CSE730x Research Seminar

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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:

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


August 28, 2009 - Abu Sayeed Saifullah

WirelessHART

September 4, 2009 - Octav Chipara

Reliable Clinical Monitoring.

September 11, 2009 - Yong Fu

Feedback Thermal Control for Real-time Systems

September 18, 2009 - Chengjie Wu

Miroslav Pajic and Rahul Mangharam, Anti-Jamming for Embedded Wireless Networks, IPSN 09, Apr. 2009.

Paper: [1]

September 25, 2009 - Weijun (Vincent) Guo

Surviving Sensor Network Software Faults

Yang Chen (University of Utah), Omprakash Gnawali (USC), Maria Kazandjieva (Stanford University), Philip Levis (Stanford University), John Regehr (University of Utah)



Abstract We describe Neutron, a version of the TinyOS operating system that efficiently recovers from memory safety bugs. Where existing schemes reboot an entire node on an error, Neutron’s compiler and runtime extensions divide programs into recovery units and reboot only the faulting unit. The TinyOS kernel itself is a recovery unit: a kernel safety violation appears to applications as the processor being unavailable for 10–20 milliseconds. Neutron further minimizes safety violation cost by supporting “precious” state that persists across reboots. Application data, time synchronization state, and routing tables can all be declared as precious. Neutron’s reboot sequence conservatively checks that precious state is not the source of a fault before preserving it. Together, recovery units and precious state allow Neutron to reduce a safety violation’s cost to time synchronization by 94% and to a routing protocol by 99:5%. Neutron also protects applications from losing data. Neutron provides this recovery on the very limited resources of a tiny, low-power microcontroller.

Paper: pdfmy slides

October 2, 2009 - Chien-Liang Fok

October 9, 2009 - N/A

Canceled due to RTAS deadline.

October 16, 2009 - N/A

Fall Break

October 23, 2009 - Louis Thomas

October 30, 2009 - N/A

Canceled due to IPSN deadline

November 6, 2009 - Mo Sha

November 13, 2009 - Yong Fu

November 20, 2009 - Greg Hackmann

November 27, 2009 - N/A

Thanksgiving Break

December 4, 2009 - Chien-Liang Fok

December 11, 2009 - Abu Sayeed Saifullah

December 18, 2009 - N/A

Winter Break

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