Publications

Greentooth: Robust and Energy Efficient Wireless Networking for Batteryless Devices
Simeon Babatunde, Arwa Alsubhi, Josiah Hester, Jacob Sorber
TOSN, 2024
The Internet of Batteryless Things
Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Marco Zimmerling, Przemys{\l}aw Pawe{\l}czak, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Brandon Lucia, Luca Mottola, Jacob Sorber, Josiah Hester
CACM, 2024
Stash: Flexible Energy Storage for Intermittent Sensors
Arwa Alsubhi, Simeon Babatunde, Nicole Tobias, Jacob Sorber
ACM TECS, 2024
User-Centered Perspectives on the Design of Batteryless Wearables
Arwa Alsubhi, Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky, Simeon Babatunde, Abu Bakar, Thomas Cohen, Josiah Hester, Bart Knijnenburg, Jacob Sorber
IJHCI, 2023
Old Dog, New Tricks: Seeking Metrics for Energy Harvesters as Sensors
Nicole Tobias, Jacob Sorber
ENSSys, 2022
Batteryless sensor for detecting occupancy and activity
Jacob Sorber, Josiah D Hester, Harsh Desai, Nicole Tobias, Arwa Alsubhi, Taylor Antonio Hardin, Calvin Moody
US Patent 11,536,832, 2022
Can Crystal Oscillators Keep Time Without Power?
Arwa Alsubhi, Nicole Tobias, Simeon Babatunde, Jacob Sorber
ENSSys, 2020
Measuring children’s eating behavior with a wearable device
Shengjie Bi, Yiyang Lu, Nicole Tobias, Ella Ryan, Travis Masterson, Sougata Sen, Ryan Halter, Jacob Sorber, Diane Gilbert-Diamond, David Kotz
ICHI, 2020
Time-sensitive intermittent computing meets legacy software
Vito Kortbeek, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Abu Bakar, Jacob Sorber, Josiah Hester, Przemys{\l}aw Pawe{\l}czak
ASPLOS, 2020
Sustainability analysis of a leakage-monitoring technique for water pipeline networks
Sepideh Yazdekhasti, Kalyan R Piratla, Jacob Sorber, Sez Atamturktur, Abdul Khan, Harshit Shukla
Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 2020
Batteries not included
Josiah Hester, Jacob Sorber
XRDS: Crossroads, 2019
Powering pipeline monitoring sensors using locally available energy
Harshit Shukla, Kalyan R Piratla, Harsh Desai, Jacob Sorber
Pipelines, 2019
Evaluation of energy harvesting potential in water pipelines to power sustainable monitoring systems
Harshit Shukla, Harsh Desai, Jacob Sorber, Kalyan R Piratla
Construction Research Congress, 2018
Auracle: Detecting eating episodes with an ear-mounted sensor
Shengjie Bi, Tao Wang, Nicole Tobias, Josephine Nordrum, Shang Wang, George Halvorsen, Sougata Sen, Ronald Peterson, Kofi Odame, Kelly Caine, others
ACM IMWUT, 2018
Wearable computing device for secure control of physiological sensors and medical devices, with secure storage of medical records, and bioimpedance biometric
David Kotz, Ryan Halter, Cory Cornelius, Jacob Sorber, SHIN Minho, Ronald Peterson, MARE Shrirang, Aarathi Prasad, Joseph Skinner, Andres David Molina-markham, others
US Patent \#9,936,877, 2018
Application memory isolation on $\{$ultra-Low-power$\}$$\{$MCUs$\}$
Taylor Hardin, Ryan Scott, Patrick Proctor, Josiah Hester, Jacob Sorber, David Kotz
USENIX ATC, 2018
Flicker: Rapid Prototyping for the Batteryless Internet-of-Things
Josiah D Hester, Jacob Sorber
ACM SenSys, 2017
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Timely Execution on Intermittently Powered Batteryless Sensors
Josiah D Hester, Kevin Storer, Jacob Sorber
ACM SenSys, 2017
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The Future of Sensing is Batteryless, Intermittent, and Awesome (New Directions Paper)
Josiah D Hester, Jacob Sorber
ACM SenSys, 2017
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Sustainable Leakage Monitoring Systems for Water Distribution Pipeline Networks
Sepideh Yazdekhasti, Kalyan R. Piratla, Jacob Sorber
ASCE Pipelines, 2017
Toward a Wearable Sensor for Eating Detection
Shengjie Bi, Tao Wang, Ellen Davenport, Ronald Peterson, Ryan Halter, Jacob Sorber, David Kotz
ACM WearSys, 2017
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Poster: Memory Protection in Ultra-Low-Power Multi-Application Wearables
Taylor Hardin, Josiah Hester, Patrick Proctor, Jacob Sorber, David Kotz
ACM MobiSys, 2017
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Poster: Auracle: A Wearable Device for Detecting and Monitoring Eating Behavior
Shengjie Bi, Ellen Davernport, Jun Gong, Ronald Peterson, Joseph Skinner, Kevin Storer, Tao Wang, Kelly Caine, Ryan Halter, David Kotz, others
ACM MobiSys, 2017
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Realistic and Repeatable Emulation of Energy Harvesting Environments
Josiah Hester, Lanny Sitanayah, Timothy Scott, Jacob Sorber
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 13, Num. 2, 2017
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Shoulder Angel: An Open Platform for Reprogramming Wayward Wireless Sensors
Nicole Tobias, Connor Bolton, Josiah Hester, Lanny Sitanayah, Jacob Sorber
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, Vol. 8, Num. 4, 2016
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Realistic Simulation for Tiny Batteryless Sensors
Matthew Furlong, Josiah Hester, Kevin Storer, Jacob Sorber
ENSsys, 2016
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Amulet: An Energy-Efficient, Multi-Application Wearable Platform.
Josiah D Hester, Travis Peters, Tianlong Yun, Ronald A Peterson, Joseph Skinner, Bhargav Golla, Kevin Storer, Steven Hearndon, Kevin Freeman, Sarah Lord, others
ACM SenSys, 2016
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Persistent Clocks for Batteryless Sensing Devices
Josiah Hester, Nicole Tobias, Amir Rahmati, Lanny Sitanayah, Daniel Holcomb, Kevin Fu, Wayne P. Burleson, Jacob Sorber
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2016
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Tragedy of the Coulombs: Federating Energy Storage for Tiny, Intermittently-Powered Sensors
Josiah Hester, Lanny Sitanayah, Jacob Sorber
ACM SenSys, 2015
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Ekho: Realistic and Repeatable Experimentation for Tiny Energy-harvesting Sensors
Best Paper
Josiah Hester, Timothy Scott, Jacob Sorber
ACM SenSys, 2014
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Hide-n-Sense: Preserving Privacy Efficiently in Wireless mHealth
Shrirang Mare, Jacob Sorber, Minho Shin, Cory Cornelius, David Kotz
Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 2014
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Current events: Identifying webpages by tapping the electrical outlet
Shane S Clark, Hossen Mustafa, Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, Kevin Fu, Wenyuan Xu
ESORICS, 2013
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WattsUpDoc: Power Side Channels to Nonintrusively Discover Untargeted Malware on Embedded Medical Devices
Shane S. Clark, Benjamin Ransford, Amir Rahmati, Shane Guineau, Jacob Sorber, Kevin Fu, Wenyuan Xu
USENIX HealthTech, 2013
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Tula: Balancing Energy for Sensing and Communication in a Perpetual Mobile System
Jacob Sorber, Aruna Balasubramanian, Mark D. Corner, Joshua Ennen, Carl Qualls
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 12, 4 (Apr.), 2013
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A Provenance Framework for mHealth
Aarathi Prasad, Ronald Peterson, Jacob Sorber, David Kotz
mHealthSys, 2012
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TARDIS: Time and Remanence Decay in SRAM to Implement Secure Protocols on Embedded Devices without Clocks
Amir Rahmati, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Dan Holcomb, Jacob Sorber, Wayne P. Burleson, Kevin Fu
USENIX Security, 2012
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Plug-n-trust: Practical Trusted Sensing for Mhealth
Jacob M. Sorber, Minho Shin, Ron Peterson, David Kotz
ACM MobiSys, 2012
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An Amulet for Trustworthy Wearable mHealth
Jacob Sorber, Minho Shin, Ronald Peterson, Cory Cornelius, Shrirang Mare, Aarathi Prasad, Zachary Marois, Emma Smithayer, David Kotz
ACM HotMobile, 2012
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Ekho: bridging the gap between simulation and reality in tiny energy-harvesting sensors
Hong Zhang, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Kevin Fu, Jacob Sorber
HotPower, 2011
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Adaptive Security and Privacy for mHealth Sensing
Shrirang Mare, Jacob Sorber, Minho Shin, Cory Cornelius, David Kotz
HealthSec, 2011
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Exposing Privacy Concerns in mHealth
Aarathi Prasad, Jacob Sorber, Timothy Stablein, Denise Anthony, David Kotz
HealthSec, 2011
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Mementos: System Support for Long-running Computation on RFID-scale Devices
Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, Kevin Fu
ACM ASPLOS XVI, 2011
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Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems
Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Garber, Matthew Brennan, Mark D. Corner, Emery D. Berger
ACM SenSys, 2007
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Triage: Balancing Energy and Quality of Service in a Microserver
Nilanjan Banerjee, Jacob Sorber, Mark D. Corner, Sami Rollins, Deepak Ganesan
ACM MobiSys, 2007
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Turducken: Hierarchical Power Management for Mobile Devices
Jacob Sorber, Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, Sami Rollins
ACM MobiSys, 2005
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