Awards

The Organizing Committee is delighted to announce the SenSys 2013 Award Winners:

Best Paper
Chaos: Versatile and Efficient All-to-All Data Sharing and In-Network Processing at Scale
Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Federico Ferrari (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Marco Zimmerling (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Best Poster
Poster Abstract: An Adaptive Energy Management Scheme for Real-time Landslide Detection
Maneesha V Ramesh, Rekha P., Divya P. L, Simi Surendran

Best Demo
Demo Abstract: ThermoSense: Thermal Array Sensor Networks in Building Management
Varick L. Erickson, Alex Beltran, John R. Lusby, Daniel A. Winkler, Alberto E. Cerpa, Alex Beltran

Advance Program Information

Monday, November 11
08:30 Coffee
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome
09:15 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker: Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research (Cambridge, UK)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Communication Systems - Chair: Silvia Santini
Chaos: Versatile and Efficient All-to-All Data Sharing and In-Network Processing at Scale
Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Federico Ferrari (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Marco Zimmerling (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Let the Tree Bloom: Scalable Opportunistic Routing with ORPL
Simon Duquennoy (SICS Swedish ICT AB, Sweden), Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Thiemo Voigt (SICS Swedish ICT AB and Uppsala University, Sweden)
Practical Error Correction for Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks: Unlocking the Full Power of the CRC
Travis Mandel (University of Washington), Jens Mache (Lewis & Clark College)
12:30 - 13:00 1-Minute Madness, Session 1 - Chair: Luca Mottola
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Sensing People - Chair: Cecilia Mascolo
iSleep: Unobtrusive Sleep Quality Monitoring using Smartphones
Tian Hao (Michigan State University), Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University), Gang Zhou (College of William and Mary)
Lifestreams: a modular sense-making toolset for identifying important patterns from everyday life
Cheng-Kang Hsieh (UCLA CSD), Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (UCLA CSD), Faisal Alquaddoomi (UCLA CSD), John Jenkins (Cornell Tech), Jinha Kang (UCLA CSD), Cameron Ketcham (Cornell Tech), Brent Longstaff (UCLA CSD), Joshua Selsky (Cornell Tech), Betta Dawson (UCLA CSD), Dallas Swendeman (UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences), Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech), Nithya Ramanathan (UCLA CSD)
iDiary: From GPS Signals to a Text-Searchable Diary
Dan Feldman (MIT), Andrew Sugaya (MIT), Cynthia Sung (MIT), Daniela Rus (MIT)
16:00 - 17:00 1-Minute Madness, Session 2 - Chair: Emiliano Miliuzzo
17:00 - 20:30 Poster/Demo Session + Reception
Tuesday, November 12
08:30 Coffee
9:00 - 10:30 Managing Crowds - Chair: Xiaofan Jiang
Piggyback CrowdSensing (PCS): Energy Efficient Crowdsourcing of Mobile Sensor Data by Exploiting Smartphone App Opportunities
Nicholas D. Lane (Microsoft Research Asia), Yohan Chon (Yonsei University), Lin Zhou (UC Santa Barbara), Yongzhe Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Fan Li (Pearson), Dongwon Kim (Yonsei University), Guanzhong Ding (National Tsing Hua University), Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research Asia), Hojung Cha (Yonsei University)
FOCUS: Clustering Crowdsourced Videos by Line-of-Sight
Puneet Jain (Duke University), Justin Manweiler (IBM T.J. Watson), Arup Acharya (IBM T.J. Watson), Kirk Beaty (IBM T.J. Watson)
coRide: Carpool Service with a Win-Win Fare Model for Large-Scale Taxicab Networks
Desheng Zhang (University of Minnesota), Ye Li (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Fan Zhang (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Mingming Lu (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yunhuai Liu (Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security, China), Tian He (University of Minnesota), Desheng Zhang (University of Minnesota)
10:30 - 11:30 Business Meeting
11:30 - 13:00 Software Systems - Chair: Niki Trigoni
Carat: Collaborative Energy Diagnosis for Mobile Devices
Adam J. Oliner (UC Berkeley), Anand P. Iyer (UC Berkeley), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley), Eemil Lagerspetz (University of Helsinki), Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki)
Safe System-level Concurrency on Resource-Constrained Nodes
Francisco Sant'Anna (PUC-Rio), Noemi Rodriguez (PUC-Rio), Roberto Ierusalimschy (PUC-Rio), Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Philippas Tsigas (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Minerva: Distributed Tracing and Debugging in Wireless Sensor Networks
Philipp Sommer (CSIRO), Branislav Kusy (CSIRO)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Mobile Sensing - Chair: Wen Hu
Accelerometer-Based Transportation Mode Detection on Smartphones
Samuli Hemminki (University of Helsinki), Petteri Nurmi (University of Helsinki), Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki)
Social-Loc: Improving Indoor Localization with Social Sensing
Junghyun Jun (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Yu Gu (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Long Cheng (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Banghui Lu (Singapore University of Technology and Design & School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China), Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Ting Zhu (State University of New York, Binghamton, USA), Jianwei Niu (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China)
E^3: Energy-Efficient Engine for Frame Rate Adaptation on Smartphones
Haofu Han (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Jiadi Yu (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Hongzi Zhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA), Jie Yang (Oakland University, USA), Guangtao Xue (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
16:00 - 19:00 Historical tour of Rome en route to banquet
20:00 Banquet
Wednesday, November 13
09:00 Coffee
09:30 - 11:00 Energy and Buildings - Chair: Thomas Schmid
Powering Indoor Sensing with Airflows: A Trinity of Energy Harvesting, Synchronous Duty-Cycling, and Sensing
Tianyu Xiang (Nanyang Technological University), Zicheng Chi (Nanyang Technological University), Feng Li (Nanyang Technological University), Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University), Lihua Tang (Nanyang Technological University), Liya Zhao (Nanyang Technological University), Yaowen Yang (Nanyang Technological University)
Sentinel: Occupancy Based HVAC Actuation using existing WiFi Infrastructure in Commercial Buildings
Bharathan Balaji (University of California, San Diego), Jian Xu (University of California, San Diego), Anthony Nwokafor (University of California, San Diego), Rajesh Gupta (University of California, San Diego), Yuvraj Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University & University of California)

Monjolo: An Energy-Harvesting Energy Meter Architecture
Samuel DeBruin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Bradford Campbell (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 13:00 Acoustic Sensing - Chair: Lama Nachman
The Sound of Silence
Wai-Tian Tan (Cisco Systems), Mary Baker (HP Labs), Ramin Samadani (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.), Bowon Lee (HP Labs)
SocialWeaver: Collaborative Inference of Human Conversation Networks Using Smartphones
Luo Chengwen (School of Computing, National University of Singapore), Chan Mun Choon (School of Computing, National University of Singapore)
Real-time Classification via Sparse Representation in Acoustic Sensor Networks
Bo Wei (UNSW), Mingrui Yang (CSIRO), Yiran Shen (UNSW), Rajib Rana (CSIRO), Chun Tung Chou (UNSW), Wen Hu (CSIRO)