Publication Summary


50+ publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences, including: 6 ACM/IEEE IPSN, 5 ACM SenSys, 3 ACM CoNEXT, 3 IEEE Infocom, 2 IEEE Percom, 1 ACM Mobicom, 1 USENIX NSDI, 1 ACM UBICOMP, 1 IEEE RTSS and 2 patents.

Best Paper Awards at ACM MORSE 2022, IEEE MASS 2015 and ExtremeComm 2013. Best Paper Runner Ups at EWSN 2022, ACM CoNEXT 2016, IEEE SenseApp 2015, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2014, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2011. Best Poster Runner up at EWSN 2014.

My google scholar profile is available here.


Journals


  1. Q. Liu, W. IJntema, A. Drif, P. Pawelczak, M. Zuniga, K. Yildirim "Perpetual Bluetooth Communications for the IoT", [pdf], IEEE Sensors Journal, January 2021.

  2. W. Wang, Q. Wang, J. Zhang, M. Zuniga, "PassiveVLP: Leveraging Smart Lights for Passive Positioning", [pdf], ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, March 2020.

  3. H. Wu, Q. Wang, J. Xiong, M. Zuniga "SmartVLC: Co-designing Smart Lighting and Communication for Visible Light Networks", [pdf], IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, May 2019.

  4. Q. Wang, D. Giustiniano, M. Zuniga, "In Light and In Darkness, In Motion and In Stillness: A Reliable and Adaptive Receiver for the Internet of Lights", [pdf], IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, November 2017.

  5. F. Tan, D. Caicedo, A. Pandharipande, M. Zuniga "Sensor-driven, human-in-the-loop lighting control", [pdf], Journal of Lighting Research & Technology, February 2017.

  6. K. Warmerdam, A. Pandharipande, D. Caicedo and M. Zuniga, "Visible light communications for sensing and lighting control", [pdf], IEEE Sensors Journal, September 2016.

  7. H. Fotouhi, M. Alves, M. Zuniga and A. Koubaa, "Reliable and Fast Hand-Offs in Low-Power Wireless Networks", [pdf], IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, November 2014.

  8. S. Wagner, M. Handte, M. Zuniga and P. Marron, "Enhancing the Performance of Indoor Localization using Multiple Steady Tags", [pdf], ELSEVIER Pervasive and Mobile Computing, June 2013.

  9. N. Baccour, A. Koubaa, L. Mottola, M. Zuniga, H. Youssef, C. Boano, and M. Alves, "Radio Link Quality Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks: a Survey", [pdf], ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), November 2012.

  10. M. Zuniga, C. Avin, and B. Krishnamachari, "Using Heterogeneity to Enhance Random Walk-based Queries", [pdf], SPRINGER Journal of Signal Processing Systems, December 2009.

  11. F. Ariaei, M. Lou, E. Jonckheere, B. Krishnamachari and M. Zuniga, "Curvature of Indoor Sensor Network: Clustering Coefficient", [pdf], EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, January 2009.

  12. 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", [pdf], ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, July 2008.

  13. M. Zuniga, K. Seada, B. Krishnamachari and A. Helmy, "Efficient Geographic Routing over Lossy Links in Wireless Sensor Networks", [pdf], ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), May 2008.

  14. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, "An Analysis of Unreliability and Asymmetry in Low-Power Wireless Links", [pdf], ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), June 2007.

  15. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, "Optimal Transmission Radius for Flooding in Large Scale Sensor Networks", [pdf], SPRINGER Journal of Cluster Computing, July 2005.

Conferences


  1. W. Wang, M. Vette, Q. Wang, J. Yang, M. Zuniga, "CamPressID: Optimizing Camera Configuration and Finger Pressure for Biometric Authentication" (short paper), [pdf], IEEE MASS, Colorado, U.S., October 2022.

  2. W. Wang, Q. Wang, M. Zuniga, "CardioID: Mitigating the Effects of Irregular Cardiac Signals for Biometric Identification", [pdf], EWSN 2022, Link, Austria, October 2022. Best Paper Runner Up.

  3. O. Oosterlee, T. Xu, M. Zuniga, "Inti: Indoor Tracking with Solar Cells", [pdf], EWSN 2022, Link, Austria, October 2022.

  4. M. Chavez, T. Xu, Z. Wu, M. Zuniga, "SunBox: Screen-to-Camera Communication with Ambient Light", [pdf], ACM UBICOMP, Cambridge, U.K., September 2022.

  5. T. Xu, M. Chavez, M. Zuniga, "Exploiting Digital Micro-Mirror Devices for Ambient Light Communication", [pdf], USENIX NSDI, Washington, USA, April 2022.

  6. S. Ghiasi, M. Zuniga, K. Langendoen, "A Principled Design for Passive Light Communication", [pdf], ACM MOBICOM, Virtual, October 2021.

  7. R. Zhang, M. Zuniga, V. Jelicic, M. Siegel, "Exploiting color sensors to provide optimal lighting and anonymous tracking in stores", [pdf], IEEE SECON, Virtual, June 2020.

  8. A. Galisteo, P. Marcocci, M. Zuniga, L. Mucchi, B. Guzmán, D. Giustiniano, "Filtering Visible Light Reflections with a Single-Pixel Photodetector", [pdf], IEEE SECON, Virtual, June 2020.

  9. R. Bloom, M. Zuniga, C. Pai, "LuxLink: Creating a Wireless Link from Ambient Light", [pdf], ACM SENSYS, New York, USA, November 2019. [schematics and code]
    Related to this concept is our Accenture Innovation Award 2017 (joint work with Dr. Wang and Dr. Giustiniano: Link and RTL Z interview) and our presentation at the Innovation Expo 2018 for using "Sunlight for Communication".

  10. S. Demetri, M. Zuniga, G. Picco, F. Kuipers, L. Bruzzone, and T. Telkamp, "Automated Estimation of Link Quality for LoRa: A Remote Sensing Approach", [pdf], ACM/IEEE IPSN, Montreal, Canada, April 2019.

  11. R. Bloom, M. Zuniga, Q. Wang, D. Giustiniano, "Tweeting with Sunlight: Encoding Data on Mobile Objects", [pdf], IEEE INFOCOM, Paris, France, April 2019.

  12. W. Wang, J. Zhang, Q. Wang, M. Zuniga, "Leveraging Smart Lights for Passive Localization" , [pdf], IEEE MASS, Chengdu, China, October 2018.

  13. J. Verhoeff, A. Srirangam, M. Zuniga, B. Humala, "Monitoring LED Lights with Current Signatures", [pdf], IEEE INFOCOM, Hawaii, USA, April 2018.

  14. A. Galisteo, Q. Wang, A. Deshpande, M. Zuniga, D. Giustiniano, "Follow that Light: Leveraging LEDs for Relative Two-Dimensional Localization", [pdf], ACM CoNEXT, Seoul, South Korea, December 2017.

  15. H.Wu, Q. Wang, J. Xiong, M. Zuniga, "SmartVLC: When Smart Lighting Meets VLC", [pdf], ACM CoNEXT, Seoul, South Korea, December 2017.

  16. M. Cattani, I. Protonotarios, C. Martella, J. van Velzen, M. Zuniga, K. Langendoen, "An Open-Space Museum as a Testbed for Popularity Monitoring in Real-World Settings", [pdf], EWSN, Uppsala, Sweden, February 2017.

  17. Q. Wang, M. Zuniga, D. Giustiniano, "Passive Communication with Ambient Light", [pdf], ACM CoNEXT, Irvine, USA, December 2016. Best Paper Runner Up.

  18. M. Cattani, A. Loukas, M. Zimmerling, M. Zuniga, K. Langendoen, "Staffetta: Smart Duty-Cycling for Opportunistic Data Collection", [pdf], ACM SENSYS, Stanford, USA, November 2016.

  19. L. Klaver, M. Zuniga, "Shine: A Step Towards Distributed Multi-Hop Visible Light Communication", [pdf], IEEE MASS, Dallas, USA, October 2015. Schematics and firmware available [here]. Best Paper Award.

  20. A. Loukas, M. Cattani, M. Zuniga, J. Gao, "Graph Scale-Space Theory for Distributed Peak and Pit Identification", [pdf], ACM/IEEE IPSN (IP track), Seattle, USA, April 2015.

  21. N. Brouwers, M. Zuniga, K. Langendoen, "NEAT: A Novel Energy Analysis Toolkitfor Free-Roaming Smartphones", [pdf], ACM SENSYS, Memphis, USA, November 2014.

  22. A. Loukas and M. Zuniga and I. Protonotarios and J. Gao, "How to identify global trends from local decisions? Spatial Event Detection on Mobile Networks", [pdf], IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, April 2014.

  23. M. Cattani, M. Zuniga, A. Loukas and K. Langendoen, "Lightweight Neighborhood Cardinality Estimation in Dynamic Wireless Networks", [pdf], ACM/IEEE IPSN (IP track), Berlin, Germany, April 2014. Best Paper Runner Up.

  24. C. Boano, M. Zuniga, J. Brown, U. Roedig, C. Keppitiyagama, and K. Roemer, "TempLab: A Testbed Infrastructure to Study the Impact of Temperature on Wireless Sensor Networks", [pdf], ACM/IEEE IPSN (SPOTS track), Berlin, Germany, April 2014.

  25. N. Brouwers, M. Zuniga and K. Langendoen, "Incremental Wi-Fi Scanning for Energy-Efficient Localization", [pdf], IEEE PERCOM, Budapest, Hungary, March 2014.

  26. M. Cattani, M. Zuniga and M. Woehrle and K. Langendoen, SOFA: Communication in Extreme Wireless Sensor Networks" [pdf], EWSN, Oxford, UK, February 2014.

  27. A. Loukas, M. Woehrle, M. Zuniga and K. Langendoen, "Fairness for All; Rate Allocation for Mobile Wireless Networks", [pdf], IEEE MASS, Hangzhou, China, October 2013.

  28. C. Boano, H. Wennerstrom, M. Zuniga, J. Brown, C. Keppitiyagama, F. Oppermann, U. Roedig, L. Norden, T. Voigt and K. Roemer, "Hot Packets: A Systematic Evaluation of the Effect of Temperature on Low Power Wireless Transceivers", [pdf], ExtremeCom, Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland, August 2013. Best Paper Award.

  29. A. Loukas, M. Zuniga, M. Woehrle, M. Cattani and K. Langendoen, "Think Globally, Act Locally: On the Reshaping of Information Landscapes", [pdf], ACM/IEEE IPSN (IP track), Philadelphia, USA, April 2013.

  30. J. van Velzen and M. Zuniga, "Let's Collide to Localize: Achieving Indoor Localization with Packet Collisions", [pdf], IEEE PERCOM (WiP Track), San Diego, USA, March 2013.

  31. H. Smeets, C. Shih, M. Zuniga, T. Hagemeier and P. Marron, "TrainSense: A Novel Infrastructure to Support Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks", [pdf], EWSN, Ghent, Belgium, February 2013.

  32. C. Boano, M. Zuniga, K. Roemer and T. Voigt, "JAG: Reliable and Predictable Wireless Agreement under External Radio Interference", [pdf], IEEE RTSS, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2012.

  33. D. Puccinelli, M. Zuniga, S. Giordano and P. Marron, "Broadcast-Free Collection Protocol", [pdf], ACM SENSYS, Toronto, Canada, November 2012.

  34. S. Wagner, M. Handte, M. Zuniga and P. Marron, "Optimal Tag Placement for Indoor Localization", [pdf], IEEE PERCOM, Lugano, Switzerland, March 2012.

  35. F. Fabbri, M. Zuniga, D. Puccinelli and P. Marron, "On The Optimal Blacklisting Threshold for Link Selection in Wireless Sensor Networks", [pdf], EWSN, Trento, Italy, February 2012.

  36. H. Fotouhi, M. Zuniga, M. Alves, A. Koubaa and P. Marron, "Smart-HOP: A Reliable Handoff Mechanism for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks", [pdf], EWSN, Trento, Italy, February 2012.

  37. M. Zuniga, I. Irzynska, J. Hauer, T. Voigt, C. Boano, K. Roemer, "Link Quality Ranking: Getting the Best out of Unreliable Links", [pdf], IEEE DCOSS, Barcelona, Spain, June 2011.

  38. C. Boano, T. Voigt, C. Noda, K. Roemer, M. Zuniga, "Augmenting Sensornet Testbeds with Realistic and Controlled Interference Generation", [pdf], ACM/IEEE IPSN (SPOTS Track), Chicago, USA, April 2011. Best Paper Runner Up.

  39. G. Trajcevski, O. Ghica, M. Zuniga, R. Schubotz, P. Scheuermann, M. Hauswirth, "Improving the Energy Balance of Field-based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks", [pdf], IEEE GLOBECOM, Miami, USA, December 2010.

  40. M. Zuniga, C. Avin and M. Hauswirth, "Querying Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks with Non-Revisiting Random Walks", [pdf], EWSN, Coimbra, Portugal, February 2010.

  41. C. Boano, T. Voigt, N. Tsiftes, L. Mottola, K. Roemer, M. Zuniga, "Making Sensornet MAC Protocols Robust Against Interference", [pdf], EWSN, Coimbra, Portugal, February 2010.

  42. M. Zuniga, M. Hauswirth and Y. Yang, "Statistical Properties of the Delivery Rate for Single-Sink and Multiple-Sink Sensor Networks", [pdf], ADHOC-NOW, Murcia, September 2009.

  43. 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", [pdf], IEEE MASCOTS, London, September 2009.

  44. M. Zuniga and M. Hauswirth, "Hansel: Distributed Localization in Passive RFID Environments", [pdf], IEEE SECON, Rome, June 2009.

  45. K. Seada, M. Zuniga, B. Krishnamachari and A. Helmy, "Energy-Efficient Forwarding Strategies for Geographic Routing in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks", [pdf], ACM SENSYS, Baltimore, MD, November 2004.

  46. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, "Analyzing the Transitional Region in Low Power Wireless Links", [pdf], IEEE SECON, Santa Clara, CA, October 2004.

Workshops


  1. J. Singh, Q. Wang, M. Zuniga, and T. Farnham, "HueSense: Featuring LED Lights Through Hue Sensing", [pdf], MORSE, with ACM Mobicom, Sydney, Australia, October 2022. Best Paper Award.

  2. O. Dalgic, D. Puccinelli, M. Zuniga, "Enabling Body-Centric Computing Applications withLED-to-Camera Communication", [pdf], BodySys, with ACM MobiSys, Oregon, U.S., July 2022.

  3. Q. Wang and M. Zuniga, "Passive visible light networks: taxonomy and opportunities", [pdf], LIOT, with ACM Mobicom, virtual, September 2020.

  4. F. Oppermann, C. Boano, M. Zuniga, and K. Roemer, "Automatic Protocol Configuration for Dependable Internet of Things Applications", [pdf], IEEE SenseApp, with IEEE LCN, Florida, USA, October 2015. Best Paper Runner Up.

  5. V.Vasilopoulos, D.Puccinelli and M.Zuniga, "Do we really need A-Priori Link Quality Estimation?", [pdf], RealWSN, Como Lake, Italy, September 2013.

  6. 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", [pdf], IEEE SenseApp, with IEEE LCN, Zurich, October 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", [pdf], 1st International Workshop on WSN Deployments, with IEEE DCOSS, New Mexico, June 2007.

  8. 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", [pdf], International Workshop on Structural Control, New York, June, 2004.

  9. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, "Optimal Transmission Radius for Flooding in Large Scale Sensor Networks", [pdf], IEEE Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networks, with IEEE ICDCS, Rhode Island, May 2003.

Books & Book Chapters


  1. N. Baccour, A. Koubaa, C. Boano, L. Mottola, H. Fotouhi, M. Alves, H. Youssef, M. Zuniga, D. Puccinelli, T. Voigt, K. Roemer and C. Noda, "Radio Link Quality Estimation in Low-Power Wireless Networks [Book], SpringerBriefs in Cooperating Objects, Springer Press, 2013, 147 Pages. [link]

  2. J. Ahn, M. Zuniga, and B Krishnamachari, "On-Demand Querying in Sensor Networks" [Book Chapter], In Distributed Sensor Networks, Second Edition: Sensor Networking and Applications, Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer & Information Science Series, 2012, 942 Pages, Editor(s): S. Sitharama Iyengar and Richard R. Brooks [link]

Patents


  1. V. Jelicic, K. Keller, M. Siegel, M. Zuniga, R. Zhang, Automatische Anpassung der Licht- farbe von Leuchten (Automatic adaptation of the light color of lights), [link] EU (German) Patent No. EP3493652B1, 8 July 2020.

  2. M. Zuniga and S. Harrington, Document access management method and system, [link] U.S. Patent No. 7,984,507, 19 July 2011.

Patent Applications


  1. R. Zhang, M. Zuniga, V. Jelicic, M. Siegel, Bewegungserfassung von Personen mit- tels Farbsensoren (Movement detection of people using color sensors) German Patent Application DE102017221671.9, 12/1/2017

Invited Papers &
Technical Reports


  1. P. Marron, D. Minder and M. Zuniga, "Research Challenges for Cooperating Objects", [Invited paper], [pdf], 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Computing in Embedded Systems (PECES), with UBICOMM, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2011.

  2. C. Boano, M. Zuniga, T. Voigt, A. Willig, and K. Romer, "The Triangle Metric: Fast Link Quality Estimation for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks", [Invited paper], [pdf], IEEE ICCCN, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2010.

  3. M. Osterloh, M. Zuniga and M. Hauswirth, "Enhancing Indoor Localization with Proximity Information", [Invited paper], [pdf], The 3rd annual GSN workshop, Davos, Switzerland, July 2010.

  4. A. Sridharan, M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, "Integrating Environment and Network Simulators", [pdf], USC CS Department, Technical Report-04-836, 2005.

  5. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, "Integrating Future Large Scale Sensor Networks with the Internet", [pdf], USC CS Department, Technical Report CS 03-792, 2003.

Poster & Demo Abstracts


  1. R. Blokker, T. Xu, M. Zuniga, "Poster: Communication with Ambient Light using Digital Micromirror Devices ", [pdf], CHIIOT, with EWSN, Virtual, February 2021.

  2. A. Galisteo, H. Wu, Q. Wang, D. Juara, M. Zuniga, D. Giustiniano, "Demo Abstract: OpenVLC1.2 for Increased Data Rate with Embedded Systems", VLCS, Snowbird, Utah, USA, October 2017.

  3. C. Boano, K. Roemer, J. Brown and U. Roedig and M. Zuniga, "Demo Abstract: A Testbed Infrastructure to Study the Impact of Temperature on WSN", IEEE PERCOM, Budapest, Hungary, March 2014.

  4. M. Cattani, M. Zuniga, A. Loukas and K. Langendoen, "Poster Abstract: Neighborhood Cardinality Estimation in Extreme Wireless Sensor Networks", EWSN, Oxford, UK, February 2014. Best Poster Runner up.

  5. M. Cattani, M. Zuniga, M. Woehrle and K. Langendoen, "Poster Abstract: Communication in Extreme Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM SenSys, Rome, Italy, November 2013.

  6. G. Trajcevski, O. Ghica, M. Zuniga, R. Schubotz, P. Scheuermann, M. Hauswirth, "Demo Abstract: Large-Scale Simulation of (Improved) Field Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks with SIDnet-SWANS", IEEE GLOBECOM, Miami, USA, December 2010.

  7. 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", ACM Sensys, Berkeley, November 2009.

  8. C. Boano, K. Roemer, T. Voigt, M. Zuniga, "Poster Abstract: Agreement for Wireless Sensor Networks under External Interference", EWSN, Trento, Italy, February 2012.

  9. H. Fotouhi, M. Alves, A. Koubaa and M. Zuniga, "Poster Abstract: smart-HOP: A Reliable Handoff Procedure for Supporting Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks", EWSN, Bonn, Germany, February 2011.

  10. M. Zuniga and B. Krishnamachari, "Poster Abstract: Exploring the Predictability of Network Metrics in the Presence of Unreliable Wireless Links", ACM SenSys, Maryland, November 2004.

Theses


  • Marco Zuniga, "Realistic Modeling of Wireless Communication Graphs for the Design of Efficient Sensor Network Routing Protocols", PhD Thesis, USC, 2006.

  • Marco Zuniga, "Design and Implementation of a Test Chamber for Refrigerators Under the Peruvian Law of Power Efficiency", Professional Diploma Thesis, PUCP, 1999.