General Information

• Position: Professor
• E-mail: bsun@lamar.edu
• Phone: 880-8781
• Room: 70

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2004
• M.S. Computer Communications, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, 1999
• B.E. Computer Communications, Nanjing University Posts & Telecommunications, 1996

Research Interests

• Network Security
• Wireless Networks

Selected Publications

B. Sun, X. Shan, K. Wu, and Y. Xiao, “Anomaly Detection based Secure In-Network Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Systems Journal, 2013, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 13 – 25.

R. Wang, S. Burleigh, P. Parikh, C.J. Lin, and B. Sun, “Licklider Transmissions Protocol (LTP)- based DTN for Cislunar Communications”, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 2, April 2011, pp. 359-368.

F. Yu, B. Sun, V. Krishnamurthy, S. Ali, “Application Layer QoS Optimization for Multimedia Transmission over Cognitive Radio Networks”, ACM Wireless Networks, 2010, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 371-383.

Y. Xiao, H. Chen, K. Wu, B. Sun, Y. Zhang, X. Sun, and C. Liu, “Coverage and Detection of a Randomized Scheduling Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 59, No. 4, April 2010, pp. 507-521.

B. Sun, G. Yan, Y. Xiao, and T. Andrew Yang, “Self-propagating Mal-packets in Wireless Sensor Networks: Dynamics and Defense Implications”, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, 2009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2009.04.003.

T. Andrew Yang, D. Jain, and B. Sun, “Development of Emulation-Based Projects for Teaching Wireless Sensor Networks”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2008.

B. Sun, Y. Xiao, C.-C Li, H.-H Chen, and T. Andrew Yang, “Security Co-Existence of Wireless Sensor Networks and RFID For Pervasive Computing”, Elsevier Computer communications Journal, 2008, Vol. 31, No. 18, pp. 4294-4303.

T. Andrew Yang, D. Jain, and B. Sun, “Development of Emulation-Based Projects for Teaching Wireless Sensor Networks”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2008, vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 64-71.

K. Makki, B. Sun, L. Osborne, A. Husain, and J. Carnley, “Efficient Information Dissemination and Collection Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks”, accepted to Internal Journal of New Computer Architectures and Their Applications, 2012.

Ramon Sandoval, S. Kami Makki, and Bo Sun, “Utilizing Silent negative voting and sleep/wakeup method for power efficient data fusion”, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, (ICNC 2012), Maui, Hawaii.

M. Joshi, B. Sun, K. Makki, and L. Osborne, “Hot Spot Aware Energy Efficient Clustering Approach for Wireless Sensor Network”, IEEE CCNC 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2011.

J. Carnley, B. Sun, and K. Makki, “TORP: TinyOS Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE CCNC Workshop on Personalized Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2011.

Madaan A., Makki S., Osborne L., Sun B., “An Intelligent Energy Efficient Target Tracking Scheme for Wireless Sensor Environment”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, ISWPC'10, Palazzo Ducale, Modena, Italy, May 5-7, 2010.

K. Makki, B. Sun, and M. Khojastehpour, “An Efficient Information Access Scheme for Mobile Objects”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI’09), pp312—323, August 10-12, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada.

T. A. Yang, Vishal S. Jadhav, Darshan Chipade, and Bo Sun, “Web 2.0 as an Enabler of Developing Open Content Online Hypertextbooks”, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2009), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, November 22-24, 2009.

Bo Sun, Lawrence Osborne, and T. A. Yang, “Module-based Courseware for Teaching Secure Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2009), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, November 22-24, 2009.