Upcoming Papers:

 

 

Robust Location Distinction Using Temporal Link Signatures MOBICOM,  September 2007.

 

The Flexlab Approach to Realistic Evaluation of Networked Systems
NSDI 07

 

eBay in the Sky: strategy-proof wireless spectrum auctions

 

Lance: Optimizing High-Resolution Signal Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks, SENSYS 2008 Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty?, and Matt Welsh, SENSYS 2008 : Ren-Shiou

 

 

ComPoScan: Adaptive Scanning for Efficient Concurrent Communications and Positioning with 802.11

Thomas King (University of Mannheim, Germany), Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark), MOBISYS 2008

 

Micro-Blog: Sharing and Querying Content Through Mobile Phones and Social Participation

Shravan Gaonkar (UIUC), Jack Li (Duke University), Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University), Landon Cox (Duke University), MOBISYS 2008

 

The Beta Factor: Measuring Wireless Link Burstiness.

Kannan Srinivasan (Stanford University, US); Maria Kazandjieva (Stanford University, US); Saatvik Agarwal (Stanford University, US); Philip Levis (Stanford, US), SENSYS 2008

 

 

Distributed Image Search in Sensor Networks.

Tingxin Yan (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US); R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, US), SENSYS 2008

 

SixthSense: RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence

Lenin Ravindranath (Microsoft Research India), Venkata N. Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research India), Piyush Agrawal (IIT Kanpur), MOBISYS 2008

 

Assessment of Urban-Scale Wireless Networks,
with a Small Number of Measurements,
Joshua Robinson (Rice University, USA), Ram Swaminathan (HP Labs, USA), and Edward Knightly (Rice University, USA)

 

Micro Power Management of Active 802.11 Interfaces

Jiayang Liu (Rice University), Lin Zhong (Rice University), MOBISYS 2008

 

Taking the Sting out of Carrier Sense: Interference Cancellation for Wireless LANs,
Daniel Halperin, Thomas Anderson, and David Wetherall (University of Washington, USA), MOBICOM 2008

 

"Practical Asynchronous Neighbor Discovery and Rendezvous for Mobile Sensing Applications",

SENSYS 2008

 

 

Date

Paper

Speaker

Nov 14th

BreadCrumbs: Forecasting Mobile Connectivity,
Anthony Nicholson and Brian Noble (University of Michigan, USA)

 

Efficient Channel-aware Rate Adaptation in Dynamic Environments

Glenn Judd (Carnegie Mellon University), Xiaohui Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University), MOBISYS 2008

 

"Sensing Meets Mobile Social Networks: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the CenceMe Application", Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Kristóf Fodor, Ronald A. Peterson, Hong Lu, Mirco Musolesi,  Shane. B. Eisenman, Xiao Zheng, Andrew T. Campbell, SENSYS 2008

Zhixue

 

 

 

Zhixue

 

 

Jin

Nov 7th

 

Modulation Rate Adaptation in Urban and Vehicular Environments: Cross-Layer Implementation and Experimental Evaluation,
Joseph Camp and Edward Knightly (Rice University, USA), MOIBICOM 2008

 

Synchronous Two-phase Rate and Power Control in 802.11 WLANs

Kishore Ramachandran (WINLAB, Rutgers University), Ravi Kokku (NEC Laboratories America), Honghai Zhang (NEC Laboratories America), Marco Gruteser (WINLAB, Rutgers University), MOBISYS 2008

 

Supporting Vehicular Mobility in Urban Multi-hop Wireless Networks

Anastasios Giannoulis (Rice University), Marco Fiore (Politecnico di Torino), Edward W. Knightly (Rice University), MOBISYS 2008

Zhixue

 

 

 

Zhixue

 

 

 

Jin

Oct 17th

Robust Rate Adaptation for 802.11 Wireless Networks, Mobicom 2006

Adding Capacity Points to a Wireless Mesh Network Using Local Search, INFOCOM 2008

Zhixue Lu

Jin He

Oct 10th

Cabernet: vehicular content delivery using WiFi

SplitStream: High-Bandwidth Multicast in Cooperative Environments

Zhixue Lu

Ren-Shiou Liu

Oct 3rd

Diagnosing Wireless Packet Losses in 802.11: Separating Collision from Weak Signal.  Infocom, April 2008

Zhixue Lu

Sep 26th

Lexicographic Max-Min Fairness in a Wireless AdHoc Network with Random Access

Social Network Analysis for Routing in Disconnected Delay-Tolerant MANETs, MOBIHOC 07

Jin He

Zhixue Lu

 

Date

Paper

Speaker

Feb 22

Geographic random forwarding (GeRaF) for ad hoc and sensor networks: energy and latency performance

paper needed

Tarali

speaker needed

Feb 8

Geographic Random Forwarding (GeRaF) for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks:
Multihop Performance

Tarali

Feb 1

Qing Cao et al., Cluster-Based Forwarding for Reliable End-to-End Delivery
in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Sha

Jan 25th

Anand Kashyap, Samrat Ganguly, Samir R. Das, Suman Banerjee, "VoIP on Wireless Meshes: Models, Algorithms and Evaluation," Proc. IEEE Infocom 2007 Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.

 

Cost and Collision Minimizing Forwarding Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks
Michele Rossi, Nicola Bui and Michele Zorzi, INFOCOM 2007

Ren-Shiou

Tarali

Jan 11th

Y. Gao, D.-M. Chiu, and J. C. Lui, “Determining the End-to-end
Throughput Capacity in Multi-hop Networks: Methodology and Applications,”
in SIGMETRICS ’06/

 

Lexicographic Maxmin Fairness for Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Shilpa

Kai-Wei

 

 

 

 

Date

Paper

Speaker

Upcoming papers

Dec 21

Estimation of Link Interference in Static Multi-hop Wireless Networks, IMC 2005

Shilpa

Dec 14

A Novel Approach to Contention Control in IEEE 802.11e-Operated WLANs, INFOCOM 07

Sha

Dec 7

Tutorial Part II: Online algorithms

J. Camp, J. Robinson, C. Steger, and E. Knightly, "Measurement Driven Deployment of a Two-Tier Urban Mesh Access Network," MobiSys 2006 2006. (pdf

 or pdf slides)

Kai-Wei

Shilpa

Nov 30

Tutorial Part I: Online algorithms

Kai-Wei

Nov 23

L. Lin, N. B. Shroff, and R. Srikant " Asymptotically Optimal Power-Aware Routing for Multihop Wireless Networks with Renewable Energy Sources, " IEEE INFOCOM'05, Miami,

Florida, Mar. 2005.

Embracing Wireless Interference: Analog Network Coding

Sachin Katti, Shyamnath Gollakota, Dina Katabi (MIT)

Kai-Wei

Ren-Shiou

Nov 16

 "A Measurement-Based Approach to Modeling Link Capacity in 802.11-Based Wireless Networks", Anand Kashyap, Samrat Ganguly, Samir R. Das, Mobicom 07

PPR: Partial Packet Recovery for Wireless Networks

Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan (MIT), SIGCOMM 2007

Shilpa

Sha

Nov 9

Scalable Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks, MOBIHOC 07

A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks, MOBICOM 06

Hari

Ren-Shiou

Nov 2

MDG: Measurement-Driven Guidelines for 802.11 WLAN Design

Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of RF Interference on 802.11 Networks

Ramakrishna Gummadi (USC), David Wetherall (UW/Intel Research), Ben Greenstein (Intel Research), Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)

Zizhan

Sha

Oct 26

Flush: A Reliable Bulk Transport Protocol for Multihop Wireless Networks. Sukun Kim, Rodrigo Fonseca, Prabal Dutta, Arsalan Tavakoli, David Culler (UC Berkeley), Philip Levis (Stanford), Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley), SENSYS 2007

Rate-Controlled Reliable Transport for Wireless Sensor Networks. Jeongyeup Paek, Ramesh Govindan (USC), SENSYS 2007

Ren-Shiou

Kai-Wei

Oct 19

Power law and exponential decay of inter contact times between mobile devices, mobicom 07

Crossing Over the Bounded Domain: From Exponential To Power-law Inter-meeting Time in MANET, mobicom 07

Zizhan

Sha

Oct 5

Study of a Bus-Based Disruption Tolerant Network: Mobility Modeling and Impact on Routing, mobicom 07

Weak State Routing for Large Scale Dynamic Networks, mobicom 07

Adaptive Contact Probing Mechanisms for Delay Tolerant Applications, mobicom 07

Ren-Shiou

Ren-Shiou

Kai-Wei

Sep 28

Designing Localized Algorithms for Barrier Coverage , Mobicom 07

A General Model of Wireless Interference, mobicom 07

Zizhan

Sha

July 27

[Sha] On Exploiting Asymmetric Wireless Links via One-Way Estimation - Mobihoc  2007

[Kai-Wei] Adaptive Control of Duty Cycling in Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks, SECON 2007 best paper

 

Jul 20

[Zizhan] DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem, Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine, Arun Venkataramani (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), SIGCOMM'07.

[Kai-Wei] K. Kar, A. Krishnamurthy and N. Jaggi, Dynamic Node Activation in Networks of Rechargeable Sensors, Accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions in Networking, November 2005.

 

Jul 13

[Zizhan] Trading Structure for Randomness in Wireless Opportunistic Routing, Szymon Chachulski, Michael Jennings, Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi (MIT), SIGCOMM'07.

[Kai-Wei] S4: Small State and Small Stretch Routing Protocol for Large Wireless Sensor Networks, Yun Mao, Feng Wang, Lili Qiu, Simon Lam, and Jonathan Smith, NSDI'07.

[Sha] RMAC: a Routing-Enhanced Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, INFOCOM ‘07

 

Jun 11th

 [Kai-Wei] Scalable and Reliable Sensor Network Routing: Performance Study from Field Deployment, INFOCOM 07

[Zizhan] Paradox of Shortest Path Routing for Large Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, INFOCOM  07

[Sha] Routing, Anycast, and Multicast for Mesh and Sensor Networks, INFOCOM 07

 

Jun 4th

 [Ren-Shiou] A Novel Approach to Contention Control in IEEE 802.11e-Operated WLANs, INFOCOM 07

[Zizhan] Tracking Multiple Targets Using Binary Proximity Sensors. Jaspreet Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Upamanyu Madhow, Subhash Suri, and Richard Cagley. IPSN '07

 

May 28th

[Ren-Shiou] Sparse Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks, IPSN 07
[Kai-Wei] Foxtrot: phase space data representation for  correlation-aware aggregation, SECON 07
[Kai-Wei] Geographic Routing Using Hyperbolic Space Infocom 07.

 

May 21st

 [Ren-Shiou] E-CSMA: Supporting Enhanced CSMA Performance in Experimental Sensor Networks using Per-neighbor Transmission Probability Thresholds, INFOCOM 07 [manuscript][talk]

[Kai-Wei] Guaranteed-delivery Geographic Routing under Uncertain Location Information, Stefan Funke, Nikola Milosavljevic. INFOCOM'07

[Zizhan]: Landmark Selection and Greedy Landmark-descent Routing for Sensor Networks, Nikola Milosavljevic, An Nguyen, Qing Fang, Jie Gao, Leonidas Guibas. INFOCOM'07

 

May 14th

Localization

[Zizhan] Underground Structure Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks IPSN 2007

[Ren-Shiou] An Empirical Study of Collaborative Acoustic Source Localization, IPSN 2007

[Kai-Wei] Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks, IPSN 2007

 

May 7th

Delay Tolerant Networking

[Sha] S. Jain, K. Fall, R. Patra, "Routing in a Delay Tolerant Networking", SIGCOMM, Aug/Sep 2004

[Kai-Wei] S. Jain, M. Demmer, R. Patra, K. Fall, "Using Redundancy to Cope with Failures in a Delay Tolerant Network", Proc. SIGCOMM 2005

[Zizhan] A. Seth et al, "Low-Cost Communication for Rural Internet Kiosks Using Mechanical Backhauls". Proc ACM Mobicom 2006.

[Ren-Shiou] Y. Wang and H. Wu, "DFT-MSN: The Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network for Pervasive Information Gathering", to appear in IEEE INFOCOM'06, Barcelona, Spain, April 23-29, 2006.

 

 

 

 

Autumn ‘06

Date

Paper

Speaker

Dec 8 (Friday, 2pm)

Routing and Data Storage in Sensor Networks

(Kai-Wei) Xianjin Zhu, Rik Sarkar, Jie Gao, Shape Segmentation and Applications in Sensor Networks, to appear in 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications(INFOCOM'07), May, 2007.

Data Storage Placement in Sensor Networks, Bo Sheng, Qun Li and Weizhen Gao, Mobihoc 06

Meeting to discuss two problems:

1)    Fault Tolerant Data Storage Problem

2)    Routing with Holes in the Network

Background: State-of-the art papers on Routing

Noa Arad, Yuval Shavitt

Minimizing Recovery State In Geographic Ad-Hoc Routing

MobiHoc 2006

Le Zou; Mi Lu; Zixiang Xiong

A Distributed Algorithm for the Dead End Problem of Location Based

Routing in Sensor Networks IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Ananth Rao, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Christos Papadimitriou, Scott Shenker, Ion

Stoica Geographic Routing without Location Information,

MobiCom 2003

Background: State-of-the art papers on Data Storage

Data-Centric Storage in Sensornets with GHT, A Geographic Hash Table Sylvia Ratnasamy, Brad Karp, Scott Shenker, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, Li Yin and Fang Yu, MONET 2003

GEM: Graph EMbedding for Routing and DataCentric Storage in Sensor Networks Without Geographic Information, James Newsome, Dawn Song, SENSYS 2003

Some other papers:

Distance-sensitive routing and information brokerage in sensor networks
Yusu Wang with S. Funke, L. J. Guibas and A. Nguyen. DOCSS 2006.

 

Dec 7

(Thursday, 4pm)

Delay Tolerant Networking

(Kai-Wei) A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets, SIGCOMM Aug 2003

(Zizhan) PeopleNet: Engineering A Wireless Virtual Social Network, Mobicom 05

(Ren-Shiou) Resource and Performance Tradeoffs in DelayTolerant Wireless Networks, Sigcomm 05 Workshops

(Dongwook) Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Controlling the Mobility of Multiple Data Transport Ferries in a Delay-Tolerant Network," IEEE INFOCOM 2005, Miami Florida.

(Zizhan) Data MULEs: Modeling a Three-tier Architecture for Sparse Sensor Networks

SNPA Workshop, 2003.

Some other papers:

Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Multicast Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks: Semantic Models and Routing Algorithms," Proceedings of the SIGCOMM DTN Workshop, August 2005

Website with links to DTN projects: http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/~adparker/DTN/index.html

 

Nov 29

Middleware for Sensor Networks

(Sha) Issues in Designing Middleware for Wireless Sensor

Networks

Yang Yu, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, and Viktor K. Prasanna

(Kai-Wei) Middleware for Sensor Networks: StateoftheArt

And Future Directions _

Karen Henricksen, Ricky Robinson, MidSens 2006

(Ren-Shiou) DFuse: A Framework for Distributed Data Fusion *

Rajnish Kumar, Matthew Wolenetz, Bikash Agarwalla, JunSuk Shin,

Phillip Hutto, Arnab Paul, and Umakishore Ramachandran

SenSys 2003

(Dongwook) Manish Kochhal, Loren Schwiebert, and Sandeep Gupta, "Role-based Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks," available as technical report, May 2004.

(Zizhan) TeenyLIME: Transiently Shared Tuple Space

Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks, Midsens 2006

Some other papers:

Middleware to Support Sensor Network Applications

Wendi B. Heinzelman_y, Amy L. Murphy_z, Hervaldo S. Carvalho_, and Mark A. Perillo_y, IEEE Network 2003

Programming Paradigms and Middleware for Sensor Networks

Kay R¨omer

A Message-Oriented Middleware for Sensor Networks

Eduardo Souto, Germano Guimarães, Glauco Vasconcelos,

Mardoqueu Vieira, Nelson Rosa, Carlos Ferraz, Middleware 2004

Characterizing Middleware Mechanisms for Future Sensor Networks

Matthew Wolenetz

Middleware for Longterm Deployment of Delay tolerant Sensor Networks

Pei Zhang, Christopher M. Sadler and Margaret Martonosi. Midsens 2006

 

Nov 22

T. He, J. A.. Stankovic, C. Lu, and T. Abdelzaher,

SPEED: A stateless protocol for real-time communication in sensor

networks,

ICDCS2003

Ananth Rao, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Christos Papadimitriou, Scott Shenker, Ion

Stoica

Geographic Routing without Location Information,

MobiCom 2003

F. Ye, G. Zhong, S. Lu, and L. Zhang,

GRAdient Broadcast: A Robust Data Delivery Protocol for Large Scale