Network and Data Science Laboratory

Journal Papers

1. A Scalable and Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Linear Sensor Networks. I. Villordo-Jimenez, N. Torres-Cruz, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Mario E Rivero-Angeles. IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp 36697-36710. March 2022. ISSN: 2169-3536.
2. Improving communication protocols in smart cities with transformers. E. Romo-Montiel, Mario E. Rivero-Angeles, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. ICT Express. Vol. 8 (2022), pp 50-55, ISSN: 2405-9595.
3. Efficient Time-Stable Geocast Routing in Delay-Tolerant Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. L.R. Gallego-Tercero, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Mario E Rivero-Angeles, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez. IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp 171034 – 171048, September 2020. ISSN: 2169-3536.
4. Energy and Bandwidth-Efficient Channel Access for Local Area Machine-to-Machine Communication. JJ Camacho-Escoto, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Jorge Bernal, Mario E Rivero-Angeles, Javier Gomez, JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves. Wireless Networks (2020). ISSN: 2366-1186.
5. Solving the Capacitated Vertex K-Center Problem through the Minimum Capacitated Dominating Set Problem. J.A Cornejo Acosta, Jesús García-Díaz, Ricardo Menchaca-Méndez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. Mathematics. Vol. 8, Issue 9, 2020. ISSN: 2227-7390.
6. A comprehensive analytical framework for VoD services in hybrid CDN-P2P systems. Noé Torres-Cruz, Mario E Rivero-Angeles, Gerardo Rubino, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, David Ramirez. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. Volume 161, 1 July 2020. ISSN: 1084-8045.
7. Approximation Algorithms for the Vertex K-Center Problem: Survey and Experimental Evaluation. Jesus Garcia-Diaz, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Saúl Pomares Hernández, Julio César Pérez-Sansalvador, Noureddine Lakouari. IEEE Access, vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 28452-28463, August. 2019. ISSN: 2169-3536.
8. Performance Analysis of V2V and V2I LiFi Communication Systems in Traffic Lights. G. Hernandez-Oregon, M.E. Rivero-Angeles, J.C. Chimal-Eguía, A. Campos-Fentanes, J.G. Jimenez-Gallardo, U.O. Estevez-Alva, O. Juarez-Gonzalez, P.O. Rosas-Calderon, S. Sandoval-Reyes, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2019, 12 pages, 2019. ISSN: 1530-8669.
9. An Optimal Greedy Algorithm for the Single Access Contention Resolution Problem. Itzel C. Olivos-Castillo, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Marcelo M. Carvalho, Mario E. Rivero-Angeles. IEEE Access, vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 28452-28463, Dec. 2019. ISSN: 2169-3536.
10. DIS-C: conceptual distance in ontologies, a graph-based approach. Rolando Quintero, Miguel Torres-Ruiz, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Marco A Moreno-Armendariz, Giovanni Guzman, Marco A Moreno-Ibarra. Knowledge and Information Systems, vol 59, issue 1, pp 33-65, 2019. ISSN: 0219-1377.
11. Control de acceso al medio basado en entropía para S-ALOHA en redes inalámbricas ad-hoc. Sergio Jesús González-Ambriz, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Mario Eduardo Rivero-Ángeles, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez. Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial. Vol. 16, Núm. 2, pp 178-189 (2019) ISSN: 1697-7912.
12. Design and Performance Analysis of Segmented Wireless Sensor Networks. Victor Barrera-Figueroa, Mario E. Rivero-Angeles, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Edgar Romo-Montiel, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez. IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 2, issue 4, pp. 1-4, 2018. ISSN: 2475-1472.
13. Opportunistic Mobile Sensing in the Fog. Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Brayan Luna-Nuñez, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Arturo Yee-Rendon, Rolando Quintero, and Jesus Favela. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2018, 18 pages, 2018. ISSN: 1530-8669.
14. Local Search Algorithms for the Vertex K-Center Problem. J. Garcia-Diaz, R. Menchaca-Mendez, J. Sanchez Hernandez, and Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1765-1771, June 2018. ISSN: 1548-0992.
15. Routing to Multi-Instantiated Destinations: Principles, Practice and Applications. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, J.E. Martínez-Castillo, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1696-1709, July 1. 2018. ISSN: 1536-1233.
16. An efficient resource allocation scheme for VoD services over window-based P2P networks. Noé Torres-Cruz, Mario E Rivero-Angeles, Gerardo Rubino, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, and Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. Multimedia Tools and Applications. Vol. 77, Issue 23, pp 31427–31445. 2018. ISSN: 1380-7501.
17. A Selective-Awakening MAC Protocol for Energy-Efficient Data Forwarding in Linear Sensor Networks. Iclia Villordo-Jimenez, Noé Torres-Cruz, Marcelo M. Carvalho, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Mario E. Rivero-Angeles, and Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Volume 2018. ISSN: 1530-8669.
18. Performance Analysis of Cluster Formation in Wireless Sensor Networks. Edgar Romo-Montiel, Mario E Rivero-Angeles, Gerardo Rubino, Heron Molina-Lozano, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez. Sensors. Vol. 17, No. 12 (2017), 1-33. ISSN 1424-8220.
19. When a Worse Approximation Factor Gives Better Performance: A 3-Approximation Algorithm for the Vertex k-Center Problem. Jesus Garcia-Diaz, J.J. Sanchez-Hernandez, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez and Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. Journal of Heuristics. Accepted for publication 2017. ISSN: 1381-1231.
20. Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control Using Distributed Hash-based Elections. J.J. Camacho Escoto, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, M.E. Rivero-Angeles, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, and J.E. Martínez Castillo. Computación y Sistemas. Vol. 21, No. 1 (2017). ISSN: 2007-9737..
21. A window-based, server-assisted P2P network for VoD services with QoE guarantees. Noe Torres-Cruz, Mario E. Rivero-Angeles, Gerardo Rubino, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez and Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. Mobile Information Systems. Vol. 2017 (2017). ISSN: 1574-017X.
22. Integrated Routing and Positioning in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. A. Pineda-Briseño, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, G. Guzmán-Lugo. Computación y Sistemas, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2016, 289–307. ISSN: 2007-9737.
23. A Structure-driven Randomized Algorithm for the k-center Problem. Jesus Garcia-Diaz, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Rolando Quintero. IEEE Latin America Transactions. Vol. 13, Issue 3. March 2015. ISSN: 1551-9899.
24. A probabilistic Approach to Location Estimation in MANETs. Anabel Pineda-Briseño, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Edgar Chavez, Giovanni Guzman, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Rolando Quintero, Miguel Torres, Marco Moreno, J. L. Diaz-de-Leon. Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks. Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2015), 97-114. ISSN: 1551-9899.
25. A Compression Algorithm for Managing Digital Elevation Models in Mobile Devices. Rolando Quintero, Giovanni Guzman, Miguel Torres, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Marco Moreno-Ibarra and Felix Mata. Journal of Universal Computer Science.  Vol. 20, No. 10 (2014). Pp. 1433-1442. ISSN: 0948-695x.
26. LeGESD: A framework oriented to the specification and formal validation of concurrent and distributed systems based on a graphical language and its process algebra semantics. Jorge Cortes Galicia, Felipe R. Menchaca García, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. Rev. Fac. Ing. Univ. Antioquia. No. 63, pp. 129-140. June, 2012. ISSN: 0120-6230.
27. STORM: A Framework for Integrated Routing, Scheduling and Traffic Management in Ad Hoc Networks. J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 11, No. 5. Pp. 1345-1357. August 2012. ISSN: 1536-1233. (Selected as Spotlight Paper)
28. An ontology-driven approach for the extraction and description of geographic objects contained in raster spatial data. Rolando Quintero, Giovanni Guzman, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Miguel Torres, Marco Moreno-Ibarra. Expert Systems with Applications. Volume 39, Issue 10. Pp. 9008-9020. August 2012. ISSN: 0957-4174.
29. Specialization of the Geomorphometric Concepts in Digital Elevation Models. Rolando Quintero, Miguel Torres, Rolando Menchaca-Méndez, Marco Moreno-Ibarra, Giovanni Guzmán, Paola Cortez. International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, Vol. 3, No. 2, May-Aug 2012, pp. 44-53. ISSN: 2007-1558.
30. PRIME: An interest-driven approach to integrated unicast and multicast routing in MANETs. J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol. 19, No. 6. Pp. 1573-1586. December 2011. ISSN: 1063-6692.
31. GEONTO-MET: an approach to conceptualizing the geographic domain. Miguel Torres, Rolando Quintero, Marco Moreno-Ibarra, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez and Giovanni Guzman. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. Vol. 25, No. 10. Pp. 1633-1657. October 2011.  ISSN: 1365-8816.
32. Semantic assessment of similarity between raster elevation datasets. Marco Moreno-Ibarra, Miguel Torres, Rolando Quintero, Giovanni Guzman, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. Rev. Fac. Ing. Univ. Antioquia. No. 59, pp. 37-46. June, 2011. ISSN: 0120-6230.
33. Hydra: Efficient multicast routing in MANETs using sender-initiated multicast meshes. Rolando Menchaca-Mendez and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 6 (2010) 144-157. ISSN: 1574-1192.
34. Scorpion: A heterogeneous wireless networking testbed. S.Bromage, C. Engstrom, J. Koshimoto, M. Bromage, S. Dabideen, M. Hu, R. Menchaca-Mendez, D. Nguyen, B. Nunes, V. Petkov, D. Sampath, H. Taylor, M. Veyseh, J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, K. Obraczka, H. Sadjadpour, and B. Smith. ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 13, Num. 1. 2009, pp. 65-68. ISSN: 1559-1662.

Selected Conference Papers

1. Optimal Transmission Thresholds for QoS Guarantees in WSNs. Edgar Romo-Montiel, Mario E. Rivero-Angeles, Herón Molina-Lozano, Gerardo Rubino and Rolando Menchaca-Mendez. Q2SWinet'18: Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks. Pages 108-115.
2. An Energy-Efficient Hash-Based MAC Protocol for LSN. Iclia Villordo-Jimenez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Mario E Rivero-Angeles, Noe Torres-Cruz. 10th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 2018. IEEE, 2018.
3. POSTAL: Scalable range-free positioning in MANETs using regions of interest. Anabel Pineda-Briseño and Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Mario E. Rivero Ángeles. 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 2016. IEEE, 2016.
4. 5GTraDis: A novel traffic distribution mechanism for 5G Heterogeneous Networks. Sergio Jesús González-Ambriz, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Mario E. Rivero Ángeles. 13th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE), IEEE. Pages 1-7, 26-30 Sept. 2016.
5. A Bloom Filter-Based Algorithm for Routing in Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks. Jairo Sanchez-Hernandez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez, Jesus Garcia-Diaz, Mario E. Rivero-Angeles, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. The 18th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, November 2–6, 2015, Cancun, Mexico.
6. An Ontology-Driven Framework for Resource-Efficient Collaborative Sensing. Brayan Luna-Nuñez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, and Jesus Favela. 1st Workshop on Urban Applications and Infrastructures - UCAmI 2013, LNCS 8276, pp. 366-369. Dec. 2-6, 2013. Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
7. Integrated Multicast and Geocast Routing in MANETs. Jesus E. Martinez-Castillo, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, ENC 2013. Oct. 30-31, 2013. Morelia, Michoacán, México.
8. EEDP: Efficient and Energy-Aware Dissemination Protocol for Multihop Sensor Networks. Rolando Menchaca-Méndez, Giovanni Guzmán Lugo, Felipe Rolando Menchaca García, Rolando Quintero Téllez, Miguel Jesús Torres Ruiz, Marco Antonio Moreno Ibarra. IX Congreso Internacional sobre Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico CIINDET 2011. Noviembre 22-24, 2011. Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
9. Across-layer framework to support real-time and elastic traffic in MANETs. Rolando Menchaca-Mendez and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves.  In Proc. of WCNC 2011. March. 2011.
10. An Interest-Driven Approach for Unicast Routing in MANETs with Labeled Paths and Proactive Path Maintenance. Rumi Ghosh, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves.  In Proc. of WCNC 2011. March. 2011.
11. Robust and Scalable Integrated Routing in MANETs Using Context-Aware Ordered Meshes. Rolando Menchaca-Mendez and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves.  In Proc. of INFOCOM 2010. March. 2010. (17% acceptance rate).
12. Semantic supervised clustering approach to classify land cover in remotely sensed images. Miguel Torres, Marco Moreno, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Rolando Quintero, and Giovanni Guzman. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2010, Volume 123, 68-77. ISSN: 1865-0929.
13. An interest-driven approach to integrated unicast and multicast routing in MANETs.Rolando Menchaca-Mendez and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves.  In Proc. of ICNP 2008, pages 248-257, Oct. 2008. (16% acceptance rate).
14. Scalable multicast routing in manets using sender-initiated multicast meshes.Rolando Menchaca-Mendez and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. In Proc. of IEEE MASS 2008, pages 1-12, Oct. 2008. Best Paper Award (out of more than 250 submissions).
15. Geographic-Aware Architecture for the Interoperability of Ubiquitous Components.G. Guzman, A. Pineda, M. Torres,   R. Menchaca-Mendez, M. Moreno. In Proc. of NCM '08. pages 416-421, Sep. 2008.
16. 3D Collaborative Virtual Environments over the Web. Leandro Balladares, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Rubén Peredo. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3942, April 2006, pp. 768-777. ISSN: 0302-9743.
17. ADMP: An Adaptive Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.R. Menchaca-Mendez, R. Menchaca-Mendez and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Proc. 19th IFIP World Computer Congress, Santiago, Chile, August 20--25, 2006. Volume 212/2006, pp. 177-188. ISSN: 1571-5736.
18. DPUMA: A Highly Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.R. Menchaca-Mendez, R. Vaishampayan, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, K. Obraczka, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3738, Oct 2005, Pages 178-191. ISSN: 0302-9743.
19. Towards a Model and Java Framework to Build Web-based Multi-user Videogames. Leandro Balldares, R. Menchaca-Mendez. Third International Game Design and Technology Workshop and Conference. Liverpool, England, 8-9 November 2005. Pages 100-109.
20. Software Engineering, HCI Techniques and Java Technologies Joined to Develop Web-Based 3D-Collaborative Virtual Environments.R. Menchaca-Mendez, Leandro Balladares, Rolando Quintero, Chadwick Carreto. In Proceedings of the 2005 Latin American conference on Human-computer interaction. Oct 23-26, Cuernavaca, México. ACM Press: New York, pp. 40-51.
21. Opportunistic Interaction in P2P Ubiquitous Environments.R. Menchaca-Mendez, E. Gutierrez-Arias, J. Favela, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3198, Jan 2004, Pages 349-362. ISSN: 0302-9743.
22. Interactive-Entities: A Model for the Construction of Collaborative Virtual Reality Worlds over the Internet.Rolando Menchaca-Méndez, Rolando Quintero-Téllez, Agustín Gutiérrez Tornés and Chadwick Carreto. The 23rd IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control, MIC 2004. ISSN: 1025-8973. ISBN: 0-88986-387-3. Grindelwald, Switzerland. February 23-25, 2004. Págs. 479-484.
23. Web-Browsing Collaborative 3-D Virtual Worlds: A Framework for Individuals, Artifacts, and Decorations. R. Menchaca-Mendez, Leandro Balladares Ocaña, Bruce Campbell, Rubén Peredo Valderrama. Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences Voiume 1, 2004, pp. 370-374. ISSN: 1573-4196.
24. Arquitecturas P2P para el Desarrollo de Sistemas Móviles y Ubicuos. Rolando Menchaca-Méndez, Jesús Favela Vara. IV Congreso Internacional de Ciencias de la Computación. Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencia de la Computación. Apizaco, Tlaxcala, México. 8-12, Septiembre 2003, pp. 69-70. ISBN: 970-36-0069-7.
25. Making Spatial Analysis with a Distributed Geographical Information System. M. Torres, M. Moreno, R. Menchaca & S. Levachkine,  21st IASTED International Multi-Conference APPLIED INFORMATICS - AI 2003, International Conference on Databases and Applications, (DBA'2003). ISSN: 1027-2666. ISBN: 0-88986-341-5.  February 2003, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 1245-1250.
26. Implementation Aspects of Synchronous Collaborative Distributed Virtual Worlds.  R. Quintero-Tellez, R. Menchaca-Méndez, G. M. Estrada-Segovia. Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference, Computer Graphics and Imaging, ACTA Press.  August 2002. ISSN: 1482-7905. ISBN: 0-88986-348-2. Kawaii Hawaii, USA. August 2002.
27. Uo: Máquina Virtual para Aplicaciones Embebidas de Tiempo Real.  C. Ávila-Sánchez, R. Menchaca-Méndez, L. E. Leyva-del-Foyo. Congreso Internacional de Computación CIC'2001. México D.F. Noviembre de 2001.
28. Diseño de un Micro-núcleo de Tiempo Real para Sistemas Embebidos. Ricardo Menchaca-Méndez, Rolando Menchaca-Méndez, L. E. Leyva-del-Foyo. 3rd International Conference on Control, Virtual Instrumentation and Digital Systems 2001. México D.F., 27-31 August, 2001.
29. Distributed Virtual Worlds as a Synchronous Tele-Teaching Environment. Rolando Quintero-Téllez, Rolando Menchaca-Méndez. International Conference on Telematics and Web-Based Education. St. Petersburg. 18-21 June 2001.
30. Lenguaje Visual para Asignar Comportamiento Complejo a Objetos de Mundos Virtuales Distribuidos con base al Modelo Cuerpo-Alma. Leandro Balladares Ocaña, Rolando Menchaca Méndez, Rolando Quintero Téllez. Workshop Iberoamericano de Ambientes Software IDEAS 2001. San José, Costa Rica. Abril 2001.
31. Distributed Virtual Worlds for Collaborative Work based on Java RMI and VRML.Rolando Menchaca Méndez, Rolando Quintero Téllez. CRIWG 2000 6th IEEE International Workshop on Groupware. Madeira Island, Portugal, 18-20, October 2000. ISBN: 0-7695-0828-6.

Book Chapters

1. Scalable Multicast Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. Encyclopedia on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. Dharma P. Agrawal and Bin Xie (Eds.). World Scientific, Sep. 2009. ISBN: 978-981-283-348-8.