Marco Antonio
Zúñiga Zamalloa

 I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2006 from the University of Southern California (USC). From December 2006 to March 2008 I was a member of the research staff at Xerox. Since April 2008 I am a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG).

E-Mail: marco.zuniga [at] deri [dot] org


Education
Research

My main area of interest is wireless sensor networks. Specifically, the study of cross-layer integration by analyzing the impact of lower-layer dynamics (physical layer) on medium access control and routing protocols.


Publications

Journal
  1. M. Zuniga, C. Avin, and B. Krishnamachari, " Using Heterogeneity to Enhance Random Walk-based Queries " , Journal of Signal Processing Systems: Volume 57, Issue 3, 2009.
  2. F. Ariaei, M. Lou, E. Jonckheere, B. Krishnamachari and M. Zuniga, " Curvature of Indoor Sensor Network: Clustering Coefficient " , EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2008, Article ID 213185, 2008.
  3. J. Ahn, S. Kapadia, S. Pattem, A. Sridharan, M. Zuniga, J. Jun, C. Avin and B. Krishnamachari, " Empirical Evaluation of Querying Mechanisms for Unstructured Wireless Sensor Networks " , ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (ACM CCR), Volume 38 , Issue 3, July 2008.
  4. M. Zuniga, K. Seada, B. Krishnamachari and A. Helmy, " Efficient Geographic Routing over Lossy Links in Wireless Sensor Networks " , ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 4, Issue 3, May 2008.
  5. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, " An Analysis of Unreliability and Asymmetry in Low-Power Wireless Links " , ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2007.
  6. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, " Optimal Transmission Radius for Flooding in Large Scale Sensor Networks " , Journal of Cluster Computing, Cluster Computing Journal, Springer, Vol. 8, no. 2-3, pp. 167-178, July 2005.
Conference/Workshop
  1. M Zuniga, C. Avin and M. Hauswirth " Querying Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks with Non-Revisiting Random Walks " , accepted for publication in EWSN 2010, Coimbra, Portugal, February 2010.
  2. C. Boano, T. Voigt, N. Tsiftes, L. Mottola, K. Roemer, M. Zuniga " Making Sensornet MAC Protocols Robust Against Interference " , accepted for publication in EWSN 2010, Coimbra, Portugal, February 2010.
  3. C. Boano, Z. He, Y. Li, T. Voigt, M Zuniga and A. Willig " Controllable Radio Interference for Experimental and Testing Purposes in Wireless Sensor Networks " , IEEE SensApp, Zurich, October 2009.
  4. M. Zuniga, M. Hauswirth and Y. Yang, " Statistical Properties of the Delivery Rate for Single-Sink and Multiple-Sink Sensor Networks " , ADHOC-NOW, Murcia, September 2009.
  5. N. Baccour, A. Koubaa, M. B. Jamaa, H. Youssef, M. Zuniga and M. Alves, " A Comparative Simulation Study of Link Quality Estimators in Wireless Sensor Networks " , IEEE MASCOTS, London, September 2009.
  6. M. Zuniga and M. Hauswirth, " Hansel: Distributed Localization in Passive RFID Environments " , IEEE SECON, Rome, June 2009.
  7. J. Ahn, S. Kapadia, S. Pattem, A. Sridharan, M. Zuniga, J. Jun, C. Avin and B. Krishnamachari, " Empirical Evaluation of Querying Mechanisms for Unstructured Wireless Sensor Networks " , 1st International Workshop on WSN Deployments, in conjunction with DCOSS, New Mexico, June 2007.
  8. K. Seada, M. Zuniga, B. Krishnamachari and A. Helmy, " Energy-Efficient Forwarding Strategies for Geographic Routing in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks " , ACM SENSYS 2004, Baltimore, MD, November 2004.
  9. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, " Analyzing the Transitional Region in Low Power Wireless Links " , IEEE SECON, Santa Clara, CA, October 2004.
  10. J. Caffrey, R. Govindan, E. Johnson, B. Krishnamachari, S. Masri, G. Sukhatme, K. Chintalapudi, K. Dantu, S. Rangwala, A. Sridharan, N. Xu, M. Zuniga, " Networked Sensing for Structural Health Monitoring " , International Workshop on Structural Control, Columbia University, New York, June, 2004.
  11. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, " Optimal Transmission Radius for Flooding in Large Scale Sensor Networks " , Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networks, MWN 2003, May 2003.
Demo/Poster
  1. C. Boano, K. Romer, Z. He, T. Voigt, M Zuniga and A. Willig " Demo Abstract: Generation of Controllable Radio Interference for Protocol Testing in Wireless Sensor Networks " , [Demo Session] accepted for ACM Sensys, Berkeley, November 2009.
  2. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, " Exploring the Predictability of Network Metrics in the Presence of Unreliable Wireless Links " , [Poster Session] ACM SenSys, Maryland, November 2004.
Technical Reports
  1. A. Sridharan, M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, " Integrating Environment and Network Simulators " , USC CS Department, Technical Report-04-836, 2005.
  2. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, " Integrating Future Large Scale Sensor Networks with the Internet " , USC CS Department, Technical Report CS 03-792, 2003.
Thesis
  1. Marco Zuniga "Realistic Modeling of Wireless Communication Graphs for the Design of Efficient Sensor Network Routing Protocols", PhD Thesis, USC, 2006
  2. Marco Zuniga "Design and Implementation of a Test Chamber for Refrigerators Under the Peruvian Law of Power Efficiency", Professional Diploma Thesis, PUCP, 2000

Professional Activities

Technical Program Committee Memberships

  • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2010.
  • [Track Co-Chair] IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC), 2010.
  • IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2009.
  • EWSN CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards, 2010.
  • EWSN CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards, 2009.
  • [Publicity Co-Chair] The First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks (SensorNets) 2009.
  • IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI), 2009.
  • Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2009.
  • IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2008.
  • IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI), 2008.
  • IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC), 2008.
  • International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (PWSN), 2007.
  • [Publicity Co-Chair] IEEE WirelessCom Symposium of Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.
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