NIRUPAMA BULUSU: Selected Publications

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Journal, Conference and Workshop Papers

  1. " CoTrack: A Framework for Tracking Dynamic Features with Static and Mobile Sensors "
    Thanh Dang, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-chi Feng, Sergey Frolov and Antonio Baptista
    In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom 2010) miniconference, San Diego, USA, March 2010.

  2. "Towards Trustworthy Participatory Sensing"
    Akshay Dua, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-chang Feng, and Wen Hu
    In Proceedings of the Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec 2009), Montreal, Canada, August 2009.

  3. "An Activity-Based Sensor Network Course for Undergraduates With SunSPOT Devices "
    Damon Tyman, Nirupama Bulusu, and Jens Mache
    In Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2009), Chattanooga, TN, March 2009.


  4. "DHV: A Code Consistency Maintenance Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks "
    Thanh Dang, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-chi Feng, Seungwoon Park
    In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009), Cork, Ireland, Feb 2009.


  5. "The Design and Evaluation of a Hybrid Sensor Network for Cane-toad Monitoring"
    Wen Hu, Nirupama Bulusu, Chun-tung Chou, Sanjay Jha, Andrew Taylor, and Van Nghia Tran
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol.5, No.1, 2009.


  6. "Smart Camera Network Localization Using a 3D Target"
    John Kassebaum, Nirupama Bulusu, and Wu-chi Feng
    In Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications, Systems and Algorithms for Image Sensing (ImageSense'08), Raleigh, North Carolina, November 2008.

     

  7. "Participatory Sensing in Commerce: Using Mobile Camera Phones to Track Market Price Dispersion"
    Nirupama Bulusu, Chun Tung Chou, Salil Kanhere, Yifei Dong, Shitiz Sehgal, and David Sullivan
    In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Urban, Community, and Social Applications of Networked Sensing Systems (UrbanSense'08), Raleigh, North Carolina, November 2008.

     

  8. "Lightweight Acoustic Classification For Cane-Toad Monitoring"
    Thanh Dang, Nirupama Bulusu, and Wen Hu
    In Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Asilomar'08), Pacific Grove, California, October 2008. Invited paper.

     

  9. "Automatic Collection of Fuel Prices Using a Network of Mobile Cameras",
    Yi Fei Dong, Salil Kanhere, Chun Tung Chou, and Nirupama Bulusu
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2008), Santorini, Greece, June 2008.

     

  10. "Sensing Data Market"
    Chun-tung Chou, Nirupama Bulusu, and Salil Kanhere
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA , June 2007. Invited paper.

     

  11. "Near-optimal Sensor Selection in the Columbia River Observation Network for Data Assimilation Using Genetic Algorithms "
    Thanh Dang, Sergey Frolov, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-chi Feng, and Antonio Baptista
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA , June 2007.

     

     

  12. "RIDA: A Robust Information-driven Data Compression Architecture for Irregular Wireless Sensor Networks"
    Thanh Dang, Nirupama Bulusu and Wu-chi Feng
    In Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007), Delft, Netherlands, Jan 2007.

     

  13. "SenseTK: A Multimodal, Multimedia Sensor Networking Toolkit"
    Phillip Sitbon, Wu-chi Feng, Nirupama Bulusu, and Thanh Dang
    In Proceedings of the ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN 2007), San Jose, CA, Jan 2007.

     

  14. "Speed Control and Policing in a Cellular Mobile Network: SpeedNet"
    Pubudu Pathirana, Andrey Savkin, Nirupama Bulusu, and Tony Plunkett
    Elsevier Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No. 17, pages 3633-3646, November 2006.

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  15. "Deploying Long Lived, Cost Effective Hybrid Sensor Networks"
    Wen Hu, Chun-tung Chou, Sanjay Jha, and Nirupama Bulusu
    Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 4, No. 6, November 2006.

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  16. "Learning Sensor Data Characteristics in Unknown Environments",
    Tatiana Bokareva, Nirupama Bulusu, and Sanjay Jha
    In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Networks (IWASN 2006), San Jose, CA, July 2006.

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  17. "Cascades: Scalable, Flexible and Composable Middleware for Multimodal Sensor Networking Applications"
    Jie Huang, Wu-chang Feng, Nirupama Bulusu, and Wu-chi Feng
    In Proceedings of the ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN 2006), San Jose, CA, January 2006.

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  18. "Dissecting the Video Sensing Landscape"
    Wu-chi Feng, Nirupama Bulusu, and Wu-chang Feng
    In Proceedings of  the 15th ACM Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2005), Skamania, Washington, June 2005.

  19. "Node Localization Using Mobile Robots In Delay-tolerant Sensor Networks",
    Pubudu Pathirana, Nirupama Bulusu, Sanjay Jha, and Andrey Savkin
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 4, No. 3,  May/June 2005.

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  20. "A Communication Paradigm For Hybrid Sensor/Actuator Networks"
    Wen Hu, Nirupama Bulusu, and Sanjay Jha
    Springer International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Vol.12, No. 1, Jan 2005.

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  21. "SASHA: Towards a Self-Healing Hybrid Sensor Network Architecture",
    Tatiana Bokareva,  Nirupama Bulusu, and Sanjay Jha
    In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II), Sydney, Australia, May 2005.

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  22. "The Design and Evaluation of a Hybrid Sensor Network for Cane-toad Monitoring"
    Wen Hu, Van Nghia Tran, Nirupama Bulusu, Chun-tung Chou, Sanjay Jha, and Andrew Taylor
    In Proceedings of the 4th Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2005), Los Angeles, CA, April 2005.


  23. "Resilient Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks"
    Angelika Herbold, Thierry Lamarre, Nirupama Bulusu, and Sanjay Jha
    In Proceedings of Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2004), Melbourne, Australia, December 2004. Invited Paper.


  24. "Cane-toad Monitoring in Kakadu National Park Using Wireless Sensor Networks",
    Saurabh Shukla, Nirupama Bulusu, and Sanjay Jha
    In Proceedings of the Networks Research Workshop, Asia Pacific Conference on Advances in Networking 2004, Cairns, Australia, July 2004.


  25. "A Performance Comparison of Data Dissemination Protocols for Sensor Networks",
    Tatiana Bokareva, Nirupama Bulusu, and Sanjay Jha
    In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Workshop (Globecom 2004), Dallas, Texas, November 2004.


  26. "CSMAC: A Novel DS-CDMA Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks" ,
    Boa Hua Liu, Nirupama Bulusu, Huan Pham and Sanjay Jha
    In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Workshop (Globecom 2004), Dallas, Texas, November 2004.


  27. "A Communication Paradigm For Hybrid Sensor/Actuator Networks",
    Wen Hu, Nirupama Bulusu, and Sanjay Jha
    In Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE Conference on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC 2004), Barcelona, Spain, Dec 2004.


  28. "Deploying Long-lived and Cost-effective Hybrid Sensor Networks",
    Wen Hu, Chun-tung Chou, Sanjay Jha, and Nirupama Bulusu
    In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNets 2004), San Diego, October 2004.


  29. "Adaptive, Distributed Location Management For Mobile, Wireless Networks",
    Kevin Lee, Hong-wing Lee, Sanjay Jha, and Nirupama Bulusu
    In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, France, June 2004.

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  30. "Self-Configuring Localization Systems: Design and Experimental Evaluation",
    Nirupama Bulusu, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin, and Tommy Tran
    ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol.3, No.1, pp.24-60, February 2004.



  31. "Scalable, Ad hoc Deployable, RF-based Localization",
    Nirupama Bulusu, Vladimir Bychkovskiy, Deborah Estrin, and John Heidemann
    In Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 2002.


  32. "Tradeoffs in Location Support Systems: The Case for Quality-Expressive Location Models for Applications",
    Nirupama Bulusu, Deborah Estrin, and John Heidemann
    In Proceedings of the Ubicomp 2001 Workshop on Location Modeling for Applications, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2001.


  33. "Using Geospatial Information in Sensor Networks",
    John Heidemann, and Nirupama Bulusu
    In Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on the Intersection of Geospatial Information and Information Technology, October 2001. Invited Paper.


  34. "Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks: Self-Configuring Localization Systems",
    Nirupama Bulusu, Deborah Estrin, Lewis Girod, and John Heidemann
    In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Communications Theory and Applications (ISCTA 2001), Lake Ambleside, UK, July 2001. Invited Paper.


  35. "Adaptive Beacon Placement",
    Nirupama Bulusu, John Heidemann, and Deborah Estrin
    In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-21), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2001.


  36. "Effects of Detail in Wireless Network Simulation",
    John Heidemann, Nirupama Bulusu, Jeremy Elson, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Kun-chan Lan, Ya Xu, Wei Ye, Deborah Estrin, and Ramesh Govindan
    In Proceedings of the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS) Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS), Phoenix, Arizona, January 2001.

  37. "GPS-less Low Cost Outdoor Localization For Very Small Devices",
    Nirupama Bulusu, John Heidemann, and Deborah Estrin
    IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol 7. No.5, pp. 27-34, Oct 2000.

    38. Demo and Poster Abstracts

     

  38. "CoTrack: A Framework for Tracking Dynamic Features with Static and Mobile Underwater Sensors"
    Thanh Dang, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-chi Feng, Sergey Frolov, and Antonio Baptista
    In Work-in-Progress Session of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet '09), in conjunction with ACM Sensys '09, Berkeley, California, USA, November 2009.

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  39. "Poster Abstract: Ear-phone: Assessment of Noise Pollution with Mobile Phones ",
    Rajib Rana, Chun-tung Chou, Salil Kanhere, Nirupama Bulusu and Wen Hu
    In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing Systems (ACM Sensys 2009), Berkeley, California, USA, November 2009.

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  40. "Demo Abstract: A Trusted Platform Based Framework for Participatory Sensing ",
    Akshay Dua, Nirupama Bulusu, and Wen Hu
    In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2009), California, USA, April 2009.

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  41. "Demo Abstract: DHV - An Efficient Code Consistency Management Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks "
    Thanh Dang, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-chi Feng, Seungwoon Park
    In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009), Cork, Ireland, Feb 2009.


  42. "Demo Abstract: Smart Camera Localization Using the Projection Matrix ",
    John Kassebaum, Nirupama Bulusu and Wu-chi Feng
    In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-08), Stanford University, California, USA, September 2008.

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  43. "Demo Abstract: Contour Tracking: A Comprehensive Student Project for Sensor Network Education ",
    Damon Tyman, Akshay Dua, Jens Mache and Nirupama Bulusu
    ACM SIGCOMM 2008 (SIGCOMM 2008), Seattle, USA, August 2008.

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  44. "Poster Abstract: Making Sensor Networks Accessible to Undergraduates Through Activity-Based Laboratory Materials ",
    Jens Mache, Damon Tyman and Nirupama Bulusu
    In Proceedings of the 5th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2008), San Francisco, USA, June 2008.

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  45. "Poster Abstract: Adaptive Sampling in the Columbia River Observation Network",
     Thanh Dang, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-Chi Feng, Sergey Frolov, Antonio Baptista
     In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing Systems (ACM Sensys 2007), Sydney, Australia, November 2007.

     


  46. "Demo Abstract: Cascades: An Extensible Heterogeneous Sensor Networking Framework",
      Phillip Sitbon, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-chi Feng
     In Proceedings of 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing Systems (ACM Sensys 2006), Boulder, Colorado, November 2006.

     


  47.  "Web Abstract: An Immunology Inspired Approach to Robust Sensor Networking",
      Tatiana Bokareva, Nirupama Bulusu and Sanjay Jha
      In Proceedings of the 4th Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2005), Work-in-Progress Session, Los Angeles, CA, April 2005.

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  48. "Demo Abstract: A Hybrid Sensor Network for Cane Toad Monitoring",
     Wen Hu, Nirupama Bulusu, Chun-tung Chou, Sanjay Jha, Andrew Taylor, Van Nghia Tran
      In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing Systems (ACM Sensys 2005), San Diego, CA, November 2005.

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  49. "Demo Abstract: The REKF Localization System: Node Localization Using Mobile Robots" ,
     Dang Xuan Thanh, Budi Mulyawan, Nirupama Bulusu, Sanjay Jha and Pubudu Pathirana,
     In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing Systems (ACM Sensys 2004), Baltimore, Maryland, November 2004.

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  50. "A Self-Organizing, Location-Aware Media Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks"
    Boa Hua Liu, Nirupama Bulusu, Huan Pham and Sanjay Jha
     In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Mobile, Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2004), Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, October 2004.