Theses

• Curt Schurgers, "Energy-Aware Communication Systems," Ph.D. Thesis in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), November 2002. 
• Curt Schurgers, Jan Boogaerts, J., "Hardware-Software Codesign of the SmartPen: a Pen-Based Hand-Written Number Recognition System," M.S. Thesis in Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium, May 1997.

Journal Papers

• Shoubhik Mukhopadhyay, Debashis Panigrahi, Sujit Dey, Curt Schurgers, "Model based techniques for data reliability in wireless sensor networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.8, No.4), pp. 528-543, April 2009.
• Diba Mirza, Curt Schurgers, "Energy-efficient ranging for post-facto self-localization in mobile underwater networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Special Issue on "Underwater Wireless Communications and Networks"), Vol. 26, No. 9, pp. 1697-1707, December 2008. 
• Zhong-Yi Jin, Curt Schurgers, Rajesh Gupta, "A gateway node with duty-cycled radio and processing subsystems for wireless sensor networks," ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2009.
• Periklis Liaskovitis, Curt Schurgers, "Energy consumption of multi-hop wireless networks under throughput constraints and range scaling," to appear in ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review. 
• Curt Schurgers, Anantha Chandrakasan, "Traceback-based optimizations for maximum a posteriori decoding algorithms," Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 231-241, December 2008.
  
• Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Statistical Properties of Loaded Wireless Multicarrier Systems," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.4, No.5, pp.2111-2120, September 2005.
  
• Vijay Raghunathan, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Energy Efficient Wireless Packet Scheduling and Fair Queuing," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol.3, No.1, pp. 431-447, February 2004.  
• Curt Schurgers, Vijay Raghunathan, Mani B. Srivastava, "Power Management for Energy-Aware Communication Systems," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol.2, No.3, pp. 431-447, August 2003.
• Curt Schurgers, Gautam Kulkarni, Mani B. Srivastava, "Distributed On-Demand Address Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.13, No.10, pp. 1056-1065, October 2002.
• Curt Schurgers, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Mani B. Srivastava, "Optimizing Sensor Networks in the Energy-Latency-Density Design Space," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 70-80, January-March 2002.
• Vijay Raghunathan, Curt Schurgers, Sung Park, Mani B. Srivastava, "Energy-Aware Wireless Microsensor Networks," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol.19, No.2, pp. 40-50, March 2002.
• Curt Schurgers, Francky Catthoor, Marc Engels, "Memory Optimization of MAP Turbo Decoder Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol.9, No.2, pp. 305-312, April 2001.
• Paul Lettieri, Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Adaptive Link Layer Strategies for Energy Efficient Wireless Networking," Wireless Networks, Vol. 5, No. 5, ACM/Baltzer, pp. 339-355, 1999. 

Book Chapters

• Vijay Raghunathan, Curt Schurgers, Sung Park, Mani B. Srivastava, "Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Sensor Nodes," in Wireless Sensor Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 19 pages, 2004.
• Benton Calhoun, Curt Schurgers, Alice Wang, Anantha Chandrakasan, “Low Energy Digital Circuit Design,”  in AmIware: Hardware Technology Drivers of Ambient Intelligence (AmI), Philips, 21 pages, 2005.
• Curt Schurgers, "Wakeup Strategies in Wireless Sensor Networks," Book chapter in Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications, Y. Li, M.T. Thai, W. Wu, Eds., Springer, 2007, 26 pages.    

Conference Papers

• Periklis Liaskovitis and Curt Schurgers, "Energy Efficient Min-Max Spatial Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks," WCNC 2009, Budapest, Hungary, pp.1-6, April 2009.
• Diba Mirza, Curt Schurgers, "Motion-Aware Self-Localization for Underwater Networks," International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNET’08), San Francisco, CA, September 2008. 
• Diba Mirza, Curt Schurgers, "Design of Self-Localization Strategies for Networks of Underwater Drifters," MTS/IEEE Oceans’08, Quebec City, Canada, September 2008. 
• Shoubhik Mukhopadhyay, Curt Schurgers, Sujit Dey, "Joint computation and communication scheduling to enable rich mobile applications," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom’07), Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007, pp. 2117-2122. Best paper award winner for Multimedia, Communications, Software and Services Symposium. 
• Diba Mirza, Curt Schurgers, "Collaborative localization for fleets of underwater drifters," MTS/IEEE Oceans’07, Vancouver, Canada, September - October 2007, pp. 1-6. 
• Diba Mirza, Curt Schurgers, "Energy-efficient localization in networks of underwater drifters," International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNET’07), Montreal, Canada, September 2007, pp. 73 - 80.
• Zhong-Yi Jin, Curt Schurgers, Rajesh Gupta, "An Embedded Platform with Duty-Cycled Radio and Processing Subsystems for Wireless Sensor Networks," International Symposium on Systems, Architectures, Modeling and Simulations (SAMOS’07), Samos, Greece, July 2007.
• Jules Jaffe, Robert Glatts, Curt Schurgers, Diba Mirza, Peter Franks, Paul Roberts, Fernando Simonet, "AUE: An Autonomous Float for Monitoring the Upper Water Column," Oceans’07, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 2007.
• Periklis Liaskovitis, Curt Schurgers, "Leveraging Redundancy in Sampling-Interpolation Applications for Sensor Networks," International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS’07), Santa Fe, NM, June 2007.
• Aaron Jow, Curt Schurgers, Douglas Palmer, "CalRadio: A Portable, Flexible 802.11 Wireless Research Platform," Workshop on System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms (MobiEval’07), San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007.
• Jules Jaffe, Curt Schurgers,"Sensor Networks of Freely Drifting Autonomous Underwater Explorers," International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNET’06), Los Angeles, CA, pp.93-96, September 2006.
  
• Periklis Liaskovitis, Curt Schurgers, "A Distortion-Aware Scheduling Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks," International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS’06), San Francisco, CA, June 2006.
  
• Maryam Owrang, Diba Mirza, Curt Schurgers, "Delay-bounded Adaptive Power Saving for Ad hoc and Sensor Networks," Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC’05 Fall), Dallas, TX, September 2005.
  
• Diba Mirza, Maryam Owrang, Curt Schurgers, "Energy-efficient Wakeup Scheduling for Maximizing Lifetime of IEEE 802.15.4 Networks," International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON’05), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 130 - 137, July 2005.
  
• Yuvraj Agarwal, Curt Schurgers, Rajesh Gupta, "Dynamic Power Management using On Demand Paging for Networked Embedded Systems," Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC'05), Shanghai, China, pp. 755-759, Jan 18-21, 2005.
  
• Curt Schurgers, Anantha Chandrakasan, "Traceback-Enhanced MAP Decoding Algorithm," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'04), Montreal, Canada, pp. IV.645-IV.648, May 17-21, 2004.
• Sachin Adlakha, Saurabh Ganeriwal, C. Schurgers, M. Srivastava, "Density, Accuracy, Delay and Lifetime Tradeoffs in Wireless Sensor Networks," Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'03), Los Angeles, CA, pp. 296-297, November 5-7, 2003.
• Curt Schurgers, Mani Srivastava, "Energy Optimal Scheduling under Average Throughput Constraint," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'03), Anchorage, AK, pp. 1648-1652, May 11-15, 2003.
  
• Vijay Raghunathan, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "E2WFQ: An Energy Efficient Fair Scheduling Policy for Wireless Systems," International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'02), Monterey, CA, pp. 30-35, August 12-14, 2002.
• Gautam Kulkarni, Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Dynamic Link Labels for Energy Efficient MAC Headers in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE International Conference on Sensors (Sensors'02), Orlando, FL, pp. 1520-1525, June 12-14, 2002.
• Curt Schurgers, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Mani B. Srivastava, "Topology Management for Sensor Networks: Exploiting Latency and Density," Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking & Computing (MobiHoc'02), Lausanne, CH, pp. 135-145, June 9-11, 2002.
• Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Energy Efficient Wireless Scheduling: Adaptive Loading in Time," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'02), Orlando, FL, pp. 706-711, March 17-22, 2002.
• Curt Schurgers, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Mani B. Srivastava, "STEM: Topology Management for Energy Efficient Sensor Networks," IEEE Aerospace Conference '02, Big Sky, MT, March 10-15, 2002.
• Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Single Parameter Model for Loaded Multicarrier Systems," Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom'01), San Antonio, TX, pp. 3358-3364, November 25-29, 2001.
• Curt Schurgers, Vijay Raghunathan, Mani B. Srivastava, "Modulation Scaling for Real-Time Energy Aware Packet Scheduling," Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom'01), San Antonio, Texas, pp. 3653-3657, November 25-29, 2001.
• Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks," MILCOM'01, Vienna, VA, pp. 357-361, October 28-31, 2001.
• Curt Schurgers, Gautam Kulkarni, Mani B. Srivastava, "Distributed Assignment of Encoded MAC Addresses in Sensor Networks," Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking & Computing (MobiHoc'01), Long Beach, CA, pp. 295-298, October 4-5, 2001.
• Curt Schurgers, Olivier Aberthorne, Mani B. Srivastava, "Modulation Scaling for Energy Aware Communication Systems," International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'01), Huntington Beach, CA, pp. 96-99, August 6-7, 2001.
• Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "A Systematic Approach to Peak-to-Average Power Ratio in OFDM," SPIE's 47th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, pp. 454-464, July 29 - August 3, 2001.
• Curt Schurgers, Francky Catthoor, Marc Engels, "Optimized MAP Turbo Decoder," IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS'00), Lafayette, Louisiana, pp. 245-254, October 11-13, 2000.
• Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, Athanassios Boulis, Paul Lettieri, "Adaptive Control of Wireless Multimedia Links," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'99), New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 1498-1502, September 21-24, 1999.
• Curt Schurgers, Marc Engels, Francky Catthoor, "Energy Efficient Data Transfer and Storage Organization for a MAP Turbo Decoder Module," International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'99), San Diego, California, pp.76-81, August 16-17, 1999.
• Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Voice over Wireless Internet: Performance Interaction of Signal Processing Algorithms and Network Protocols," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'99 Spring), Houston, Texas, pp. 1935-1939, May 16-22, 1999.
• Curt Schurgers, Liesbet Van der Perre, Marc Engels, Hugo De Man, "Adaptive Turbo Decoding for Indoor Wireless Communication," URSI International Symposium on Signals, Systems, and Electronics (ISSSE'98), Pisa, Italy, pp. 107-111, Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 1998.
• Bert Gyselinckx, Wolfgang Eberle, Marc Engels, Curt Schurgers, Steven Thoen, Patrick Vandenameele, Liesbet Van der Perre, "A Flexible Architecture for Future Wireless Local Area Networks," International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'98), Chalkidiki, Greece, pp. 115-119, June 21-25, 1998.
• Curt Schurgers, Olivier Aberthorne, "Teletransportation: Solving the 4th-order Stability Lock of the McRay Pattern Buffer," IEEE Conference on Electroportation and Personal Mutilation, New-Leuven, Republic of Verweggistan, pp. 4589-5945, Feb 30-March 14, 2043.

Patents

• A method and apparatus for interleaving, deinterleaving and combined interleaving-deinterleaving, US patent 6,678,843 B2, Alexandre Giulietti, Veerle Derudder, Bruno Bougard, Gokhan Cosgul, Michael Thul, Jochen Giese, Curt Schurgers, January 2004.
• A method and apparatus for interleaving, deinterleaving, EP1267511, Alexandre Giulietti, Veerle Derudder, Bruno Bougard, Gokhan Cosgul, Michael Thul, Jochen Giese, Curt Schurgers, December 2002.
• System and method of turbo decoding, US patent 6,598,204 and 6,760,879,  Jochen Giese, Curt Schurgers, Liesbet Van der Perre, Bert Gyselinckx, Francky Catthoor, Marc Engels, July 2003 and July 2004. 
• Methods and system architectures for turbo decoding, EP1030457, Jochen Giese, Curt Schurgers, Liesbet Van der Perre, Bert Gyselinckx, Francky Catthoor, Marc Engels, August 2000.