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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, December 2005..
  
  
• Yi Gai, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Rahul Jain, 'Learning Multiuser Channel Allocations in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit Formulation', IEEE Symposium on International Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) 2010.
  
  
• Scott Moeller, Avinash Sridharan, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Omprakash Gnawali, ' Routing without Routes: The Backpressure Collection Protocol', 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2010, best paper award .
  
  
• Yi Wang, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Qing Zhao, Murali Annavaram, 'Markov-Optimal Sensing Policy for User State Estimation in Mobile Devices', accepted to 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2010.
  
  
• Sahand H. A. Ahmad, Mingyan Liu, Tara Javidi, Qing Zhao, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Optimality of Myopic Sensing in Multi-Channel Opportunistic Access', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2009.
  
  
• Avinash Sridharan, Scott Moeller, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Implementing Backpressure-based Rate Control in Wireless Networks', UCSD ITA Workshop, 2009.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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 network', ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, 2008.
  
  
• Kiran Yedavalli, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, 'Sequence-Based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2008.
  • See also the related paper 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.
  

• 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).

• 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.
  
  
• 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.