Since joining the TSSG in 2005, Sasitharan has worked on a number of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and HEA PRTLI projects.

Sasitharan is currently the Bio-inspired Research Unit Manager, and the PI for the SFI Project “Biologically inspired framework supporting network management for the Future Internet”. His research interests include bio‐inspired autonomic network management, wireless sensor networking, and molecular/nano-scale communications.

Publications of Dr. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam

Journal Publications

• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Brendan Jennings, Steven Davy, William Donnelly, John Strassner, Policy-constrained Bio-inspired Processes for Autonomic Route Management, to appear in Computer Networks, accepted April 2008.
• Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Human Activity Recognition in Pervasive Health-care: Supporting Efficient Remote Collaboration, Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, 31, 2008, pp. 628 – 655.
• Brendan Jennings, Sven van der Meer, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Mícheál Ó Foghlú, William Donnelly, John Strassner, Towards Autonomic Management of Communication Networks, IEEE Communication Magazine, October 2007.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Jadwiga Indulska, Vertical Handover Supporting Pervasive Computing in Future Wireless Networks. Computer Communication Journal, Special Issue on 4G/Future Wireless networks. Vol. 27/8, 2004, pp.708 – 719.

Book chapter

• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, William Donnelly, Mícheál Ó Foghlú, John Strassner, Bio-inspired Framework for Autonomic Communication Systems, (Editors Falko Dressler and Iacopo Carreras) in “Advances in Biologically Inspired Information Systems: Models, Methods, and Tools”, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2007

Conference Publications

• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Ray Carroll, Julien Mineraud, Tadashi Nakano, Tatsuya Suda, William Donnelly, Adaptive Dynamic Routing Supporting Service Management for Future Internet, accepted for IEEE Globecom 2009, Hawaii, USA, November 2009.
• Gajaruban Kandavanam, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, An Optimizaton based Approach to Maximizing QoS Assurance for IPTV Triple Play Services on the Internet Backbone, accepted for 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Zurich, Switzerland 2009
• Gajaruban Kandavanam, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Brendan Jennings, A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm/Variable Neighbourhood Search Approach to Maximizing Residual Bandwidth for Links for Route Planning, accepted for 9th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, Strasbourg, France 2009.
• Stepan Ivanov, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Nina Popova, Avoiding Redundant Channel Blocking in Cooperative Multi-Channel MAC protocols through Virtual topology Inferencing, accepted for 2nd IEEE Cooperative Mobile Networks (CoCoNet2), collocated with IEEE ICC 2009, Dresden, Germany.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Julien Mineraud, William Donnelly, Parameterised Gradient Based Routing (PGBR) for Future Internet, accepted for 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’09), Bradford, UK, May 2009.
• Gajaruban Kandavanam, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Ponnuthurai Suganthan, M. F. Tasgetiren, A Dynamic Bandwidth Guaranteed Routing Using Heuristic Search for Clustered Topology, accepted for 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Bombay, India, December 2008.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Julien Mineraud, Mícheál Ó Foghlú, William Donnelly, Self-sustaining Composed Service Groups for Future Internet, accepted for 1st Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, Aalborg, Denmark, October 2008. (invited paper)
• Frank Walsh, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Tatsuya Suda, Tadashi Nakano, Stephen F. Bush, Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Hybrid DNA and Enzymatic based Computation for Address Encoding, Link Switching and Error Correction in Molecular Communication, in Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Net), Boston, USA, 2008.
• Gemma Power, Christopher Foley, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, An Adaptive Middleware Applied to the Ad-hoc Nature of Cardiac Health Care, accepted for 1st International Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Embedded Peer-to-Peer Systems, Dublin, Ireland, July 2008.
• John Ronan, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Adnan Kiani, Wenbing Yao, On the use of SHIM6 for Mobility support in IMS Networks, in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities, Innsbruck, Austria, March 2008.
• Chris Foley, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, William Donnelly, Stefan Michaelis, Jens Schmutzer, Thomas Stair, Distributed Pervasive Services using Group Service communication supporting Body Area Networks, in Proceedings of Bodynets 2008, Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 2008.
• Frank Walsh, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, William Donnelly, Review of Communication Mechanisms for Biological Nano and MEMS Devices, in Proceedings of Workshop on Computing and Communications from Biological Systems: Theory and Applications (CCBS), in conjuction with 2nd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), Budapest, Hungary, 2007.
• Wei Xu, Qiang Fu, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, A Fast Loss Recovery Scheme for IP Multicast Service, in Proceedings of Australasian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2007
• Frank Walsh, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, William Donnelly, Sergey Sergeyev, Development of Molecular based Communication Protocols for Nanomachines, in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Net), Catania, Sicily, Italy, 2007
• Gajaruban Kandavanam, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Ponnuthurai Suganthan, William Donnelly, A Multi-layered solution for supporting ISP traffic demand using Genetic Algorithm, in Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 2007
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, William Donnelly, John Strassner, A Biologically Inspired Policy Based Management System for Survivability in Autonomic Networks, in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (IEEE BROADNETS 2007), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, September 2007
• Jimmy McGibney, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, A Combined Biologically and Socially Inspired Approach to Mitigating Ad Hoc Network Threats, in Proceedings of 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC 2007 Fall), Baltimore, USA, September – October 2007
• Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, A Bayesian Network and Rule-Base Approach for Activity Inference in Pervasive Environments, in Proceedings of 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC 2007 Fall), Baltimore, USA, September – October 2007
• Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Challenges for Human Activity Recognition, in Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2007), Munich, Germany 2007
• Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Self-Organising Object Networks using Context Zones for Distributed Activity Recognition, in Proceedings of Second International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets ’07), Florence, Italy, June 2007.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Nazim Agoulmine, William Donnelly, A Multi-layered approach towards achieving Survivability in Autonomic Networks, in Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and 8th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications, Penang, Malaysia, May 2007
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Tao Gu, William Donnelly, Chemotaxis and Quorum Sensing inspired Interaction supporting Social Networking, in Proceedings of 65th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC Spring), Dublin, Ireland, April 2007
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, William Donnelly, Mícheál Ó Foghlú, John Strassner, Biologically Inspired Self-Governance and Self-Organisation for Autonomic Networks, in Proceedings of First International Conference on Bio Inspired models of Networks, Information and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), Cavalese, Italy, December 2006
• Nazim Agoulmine, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, John Strassner, Elyes Lehtihet, William Donnelly, Challenges for Autonomic Network Management, in Proceedings of 1st conference on Modelling Autonomic Communication Environment (MACE), Dublin, Ireland, October 2006
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, William Donnelly, Nazim Agoulmine, Applying Blood Glucose Homeostatic model towards Self-Management of IP QoS Provisioned Networks, in Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2006), LNCS, Dublin, Ireland, October 2006
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Keara Barrett, John Strassner, William Donnelly, Sven van der Meer, Bio-inspired Policy Based Management (bioPBM) for Autonomic Communication Systems, in Proceedings of 7th IEEE workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2006), Ontario, Canada, June 2006
• Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, An Architecture supporting Human Activity Recognition, in Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communication Systems (MUCS), Cork, Ireland, May 2006
• Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Context Management Support for Activity Recognition in Health-Care, in Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Tangible Space Initiative (TSI 2006), in conjunction with 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006), Dublin, Ireland, May 2006
• Miguel Ponce de Leon, Mats Eriksson, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Willie Donnelly, Creating a distributed mobile networking testbed environment – through the Living Labs approach, in Proceedings of 2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom), Barcelona, Spain March, 2006
• Steven Davy, Keara Barrett, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, John Strassner, Sven van der Meer, Brendan Jennings, Policy-Based Architecture to enable Autonomic Communications – A Position Paper, in Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications and Network Conference (CCNC) 2006, special session on Autonomic Communications, Las Vegas, USA, January 2006
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Tom Pfeifer, Jadwiga Indulska, Active Node supporting Context-aware Vertical Handover in Pervasive Computing Environment with Redundant Positioning, in Proceedings of 1st IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC) 2006, Phuket, Thailand, January 2006.
• Karen Henricksen, Jadwiga Indulska, Ted McFadden, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Middleware for Distributed Context-Aware Systems, in Proceedings of International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA’ 05), Cyprus, October-November 2005. LNCS, Springer Verlag, vol. 3760, pp 846 – 863.
• Jadwiga Indulska, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Context-aware Vertical Handovers between WLAN and 3G Networks, in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring 2004), Milan, Italy, May 2004.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Jadwiga Indulska, Vertical Handovers as Adaptation Methods in Pervasive Systems, in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), Sydney, September 2003.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Jadwiga Indulska, Handovers Between Heterogeneous Networks in Pervasive Systems, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications Technology (ICCT 2003), Beijing, April 2003. pp.1056-1059.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Jadwiga Indulska, Quality of Service Support for Vertical Handovers in Pervasive Systems, Inaugural Asia Pacific Forum on Pervasive Computing, Adelaide, October 2002. In Proceedings of Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology series (Vol 25), Adelaide, Australia.
• Jadwiga Indulska, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Vertical Handover based Adaptation for Multimedia Applications in Pervasive Systems, in Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia (IDMS/PROMS 2002), Portugal, November 2002, LNCS. Springer Verlag, vol. 2515, pp. 61-72.
• Weiping Zhu, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Request Assignment using Prediction for Distributed Web Servers, in Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP2000), Dec. 10-13, 2000. Hong Kong, World Scientific Press.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Weiping Zhu, Task assignment using time series prediction for distributed web servers, in Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems (PART’2000), Sydney, Australia, Springer-Verlag.

Conference short paper/poster

• Venet Osmani, Daqing Zhang, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Human Activity Recognition Supporting Context-appropriate Reminders for Elderly, in Proceedings of Pervasive Healthcare, London, UK 2009.
• Frank Walsh, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Tadashi Nakano, Tatsuya Suda, Simulation Framework for Communication Protocols of Molecular Communication Systems, in Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Computing and Communications from Biological Systems: Theory and Applications, Hyogo, Japan, November 2008.
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Frank Walsh, Stephen Bush, William Donnelly, Sergey Sergeyev, Applying Compartmentalization Techniques to Communication Protocols of Biological Nano and MEMS Devices, in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (IEEE BROADNETS 2007), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, September 2007. (poster)
• Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Tao Gu, A Distributed Hierarchical Structure for Object Networks Supporting Activity Recognition, in Proceedings of 9th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2006), LNCS, Dublin, Ireland, October 2006. (short paper)
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, William Donnelly, Dmitri Botvich, Nazim Agoulmine, John Strassner, Towards Integrating Principles of Molecular Biology for Autonomic Network Management, in Proceedings of 13th HP Open View University Association Workshop (HP-OVUA), Sophia Antipolis, France, May 2006 (short paper)

Dr. SASITHARAN BALASUBRAMANIAM received his Bachelor (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and PhD degrees from the University of Queensland in 1998 and 2005, respectively, and Masters (Computer and Communication Engineering) degree in 1999 from Queensland University of Technology.