CSE730x Research Seminar

• Instructors: Chenyang Lu and Gruia-Catalin Roman
• Time: Friday at 2-3pm, Location: Jolley 542

This seminar examines fundamental and emerging concepts in concurrency and distribution by studying seminal papers and recent research results. Broad topics of interest include models of concurrency, mobile computing, parallel architectures, sensor networks, distributed algorithms, and specialized protocols. Each semester, the seminar emphasizes different themes reflecting the current research interests of the participants.

The theme of this semester's seminar is Wireless Sensor Networks. We will read and discuss papers from recent major conferences on mobile, wireless, and sensor networks and systems. These conferences include:

• SenSys
• IPSN (ACM Archive)
• MobiCom (ACM archive)
• MobiSys (2006, ACM archive)
• NSDI (USENIX Website)
• SOSP
• OSDI (Archive website)
• RTSS (IEEE Archive)
• RTAS (IEEE Archive: part1 part2)

When choosing a paper to present, you may look through the conferences mentioned above, or view the list of potential papers.

January 16, 2009 - Eric You

Near-Optimal Sensor Placements in Gaussian Processes: Theory, Efficient
Algorithms and Empirical Studies; Andreas Krause, Ajit Singh and Carlos Guestrin;
In the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Volume 9, pp. 235--284,
2008.

Links: Paper, Slides

January 23, 2009 - Weijun (Vincent) Guo

Cao, Q., Abdelzaher, T., Stankovic, J., Whitehouse, K., and Luo, L. 2008. 
Declarative tracepoints: a programmable and application independent 
debugging system for wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 6th 
ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (Raleigh, NC, USA, 
November 05 - 07, 2008). SenSys '08. ACM, New York, NY, 85-98.

Links: Paper, DOI,[slides]

January 30, 2009 - Chengjie Wu

Jianping Song   Song Han   Mok, A.K.   Deji Chen   Lucas, M.   Nixon, M.,
WirelessHART: Applying Wireless Technology in Real-Time Industrial Process Control
RTAS'08

Links: Paper

February 6, 2009 - Abdel-Karim R. Al Tamimi

Baik Hoh et al. 
Virtual Trip Lines for Distributed Privacy-Preserving Traffic Monitoring. 
To appear at ACM MobiSys 2008. 

Links: Paper

February 13, 2009 - Yong Fu

"DVSleak: Combining Leakage Reduction and Voltage Scaling in
Feedback EDF Scheduling " by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in ACM SIGPLAN
Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems
(LCTES'07), Jun 2007

Links: Paper

February 20, 2009 - Abu Sayeed Saifullah

Bian, F., Kempe, D., and Govindan, R. 2006. Utility based sensor selection. 
In Proceedings of the 5th international Conference on information Processing 
in Sensor Networks (Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 19 - 21, 2006). 
IPSN '06. ACM, New York, NY, 11-18. 
DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1127777.1127783 

Links: Paper

February 27, 2009 - Chien-Liang Fok

Rodrigo Fonseca, Prabal Dutta, Philip Levis, and Ion Stoica. "Quanto:
Tracking Energy in Networked Embedded Systems." Proceedings of the Eighth 
USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2008.

Links: Paper

March 13, 2009 - Canceled

Existing studies and solutions to wireless interference.

May 1, 2009 - N/A

Final Exams

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