TPC Meeting and Workshop

MobiHoc 2016 TPC members are invited to attend a TPC Meeting and Workshop at Rice University.

General Information

TPC Meeting:	19 March 2016
TPC Workshop:	20 March 2016
Location:	Pollard Lecture Hall, Duncan Hall 1064 (1st floor), Rice University, Houston, TX
Organizers:	John Tadrous <jtadrous@rice.edu> (local arrangements) Srinivas Shakkottai <sshakkot@tamu.edu> Kar Koushik <koushik@ecse.rpi.edu>

Getting to Rice University

Rice is 25 minutes (60 with traffic) from Bush Intercontinental Airport and 15 minutes (45 with traffic) from Hobby Airport. Further information is availe on the University Website.

Houston has Uber, and there is a MetroRail train stop next to Rice University.

Meeting Location and Schedule

We prepared a map of Rice University with parking lots (circled in red) and meeting location at Duncan Hall, Room 1064 Pollard Lecture Hall (circled in yellow). We are expecting about 20 members to attend in person and some to connect online.

Breakfast will be at 8:00 AM and we will begin the TPC meeting at 8:30 AM.

Download Campus Map

TPC Workshop Schedule

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM – 8:45 AM

Welcome

Falko Dressler

University of Paderborn

8:45 AM – 10:15 AM

Session 1

Delay Analysis of Random Access Protocols using Service Martingales

Florin Ciucu
University of Warwick
Random interacting agents: Consensus and dissonance in heterogeneous models of the voter and majority rule-type.

Ravi Mazumdar
University of Waterloo
When do Complex Contagions Spread and Spread Fast?

Jie Gao
Stony Brook University

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Session 2

Performance Bound Analysis for Crowdsourced Mobile Video Streaming

Jianwei Huang
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Adaptive Multicast Services (AMuSe) for large-scale WiFi video distribution

Gil Zussman
Columbia University
On Adaptive Caching Networks

Stratis Ioannidis
Northeastern University

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch Break

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Session 3

IoT driven Smart Building Temperature Control Using Indoor Localization, Environmental Learning and Occupant Feedback

Koushik Kar
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The Impact of Reputation on Pricing in Online Markets: A Mean Field Game Perspective

Srinivas Shakkottai
Texas A&M University

TPC Dinner

The TPC Dinner will be held at Artisans Restaurant ( directions). They offer free parking in their attached parking garage or $5 valet parking. We will try to accommodate as many members as possible through carpooling, but using Uber might be needed.

Hotels

Local hotels (most to least expensive)

Hilton Houston Plaza – Medical Center
Wyndham Houston – Medical Center
Comfort Suites (no free shuttle)
Best Western Plaza Hotel and Suites (no free shuttle)
Extended Stay Hotel Houston Greenway (no free shuttle)

All hotels confirmed to have rooms available at the weekend of the TPC Meeting.