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

 

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Advance Program:

 

Tuesday, November 4th

 

8:00 - 5:15 ImageSense Workshop (Willow Oaks Room)

8:00 - 5:15 UrbanSense Workshop (Capital Room)

 

Wednesday November 5th

(Oak Forest Ballroom)

 

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

 

8:30 - 8:45 Opening Announcements

 

8:45- 10:00 Keynote Address: Phillip Gibbons

“The Thrills and Spills of Sensornet” 

Session Chair: Margaret Martonosi

 

10:00 - 10:30 Break

 

10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 1: Networking

Session Chair: Jack Stankovic

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 (Gallery and Patio)

 

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

Session Chair: Kamin Whitehouse

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 Sensig 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

Session Chair: Ken Langedoen

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)

 

17:00 - 18:00 Business Meeting

 

19:00 - 21:00 Reception (Gallery and Patio)

 

Thursday, November 6th

(Oak Forest Ballroom)

 

7:30 - 8:30 General Breakfast

7:30 - 8:30 N2Women Breakfast (Magnolia 1) (details)

 

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

Session Chair: Nirupama Bulusu

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

Session Chair: Jie Liu

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 - 13:30 Lunch and “Soap Box” Talks (Gallery and Patio)

Soap Box Chair: David Culler

   

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).

 

13:30 - 17:00 Demonstration and Poster Session

15:00 – 16:00 Refreshments during Session

 

18:00 - 22:00 Conference Banquet (Oak Forest)

 

Friday, November 7th

(Oak Forest Ballroom)

 

7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast 

 

8:30 - 10:00 SESSION 6: Architecture Aspects of Sensor Networks

Session Chair: Joe Polastre

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 DeploymentSpecific 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

Session Chair: Andrew Campbell

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 (Gallery)

 

13:30 - 15:30 SESSION 8: APPLICATIONS

Session Chair: Matt Welsh

 

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 - 16:00 Best Talk Award and Closing

 

 

Demonstrations

 

Leakage-Aware Energy Synchronization on Twin-Star Nodes

Ziguo Zhong, Ting Zhu, Tian He , Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota)

 

PCP: The Personal Commute Portal

Hari Balakrishnan, Nikolaus Correll, Jakob Erikkson, Sejoon Lim, Samuel Madden, Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

Creating Greener Homes with IP-Based Wireless AC Energy Monitors

Xiaofan Jiang, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Jay Taneja, Prabal Dutta, David Culler (University of California at Berkeley)

 

Nericell — Using Mobile Smartphones for Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions

Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee (Microsoft Research India)

 

Safety Assurance for Archeologists Using Sensor Network

Shan Chang (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Qingxi Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Yong Qi, Jizhong Zhao (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Yuan He (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Xue Liu (McGill University)

 

MEDiSN: Medical Emergency Detection in Sensor Networks

JeongGil Ko, Răzvan Musăloiu-Elefteri, Jong Hyun Lim, Yin Chen, Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University), Tia Gao (AID-Networks), Walt Destler (AID-Networks), Leo Selavo (University of Latvia)

 

Programming Cyber-Physical Systems with MacroLab

Tamim I. Sookoor, Timothy W. Hnat, Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia)

 

Wireless Sensor Network for Substation Monitoring: Design and Deployment

Asis Nasipuri, Robert Cox, Hadi Alasti (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte),Luke Van der Zel, Bienvenido Rodriguez (Electric Power Research Institute),

Ralph McKosky, Joseph Graziano (Tennessee Valley Authority)

 

Transforming the Social Networking Experience with Sensing Presence from Mobile Phones

Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College), Shane B. Eisenman (Columbia University), Kristóf Fodor, Nicholas D. Lane, Hong Lu, Emiliano Miluzzo,

Mirco Musolesi, Ronald A. Peterson, Xiao Zheng (Dartmouth College)

 

A Java Compatible Virtual Machine for Wireless Sensor Nodes

Niels Brouwers (Delft University of Technology), Peter Corke (CSIRO ICT Centre), Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology)

 

Passive Diagnosis for Wireless Sensor Networks

Kebin Liu, Mo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Xiaohui Yang, Mingxing Jiang (Ocean University of China)

 

Distributed Cut Detection in Sensor Networks

Harshavardhan Chenji (Texas A&M University),Prabir Barooah (University of California at Santa Barbara),Radu Stoleru, Tamás Kalmár-Nagy (Texas A&M University)

 

Using Wireless Sensor Networks to Develop Pervasive Multi-player Games

Orestis Akrivopoulos, Marios Logaras, Nikos Vasilakis (University of Patras),Panagiotis Kokkinos, Georgios Mylonas, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute and University of Patras)

 

An Efficient Event Detection Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

Jing Yuan (Nanjing University), Xue Liu (McGill University), Gui Hai Chen (Nanjing University)

 

Bringing Sensor Networks Underwater with Low-Power Acoustic Communications

Muhammad Omar Khan, Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, John Heidemann, Jack Wills (University of Southern California)

 

A Complete WirelessHART Network

Jianping Song, Song Han, Xiuming Zhu, Al K. Mok (University of Texas at Austin), Deji Chen, Mark Nixon (Emerson Process Management)

 

Integrating Sensor Presence into Virtual Worlds Using Mobile Phones

Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, T. Choudhury, Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College)

 

SIDnet-SWANS — A Simulator and Integrated Development Platform for Sensor Networks Applications

Oliviu C. Ghica, Goce Trajcevski, Peter Scheuermann, Zachary Bischof, Nikolay Valtchanov (Northwestern University)

 

In-network Training and Distributed Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Georg Wittenburg, Norman Dziengel, Jochen Schiller (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

Self-organizing Service Distribution

Martin Lipphardt, Jana Neumann, Christian Werner (University of Luebeck)

 

Sensor Network Navigation without Locations

Mo Li, Jiliang Wang, Zheng Yang, Jingyao Dai (HKUST)

 

Demonstration: RFID Sensor Networks with the Intel WISP

Michael Buettner, Richa Prasad, Alanson Sample, Daniel Yeager (University of Washington), Ben Greenstein, Joshua R. Smith (Intel Research Seattle),

David Wetherall (Intel Research Seattle and University of Washington)

 

SWAT: Enabling Wireless Network Measurements

Kannan Srinivasan, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, Edward Kim, Philip Levis (Stanford University)

 

 

Posters

 

NoSE: Efficient Initialization of Wireless Sensor Networks

Andreas Meier, Mischa Weise, Jan Beutel, Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich)

 

Introducing TakaTuka — A Java VirtualMachine for Motes

Faisal Aslam, Christian Schindelhauer, Gidon Ernst, Damian Spyra, Jan Meyer, Mohannad Zalloom (University of Freiburg)

 

Development of a Long-Lived, Real-time Automatic Weather Station Based on WSN

Chin-Jung Liu, Huang-Chen Lee, Jung Yang, Jen-Tse Huang (National Tsing Hua University),Yao-Min Fang, Bing-Jean Lee (Feng Chia University), Chung-Ta King (National Tsing Hua University)

 

Optimizing Declarative Sensornets

David Chu, Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California at Berkeley),Tsung-te Lai (National Taiwan University)

 

Integrating Multiple Sensor Modalities for Environmental Monitoring of Marine Locations

Edel O’Connor, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O’Connor, Dermot Diamond (Dublin City University)

 

Using Mobile Wireless Sensors for In-situ Tracking of Debris Flows

Huang-Chen Lee, Chin-Jung Liu, Jung Yang, Jen-Tse Huang (National Tsing Hua University), Yao-Min Fang, Bing-Jean Lee (Feng Chia University), Chung-Ta King (National Tsing Hua University)

 

Exploiting the Capture Effect for Low-Latency Flooding in Wireless Sensor Networks

Jiakang Lu, Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia)

 

Exploring Diversity: Evaluating the Cost of Frequency Diversity in Communication and Routing

Jorge Ortiz, David Culler (University of California at Berkeley)

 

TinyOS 2.1 Adding Threads and Memory Protection to TinyOS

TinyOS Alliance (The TinyOS Alliance)

 

RFID-Based Localization in Heterogeneous Mesh Networks

Lasse Thiem, Björn Riemer, Marcus Witzke, Thomas Luckenbach (Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems)

 

A Quantitative Error Analysis of Synchronized Sampling on Wireless Sensor Networks for Earthquake Monitoring

Makoto Suzuki, Shunsuke Saruwatari (The University of Tokyo), Narito Kurata (Kajima Corporation), Masateru Minami, Hiroyuki Morikawa (The University of Tokyo)

 

Efficient Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks in an Industrial Setting

Marc Aoun, Anthony Schoofs, Peter van der Stok (Philips Research)

 

Making Sensor Networks IPv6 Ready

Mathilde Durvy, Julien Abeillé, Patrick Wetterwald (Cisco Systems), Colin O’Flynn (NewAE), Blake Leverett, Eric Gnoske, Michael Vidales (Atmel Corporation), Geoff Mulligan (Proto6 LLC),Nicolas Tsiftes (Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Niclas Finne, Adam Dunkels (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)

 

Emuli - Model Driven Sensor Stimuli for Experimentation

Najla Alam, Thomas Clouser, Richie Thomas, Mikhail Nesterenko (Kent State University)

 

KleeNet — Automatic Bug Hunting in Sensor Network Applications

Raimondas Sasnauskas, Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University)

 

Deployments of Wide and Local Area Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Studies

Rian Bogle, Miguel Velasco, John Vogel (US Geological Survey)

 

Dyser — Towards a Real-Time Search Engine for the Web of Things

Benedikt Ostermaier, B. Maryam Elahi, Kay Römer (ETH Zurich),Michael Fahrmair, Wolfgang Kellerer (DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH)

 

An RFID Based System for Monitoring Free Weight Exercises

Rohit Chaudhri, Jonathan Lester, Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington)

 

Application-Specific Trace Compression for Low Bandwidth Trace Logging

Roy S. Shea, Young H. Cho, Mani B. Srivastava (University of California at Los Angeles)

 

Considering Real World Issues for Delivering Data in Multi-Robot Sensor Networks

Ryohei Suzuki (University of Tokyo), Yoshito Tobe (Tokyo Denki University), Kaoru Sezaki (University of Tokyo)

 

Wi-HTest: Testing Suite for Diagnosing WirelessHART™ Devices and Networks

Song Han, Jianping Song, Xiuming Zhu, Aloysius K. Mok (University of Texas at Austin), Deji Chen, Mark Nixon (Emerson Process Management),

Wally Pratt, Veena Gondhalekar (HART Communication Foundation)

 

A Sensor Network for Compression and Streaming of GPS Trajectory Data

Tim Wark, Chris Crossman, Philip Valencia, Peter Corke (CSIRO ICT Centre), Greg Bishop-Hurley, Dave Swain (CSIRO Livestock Industries)

 

On the Scaling Properties of Low Power Wireless Links

Tal Rusak (Cornell University), Philip A. Levis (Stanford University)

 

Accurate, Fast Fall Detection Using Posture and Context Information

Qiang Li (University of Virginia), Gang Zhou (College of William and Mary),John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)

 

Satellite Based Wireless Sensor Networks — Global Scale Sensing with Nano- and Pico-Satellites

Walter Colitti, Kris Steenhaut (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Nicolas Descouvemont (Space Applications Services), Adam Dunkels (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)

 

A Public Key Technology Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wen Chan Shih,Wen Hu,Peter Corke,Leslie Overs (CSIRO ICT Centre)

 

Rateless Erasure Codes for Bulk Transfer in Asymmetric Wireless Sensor Networks

Anthony D. Wood,John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)

 

MODEL — Moving Object DEtection and Localization in Wireless Networks Based on Small-Scale Fading

Qingming Yao (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences),Hui Gao,Bin Liu,Fei-Yue Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

Achieving Stable Network Performance for Wireless Sensor Networks

Shan Lin (University of Virginia), Gang Zhou (College of William & Mary),Yafeng Wu,Kamin Whitehouse,John Stankovic (University of Virginia),

Tian He (University of Minnesota)

 

 

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 11/21/2008