CSE730x Research Seminar

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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:

Presentation Schedule for Spring 2008

January 18, 2008 - Chien-Liang Fok

Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems 
Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Garber, Matthew Brennan, 
Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger (Univ. of Mass Amherst)
SenSys'07

Links: Paper, Slides

January 25, 2008 - Greg Hackmann

Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of RF Interference on 802.11 Networks
Ramki Gummadi (MIT), David Wetherall (UW), Ben Greenstein (IRS), Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)
SIGCOMM 2007

Links: Paper, Slides

Note: DCOSS deadline on Jan 28, 2008

February 1, 2008 - Octav Chipara

Datalink Streaming in Wireless Sensor Networks
Raghu K. Ganti, Praveen Jayachandran, Haiyun Luo, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher (UIUC)
SenSys 2006

Links: Paper

February 8, 2008 - Fei Sun

PIPENET: A wireless sensor network for pipeline monitoring
Stoianov, I., Nachman, L., Madden, S., and Tokmouline, T.
IPSN 2007

Links: Paper

February 15, 2008 - Abdel-Karim Al Tamimi


February 22, 2008 - Sangeeta Bhattacharya


February 29, 2008 - Chien-Liang Fok


March 7, 2008 - Greg Hackmann


March 21, 2008 - Octav Chipara


March 28, 2008 - Fei Sun


April 4, 2008 - Abdel-Karim Al Tamimi


April 11, 2008 - N/A

No Presentations due to SenSys Deadline.

April 18, 2008 - Sangeeta Bhattacharya


April 25, 2008 - N/A

No Presentations since everybody has presented twice.

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