ACM SenSys 2008
The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Raleigh, NC, Nov. 5 - Nov. 7, 2008

 

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Advance Program:

 

Tuesday, November 4th

Workshops….

 

Wednesday, November 5th

 

8:30 - 08:45 Opening Announcements

 

8:45- 10:00 Keynote Address.

 

10:00 - 10:30 Break

 

10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 1: Networking

·         RI-MAC:  A  Receiver  Initiated  Asynchronous  Duty  Cycle  MAC  Protocol  for  Dynamic  Traffic  Load. Yanjun Sun (Rice University, US); Omer Gurewitz (Ben Gurion University, IL); David B. Johnson (Rice University, US)

·         IP  is  Dead,  Long  Live  IP  for  Wireless  Sensor  Networks. Jonathan Hui (University of California at Berkeley, US); David Culler (University of California at Berkeley, US)

·         The  Beta  Factor:  Measuring  Wireless  Link  Burstiness. Kannan Srinivasan (Stanford University, US); Maria Kazandjieva (Stanford University, US); Saatvik Agarwal (Stanford University, US); Philip Levis (Stanford, US)

 

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 2: Deployment and Topology Discovery

·         The  Hitchhiker's  Guide  to  Successful  Wireless  Sensor  Network  Deployments. Guillermo Barrenetxea (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), CH); François Ingelrest (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH); Gunnar Schaefer (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH); Martin Vetterli (EPFL, CH)

·         Robust  Topology  Control  for  Indoor  Wireless  Sensor  Networks. Gregory Hackmann (Washington University in St. Louis, US); Octav Chipara (Washington University in St.Louis, US); Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, US)

·          Practical  Asynchronous  Neighbor  Discovery  and  Rendezvous  for  Mobile  Sensing

Applications. Prabal Dutta (University of California at Berkeley, US); David Culler (University of California at Berkeley, US)

 

15:00 - 15:30 Break

 

15:30 - 17:00 SESSION 3: Debugging

·         Declarative  Tracepoints:  A  Programmable  and  Application  Independent  Debugging System  for  Wireless  Sensor  Networks. Qing Cao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US); John Stankovic (University of Virginia, US); Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia, US); Liqian Luo (Microsoft Research, US)

·         DustMiner:  Troubleshooting  Interactive  Complexity  Bugs  in  Sensor  Networks. Mohammad Khan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Hieu Le (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Hossein Ahmadi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US); Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US)

·         PAD:  Passive  Diagnosis  for  Wireless  Sensor  Networks. Kebin Liu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, CN); Mo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Techonlogy, HK); Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN); Zhongwen Guo (Ocean University of China, CN); Feng Hong (Ocean University of China, CN)

 

Thursday, November 6th

 

8:30 - 10:00 SESSION 4: Selected Problems in WSNs 

·         Spinning  Beacons  for  Precise  Indoor  Localization. Ho-lin Chang (National Taiwan University, TW); Jr-Ben (Ben) Tian (National Taiwan University, TW); Tsung-Te Lai (National Taiwan University, TW); Hao-hua Chu (National Taiwan University, TW); Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, TW)

·         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)

·         Distributed  Image Search  in  Sensor  Networks. Tingxin Yan (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US); R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, US)

 

10:00 - 10:30 Break

 

10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 5: Data Analysis

  • Lance:  Optimizing  High Resolution  Signal  Collection  in  Wireless  Sensor  Networks. Geoffrey Werner-Allen (Harvard University, US); Stephen Dawson-Haggerty (University of California, Berkeley, US); Matt Welsh (Harvard University, US)
  • Accurate  Localization  of  Low level  Radioactive  Source  Under  Noise and  Measurement  Errors. Jren-Chit Chin (Purdue University, US); David K. Y. Yau (Purdue University, US); Nageswara Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US); Yong Yang (UIUC, US); Chris Yu Tak Ma (Purdue University, US); Mallikarjun Shankar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
  • A  Methodology  for  in-network  evaluation  of  integrated  logical -statistical  models. Anu Singh (Stony Brook University, US); C. R. Ramakrishnan (Stony Brook University, US); I. V. Ramakrishnan (SUNY Stony Brook, US); David Warren (Stony Brook University, US); Jennifer Wong (SUNY Stony Brook University, US)

 

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch + Business Meeting

 

14:00 - 17:15 Demonstration and Poster Session

 

18:00 - 22:00 Conference Banquet.

 

Friday, November 7th

 

08:30 - 10:00 SESSION 6: Architecture Aspects of Sensor Networks

 

·         Resource Aware Programming in the Pixie Operating System. Konrad Lorincz (Harvard University, US); Bor-rong Chen (Harvard University, US); Jason Waterman (Harvard University, US); Geoff Werner-Allen (Harvard University, US); Matt Welsh (Harvard University, US)

·         MacroLab:  A  Framework  for  Deployment‐Specific  Code  Decomposition. Tamim Sookoor (University of Virginia, US); Timothy Hnat (University of Virginia, US); Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia, US)

·         Steady  and  Fair  Rate  Allocation  for  Rechargeable  Sensors  in  Perpetual  Sensor  Networks. Kaiwei Fan (The Ohio State University, US); Zizhan Zheng (The Ohio State University, US); Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, US)

 

10:00 - 10:30 Break

 

10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 7: Sensor Networks Design Issues

·         Tiny Web Services: Design and Implementation of Interoperable and Evolvable Sensor Networks. Nissanka Priyantha (Microsoft Research, US); Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research, US); Michel Goraczko (Microsoft Research, US); Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research, US)

·         A  Building Block Approach to Sensornet Systems.  Prabal Dutta (University of California at Berkeley, US); Jay Taneja (UC Berkeley, US); Jaein Jeong (University of California, Berkeley, US); Xiaofan Jiang (UC Berkeley, US); David Culler (University of California at Berkeley, US)

·         PoolView:  Stream  Privacy  for  Grassroots  Participatory  Sensing. Raghu Kiran Ganti (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Nam Pham Duc (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Yu-En Tsai (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US)

 

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 - 15:30 SESSION 8: APPLICATIONS

·         Model-Based  Monitoring  for  Early  Warning  Flood  Detection. Elizabeth Basha (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Sai Ravela (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Daniela

Rus (MIT, US)

·         NAWMS:  Nonintrusive  Autonomous  Water  Monitoring  System. Younghun Kim (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Thomas Schmid (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Zainul Charbiwala (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Jonathan Friedman (UCLA, US); Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, US)

·         Nericell:  Rich  Monitoring  of  Road  and  Traffic  Conditions  using  Mobile  Smartphones. Prashanth Mohan (Microsoft Research India, IN); Venkata Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research, US); Ramachandran Ramjee (Microsoft Research, IN)

·         Sensing Meets Mobile Social Networks: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the CenceMe Application.  Emiliano Miluzzo (Dartmouth College, US); Nicholas Lane (Dartmouth College, US); Kristóf Fodor (Dartmouth College, US); Ronald Peterson (Dartmouth College, US); Shane Eisenman (Columbia University, US); Hong Lu (Dartmouth College, US); Mirco Musolesi (Dartmouth College, US); Xiao Zheng (Dartmouth College, US); Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College, US)

 

15:30 - 15:45 Break

 

15:45 - 17:00 "Soap Box" talks

 

A series of 5 minute talks providing strong, controversial, and/or outrageous opinions on a topic within the scope of SenSys, e.g., direction the field should/should not take, future predictions, etc.

 

 17:00 - 17:15 Best Talk Award and Closing

 

 

Sponsors:

     

Organizing Committee:

General Chair:
Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC)


Program Co-Chairs:
Margaret Martonosi (Princeton)
Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin)


Poster Co-Chairs:
Phillipe Bonnet (U. Copenhagen)

Tian He (UMN)


Demo Co-Chairs:
Kamin Whitehouse (UVa)

Yunhao Liu (HKUST)


Local Arrangements Chair:
Injong Rhee (NC State)


Publicity Co-Chairs:
Thiemo Voigt (SICS)
Liqian Luo (MSR)
Yoshito Tobe (Tokyo Denki Univ.)

Sponsorship Chair:
Matt Welsh (Harvard)


Web Chair:
Ying Zhang (PARC)


Registration Chair:
Peter Corke (CSIRO ICT Centre)


Finance Chair:
Jie Liu (MSR)


Workshop Chair:
Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth)


Student Award Chair:
Sam Madden (MIT)


Publication Chair:
 Joe Polastre (Sentilla)

Technical Program Committee:

 
Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State
Mark Corner, Umass
Rick Han, Colorado
Adam Dunkels, SICS
Deepak Ganesan, UMass
Phil Gibbons, Intel Research,
 
Wiliam Kaiser, UCLA 
Ralph Kling, Crossbow 
Koen Langendoen, TU Delft
Sam Madden, MIT
Lama Nachman, Intel Research
Joe Polastre, Sentilla
Ram Ramjee, Microsoft  Research
 
Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich
Paolo Santi,  Pisa
Andreas Savvides, Yale Univ.
Jack Stankovic, Univ. of Virginia
Matt  Welsh, Harvard Univ.
Kamin Whitehouse, Univ. of Virginia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated by Ying Zhang 08/28/2008