Seminar Purpose (Spring 2018)
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 10 January
- Topic: Welcome to Seminar
- How to Read a Paper
- Assigned for 17 January
- Topic: Snow Day
- No Readings today as classes were Canceled (no link)
- Assigned for 24 January
- Topic: Networking (Sensys 2017)
- Network-wide Consensus Utilizing the Capture Effect in Low-power Wireless Networks
- BLEach: Exploiting the Full Potential of IPv6 over BLE in Constrained Embedded IoT Devices
- Assigned for 31 January
- Topic: Healthcare (Sensys 2017)
- Monitoring a Persons Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate on a Shared Bed Using Geophones
- mCerebrum: A Mobile Sensing Software Platform for Development and Validation of Digital Biomarkers and Interventions
- Assigned for 7 February
- Topic: No Seminar
- No Seminar. Papers shifted to the following week. (no link)
- Assigned for 14 February
- Topic: No Seminar
- No Seminar. Papers shifted to the following week. (no link)
- Assigned for 21 February
- Topic: Novel Communication Media (Sensys 2017)
- Enabling Reliable, Asynchronous, and Bidirectional Communication in Sensor Networks over White Space
- Application-Layer Clock Synchronization for Wearables Using Skin Electric Potentials Induced by Powerline Radiation
- Assigned for 28 February
- Topic: Localization and Tracking (Sensys 2017)
- Indoor Localization with Aircraft Signals
- BatTracker: High Precision Infrastructure-free Mobile Device Tracking in Indoor Environments
- Assigned for 7 March
- Topic: Energy Management (Sensys 2017)
- LoRea: A Backscatter Architecture that Achieves a Long Communication Range
- Timely Execution on Intermittently Powered Batteryless Sensors
- Assigned for 14 March
- Topic: Energy Management II (Sensys 2017)
- Exploiting Multi-Cell Battery for Mobile Devices: Design, Management, and Performance
- Flicker: Rapid Prototyping for the Batteryless Internet-of-Things
- Assigned for 21 March
- Topic: Spring Break
- No readings this week. Have a safe and productive break! (no link)
- Assigned for 28 March
- Topic: Update on B. Lucia's work
- Termination Checking and Task Decomposition for Task-Based Intermittent Programs
- A Reconfigurable Energy Storage Architecture for Energy-harvesting Devices
- Assigned for 4 April
- Topic: No Seminar
- No Seminar. Papers shifted to the following weeks. (no link)
- Assigned for 11 April
- Topic: Securing IoT (IPSN 2017)
- PitchIn: Eavesdropping via Intelligible Speech Reconstruction using Non-Acoustic Sencor Fusion
- Kryptein: A Compressive-Sensing-Based Encryption Scheme for the Internet of Things
- Assigned for 18 April
- Topic: UI and OS, Wild and Crazy Ideas (IPSN 2017)
- SurfaceVibe: Vibration-Based Tap and Swipe Tracking on Ubiquitous Surfaces
- HarvOS: efficient code instrumentation for transiently-powered embedded sensing
- Assigned for 25 April
- Topic: Security and Privacy (Sensys 2017)
- Ditio: Trustworthy Auditing of Sensor Activities in Mobile and IoT Devices
- CamForensics: Understanding Visual Privacy Leaks in the Wild
- Assigned for 2 May
- Topic: Exam Week
- No readings this week. Good luck on exams! (no link)