CSE730x Research Seminar

• Instructors: Chenyang Lu and Gruia-Catalin Roman
• Time: Friday at 2-3pm, Location: Jolley 542

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:

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

When choosing a paper to present, you may look through the conferences mentioned above, or view the list of potential papers.

September 19, 2008 - Greg Hackmann

A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks.
Vladimir Bychkovsky, Bret Hull, Allen K. Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden.
MobiCom 2006.

Links: Paper Slides

September 26, 2008 - Yong Fu

Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, "Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching for Connection-Intensive Internet Services" 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI 2008), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.

October 17, 2008 - Justin Luner

Fall Break

November 28, 2008 - N/A

Thanksgiving

December 19, 2008 - N/A

Winter Break

Previous Semesters

• Summer 2008
• Spring 2008
• Fall 2007
• Summer 2007
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• Fall 1998
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