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(The following is meant to be just a representative selection from my research. My group's website has a more complete list of publications with full citations. Please see disclaimers and copyright notices for all papers posted on these sites.)

• Networking Wireless Sensors, Cambridge University Press, January 2006.
  
  
• Sahand H. A. Ahmad, Mingyan Liu, Tara Javidi, Qing Zhao, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, "Optimality of Myopic Sensing in Multi-Channel Opportunistic Access," under submission to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (original submission May 2008, revision February 2009).
  
  
• Avinash Sridharan, Scott Moeller, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Implementing Backpressure-based Rate Control in Wireless Networks', UCSD ITA Workshop, 2009.
  
  
• Joon Ahn, Shyam Kapadia, Sundeep Pattem, Avinash Sridharan, Marco Zuniga, Jung-Hyun Jun, Chen Avin, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Empirical evaluation of querying mechanisms for unstructured wireless sensor networks', ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2008.
  
  
• Hua Liu, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, and Murali Annavaram, 'Game Theoretic Approach to Location Sharing with Privacy in a Community-based Mobile Safety Application', MSWiM 2008.
  
  
• Qing Zhao, Bhaskar Krishnamachari and Keqin Liu, 'On Myopic Sensing for Multi-Channel Opportunistic Access: Structure, Optimality, and Performance', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2008.
  • follow up work: Tara Javidi, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Qing Zhao, and Mingyan Liu, 'Optimality of Myopic Sensing in Multi-Channel Opportunistic Access', IEEE ICC 2008.
    
    
• Avinash Sridharan, Scott Moeller, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Making Distributed Rate Control using Lyapunov Drifts a Reality in Wireless Sensor Networks', WiOpt 2008.
  
  
• Joon Ahn and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Scaling Laws for Data-Centric Storage and Querying in Wireless Sensor Networks', IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2008.
  (The conference version of this paper appeared in ACM MobiHoc 2006 and received the USC EE Dept. Best Paper Award in 2006.)
  
  
• Avinash Sridharan, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Maximizing network utilization with max-min fairness in wireless sensor networks', ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, 2008.
  
  
• Kiran Yedavalli, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, "Sequence-Based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2008.
  • See also related work on Ecolocation, which appeared in IPSN 2005.
    
    
• Kiran Yedavalli, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Enhancement of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Protocol for Scalable Data Collection in Dense Sensor Networks', Sixth Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2008.
  
  
• Marco Zuniga, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, "An Analysis of Unreliability and Asymmetry in Low-Power Wireless Links", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2007.
  

• Chen Avin, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'The Power of Choice in Random Walks: An Empirical Study', Elsevier Computer Networks Journal Special Issue on Wireless Performance, 2008. (The conference version of this paper received the best paper award at MSWiM 2006).

• Dongjin Son, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, John Heidemann, "Experimental Analysis of Concurrent Packet Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless Networks," ACM Sensys 2006.

• Hua Liu and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, "A Price-based Reliable Routing Game in Wireless Networks," GameNets 2006.

• Shyam Kapadia and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, "Comparative Analysis of Push-Pull Query Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks," DCOSS 2006.

• Sundeep Pattem, Bhaskar Krishnamachari and Ramesh Govindan, 'The Impact of Spatial Correlation on Routing with Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks', ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2008. (The conference version of this paper received a best paper award at IPSN 2004).
  

• Ashish Goel, Sanatan Rai, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, "Monotone Properties of Random Geometric Graphs Have Sharp Thresholds," Annals of Applied Probability, 2005.
  
  
• Narayanan Sadagopan, Fan Bai, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, and Ahmed Helmy, "PATHS: Analysis of Path Duration Statistics and Their Impact on MANET Routing Protocols," ACM Mobihoc 2003. (Also see this interesting theoretical follow-on study by researchers at UMD)
  
  
• Deepak Ganesan, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Alec Woo, David Culler, Deborah Estrin and Stephen Wicker,"Complex Behavior at Scale: An Experimental Study of Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks," UCLA CS Technical Report UCLA/CSD-TR 02-0013, 2002.
  
  
• Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Rung-Hung Gau, Stephen B. Wicker, and Zygmunt J. Haas, "Optimal Sequential Paging in Cellular Networks," ACM Wireless Networks 2004.