Publications

Selected Publications

This is a list of the top publications from the Distributed Sensing Systems Group.

• M. Kim, D. Paini, R. Jurdak, “Modeling stochastic processes in disease spread across a heterogeneous social system”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (2) 401-406, 2019.
• A. Dorri, M. Steger, S. Kanhere, and R. Jurdak, “BlockChain: A Distributed Solution to Automotive Security and Privacy”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 55, Issue 12, pages 119-125, December, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1700879.
• A. Dorri, S. Kanhere, and R. Jurdak, “Towards an Optimized BlockChain for IoT”, In proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2017), as part of CPSWeek, Pittsburgh, USA, April 2017.
• K. Zhao and R. Jurdak, “Understanding the spatiotemporal pattern of grazing cattle movement”, Nature Scientific Reports, 6:31967 EP, August 2016.
• P. Sommer, B. Kusy, P. Valencia, R. Dungavell, R. Jurdak, “Delay-Tolerant Networking for Long-Term Animal Tracking”, IEEE Internet Computing, 22(1), January, 2018 (in press).
• P. Sommer, J. Liu, K. Zhao, B. Kusy, R. Jurdak, “Information Bang for the Energy Buck: Energy- and Mobility-Aware Tracking”, In proceedings of The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Graz, Austria, February, 2016.Winner of Best Paper Award
• R. Jurdak, K. Zhao, J. Liu, M. AbouJaoude, M. Cameron, D. Newth, “Understanding Human Mobility from Twitter,” PLOS ONE, 10(7): e0131469. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131469. July, 2015.
• P. Valencia, A. Haak, A. Cotillon, R. Jurdak, “Genetic Programming for Smart Phone Personalisation”, Applied Soft Computing, 25 (2014) 86–96, DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.08.058, September, 2014.
• R. Jurdak, B. Kusy, P. Sommer, N. Kottege, C. Crossman, A. McKeown, D. Westcott, “Camazotz: Multimodal Activity-based GPS Sampling”, In proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Philadelphia, USA, April, 2013.
• Arkady Zaslavsky, Prem Jayaraman, Shonali Krishnaswamy (2013) “ShareLikesCrowd: Mobile Analytics for Participatory Sensing and Crowd-sourcing Applications: MoDA’2013 w/s @ ICDE’2013″, Brisbane, April, 2013.
• P. Corke, T. Wark, R. Jurdak, W. Hu, P. Valencia, and D. Moore. “Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Emerging Sensor Network Applications”, Vol. 98, No. 11, pages 1903-1917, November 2010. (Invited paper)
• R. Jurdak, P. Corke, D. Dharman, and G. Salagnac. “Adaptive GPS Duty Cycling and Radio Ranging for Energy-Efficient Localization”, In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), pages 57-70. Zurich, Switzerland, November 2010.

 

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Publications from July 2014 to Now

 

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Publications Prior to July 2014

2013 2012  2011  2010 2009 2008

B. Kusy, D. Abbott, C. Richter, C. Huynh, M. Afanasyev, W. Hu, M. Bruenig, D. Ostry, and R. Jurdak, “Radio Diversity of Reliable Communication in Sensor Networks,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 10, Iss. 2, May 2014.

R. Jurdak (2013) The Impact of Cost and Network Topology on Urban Mobility: A Study of Public Bicycle Usage in 2 U.S. Cities. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79396. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079396.

Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Charith Perera, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Arkady Zaslavsky, 2014, MOSDEN: A Scalable Mobile Collaborative Platform for Opportunistic Sensing Applications, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing 14(1): e6, CC ICST, DOI: 10.4108/cc.1.1.e6

Jayaraman, Prem Prakash, Gomes, Joao Bartolo, Nguyen, Hai Long, Abdallah, Zahraa Said, Krishnaswamy, Shonali, and Zaslavsky, Arkady. CARDAP: A Scalable Energy-Efficient Context Aware Distributed Mobile Data Analytics Platform for the Fog. Manolopoulos, Yannis, Trajcevski, Goce, and Kon-Popovska, Margita. Advances in Databases and Information Systems. 8716, 192-206. 2014. Springer International Publishing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10933-6_15

Charith Perera, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, MOSDEN: An Internet of Things Middleware for Resource Constrained Mobile Devices, Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kona, Hawaii, USA, January, 2014, Pages xx-xx (10)

Anagnostopoulos, Theodoros Vasileios and Zaslavsky, Arkady. Effective Waste Collection with Shortest Path Semi-Static and Dynamic Routing. Balandin, Sergey, Andreev, Sergey, and Koucheryavy, Yevgeni. Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems. 8638, 95-105. 2014. Springer International Publishing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10353-2_9

Medvedev, Alexey, Zaslavsky, Arkady, Grudinin, Vladimir, and Khoruzhnikov, Sergey. Citywatcher: Annotating and Searching Video Data Streams for Smart Cities Applications. Balandin, Sergey, Andreev, Sergey, and Koucheryavy, Yevgeni. Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems. 8638, 144-155. 2014. Springer International Publishing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10353-2_13)

R. Jurdak, “Long-term tracking in Batmon: Lessons and Open Challenges,” Keynote Speech Abstract, in proceedings of the second Machine Learning for Sensory Data Analysis (MLSDA) Workshop, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2014.

P. Pounds, T. Potie, F. Kendoul, S. Singh, R. Jurdak, and J, Roberts, “Automatic Distribution of Disposable Self-Deploying Sensor Modules,” In proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Marrakech, Morocco, June 2014.

G. Murtaza, S. Kanhere, A. Ignjatovic, R. Jurdak, and S. Jha, “Trajectory Approximation for Resource Constrained Mobile Sensor Networks,” In proceedings of the 9th IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, May, 2014.

B. Thomas, I. Atkinson, and R. Jurdak, “Content Diffusion in Wireless MANETS: The Impact of Mobility and Demand,” In proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, August 2014.

2013

K. Li, B. Kusy, R. Jurdak, A. Ignjatovic, S. Kanhere, S. Jha, “κ-FSOM: Fair Link Scheduling Optimization for Energy-Aware Data Collection in Mobile Sensor Networks,” In Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Oxford, UK, February 2014.

H. Parry, D. Westcott, A. McKeown, K. Zhao, Philipp Sommer, R. Jurdak, and B. Kusy, “Empirical agent-based simulation of movement: the integration of high frequency Flying-fox tracking data with a simulation model of population dynamics in time and space,” In MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2013, pp. 2506–2512. ISBN: 978-0-9872143-3-1.

P. Sommer, B. Kusy, and R. Jurdak,”Energy Estimation for Long-term Tracking Applications,” In proceedings of the First International Workshop on Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (EnSys), co-located with Sensys, Rome, Italy, November, 2013.

P. Sommer, B. Kusy, A. McKeown, and R. Jurdak, “The Big Night Out: Experiences from Tracking Flying Foxes with Delay Tolerant Wireless Networking,” In proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (RealWSN), Como Lake, Italy, September 2013.

B. Kusy, R. Rana, P. Valenca, R. Jurdak, and J. Wall, “Experiences with Sensors for Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings,” In proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (RealWSN), Como Lake, Italy, September 2013.

S. Purdon, B. Kusy, R. Jurdak, G. Werner-Challen, “Model-free HVAC Control using Occupant Feedback,” In proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Global Trends in Smart Cities (GoSmart), co-located with IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney Australia, October 2013.

R. Jurdak, B. Kusy, P. Sommer, N. Kottege, C. Crossman, A. McKeown, D. Westcott, “Camazotz: Multimodal Activity-based GPS Sampling,” In proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Philadelphia, USA, April, 2013.

Haghighi, P., Krishnaswamy, S., Zaslavsky, A., Gaber, Mohamed, Sinha, A. and Gillick, B. (2013) Open mobile miner: a toolkit for building situation-aware data mining applications. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. ISSN 1091-9392

Arkady Zaslavsky, Prem Jayaraman, Shonali Krishnaswamy (2013) “ShareLikesCrowd: Mobile Analytics for Participatory Sensing and Crowd-sourcing Applications: MoDA’2013 w/s @ ICDE’2013, Brisbane, April, 2013

Gaber, Mohamed, Krishnaswamy, S., Gillick, B., AlTaiar, H., Nicoloudis, N., Liono, J. and Zaslavsky, A. (2013) Interactive self-adaptive clutter-aware visualisation for mobile data mining. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. ISSN 0022-0000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2012.09.009

Edgar Brea, Peter Kambouris, Alberto Elfes, Elliot Duff, Marcel Bick, Adrian Bonchis, Ashley Tews and Lydia Lopes, “An initiative to enhance SME productivity through fit for purpose Information and Robotic technologies,” The value of Lightweight Assistive Manufacturing Solutions, CSIRO Whitepaper 2013.

Wei, B., Yang, M., Shen, Y., Rana, R., Chou, C. T., & Hu, W. (2013, November). Real-time classification via sparse representation in acoustic sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (p. 21). ACM.

R. Jurdak (2013). “The Impact of Cost and Network Topology on Urban Mobility: A Study of Public Bicycle Usage in 2 U.S. Cities”. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79396. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079396

R. Rana, B. Kusy, R. Jurdak, J. Wall, and W. Hu, “Feasibility Analysis of Using Humidex as an Indoor Thermal Comfort Predictor,” Energy and Buildings, Vol. 64, pages 17-25, September 2013.

2012

N. Bergmann, Y. Ying Chung, X. Yang, Z. Chen, W. Yeh,X. He, and R. Jurdak,”Using Swarm Intelligence to Optimize the Energy Consumption for Distributed Systems,” Modern Applied Science, Vol. 7, Iss. 6, pages 59-66, May 2013.

R. Jurdak, P. Corke, A. Cotillon, D. Dharman, C. Crossman, and G. Salagnac, “Energy-efficient Localisation: GPS Duty Cycling with Radio Ranging,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 9, Iss. 2, May 2013.

B. Thomas, R. Jurdak, and I. Atkinson, “SPDYing Up the Web”, Communications of the ACM, 55(12):64-73, December 2012.

R. Jurdak, B. Kusy, and A. Cotillon, “Group-based Motion Detection for Energy-efficient Localization,” Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 1(3):183-216, October 2012. (Invited paper)

A. Barreira, P. Sommer, B. Kusy, and R. Jurdak, “Collaborative Localization of Mobile Users with Bluetooth: Caching and Synchronisation,” ACM Sigbed Review, Volume 9, Number 3, September 2012.

S. Moad, M. Hansen, R. Jurdak, B. Kusy, N. Bouabdallah, A. Ksentini, “On Balancing Between Minimum Energy and Minimum Delay with Radio Diversity for Wireless Sensor Networks,” In proceedings of the 5th IFIP Wireless Days Conference, Dublin Ireland, November 2012.

N. Kottege, R. Jurdak, F. Kroon, D. Jones, “Classification of Underwater Broadband Acoustic Sounds using Spectro-temporal Features,” In proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet), Los Angeles CA, November 2012.

M. Hansen, B. Kusy, R. Jurdak, K. Langendoen. “AutoSync: Automatic Duty-Cycle Control for Synchronous Low-Power Listening,” In proceedings of 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Seoul Korea, June, 2012.

A. Barreira, P. Sommer, B. Kusy, and R. Jurdak, “Towards Collaborative Localization of Mobile Users with Bluetooth,” In proceedings of 3rd workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET), co-located with CPS-week 2012, Bejing China, April 2012.

2011

A. Cotillon, P. Valencia, and R. Jurdak, “Android Genetic Programming Framework,” In proceedings of the 15th European Genetic Programming Conference (EuroGP), pages 13-24, Malaga Spain, April, 2012.

S. Moad, M. Hansen, R. Jurdak, B. Kusy, and N. Bouabdallah, “WETX: A Weighted Expected Transmission Routing Metric for Diversity in Wireless Sensor Networks,” In proceedings of the 4th IFIP Wireless Days Conference, Niagara Falls ON Canada, October 2011.

S. Moad, M. Hansen, R. Jurdak, B. Kusy, and N. Bouabdallah, “Load Balancing Metric with Diversity for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks,” In proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks (IST-AWSN), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 2011.

W.-C. Shih, R. Jurdak, B.-H. Lee, and D. Abbott “Improving the Throughput of Sensor Network Wake-Up Radios using Block Orthogonal Codes,” In proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Communications, Networking and Applications (MobiConA), Singapore, June, 2011.
Winner of Best Student Paper Award.

M. Hansen, R. Jurdak, and B. Kusy. “Unified Broadcast in Sensor Networks,” In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Chicago, USA, April, 2011.

B. Kusy, C. Richter, W. Hu, M. Afanasyev, R. Jurdak, M. Bruenig, D. Abbott, C. Huynh, and D. Ostry. “Radio Diversity for Reliable Communication in WSNs,” In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Chicago, USA, April, 2011.

R. Jurdak, X. R. Wang, O. Obst, and P. Valencia. “Wireless Sensor Network Anomalies: Diagnosis and Detection Strategies,” In Intelligence-based Systems Engineering, Andreas Tolk and Lakhmi Jain, editors, Springer, 2011.

R. Jurdak, A. G. Ruzzelli, A. Barbirato, and S. Boivineau. “Octopus: Modular Visualization and Control for Sensor Networks,”  Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Volume 11, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages: 1073–1091.

R. Jurdak, K. Klues, B. Kusy, C. Richter, K. Longendoen, M. Bruenig. “Opal: A Multi-radio Platform for High Throughput Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 3(4):121-124, December 2011.

2010

W.C. Shih, R. Jurdak, B.-H. Lee, D. Abbott, “High Sensitivity Wake-up Radio using Spreading Codes: Design, Evaluation and Applications,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, June 2011.

R. Jurdak, A. G. Ruzzelli, and G.M.P. O’Hare. “Radio Sleep Mode Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 9 No. 7, July, 2010.

P. Corke, T. Wark, R. Jurdak, W. Hu, P. Valencia, and D. Moore. “Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Emerging Sensor Network Applications, Vol. 98, No. 11, pages 1903-1917, November 2010. (Invited paper)

R. Jurdak, P. Corke, D. Dharman, and G. Salagnac. “Adaptive GPS Duty Cycling and Radio Ranging for Energy-Efficient Localization,” In proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), pages 57-70. Zurich, Switzerland, November 2010.

B. Newman, J. Sanders, R. Hughes, and R. Jurdak. “TinyTune: A Collaborative Sensor Network Musical Instrument,” In proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), pages 375-376. Zurich, Switzerland, November 2010.

T. Rohmer, B. Kusy, and R. Jurdak. “Multi-radio Simulation Support for Cyber-Physical Systems,” In proceedings of the First Australasian Workshop on Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS), Sydney, Australia, July 2010.

P. Valencia, R. Jurdak, and P. Lindsay. “Fitness Importance for Online Evolution,” In proceedings of the Late Breaking Workshop of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Portland Oregon, July 2010.

P. Valencia, P. Lindsay, and R. Jurdak. “Distributed Genetic Evolution in WSN,” In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Stockholm Sweden, April, 2010.

D. O’Rourke, J. Liu, T. Wark, W. Hu, D. Moore, L. Overs, R. Jurdak. “Towards a Framework for a Versatile Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network Platform,” In proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Stockholm, Sweden, April, 2010.

2009

R. Jurdak, P. Corke, D. Dharman, G. Salagnac, C. Crossman, G. Bishop-Hurley, and P. Valencia. “Energy-efficient Localization for Virtual Fencing,” In proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Stockholm, Sweden, April, 2010.

D. O’Rourke, R. Jurdak, J. Liu, D. Moore and T. Wark. “On the Feasibility of using Servo-Mechanisms in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network Deployments,” In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp), Zurich, Switzerland. October, 2009.

L. Petit, A. Nafaa, and R. Jurdak. “Historical Data Storage for Large Scale Sensor Networks,” In proc. of UbiMob conference, Lille, France.July, 2009.

A.G. Ruzzelli, M. Dragone, G.M.P. O’Hare, C. Muldoon, A. Barbirato, and R. Jurdak. “An Extensible Dashboard for Sensor Networks Control and Visualisation,” Poster at EWSN, Cork, Ireland, 2009.

R. Jurdak, A.G. Ruzzelli, G.M.P. O’Hare and R. Higgs, “Directed Broadcast with Overhearing for Sensor Networks,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol 6, iss 1, Dec., 2009, 1-35.

R. Jurdak, P. Baldi, and C.V. Lopes. “Software-Driven Sensor Networks for Short-Range Shallow Water Applications,” Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 7(5): 837-848. July, 2009.

2008

R. Jurdak, A. Nafaa, and A. Barbirato. “Large Scale Environmental Monitoring through Integration of Sensor and Mesh Networks,” Sensors, 8(11): 7493-7517. November, 2008.

R. Jurdak, A.G. Ruzzelli, G.M.P. O’Hare, and C. V. Lopes. “Mote-based Underwater Sensor Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Guidelines”, Telecommunication Systems Journal (Kluwer Publishers), Vol. 37, Issue 3. March, 2008.

A. G. Ruzzelli, G.M.P O’Hare,and R. Jurdak. “MERLIN: Cross-layer Integration of MAC and Routing for Low Duty-Cycle Sensor Networks,” Ad Hoc Networks. March 2008.

A.G. Ruzzelli, R. Jurdak, M. Dragone, A. Barbirato, G.M.P. O’Hare, S. Boivineau, and V. Roy. “Octopus: A Dashboard for Sensor Networks Visual Control,” Mobicom’08 Demo, 2008.

R. Jurdak, A.G. Ruzzelli, and G.M.P. O’Hare. “Adaptive Radio Modes in Sensor Networks: How Deep to Sleep?” In proceedings of IEEE Communications Society Conference on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SECON), June, 2008.
Nominated for Best Paper Award

R. Jurdak, A.G. Ruzzelli, and G.M.P. O’Hare. “Multi-hop RFID Wake-up Radio: Design, Evaluation and Energy Tradeoffs,” In Proceedings of the 17TH International Conference on Computer Communications AND Networks (ICCCN), August, 2008.

A.G. Ruzzelli, R. Jurdak, and G.M.P. O’Hare. “Reassignment of Central Aggregation Point for Load Balancing in Sensor Networks”, In proceedings of European Workshop on Sensor Networks (EWSN), Bologna Italy, February, 2008