Seminar Purpose (Spring 2019)
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 9 January
- Topic: Welcome to Seminar - Spring 2019
- How to Read a Paper
- Assigned for 16 January
- Topic: Intermittent computing and rethinking sensors
- Intermittent Computing: Challenges and Opportunities (SNAPL 2017)
- Fabric as a Sensor: Towards Unobtrusive Sensing of Human Behavior with Triboelectric Textiles (SenSys 2018)
- Assigned for 23 January
- Topic: Canceled - No Seminar
- No readings assigned this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 30 January
- Topic: Battery-free
- InK: Reactive Kernel for Tiny Batteryless Sensors (SenSys 2018)
- CapBand: Battery-free Successive Capacitance Sensing Wristband for Hand Gesture Recognition (SenSys 2018)
- Assigned for 6 February
- Topic: Canceled - No Seminar
- No readings assigned this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 13 February
- Topic: Reconfigurable Systems
- A Reconfigurable Energy Storage Architecture for Energy-harvesting Devices (ASPLOS 2018)
- ViRUS: Virtual Function Replacement Under Stress (HotPower 2014)
- Assigned for 20 February
- Topic: Staying Connected (SenSys 2018)
- Passive ZigBee: Enabling ZigBee Communication in IoT networks with 1000x Less Power Consumption
- Mixer: Efficient Many-to-All Broadcast in Dynamic Wireless Mesh Networks
- Assigned for 27 February
- Topic: Wearable Energy (Arwa)
- Wearable Energy Harvesting: From body to battery
- AlterWear: Battery-Free Wearable Displays for Opportunistic Interactions
- Assigned for 6 March
- Topic: Tomorrow's Systems I (SenSys 2018)
- MARVEL: Enabling Mobile Augmented Reality with Low Energy and Low Latency
- System Architecture Directions for Post-SoC/32-bit Networked Sensors
- Assigned for 13 March
- Topic: Canceled - No Seminar
- No readings assigned this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 20 March
- Topic: Spring Break
- No readings this week. Have a safe and productive break! (no link)
- Assigned for 27 March
- Topic: Tomorrow's Systems II (SenSys 2018)
- FastDeepIoT: Towards Understanding and Optimizing Neural Network Execution Time on Mobile and Embedded Devices
- CapeVM: A Safe and Fast Virtual Machine for Resource-Constrained Internet-of-Things Devices
- Assigned for 3 April
- Topic: Canceled - No Seminar
- No readings assigned this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 10 April
- Topic: Canceled - No Seminar
- No readings assigned this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 24 April
- Topic: Bioelectronics (Simeon) and Energy-Harvesting (Nirnay)
- Ultrathin Graphene-Protein Supercapacitors for Miniaturized Bioelectronics
- Design and power management of energy harvesting embedded systems
- Adaptive duty cycling for energy harvesting systems
- Assigned for 1 May
- Topic: Exam Week
- No readings this week. Good luck on exams! (no link)