EECS-395/495 - Detailed Schedule
The entire class time will be dedicated to presenting and discussing an interesting paper pushing distributed systems into "uncomfortable corners".
Welcome to Distributed Systems in Challenging Environments Slides [.pdf]
- Outer space, under water and throughout the savanna
- Delay-Tolerant
Networking -- An Approach to Interplanetary Internet, by
S. Burleigh, A. Hooke, L. Torgerson, K. Fall, V. Cerf,
B. Durst, K. Scott, H. Weiss. IEEE Communications Magazine,
Jun. 2003.
Presenter (Date): Fabian (April 1)
Slides [.pdf] - A
Survey of Practical Issues in Underwater Networks, by
J. Partan, J. Kurose, and B. Neil Levine, Proc. ACM
International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet),
Sep. 2006.
(Alternate reading) Data Collection, Storage, and Retrieval with an Underwater Sensor Network, by I, Valescu, K. Kotay, D. Rus, M. Dumbabin and P. Corke, Proc. of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Nov. 2005.
Presenter (Date): Fabian (April 8)
Slides [.pdf] - Implementing
Software on Resource-Constrained Mobile Sensors: Experiences
with Impala and ZebraNet, by T. Liu, C. Sadler, P. Zhang
and M. Martonosi. Proc. ACM Conference on Mobile Systems
Applications and Services (MobiSys),
Jun. 2004.
Presenter (Date): Fabian (April 10)
Slides [.pdf] - Keeping an eye on the world
- Fidelity
and Yield in a Volcano Monitoring Sensor Network, by
G. Werner-Allen, K. Lorincz, J. Johnson, J. Lees,
M. Welsh. Proc. of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems
Design and Implementation (OSDI), Nov. 2006.
Presenter (Date): Rahul Potharaju (April 15)
Slides [.pdf] - SensorFlock:
An Airborne Wireless Sensor Network of Micro-Air Vehicles,
by J. Allred, A. Bilal Hasan, S. Panichsakul, W. Pisano,
P. Gray, J. Huang, R. Han, D. Lawrence, K. Mohseni. Proc. of
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys),
Nov. 2007.
Presenter (Date): J. Scott Miller (April 17)
Slides [.pdf] - A
Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Monitoring, by
N. Xu, S. Rangwala, K. Chintalapudi, D. Ganesan, A. Broad,
R. Govindan, D. Estrin. Proc. of ACM Conference on Embedded
Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Nov. 2004.
Presenter (Date): Gregory Peaker (April 22)
Slides [.pdf] - Distributed systems on wheels
- Towards
Commercial Mobile Ad Hoc Network Applications: A Radio
Dispatch System, E. Huang, W. Hu, J. Crowcroft,
I. Wassell. Proc. of the ACM international symposium on Mobile
ad hoc networking and computing (MobiHoc), May 2005.
Presenter (Date): Olusanya Soyannwo (April 24)
Slides [.pdf] - CarTel: A
Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System, by B. Hull,
V. Bychkovsky, Y. Zhang, K. Chen, M. Goraczko, A. Miu,
E. Shih, H. Balakrishnan, S. Madden. Proc. of ACM Conference
on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Nov. 2006.
Presenter (Date): Ionut Trestian (April 29)
Slides [.pdf] - Analysis
of Multi-Hop Emergency Message Propagation in Vehicular Ad Hoc
Networks, by G. Resta, P. Santi, and J. Simon. Proc. of
the ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking
and computing (MobiHoc), Sep. 2007.
Presenter (Date): John Otto (May 1)
Slides [.pdf] - Midterm project presentations - May 1
- It's a hard world
- Network
Coordinates in the Wild, by J. Ledlie, P. Gardner,
M. Seltzer. Proc. of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems
Design and Implementation (NSDI), Apr. 2007.
Presenter (Date): Nikhil Sethi (May 6)
Slides [.pdf] - Impact
of the Inaccuracy of Distance Prediction Algorithms on
Internet Applications -- an Analytical and Comparative
Study, by R. Zhang, C. Tang, Y. C. Hu, S. Fahmy, and
X. Lin. Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Apr. 2006.
Presenter (Date): Chris Karr (May 8)
Slides [.pdf] - Replay
Debugging for Distributed Applications, by D. Geels,
G. Altekar, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica. Proc. of USENIX Annual
Technical Conference, 2006.
Presenter (Date): Ionut Trestian (May 13)
Slides [.pdf] - Improving
the Reliability of Internet Paths with One-hop Source
Routing, by Krishna P. Gummadi, Harsha V. Madhyastha,
S. Gribble, H. Levy, and D. Wetherall. Proc. of the USENIX
Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
(OSDI), Dec. 2004.
Presenter (Date): J. Scott Miller (May 15)
Slides [.pdf] - Blocking busybodies
- Information
Slicing: Anonymity Using Unreliable Overlays, by S. Katti,
J. Cohen, and D. Katabi. Proc. of the USENIX Symposium on
Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Apr. 2007.
Presenter (Date): Xian Teng (May 20)
Slides [.pdf] - Devices
That Tell on You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous
Computing, by T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl
Hartung, Sameer Agarwal, and Tadayoshi Kohno. Proc. of USENIX
Security Symposium, Aug. 2007.
Presenter (Date): Rahul Potharaju (May 22)
Slides [.pdf] - Hiding
in the Crowd: Privacy Preservation on Evolving Streams through
Correlation Tracking, by Feifei Li, Jimeng Sun, Spiros
Papadimitriou, George A. Mihaila, Ioana Stanoi. Proc. of IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering, Apr. 2007.
Presenter (Date): Bejamin Prosnitz (May 27)
Slides [.pdf] - It's all about connecting people in the end
- PeopleNet:
Engineering A Wireless Virtual Social Network, by
M. Motani, V., P. Nuggehalli. Proc. of the ACM international
conference on Mobile computing and networking (MobiCom),
Sep. 2005.
Presenter (Date): John Otto (May 29)
Slides [.pdf] - Social
Network Analysis for Routing in Disconnected Delay-Tolerant
MANETs, by E. Daly and M. Haahr. Proc. of the ACM
international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and
computing (MobiHoc), Sep. 2007.
Presenter (Date): Patrick Wong (June 3)
Slides [.pdf] - Turning
the Postal System into a Generic Digital Communication
Mechanism, by R. Wang, S. Sobti,, N. Garg, E. Ziskind,
J. Lai, A. Krishnamurth. Proc. of ACM conference on
Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for
computer communications (SIGCOMM), Sep. 2004.
Presenter (Date): Lam Chan (June 5)
Slides [.pdf] - Final project presentations - finals week