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Laura Balzano
Lab: 3610 Engineering Hall
Lab phone: 608-263-1557

I am an Electrical Engineering student, working toward a PhD with Professor Robert Nowak at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. My research interests include estimation, signal processing, graphs, and sensor networks.
publications projects miscellaneous

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Conference Papers

Blind Calibration of Sensor Networks [ pdf ][ bibtex ]
Laura Balzano and Robert Nowak. Information Processing in Sensor Networks, April 2007.

Designing Wireless Sensor Networks as a Shared Resource for Sustainable Development [ pdf ][ bibtex ]
Nithya Ramanathan, Laura Balzano, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Jenny Jay, William Kaiser, Gaurav Sukhatme.
International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, May 2006. (Presented as a poster)

Journal Papers

Reputation-based Framework for High Integrity Sensor Networks [ pdf ]
Saurabh Ganeriwal, Laura Balzano, and Mani B. Srivastava, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks vol. 4, no. 3 (2008).

Design, Analysis, and Implementation of DVSR: A Fair, High Performance Protocol for Packet Rings [ pdf ]
Violeta Gambiroza, Ping Yuan, Laura Balzano, Yonghe Liu, Stephen Sheafor, and Edward Knightly, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 12, no. 1 (2004).

Book Chapters

Blind Calibration of Networks of Sensors: Theory and Applications [ pdf ]
Laura Balzano and Robert Nowak, Networked sensing information and control, Venkatesh Saligrama, editor. Springer 2008.

Thesis

Addressing Fault and Calibration in Wireless Sensor Networks
[ pdf ][ bibtex ]
Laura Balzano, Masters Thesis, March 2007.

Others at the NESL Documents archive.