Program

Awards

Best Papers

Accelerating Mobile Applications through Flip-Flop Replication
Mark Gordon, David Ke Hong, Peter Chen, Jason Flinn, Scott Mahlke, Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)

Outatime: Using Speculation to Enable Low-Latency Continuous Interaction for Mobile Cloud Gaming
Kyungmin Lee, David Chu, Eduardo Cuervo, Johannes Kopf, Yury Degtyarev, Sergey Grizan, Alec Wolman, Jason Flinn (University of Michigan, Microsoft Research, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Siberian Federal University)

Best Posters

Context-Triggered Mobile Network Measurement
Shichang Xu, Ashkan Nikravesh, Hongyi Yao (University of Michigan), David R. Choffnes (Northeastern University), and Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)

Swarming Drones Can Connect You to the Network
Albert Y. Chung, Jongtack Jung, Kangho Kim, Jiyeon Lee, Hyungkyu Lee, Suk Kyu Lee, Seungho Yoo, and Hwangnam Kim (Korea University)

Best Demo

Real-Time Screen-Camera Communication Behind Any Scene
Tianxing Li, Chuankai An, Xinran Xiao, Andrew T. Campbell, and Xia Zhou (Dartmouth College)

Best Video

Lightweight Visible Light Communication for Indoor Positioning
Zeyu Wang, Zhice Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Jiansong Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), Chenyu Huang (Wuhan University), and Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Best PhD Forum Presentation

Energy Efficient and Fair Management of Sensing Applications on Heterogeneous Resource Mobile Devices
Petko Georgiev (University of Cambridge)

Gradient Profiling for Pedestrian Services
Shubham Jain (Rutgers University)

Advance Program Schedule at a Glance

The schedule will be updated with more details as they become available

Program

Detailed Program

Tuesday, May 19
 8:45 – 9:15 Opening Remarks
 9:15 – 10:30 Keynote
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session I - Sensing and Apps
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:10 Session II - Mobile Advertising
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Session III - Mobility, Gaming, Performance
17:00 1 min Madness
17:30 – 20:00 Poster/Demos & Reception
Wednesday, May 20
 9:00 – 10:30 Session IV - Cameras / 4pprs
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session V - Wearables
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session VI - Understanding and Improving Mobile App Capabilities
15:30 – 19:30 Walking Tour
19:30 – 21:00 Banquet
Thursday, May 21
 9:00 – 10:00 Joint WWW-Mobisys keynote
10:00 – 10:30 Video Session
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:40 Joint WWW-Mobisys session
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session VIII - Mobility and Networking / 4pprs
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Awards and Outrageous Opinions
17:00 Closing

Sessions

Tuesday, June 17

Future Communication Clouds

Tuesday May 19, 9:15 – 10:30

Krishan Sabnani, Research VP at Bell Labs

Bio

Krishan Sabnani is a Research VP at Bell Labs responsible for research on NFV and web communications. Previously he was the VP of Networking Research from Jan. 2000 to Sept. 2013. Krishan has made many seminal contributions to the Internet infrastructure design, protocol design, and wireless networks.  Upon his graduation from Columbia University in 1981, he joined Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey as a Member of Technical Staff and was promoted to Department Head in 1993.  He was named VP of Networking Research in 2000.  He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and an honorary professor at IIT Delhi.  Krishan is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a Bell Labs Fellow. Krishan won the 2005 IEEE Sumner and the 2005 IEEE McDowell Award.

What Could We Do With Access To Our Small Data?

Thursday, May 21, 9:00 – 10:00

Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech in New York City

Bio

(PhD, MIT (1985); BS, UCB (1980)) Deborah Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech in New York City where she has founded the Jacobs Institute’s HealthTech Hub. Her small data lab focuses on mobile health and small data, leveraging the pervasiveness of mobile devices and digital interactions for health and life management (TEDMED). Estrin co-founded the non-profit startup, Open mHealth, and was the founding director of the NSF-funded Science and Technology Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA (2002-12). Her awards include: ACM Athena Lecturer (2006) and Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Award for Innovation (2007), and elected membership to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007) and National Academy of Engineering (2009).

Session 1: Sensing and Applications

11:00 – 12:30, Tuesday, May 19
Sesion Chair: Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Invisible Sensing of Vehicle Steering with Smartphones
Dongyao Chen (University of Michigan), Kyong-Tak Cho (University of Michigan), Sihui Han (University of Michigan), Zhizhuo Jin (University of Michigan), Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan)
Turning a Mobile Device into a Mouse in the Air
Sangki Yun (The University of Texas at Austin), Yi-Chao Chen (The University of Texas at Austin), Lili Qiu (The University of Texas at Austin)
Tracking Keystrokes Using WiFi
Bo Chen (The Ohio State University), Vivek Yenamandra (The Ohio State University), Kannan Srinivasan (The Ohio State University)
Contactless Sleep Apnea Diagnosis on Smartphones
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar (University of Washington), Shyamnath Gollakota (University of Washington), Nathaniel Watson (Washington Medical Center)

Session 2: Mobile Advertising

14:00 – 15:10, Tuesday, May 19
Sesion Chair: Rajesh Balan (Singapore Management University)
MAdScope: Characterizing Mobile In-App Targeted Ads
Suman Nath (Microsoft Research)
AdAttester: Secure Online Advertisement Attestation on Mobile Devices Using TrustZone
Wenhao Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Haibo Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Haibo Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Yubin Xia (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Efficient Privilege De-Escalation for Ad Libraries in Mobile Apps
Bin Liu (Samsung Research America), Bin Liu (Carnegie Mellon University), Hongxia Jin (Samsung Research America), Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California)

Session 3: Mobility, Gaming, and Performance

15:30 – 17:00, Tuesday, May 19
Sesion Chair: Shyam Gollakota (University of Washington)
GameOn: p2p Gaming On Public Transport
Nairan Zhang (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Youngki Lee (Singapore Management University), Meeralakshmi Radhakrishnan (Singapore Management University), Rajesh Krishna Balan (Singapore Management University)
Kahawai: High-Quality Mobile Gaming Using GPU Offload
Eduardo Cuervo (Microsoft Research), Alec Wolman (Microsoft Research), Ali Razeen (Duke University), Kiron Lebeck (University of Washington), Landon Cox (Duke University), Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research), Madanlal Musuvathi (Microsoft Research)
Accelerating Mobile Applications through Flip-Flop Replication
Mark Gordon (University of Michigan), David Ke Hong (University of Michigan), Peter Chen (University of Michigan), Jason Flinn (University of Michigan), Scott Mahlke (University of Michigan), Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)
Outatime: Using Speculation to Enable Low-Latency Continuous Interaction for Mobile Cloud Gaming
Kyungmin Lee (University of Michigan), David Chu (Microsoft Research), Eduardo Cuervo (Microsoft Research), Johannes Kopf (Microsoft Research), Yury Degtyarev (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University), Sergey Grizan (Siberian Federal University), Alec Wolman (Microsoft Research), Jason Flinn (University of Michigan)

Session 4: Cameras

9:00 – 10:30, Wednesday, May 20
Sesion Chair: Yingying (Jennifer) Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology)
RollingLight: Enabling Line-of-Sight Light-to-Camera Communications
Hui-Yu Lee (National Taiwan University), Hao-Min Lin (National Taiwan University), Hsin-Mu Tsai (National Taiwan University), Kate Ching-Ju Lin (Academia Sinica)
InFrame++: Achieve Simultaneous Screen-Human Viewing and Hidden Screen-Camera Communication
Anran Wang (Beihang University), Zhuoran Li (The Ohio State University), Chunyi Peng (The Ohio State University), Guobin, Shen (Microsoft Research Asia), Gan Fang (The Ohio State University), Bing Zeng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Real-Time Screen-Camera Communication Behind Any Scene
Tianxing Li (Dartmouth College), Chuankai An (Dartmouth College), Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College), Xia Zhou (Dartmouth College)
Starfish: Efficient Concurrency Support for Computer Vision Applications
Robert LiKamWa (Rice University), Lin Zhong (Rice University)

Session 5: Wearables

11:00 – 12:30, Wednesday, May 20
Sesion Chair: unehwa Song (KAIST)
TypingRing: A Wearable Ring Platform for Text Input
Shahriar Nirjon (Hewlett-Packard Labs), Jeremy Gummeson (Hewlett-Packard Labs), Dan Gelb (Hewlett-Packard Labs), Kyu-Han Kim (Hewlett-Packard Labs)
U-Wear: Software-defined ultrasonic networking for wearable devices
G. Enrico Santagati (Northeastern University), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)
LookUp: Enabling Pedestrian Safety Services via Shoe Sensing
Shubham Jain (Rutgers University), Carlo Borgiattino (Politecnico di Torino), Yanzhi Ren (Stevens Institute of Technology), Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University), Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology), Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino)
ZOE: A Cloud-less Dialog-enabled Continuous Sensing Wearable Exploiting Heterogeneous Computation
Nic Lane (Bell Labs), Petko Georgiev (University of Cambridge), Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge), Ying Gao (Intel Research)

Session 6: Understanding and Improving Mobile App Capabilities

14:00 – 15:30, Wednesday, May 20
Sesion Chair: Tam Vu (University of Colorado, Denver)
Reducing Smartphone Application Delay through Read/Write Isolation
David T. Nguyen (College of William and Mary), Gang Zhou (College of William and Mary), Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University), Xin Qi (College of William and Mary), Zijiang Hao (College of William and Mary), Ge Peng (College of William and Mary), Qing Yang (College of William and Mary)
AccelWord: Energy Efficient Hotword Detection through Accelerometer
Li Zhang (University of California, Davis), Parth H. Pathak (University of California, Davis), Muchen Wu (University of California, Davis), Yixin Zhao (University of California, Davis), Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis)
Wearables Can Afford: Light-weight Indoor Positioning with Visible Light
Zhice Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Zeyu Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Jiansong Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), Chenyu Huang (Wuhan University), Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
OverLay: Practical Mobile Augmented Reality
Puneet Jain (Duke University), Justin Manweiler (IBM Research), Romit Roy Choudhury (UIUC)

Session 7: Joint WWW-Mobisys session

11:00 – 12:40, Thursday, May 21
Sesion Chair: Jason Hong (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Visually Fingerprinting Humans without Face Recognition
He Wang (University of Illinois (UIUC)), Xuan Bao (Samsung Research), Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois (UIUC)), Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina)
PocketTrend: timely identification and delivery of trending search content to mobile users
Gennady Pekhimenko (Carnegie Mellon University), Dimitrios Lymberopolous (MSR), Oriana Riva (MSR), Karin Strauss (MSR), Doug Burger (MSR)
Analyzing the Use of Quick Response Codes in the Wild
Adam Lerner (University of Washington), Alisha Saxena (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Kirk Ouimet (Scan, Inc.), Ben Turley (Scan, Inc.), Anthony Vance (Brigham Young University), Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington), Franziska Roesner (University of Washington)
Bringing the CUPID Positioning System to Practice
Souvik Sen (HP Labs), Dongho Kim (HP Labs), Stephane Laroche (HP Networking), Kyu-Han Kim (HP Labs), Jeongkeun Lee (HP Labs)

Session 8: Mobility and Networking

14:00 – 15:30, Thursday, May 21
Sesion Chair: Ashwin Ashok (Carnegie Mellon University)
Beyond the Radio: Illuminating the Higher Layers of Mobile Networks
Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez (ICSI), Srikanth Sundaresan (ICSI), Christian Kreibich (ICSI/Lastline), Nicholas Weaver (ICSI/UC Berkeley), Vern Paxson (ICSI/UC Berkeley)
Mobilyzer: An Open Platform for Controllable Mobile Network Measurements
Ashkan Nikravesh (University of Michigan), Hongyi Yao (University of Michigan), Shichang Xu (University of Michigan), David Choffnes (Northeastern University), Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)
Energy Efficient WiFi Display
Chi Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research)
Practicalizing Delay-Tolerant Mobile Apps with Cedos
YoungGyoun Moon (KAIST), Donghwi Kim (KAIST), Younghwan Go (KAIST), Yeongjin Kim (KAIST), Yung Yi (KAIST), Song Chong (KAIST), KyoungSoo Park (KAIST)