CSCI 7143, Mobile Computing

Paper Schedule

(this page is under construction - papers and links will change)

Introduction/Overview

Aug. 27: Course Introduction.
Aug. 29: Project ideas.
Sept. 5:

Mark Weiser, "Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing.", Communications of the ACM, 1993.

Deborah Estrin, David Culler, Kris Pister, Gaurav Sukhatme, “Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks”, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 1, Issue 1 (January 2002), Pages: 59 - 69.

Sept. 10:

G. Forman, J. Zahorjan, "The Challenges of Mobile Computing," IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 4, April 1994, pp. 38-47.

Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

Sept. 12:

Roy Want, Andy Hopper, V. Falcao, J. Gibbons, "The Active Badge Location System," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1992, pp. 91-102.

Sept. 19:

Andy Harter, Andy Hopper, Pete Steggles, Andy Ward, and Paul Webster, "The Anatomy of a Context-Aware Application." Proceedings of 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom '99), August 1999, pp. 59-68.

Sept. 17:

K. Cheverst, N. Davies, K. Mitchell, A. Friday, "Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project," ACM MobiCom 2000, pp. 20-31

Sept 24:

A. Mainwaring, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, D. Culler, J. Anderson,"Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring", First ACM Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA) 2002, pp. 88-97.

Sept. 26:

Design Review

October 1
- Best Paper Award: C. Hartung, S. Holbrook, R. Han, C. Seielstad, “FireWxNet: A Multi-Tiered Portable Wireless System for Monitoring Weather Conditions in Wildland Fire Environments”, Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys) 2006, pp. 28-41.
October 3

G. Simon, M. Maróti, Á. Lédeczi, G. Balogh, B. Kusy, A. Nádas, G. Pap, J. Sallai, and K. Frampton, 2004. "Sensor network-based countersniper system." In Proceedings of the 2nd international Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Baltimore, MD, USA, November 03 - 05, 2004). SenSys '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 1-12. (aka Shooter Localization)

[Interesting additional reading]

W. Hamburgen, D. Wallach, M. Viredaz, L. Brakmo, C. Waldspurger, J. Bartlett, T. Mann, K. Farkas, "Itsy: Stretching the Bounds of Mobile Computing," IEEE Computer, vol. 34, no. 4, April 2001, pp. 28-36.
S. Narayanaswamy, S. Seshan, E. Amir, E. Brewer, R. Brodersen, F. Burghardt, A. Burstein, Y. Chang; A. Fox, J. Gilbert, R. Han, R. Katz, A. Long, D. Messerschmitt, J. Rabaey, "A Low-Power, Lightweight Unit to Provide Ubiquitous Information Access: Application and Network Support for InfoPad," IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 3, no. 2, April 1996, pp. 4-17.

Technology - Localization, RFID

October 8

N. Priyantha, A. Miu, H. Balakrishnan, S. Teller, "The Cricket Compass For Context-Aware Mobile Applications," ACM MobiCom 2001, pp. 1-14.

October 10

Y. Zhao, "Standardization of mobile phone positioning for 3G systems", IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2002, vol. 40, issue 7, pp. 108-116.

[Iinteresting additional reading on localization]

D. Handler, An Island of Chaos Surrounded by a Sea of Confusion: The E911 Wireless Device Location Initiative, Virginia Journal of Law & Technology, Winter 2005, University of Virginia, vol. 10, no. 1.
A. Haeberlen, E. Flannery, A. Ladd, A. Rudys, D. Wallach, and L. Kavraki. "Practical robust localization over large-scale 802.11 wireless networks". In Proceedings of the 10th Annual international Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 26 - October 01, 2004). MobiCom '04.
Best paper award: D. Moore, J. Leonard, D. Rus, and S. Teller, Robust distributed network localization with noisy range measurements, in Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '04), Baltimore, MD, pp. 50-61, November 2004. (Anchor-free localization).
P. Bahl, V. Padmanabhan, "RADAR: An In-Building RF-based User Location and Tracking System," IEEE INFOCOM 2000, vol. 2, pp. 775-784.
Nissanka B. Priyantha, Anit Chakraborty, and Hari Balakrishnan, "The Cricket Location-Support System." Proc. 6th ACM MOBICOM, August 2000, pp. 32-43.

October 15

R. Want, "An Introduction to RFID Technology", IEEE Pervasive Computing, Jan.-March 2006, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, pp. 25- 33.

October 17

S. Garfinkel, A. Juels, R. Pappu, "RFID Privacy: An Overview of Problems and Proposed Solutions", IEEE Security and Privacy, May/June 2005 (Vol. 3, No. 3), pp. 34-43.
RFID applications?

Wireless Networking

October 22:

Design Review

October 24:

X. Hong, K. Xu, and M. Gerla, "Scalable Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Network, 16(4):11-21, 2002.

October 29:

D. Aguayo, J. Bicket, S. Biswas, G. Judd, R. Morris, "Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network", SIGCOMM 2004, Aug 2004 (Best Student Paper Award Winner) (Roofnet)

October 31:

R. Kravets, P. Krishnan, "Application-driven Power Management For Mobile Communication," Wireless Networks, no. 6, 2000, pp. 263-277.

November 5:

no class - attending SenSys

November 7: (guest Professor Shiv Mishra - DTNs)

A. Seth, D. Kroeker, M. Zaharia, S. Guo, and S. Keshav. 2006. "Low-cost communication for rural internet kiosks using mechanical backhaul". In Proceedings of the 12th Annual international Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2006. pp. 334-345.
[Interesting additional reading]

Huang, J., Amjad, S., and Mishra, S. CenWits: a sensor-based loosely coupled search and rescue system using witnesses. In Proceedings of the 3rd international Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. (SenSys) 2005. 180-191.
Bret Hull, Vladimir Bychkovsky, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Allen Miu, Eugene Shih, Yang Zhang, Hari Balakrishnan, and Samuel Madden, CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System. in Proc. ACM SenSys, 2006
Zhang X., J. Kurose, B. Levine, D. Towsley, H. Zhang. 2007. Study of a Bus-Based Disruption Tolerant Network: Mobility Modeling and Impact on Routing. ACM MobiCom 2007.
Zhang, P., C. Sadler, S. Lyon, and M. Martonosi. 2004. Hardware design experiences in ZebraNet. In Proceedings of the 2nd international Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2004.pp. 227-238.

November 12:

S. Dekleva, J. Shim, U. Varshney, and G. Knoerzer, "Evolution and emerging issues in mobile wireless networks". Commun. ACM 50, 6 (Jun. 2007), 38-43.

November 14:

M. B. Steer, “Beyond 3G,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, February 2007, pp. 76–82.

[Interesting additional reading]

M. Buettner, G. Yee, E. Anderson, R. Han, "X-MAC: A Short Preamble MAC Protocol for Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks", The 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2006, pp. 307-320.
P. Bhagwat, C. Bisdikian, I. Korpeoglu, M. Naghshineh, "BlueSky: A Cordless Networking Solution for Palmtop Computers," ACM MobiCom 1999, pp. 69-76.
E. Shih, P. Bahl, and M. Sinclair. "Wake on wireless: an event driven energy saving strategy for battery operated devices". In Proceedings of the 8th Annual international Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 23 - 28, 2002), pp.160 - 171.
Hari Balakrishnan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan, and Randy H. Katz, "A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1997.
VANETs
Bluetooth

Middleware Services/Infrastructure

November 19-21 : Thanksgiving break
November 26:

G. Kueening, G. Popek, "Automated Hoarding for Mobile Computers," ACM SOSP, 1997, pp. 264-275.
[Interesting additional reading]

J. Kistler, M. Satyanarayanan, "Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1992.

November 28:

Jason Flinn and M. Satyanarayanan, "Energy-aware Adaptation for Mobile Applications." Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December, 1999.

December 3: (text messaging)

Grinter, Rebecca, Leysia Palen and Margery Eldridge (2006). Chatting with Teenagers: Considering the Place of Chat Technologies in Teen Life. ACM Transactions on Human Computer Interaction, 13, (4): 423-447.

[Interesting additional reading]: Grinter, Rebecca and Leysia Palen (2002). Instant Messaging in Teen Life. Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '02), New Orleans, Louisiana, 21-30.

Palen, Leysia, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, and Sophia Liu (2007). Online Forums Supporting Grassroots Participation in Emergency Preparedness and Response. Communications of the ACM, 50 (3) (Mar. 2007): 54-58.

[Interesting additional reading]

Service Discovery: Jini, UPNP, SLP, ...

Roaming, MobileIP
A. Joseph, J. Tauber, M. Frans Kaashoek, "Mobile Computing With the Rover Toolkit," IEEE Transactions on Computers: Special Issue on Mobile Computing, vol. 46, no. 3, March 1997, pp. 337-352.
Odyssey: B. Noble, M. Satyanarayanan, D. Narayanan, J. E. Tilton, J. Flinn, K. Walker. "Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility." Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, October 1997.