Seminar Purpose (Fall 2022)
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 24 August
- Topic: Welcome to Seminar - Fall 2022
- How to Read a Paper
- Assigned for 31 August
- Topic: Visible Light Communication (VLC)
- Visible Light Synchronization for Time-Slotted Energy-Aware Transiently-Powered Communication
- Two to Tango: Hybrid Light and Backscatter Networks for Next Billion Devices
- Assigned for 7 September
- Topic: Intermittent Systems
- SolAR: Energy Positive Human Activity Recognition using Solar Cells
- Assigned for 14 September
- Topic: Intermittent Systems Adaptation
- Heuristic Adaptation for Intermittently Powered Batteryless Sensors
- This paper will be shared via email (no link)
- Assigned for 21 September
- Topic: Intermittent Computing-Energy Architecture and Accessibility
- An Energy Supervisor Architecture for Energy-Harvesting Applications
- Battery-free MakeCode: Accessible Programming for Intermittent Computing
- Assigned for 28 September
- Topic: Intermittent Networks
- Intermittently-powered bluetooth that works
- Learning to Communicate Effectively Between Battery-free Devices
- Assigned for 5 October
- Topic: Wearables and Connectivity
- EarHealth: an earphone-based acoustic otoscope for detection of multiple ear diseases in daily life
- Judo: addressing the energy asymmetry of wireless embedded systems through tunnel diode based wireless transmitters
- Assigned for 12 October
- Topic: Adaptation
- REHASH: A Flexible, Developer Focused, Heuristic Adaptation Platform for Intermittently Powered Computing
- This paper will be shared via email (no link)
- Assigned for 19 October
- Topic: Timekeeping and Security
- Persistent Timekeeping Using Harvested Power Measurements
- Security on Harvested Power
- Assigned for 26 October
- Topic: Intermittent Computing-Multithreading and Virtualization
- Immortal Threads: Multithreaded Event-driven Intermittent Computing on Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers
- Virtualizing Intermittent Computing
- Assigned for 2 November
- Topic: Communication
- No readings this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 9 November
- No readings this week (Sensys 2022 Conference). (no link)
- Assigned for 16 November
- Topic: Communication
- Reliable Transiently-Powered Communication
- ReliaBLE: Towards Reliable Communication via Bluetooth Low Energy Advertisement Networks
- Assigned for 23 November
- Topic: Thanksgiving Holiday
- No readings this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 30 November
- No readings this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 7 December
- Topic: Intermittent Computing and Smart Environments
- AdaMICA: Adaptive Multicore Intermittent Computing
- MiniKers: Interaction-Powered Smart Environment Automation
- Assigned for 14 December
- Topic: Exam Week
- No readings this week. Good luck on exams! (no link)