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 senior staff member in the Applied Research and Technology Center of Motorola. My work here is on (i) devising secure applications for mobile devices and (ii) improving the scalability of video on demand services. My interests also span the areas of applied cryptography, data and network security and distributed algorithms. In particular, I am interested in private information retrieval techniques and electronic payment technologies.


Selected publications [Complete list]


  • Mahesh Tripunitara, Bogdan Carbunar. "Efficient Access Enforcement in Distributed Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Deployments". To appear in the 14th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Stresa, June 2009 [pdf]

  • Siddharth Bhatt, Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar. "A Personal Mobile DRM Manager for Smart-Phones". To appear in the Elsevier Computers and Security Journal. [pdf]

  • Bogdan Carbunar, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Mehmet Koyuturk, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Grama. "Efficient Tag Detection in RFID Systems". Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 69, Issue 2, February 2009 [pdf]

  • Peter Williams, Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar. "Building Castles out of Mud: Access Pattern Privacy and Correctness on Untrusted Storage". In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)[18%], Alexandria, October 2008 [pdf]

  • Bogdan Carbunar, Michael Pearce, Shivajit Mohapatra, Loren J. Rittle, Venu Vasudevan. "Byzantine Resilient Synchronization for Content and Presence Updates in MANETs". In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)[16%], Orlando, October 2008 [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]



    • Community Service

    Please consider submitting to one of the following venues, preferably with an open CFP.


  • TPC Member: Privacy on the Web track at Symposium on Applied Computing SAC 2010

  • TPC Member: 14th Financial Cryptography and Data Security FC 2010

  • TPC Member: The 4th Workshop on Scalable Trust Computing ACM STC 2009

  • TPC Member: The Cloud Computing Security Workshop ACM CCSW 2009

  • TPC Member: 5th Workshop on Secure Network Protocols IEEE NPSec 2009

  • TPC Member: 4th Workshop on Secure Network Protocols - IEEE NPSec 2008

  • Poster Chair: 12th Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2008

  • TPC Member: The International Workshop on Mobile Device and Urban Sensing - MODUS 2008

  • TPC Member: 3rd Workshop on Secure Network Protocols - IEEE NPSec 2007

  • TPC Member: Information Security and Cryptology: Third Sklois Conference - Inscrypt 2007

    • Personal

    I have very little spare time, but when I happen to stumble upon a few hours of nothing to do, I try to fill them by reading (only fiction), watching movies, windsurfing, swimming and biking. Former interests include spelunking (caving), jumping from small bridges, biking on snow and camping in severely under-provisioned tents (in terms of temperature and overall comfort). My health is not what it used to be, so I frequently find myself trying to avoid such activities and focus on less hazardous ones. But they certainly were, at least occasionally, fun.