Seminar Purpose (Spring 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 13 January
- Topic: Welcome to Seminar - Spring 2021
- How to Read a Paper
- Assigned for 27 January
- Topic: Secure Sensing (SenSys 2020)
- Detecting replay attacks against industrial robots via power fingerprinting
- VocalPrint: exploring a resilient and secure voice authentication via mmWave biometric interrogation
- Assigned for 3 February
- Topic: Machine Learning on Sensors (SenSys 2020)
- Deep compressive offloading: speeding up neural network inference by trading edge computation for network latency
- Ember: energy management of batteryless event detection sensors with deep reinforcement learning
- Assigned for 10 February
- Topic: Human Activity and Health (SenSys 2020)
- Sensing finger input using an RFID transmission line
- Noninvasive glucose monitoring using polarized light
- Assigned for 17 February
- Topic: Communications and Networking (SenSys 2020)
- Zero-wire: a deterministic and low-latency wireless bus through symbol-synchronous transmission of optical signals
- Assigned for 24 February
- Topic: Battery-Free Systems I
- Toward Battery-Free Wearable Devices: The Synergy between Two Feet
- Assigned for 3 March
- Topic: Battery-Free Systems II
- BFree: Enabling Battery-free Sensor Prototyping with Python
- Energy-Ball: Wireless Power Transfer for Batteryless Internet of Things through Distributed Beamforming
- Assigned for 10 March
- Topic: Wireless Communication
- Harvesting-Aware Optimal Communication Scheme for Infrastructure-Less Sensing
- Cooperative Communication Between Two Transiently Powered Sensor Nodes by Reinforcement Learning
- Assigned for 17 March
- Topic: Spring Break - No Seminar
- No readings this week. Have a safe and productive break! (no link)
- Assigned for 24 March
- Topic: Intermittent Computing Architecture
- Data Freshness in Mixed-Memory Intermittently-Powered Systems
- The What’s Next Intermittent Computing Architecture
- Assigned for 31 March
- Topic: Backlog
- Battery-Free Cellphone
- Aloba: rethinking ON-OFF keying modulation for ambient LoRa backscatter
- Assigned for 14 April
- Topic: Batteryless Networking
- Bootstrapping Battery-free Wireless Networks: Efficient Neighbor Discovery and Synchronization in the Face of Intermittency
- Assigned for 21 April
- Topic: Intermittent Display
- Accumulative Display Updating for Intermittent Systems
- Sense Your Power: The ECO Approach to Energy Awareness for IoT Devices
- Assigned for 28 April
- Topic: Exam Week
- No readings this week. Good luck during exams! (no link)