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.
September 12, 2008 - Sangeeta Bhattacharya
September 19, 2008 - Greg Hackmann
A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks. Vladimir Bychkovsky, Bret Hull, Allen K. Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden. MobiCom 2006.
September 26, 2008 - Yong Fu
Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, "Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching for Connection-Intensive Internet Services" NSDI 2008, San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
October 3, 2008 - Vincent Guo
A Measurement Study of Interference Modeling and Scheduling in Low Power Wireless Networks. Ritesh Maheshwari (Stony Brook University, US); Shweta Jain (Staccato Communications, US); Samir Das (Stony Brook University, US). SenSys'08.
Abstract:
Accurate interference models are important for use in transmission scheduling algorithms in wireless networks. In this work, we perform extensive modeling and experimentation on two 20-node TelosB motes testbeds { one indoor and the otheroutdoor { to compare a suite of interference models for their modeling accuracies. We ¯rst empirically build and validate the physical interference model via a packet reception rate vs. SINR relationship using a measurement driven method. We then similarly instantiate other simpler models,such as hop-based, range-based, prot- ocol model,etc. The modeling accuracies are then evaluated on the two testbeds using transmission scheduling exper- iments. We observe that while the physicalinterference model is the most accurate, it is still far from perfect, providing a 90-percentile error about 20-25% (and 80 percentile error 7-12%),depending on the scenario. The accura- cy of the other models is worse and scenario-speci¯c. The second best model trails the physical model by roughly 12-18 percentile points for similar accuracy targets. Somewhat similar throughput performance di®erential between models is also observed when used with greedy scheduling algorithms. Carrying on further, we look closely into the the two incarnations of the physical model {`thresholded'(conservative, but typically considered in literature) and `graded' (more realistic). We show via solving the one shot scheduling problem, that the graded version can improve `expected throughput' over the thresholded version by scheduling imperfect links.
Links:paper slide(open document format)
October 10, 2008 - Chengjie Wu
IP is Dead, Long Live IP for Wireless Sensor Networks, Jonathan W. Hui and David E. Culler. To appear in Proceedings of SenSys '08.
Links: Paper
October 17, 2008 - Chien-Liang Fok
Fall Break
October 24, 2008 - Justin Luner
"Practical Asynchronous Neighbor Discovery and Rendezvous for Mobile Sensing Applications," Prabal Dutta and David Culler, In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'08). To appear.
Links: Paper
October 31, 2008 - Octav Chipara
November 7, 2008 - Sangeeta Bhattacharya
November 14, 2008 - Greg Hackmann
NAWMS: Nonintrusive Autonomous Water Monitoring System. Younghun Kim, Thomas Schmid, Zainul M. Charbiwala, Jonathan Friedman, Mani B. Srivastava. SenSys '08.
November 21, 2008 - Yong Fu
Adaptive Control of Virtualized Resources in Utility Computing Environments Padala, P., Shin, K., Zhu, X., Uysal, M., Wang, Z., Singhal, S., Merchant A., Salem, K. EuroSys 2007
November 28, 2008 - N/A
Thanksgiving
December 5, 2008 - Vincent Guo
The Beta Factor: Measuring Wireless Link Burstiness. Kannan Srinivasan (Stanford University, US); Maria Kazandjieva; Saatvik Agarwal; Philip Levis (Stanford, US). SenSys'08.
links:paper
December 12, 2008 - Chengjie Wu
December 19, 2008 - N/A
Winter Break
