. Thouin and M.J. Coates, Video-on-demand networks: Design approaches and future challenges, in IEEE Network, March/April 2007.
• B. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, Bootstrapping particle filters using kernel recursive least squares, in Proc. IEEE Aerospace, Big Sky, MT, USA, March 2007.

2006

• M. Rabbat, M.J. Coates and R.D. Nowak, Multiple source Internet tomography, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Communication, Special Issue on Sampling the Internet: Techniques and Applications, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 2221-2234, Dec. 2006.
• N. Saberi and M.J. Coates, Minimum rejection scheduling in all-photonic networks , in Proc. Int. Conf. Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS), San Jose, CA, Oct. 2006.
• F. Thouin, R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Optimal actuation strategies for sensor/actuator networks, in Proc. International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Networks (IWASN), San Jose, CA, July 2006.
• N. Saberi and M.J. Coates, Fair Matching Algorithm: Fixed-length frame scheduling in all-photonic networks, in Proc. IASTED Int. Conf. Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2006.
• F. Thouin, D. Goodwill and M.J. Coates, Video-on-demand equipment allocation, in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Boston, MA, July 2006.
• R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Deterministic packet marking for time-varying congestion price estimation, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 592-602, June, 2006.
• R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Epidemiological modelling of peer-to-peer viruses and pollution, in Proc. IEEE Infocom, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
• F. Thouin, R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Optimal actuation strategies for sensor/actuator networks, Work-in-Progress Extended Abstract, in Proc. Int. Symp. Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Nashville, TN, April 2006

2005

• R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, BitTorrent fairness: analysis and improvements, in Proc. Workshop Internet, Telecom. and Signal Proc., Noosa, Australia, Dec. 2005.
• X. Liu, N. Saberi, M.J. Coates and L.G. Mason, A comparison between time slot scheduling approaches for all-photonic networks , in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Comm. and Signal Proc. (ICICS), Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 2005.
• R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Modeling virus propagation in peer-to-peer networks, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Comm. and Signal Proc. (ICICS), Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 2005.
• M. J. Coates and G. Ing, Sensor network particle filters: motes as particles, in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), Bordeaux, France, July 2005.
• R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Deterministic packet marking for maximum link price estimation , in Proc. Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2005.
• G. Ing and M. J. Coates, Parallel particle filters for tracking in wireless sensor networks, in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), New York, NY, June 2005.
• M.J. Coates, Evaluating causal relationships in wireless sensor/actuator networks, in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, Apr. 2005.

2004

• R. Castro, M. J. Coates, G. Liang, R. Nowak and B. Yu, Network tomography: recent developments, Statistical Science, vol. 19, no. 3, Aug. 2004, pp. 499–517. Journal Site: Statistical Science
• R. M. Castro, M. J. Coates, and R.D. Nowak, Likelihood based hierarchical clustering, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing,vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 2308-2321, Aug. 2004.
• G. Ing and M.J. Coates, Actuator networks: distributed evaluation of causal effect, in Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, Nov. 2004.
• M.J. Coates and I. Psaromiligkos, Evaluating average causal effect using wireless sensor networks, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Proc. (ICASSP), Montreal, Quebec, May 2004.
• M. J. Coates, Distributed particle filtering for sensor networks , in Proc. Int. Symp. Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Berkeley, California, April 2004.
• M. Rabbat, R. Nowak and M. J. Coates, Multiple source, multiple destination network tomography, in Proc. IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004.
• R. Thommes and M. J. Coates, Deterministic packet marking for congestion price estimation, in Proc. IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004.

2003

• M. J. Coates, M. Rabbat and R. Nowak, Merging logical topologies using end-to-end measurements in Proc. Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Miami, Florida, October 2003.
• Y. Tsang, M. J. Coates, and R. Nowak, Network delay tomography, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, special issue on Signal Processing in Networking, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 2125-2136, Aug. 2003.

2002

• M. Rabbat, R. Nowak and M. Coates, Network tomography and the identification of shared infrastructure, in Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, Nov. 2002.
• M. J. Coates and E. E. Kuruoglu, Time-frequency based detection in impulsive-noise environments using alpha-stable noise models, Signal Processing, vol. 82, no.12, pp. 1917-1925, Dec. 2002.
• M.J. Coates, R. Castro, M. Gadhiok, R. King, Y. Tsang and R. Nowak, Maximum likelihood network topology identification from edge-based unicast measurements, in Proc. ACM Sigmetrics, Marina Del Rey, California, Jun. 2002.
• M.J. Coates, A.O. Hero, R. Nowak, and B. Yu, Internet tomography, review article, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, May 2002.
• Y. Tsang, M. J. Coates, and R. Nowak, Nonparametric Internet tomography, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Orlando, Florida, May 2002.
• R. Castro, M. J. Coates and R. Nowak, Maximum likelihood topology identification from end-to-end measurements, in Proc. DIMACS Workshop on Internet Measurement, Mapping and Modeling, Piscataway, NJ, Feb. 2002.
• M. J. Coates and R. Nowak, Sequential Monte Carlo Inference of Internal Delays in Nonstationary Data Networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Monte Carlo Methods for Statistical Signal Processing, vol . 50, no. 2, pp. 366-376, Feb. 2002.

2001

• Y. Tsang, M. J. Coates and R. Nowak, Passive network tomography using EM algorithms, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001.
• M. J. Coates and R. Nowak, Network Tomography for Internal Delay estimation, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001.
• R. G. Baraniuk, M. J. Coates and P. Steeghs, Hybrid linear/quadratic time-frequency attributes, IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 760-766, April 2001.

2000

• M. J. Coates and A. Doucet, Sequential Bayesian wavelet denoising, in Proc. IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, October, 2000.
• M. J. Coates and R. Nowak, Network loss inference using unicast end-to-end measurement, in Proc. ITC Conference on IP Traffic, Modelling and Management, Monterey, CA, September 2000.
• V. Ribeiro, M. J. Coates, B. Hendricks, S. Sarvotham, R. Riedi and R. Baraniuk, Multifractal cross-traffic estimation, in Proc. ITC Conference on IP Traffic, Modelling and Management, Monterey, CA, September 2000.
• R. van Spaendonck, F. C. A Fernandes, M. J. Coates and C. S. Burrus, Non-redundant, directionally selective complex wavelets, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Proc. (ICIP), Vancouver, Canada, September, 2000.
• F. C. A. Fernandes, R. van Spaendonck, M. J. Coates and C. S. Burrus, Directional complex wavelet processing, in Proc. SPIE Symp. Optical Science and Technology, San Diego, Jul. 2000.
• R. G. Baraniuk, M. J. Coates and P. Steeghs, Hybrid linear/quadratic time-frequency attributes, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Sig. Proc. (ICASSP), June 2000.
• M.J. Coates and W. J. Fitzgerald, Time-frequency signal decomposition using energy mixture models, Proc. IEEE ICASSP, June 2000.
  

1999/1998

• M.J. Coates and W. J. Fitzgerald, Regionally optimised time-frequency distributions using finite mixture models, Signal Processing, vol. 77, pp. 247-260, 1999.
• M.J. Coates, E. E. Kuruoglu and W. J. Fitzgerald, Time-frequency based detection in alpha-stable distributed noise environments, in Proc. IEEE Workshop Higher Order Statistics, Caesarea, Israel, June 1999.
• M. J. Coates, W. J. Fitzgerald and C. Molina, Regionally optimised kernels for time-frequency distributions, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Sig. Proc. (ICASSP), Seattle, USA 1998.
• My PhD thesis (under the supervision of W. J. Fitzgerald at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University): Time-frequency modelling, Jan 1999.