Program
Awards
Best Paper
ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
Suman Nath (Microsoft Research)
IEEE Transactions in Mobile Computing
Three papers were selected for a special section of IEEE Transactions in Mobile Computing
ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
Suman Nath (Microsoft Research)
SwordFight: Enabling a New Class of Phone-to-Phone Action Games on Commodity Phones
Zengbin Zhang (University of California Santa Barbara), David Chu (Microsoft Research), Xiaomeng Chen (University of Science and Technology of China), and Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research Asia)
FM-based Indoor Localization
Yin Chen (Johns Hopkins University) and Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, and Bodhi Priyantha (Microsoft Research)
Public review site
Please visit http://reviews.mobisys2012.rice.edu/, the public review site for the accepted papers. On this site, you will find the following information: (1) paper information (usually with a link to the authors' camera ready); (2) a public review for each paper written by a PC member that summarizes why the PC decided to include the paper in the conference program; (3) a rebuttal from the authors to the public review if they chose to do so. You can add your opinions to the website too.At a Glance
Monday, June 25
Tuesday, June 26
| 8:45 – 9:15 | Opening remarks |
| 9:15 – 10:30 | Keynote |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Context & Applications |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Network I |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Panel Session |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Poster & Demos – Reception |
Wednesday, June 27
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Systems |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Location |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Cellular |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Security |
| 17:30 – 18:15 | Outrageous Opinions (Call for Speakers) |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Banquet |
Thursday, June 28
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Sensing |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Network II |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
Friday, June 29
Sessions
Tuesday, June 26
Keynote Speech
9:15 – 10:30
Dr. Paul Jones
Paul is the NHS Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for the Technology Office in the Department of Health Informatics Directorate. The Technology Office provides:
- technical assurance of nationally delivered solutions,
- the development and management of NHS technology and data standards and guidance,
- the provision of test support and test assurance services to ensure compliance to contracted standards, and
- support to the Information Standards Board and the National Information Governance Board.
Paul began his career as an academic lecturing in Computer Science before joining a software company. The majority of his career prior to joining the NHS was in IT and Management consultancy.
Paul holds a BSc(Hons) and PhD in Computer Science, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is a Chartered IT Professional.
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Session 1: Context & Applications
11:00 – 12:30
Session Chair: Sharad Agarwal (Microsoft Research)
SwordFight: Enabling a New Class of Phone-to-Phone Action Games on Commodity Phones
Zengbin Zhang (University of California Santa Barbara), David Chu (Microsoft Research), Xiaomeng Chen (University of Science and Technology of China), and Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research Asia)
ExerLink - Enabling Pervasive Social Exergames with Heterogeneous Exercise Devices
Taiwoo Park (KAIST), Sunghoon Ivan Lee (UCLA), and Inseok Hwang, Chungkuk Yoo, Uichin Lee, and Junehwa Song (KAIST)
ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
Suman Nath (Microsoft Research)
CoMon: Cooperative Ambience Monitoring Platform with Continuity and Benefit Awareness
Youngki Lee, Younghyun Ju, Chulhong Min, Seungwoo Kang, Inseok Hwang, and Junehwa Song (KAIST)
Lunch
12:30 – 14:00
Session 2: Network I
14:00 – 15:30
Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University)
MicroCast: Cooperative Video Streaming on Smartphones
Lorenzo Keller (EPFL, Lausanne, CH), Anh Le and Blerim Cici (UC Irvine, CA, US), Hulya Seferoglu (MIT, MA, US), Christina Fragouli (EPFL, Lausanne, CH), and Athina Markopoulou (UC Irvine, USA)
Flit: A Bulk Transmission Protocol for RFID-Scale Sensors
Jeremy Gummeson, Pengyu Zhang, and Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
COBRA: Color Barcode Streaming for Smartphone Systems
Tian Hao, Ruogu Zhou, and Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University)
BLINK: A High Throughput Link Layer for Backscatter Communication
Pengyu Zhang, Jeremy Gummeson, and Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Break
15:30 – 16:00
Panel Session
16:00 – 17:00
Your Mobile, Friend or Foe ?
Chair: Albrecht Schmidt
Panelists:
- Robin Kravets
- Landon Cox
- Eyal de Lara
- Romit Roy Choudhury
Poster & Demos – Reception
18:00 – 20:00
Wednesday, June 27
Session 3: Systems
9:00 – 10:30
Rajesh Balan (Singapore Management University)
Fast App Launching for Mobile Devices using Predictive User Context
Tingxin Yan (University of Massachusetts Amherst), David Chu (Microsoft Research), Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Aman Kansal and Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)
Web Caching on Smartphones: Ideal vs. Reality
Feng Qian, Kee Shen Quah, and Junxian Huang (University of Michigan), Jeffrey Erman and Alexandre Gerber (AT&T Labs - Research), Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan), and Subhabrata Sen and Oliver Spatscheck (AT&T Labs - Research)
Mobius: Unified Messaging and Data Serving for Mobile Apps
Byung-Gon Chun, Carlo Curino, Russell Sears, and Alexander Shraer (Yahoo! Research), Samuel Madden (MIT), and Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo! Research)
Informed Mobile Prefetching
Brett Higgins and Jason Flinn (University of Michigan), T.J. Giuli (Ford Motor Co.), Brian Noble (University of Michigan), Christopher Peplin (Ford Motor Co.), and David Watson (Arbor Networks)
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Session 4: Location
11:00 – 12:30
Session Chair: Anthony LaMarca (Intel)
FM-based Indoor Localization
Yin Chen (Johns Hopkins University) and Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, and Bodhi Priyantha (Microsoft Research)
You are Now Facing the Mona Lisa: Spot Localization using PHY Layer Information
Souvik Sen (Duke University), Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research), Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University), and Tom Minka (Microsoft Research)
No Need to War-Drive: Unsupervised Indoor Localization
He Wang and Souvik Sen (Duke University),Moustafa Farid, Ahmed Elgohary, and Moustafa Youssef (EJUST), and Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University)
Satellites in Our Pockets: An Object Positioning System using Smartphones
Justin Manweiler, Puneet Jain, and Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University)
Lunch
12:30 – 14:00
Session 5: Cellular
14:00 – 15:30
Rajarshi Gupta (Qualcomm)
A Close Examination of Performance and Power Characteristics of 4G LTE Networks
Junxian Huang and Feng Qian (University of Michigan), Alexandre Gerber (AT&T Labs Research), Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan), and Subhabrata Sen and Oliver Spatscheck (AT&T Labs Research)
Human Mobility Modeling at Metropolitan Scales
Richard Becker and Ramón Cáceres (AT&T Labs), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University), James Rowland, Alexander Varshavsky, and Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs), and Sibren Isaacman (Princeton University)
Isolating and Analyzing Fraud Activities in a Large Cellular Network via Voice Call Graph Analysis
Nan Jiang (University of Minnesota), Yu Jin, Ann Skudlark, Wen-Ling Hsu, Guy Jacobson, and Siva Prakasam (AT&T Labs -- Research), and Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota)
What is keeping my phone awake? Characterizing and Detecting No-Sleep Energy Bugs in Smartphone Apps
Abhinav pathak, Abhilash Jindal, Y. Charlie Hu, and Sam Midkiff (Purdue University)
Break
15:30 – 17:00
Session 6: Security
16:00 – 17:30
Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University)
RiskRanker: Scalable and Accurate Zero-day Android Malware Detection
Michael Grace (North Carolina State University and NQ Mobile Inc.), Yajin Zhou (North Carolina State University), Qiang Zhang (NQ Mobile Inc.), Shihong Zou (NQ Mobile Inc. and Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication), and Xuxian Jiang (North Carolina State University and NQ Mobile Inc.)
Opaak: Using Mobile Phones to Limit Anonymous Identities Online
Gabriel Maganis (University of California, Davis), Elaine Shi (University of California, Berkeley), Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), and Dawn Song (University of California, Berkeley)
Plug-n-Trust: Practical Trusted Sensing for mHealth
Jacob Sorber (Dartmouth College), Minho Shin (Myongji University), and Ronald Peterson and David Kotz (Dartmouth College)
TapPrints: Your Finger Taps have Fingerprints
Emiliano Miluzzo, Alexander Varshavsky, and Suhrid Balakrishnan (AT&T Labs) and Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University)
Thursday, June 28
Session 7: Sensing
9:00 – 10:30
Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University)
Medusa: A Programming Framework for Crowd-Sensing Applications
Moo-Ryong Ra and Bin Liu (University of Southern California), Tom La Porta (Penn State University), and Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California)
Open Data Kit Sensors: A Sensor Integration Framework for Android at the Application-Level
Waylon Brunette, Rohit Chaudhri, Rita Sodt, Mayank Goel, Michael Falcone, Jaylen VanOrden, and Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington)
Software Abstractions for Trusted Sensors
He Liu (UC San Diego), Stefan Saroiu and Alec Wolman (Microsoft Research), and Himanshu Raj (Microsoft Reserach)
How Long to Wait?: Predicting Bus Arrival Time with Mobile Phone based Participatory Sensing
Pengfei Zhou, Yuanqing Zheng, and Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University)
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Session 8: Network II
11:00 – 12:30
Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research)
Beyond Deployments and Testbeds: Experiences with Public Usage on Vehicular WiFi Hotspots
Joshua Hare, Lance Hartung, and Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
WIISARD: A Measurement Study of Network Properties and Protocol Reliability during an Emergency Response
Octav Chipara (University of Iowa) and William G. Griswold, Anders N. Plymoth, Ricky Huang, Fang Liu, Per Johansson, Ramesh Rao, Theodore C. Chan, and Colleen Buono (University of California San Diego)
DozyAP: Power-Efficient Wi-Fi Tethering
Hao Han (Microsoft Research Asia and College of William and Mary), Yunxin Liu, Guobin Shen, and Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), and Qun Li (College of William and Mary)
CiAO/IP: A Highly Configurable Aspect-Oriented IP Stack
Christoph Borchert (TU Dortmund), Daniel Lohmann (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), and Olaf Spinczyk (TU Dortmund)
Lunch
12:30 – 14:00