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Renita Murimi

Research Interests

My research interests include topics in coverage processes, algorithmic game theory, constraint optimization and cognition for network design. Recently I have begun researching the implications of game theory for social networks.   


Wireless Sensor Networks

Coverage Properties of Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks
Renita Machado, Wensheng Zhang, Guiling Wang and Sirin Tekinay
Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2011. 

Diffusion-based Approach to Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks
Renita Machado, Sirin Tekinay, Wensheng Zhang and Guiling Wang
International Journal of Sensor Networks, Volume 8, Nos. 3/4. 2010.

Redundancy estimation and adaptive density control in wireless sensor networks
Renita Machado, Haibo He, Guiling Wang and Sirin Tekinay
Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Volume 10, Number 2-3, pp. 153-176, 2010.

Adaptive Density Control in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks With and Without Power Control
Renita Machado, Nirwan Ansari, Guiling Wang and Sirin Tekinay
IET Communications, Volume 4, No. 10, 2010.

Entropy of establishing connectivity to cluster-heads in wireless sensor networks (PDF)
Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay
Student Paper Track, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Apr. 2008.

Neural network based approach for adaptive density control and reliability in wireless sensor networks (PDF)
Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2008.

Bounds on the error in estimating redundancy in randomly deployed wireless sensor networks (PDF)
Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay
International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM) 2007.

Diffusion based approach to deploying sensors to achieve coverage, connectivity and reliability (PDF)
Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay
MobiQuitous 2007.




Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence

Network planning for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks for environmental survivability
Renita Machado, Wensheng Zhang and Guiling Wang
Invited Paper, International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) 2009. 

A survey of game theoretic approaches in wireless sensor networks (Publisher's page)
Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay
Computer Networks, Vol. 52, Issue 16, November 2008. 


Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless body area networks for healthcare: A survey
Garth Crosby, Tirthankar Ghosh, Renita Murimi and Craig Chin
International Journal of Adhoc, Sensor and Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC) 2012, Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 1-8.

Advances and challenges of wireless body area networks for healthcare applications
Craig Chin, Garth Crosby, Tirthankar Ghosh and Renita Murimi 
International Conference on Computing, Networks and Communications (ICNC) 2012. 


Cognition in social networks

Towards developing attentive wireless sensor networks
Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay
International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Jan. 2009.

Cognition and attention in wireless sensor networks (PDF)
Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay
4th IEEE Upstate NY Workshop in Communications, Sensors and Networking, Nov. 2007.

Reading a book through the eyes of reality (PDF)
Renita Machado and Robert Murimi
Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) 2006.

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