Bogdan Carbunar
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Motorola Labs
1295 E. Algonquin Rd. IL05 2nd Floor
Schaumburg, IL. 60195
Email: carbunar at motorola dot com

I am a member of the Pervasive Platforms and Architectures Lab of Motorola Labs. My work is on applied cryptography, data and network security and distributed algorithms. In particular, I am interested in private information retrieval techniques, electronic payment technologies and wireless networks security.


Selected publications [Complete list]


  • Bogdan Carbunar, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Mehmet Koyuturk, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Grama.
    "Efficient Tag Detection in RFID Systems". To appear in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) [pdf]

  • Bogdan Carbunar, Ioannis Ioannidis, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
    "JANUS: A Framework for Scalable and Secure Routing in Hybrid Wireless Networks". IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), February 2008 [pdf]

  • Bogdan Carbunar, Yang Yu, Weidong (Larry) Shi, Michael Pearce, Venu Vasudevan.
    "Query Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON)[20%], San Diego, June 2007 [pdf]

  • Larry Shi, Bogdan Carbunar, Radu Sion.
    "Conditional E-Cash". In Proceedings of the 11th Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)[18%], Trinidad/Tobago, February 2007 [pdf]

  • Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar.
    "On the Computational Practicality of Private Information Retrieval". In Proceedings of the 14th ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS)[15%], San Diego, February-March 2007 [pdf]

  • Bogdan Carbunar, Ananth Grama, Jan Vitek, Octavian Carbunar.
    "Redundancy and Coverage Detection in Sensor Networks". ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 2, Issue 1, February 2006 [pdf]

  • Bogdan Carbunar, Marco Tulio Valente, Jan Vitek.
    "Coordination and Mobility in CoreLime". Journal of "Mathematical Structures in Computer Science" (MSCS), 14(3), June 2004



    • Patents


  • Bogdan Carbunar, Yang Yu, Larry Shi, Michael Pearce. Method and Apparatus for Performing Anonymous Source Routing. WO 2008030660 20080313.

  • George Calcev, Madjid Nakhijiri, Bogdan Carbunar. Method and Apparatus for Dynamic, Seamless Security in Communication Protocols. WO/2008/011219

  • Brett Lindsley, Bogdan Carbunar, Mark Clayton, Venu Vasudevan. Method and System for Distributing Content in an Ad Hoc P2P Environment using Super-Peers. WO 2008048789 20080424.



    • Projects


  • Coverage Problems in Wireless Sensor and RFID Systems

  • Securing Remote Interactions

  • Wireless Networks

    • Committees


  • TPC Member: NPSec 2008, MODUS 2008, NPSec 2007, Inscrypt 2007
  • Poster Chair: FC 2008