CSCI 7143, Mobile Computing

Paper Schedule

(this page is subject to change)

• Week 1, Monday: Course Introduction.
• Week 1, Wednesday:
  
• Mark Weiser, "Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing.", Communications of the ACM, 1993.
• Week 2, Monday:
• G. Forman, J. Zahorjan, "The Challenges of Mobile Computing,"   IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 4, April 1994, pp. 38-47.
• M. Satyanarayanan. 1996. "Fundamental challenges in mobile computing." In Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing (PODC '96). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-7.
• Week 2, Wednesday:
• Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Kristof Fodor, Ronald Peterson, Hong Lu, Mirco Musolesi, Shane B. Eisenman, Xiao Zheng, and Andrew T. Campbell. 2008. "Sensing meets mobile social networks: the design, implementation and evaluation of the CenceMe application". In Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems (SenSys '08). pp. 337-350.
  
• Week 3, Wednesday: (Sept 7, Monday was Labor Day)
• TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones. William Enck, Peter Gilbert, Byung-Gon Chun, Landon P. Cox, Jaeyeon Jung, Patrick McDaniel, and Anmol N. Sheth. OSDI 2010. Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2010.
• Week 4, Monday:
• Cory Cornelius, Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, Dan Peebles, Minho Shin, and Nikos Triandopoulos. 2008. Anonysense: privacy-aware people-centric sensing. In Proceeding of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 211-224.
• Week 4, Wednesday:
• MoVi: Mobile Phone based Video Highlights via Collaborative Sensing, Xuan Bao, Romit Roy Choudhury, ACM MobiSys, June, 2010.
• Week 5, Monday:
• Eduardo Cuervo, Aruna Balasubramanian, Dae-ki Cho, Alec Wolman, Stefan Saroiu, Ranveer Chandra, and Paramvir Bahl. 2010. "MAUI: making smartphones last longer with code offload". In Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys '10), 49-62.
• Week 5, Wednesday:
• Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, and Kyumin Lee. 2010. "You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users." In Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 759-768.
• Week 6, Monday:
• Sonesh Surana, Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, Manuel Ramos, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Yahel Ben-David, and Eric Brewer. 2008. "Beyond pilots: keeping rural wireless networks alive." In Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'08), Jon Crowcroft and Mike Dahlin (Eds.). USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 119-132.
  
• Week 6, Wednesday:
• Best Paper: Vishnu Navda, Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Kannan Dhanasekaran, Andreas Timm-Giel, and Samir Das. 2007.  "MobiSteer: using steerable beam directional antenna for vehicular network access." In Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services (MobiSys '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 192-205.
  
• Week 7, Monday:
• 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)
• Week 7, Wednesday:
• Projects Discussion: The above papers are designed to expose you to a broad range of hot recent research topics before you have to choose a research project for the class.  This should give you ideas about good projects.
  
• Subsequent papers in week 8 onwards will consist of mostly canonical papers in mobile computing.
• Week 8, Monday:
• 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.
• Week 8, Wednesday:
• 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.
• Week 9, Monday:
• Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell and Adrian Friday, "Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project,"  ACM MobiCom 2000, pp. 20-31.
• Week 9, Wednesday:
• 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
• Week 10, Monday:
• 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.
• Week 10, Wednesday:
• X. Hong, K. Xu, and M. Gerla, "Scalable Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Network, 16(4):11-21, 2002.
• Week 11, Monday:
• Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket, Sanjit Biswas, Glenn Judd, Robert Morris, "Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network", SIGCOMM 2004, Aug 2004 (Best Student Paper Award Winner)  (Roofnet)
• Week 11, Wednesday:
• N. Priyantha, A. Miu, H. Balakrishnan, S. Teller, "The Cricket Compass For Context-Aware Mobile Applications,"  ACM MobiCom 2001, pp. 1-14.
• Week 12, Monday:
• 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. 
• Week 12, Wednesday:
• G. Kueening, G. Popek, "Automated Hoarding for Mobile Computers," ACM SOSP, 1997, pp. 264-275.
• Week 13, Monday:
• Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Sivalingam, Katrina LaCurts, Sivan Toledo, Jakob Eriksson, Samuel Madden, and Hari Balakrishnan. VTrack: Accurate, Energy-Aware Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones. In SenSys, pages 85-98. ACM, 2009. Best paper award. [ .pdf ]
• Week 13, Wednesday:
• James Biagioni, Tomas Gerlich, Timothy Merrifield, and Jakob Eriksson, "EasyTracker: Automatic Transit Tracking, Mapping, and Arrival Time Prediction Using Smartphones" (University of Illinois at Chicago), ACM SenSys 2011.
• Week 14 (Thanksgiving/Fall Break)
• Week 15, Monday:
  
• S. Agarwal, I. Constandache, S. Gaonkar, R. Choudhury, K. Cave, F. DeRuyter, "Using Mobile Phones to Write in Air", MobiSys 2011.
• Week 15, Wednesday:
• Chunyi Peng, Guobin Shen, Yongguang Zhang, Yanlin Li, and Kun Tan. 2007. BeepBeep: a high accuracy acoustic ranging system using COTS mobile devices. SenSys 2007. pp. 1-14