CSE730x Research Seminar

This seminar examines fundamental and emerging concepts in concurrency and distribution by studying seminal papers and recent research results. Broad topics of interest include models of concurrency, mobile computing, parallel architectures, sensor networks, distributed algorithms, and specialized protocols. Each semester, the seminar emphasizes different themes reflecting the current research interests of the participants.

The theme of this semester's seminar is Wireless Sensor Networks. We will read and discuss papers from recent major conferences on mobile, wireless, and sensor networks and systems. These conferences include:

• INFOCOM (IEEE Archive: part1 part2)
• IPSN (ACM Archive)
• MobiCom (ACM archive)
• MobiHoc (ACM archive)
• MobiSys (2006, ACM archive)
• NSDI (USENIX Website)
• OSDI (Archive website)
• RTAS (IEEE Archive: part1 part2)
• RTSS (IEEE Archive)
• SenSys
• SOSP

Presentation Schedule for Spring 2008

January 18, 2008 - Chien-Liang Fok

Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems 
Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Garber, Matthew Brennan, 
Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger (Univ. of Mass Amherst)
SenSys'07

Links: Paper, Slides

January 25, 2008 - Greg Hackmann

Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of RF Interference on 802.11 Networks
Ramki Gummadi (MIT), David Wetherall (UW), Ben Greenstein (IRS), Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)
SIGCOMM 2007

Links: Paper, Slides

Note: DCOSS deadline on Jan 28, 2008

April 11, 2008 - Greg Hackmann

Note: Sensys Deadline April 14, 2008

Previous Semesters

• Fall 2007
• Summer 2007
• Spring 2007
• Fall 2006
• Spring 2006
• Fall 2005
• Spring 2005
• Fall 2004
• Spring 2004
• Fall 2003
• Spring 2003
• Fall 2002
• Spring 2002
• Fall 2001
• Spring 2001
• Fall 2000
• Spring 2000