Seminar Purpose (Fall 2021)
The main purpose of this seminar is to function as a "curated reading group." Each week everyone will read either a single paper or a few papers loosely related by topic area, and we will discuss the papers and common themes together. This helps us be more aware of what other researchers are doing, and see examples of successful papers that get published in top venues. Papers in this reading group generally make use of, or enhance, embedded networked systems research.
To ensure quality we will restrict ourselves to the top conferences such as SenSys, IPSN, MobiSys, and ASPLOS. We will also look at interesting papers from related conferences such as SIGMETRICS, PLDI, UbiComp, SOSP/OSDI, Mobicom, SIGCOMM, OOPSLA, UIST, Oakland, etc.
Expectations
All seminar participants are required to read "How to Read a Paper" before the seminar starts.This invaluable text details a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers, saving time and helping with comprehension.
It is expected that each person will have read each paper enough to grasp core concepts / contributions, identify weaknesses and strengths, be able to place the paper in the literature, and compare against other papers read. Come with questions and comments on the paper's insights, novelty, significance, assumptions, methodology, flaws, etc. You specifically want to look for the following:
- One positive insight into each work; for example a novel evaluation method that could be used in your own research.
- One negative insight into each work; for example pointing out a flaw in methodology.
- One general observation about overall topic area of the papers; this could be identifying major problems, talking about holes in the literature, or forecasting the future of the field.
To help you organize your thoughts on the paper, please use this review form (similar to what you would use if you were reviewing for a conference). If you're taking the seminar for credit, please submit your review form by 8 AM the day before we meet.
Readings
- Assigned for 18 August
- Topic: Welcome to Seminar - Fall 2021
- How to Read a Paper
- Assigned for 25 August
- Topic: Adaptation I
- REHASH: A Flexible, Developer Focused, Heuristic Adaptation Platform for Intermittently Powered Computing
- Assigned for 1 September
- Topic: Adaptation II
- Memory-Aware Partitioning of Machine Learning Applications for Optimal Energy Use in Batteryless Systems
- Assigned for 8 September
- Topic: Architecture and Hardware Support for Intermittent Systems
- Failure Sentinels: Ubiquitous Just-in-time Intermittent Computation via Low-cost Hardware Support for Voltage Monitoring
- SNAFU: An Ultra-Low-Power, Energy-Minimal CGRA-Generation Framework and Architecture
- Assigned for 15 September
- Topic: Computational Nanosatellite and Networks
- Computational Nanosatellite Constellations: Opportunities and Challenges
- Two to tango: hybrid light and backscatter networks for next billion devices
- Assigned for 22 September
- Topic: Intermittent Computation and In-ear human sensing
- Failure Sentinels: Ubiquitous Just-in-time Intermittent Computation via Low-cost Hardware Support for Voltage Monitoring
- OESense: employing occlusion effect for in-ear human sensing
- Assigned for 29 September
- Topic: Nicole Recommendations
- Hamilton: Flexible, Open Source $10 Wireless Sensor System for Energy Efficient Building Operation
- A Battery-Less RFID Sensor Architecture with Distance Ambiguity Resolution for Smart Home IoT Applications
- Assigned for 6 October
- Topic: Margi Recommendations
- CURE: A Security Architecture with CUstomizable and Resilient Enclaves
- An Off-Chip Attack on Hardware Enclaves via the Memory Bus
- Assigned for 13 October
- Topic: Energy Harvesting
- Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network Applications: Concepts and Experiences
- Body-coupled power transmission and energy harvesting
- Assigned for 20 October
- Topic: Embedded Intelligence and Perpetual Sensing
- ePerceptive—Energy Reactive Embedded Intelligence for Batteryless Sensors
- Deterministic 40 year battery lifetime through a hybrid perpetual sensing platform (HyPer)
- Assigned for 27 October
- Topic: Intermittent connectivity and Energy Storage
- Protocol Transformation for Transiently Powered Wireless Sensor Networks
- Defragmenting Energy Storage in Batteryless Sensing Devices
- Assigned for 3 November
- Topic: Checkpointing
- Fast and Energy-Efficient State Checkpointing for Intermittent Computing
- Transactional concurrency control for intermittent, energy-harvesting computing systems
- Assigned for 10 November
- Topic: Rescheduled
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- Assigned for 17 November
- Topic: Debuggers and Pose Estimation
- Who’s debugging the debuggers? exposing debug information bugs in optimized binaries
- 3D Human Pose Estimation Using WiFi Signals
- Assigned for 24 November
- Topic: Thanksgiving Break
- (no link)
- Assigned for 1 December
- Topic: SenSys 2021
- ALFRED: Virtual Memory for Intermittent Computing
- Morphy: Software Defined Charge Storage for the IoT
- Assigned for 8 December
- Topic: Exam Week
- No readings this week. Good luck on exams! (no link)