ACM S3 2011

Workshop Program

9:00 - 9:15

Meet and Opening Remarks

9:15 - 10:35

Theory session

Chairs: Joe Wenjie Jiang and Xia Zhou

1. A Case for the Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless MAC/PHY
   Xinyu Zhang and Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan)
   
   
2. A Simple Queueing Network Model of Mobility in a Campus Wireless Network
   Yung-Chih Chen, Jim Kurose, and Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts)
   
   
3. A Markov Chain Model for Coarse Timescale Channel Variation in an 802.16e Wireless Network
   Anand Seetharam, Jim Kurose, Dennis Goeckel, and Gautam Bhanage (University of Massachusetts)
   
   
4. A Measurement-Based Algorithm to Maximize the Utility of Wireless Networks
   Julien Herzen, Adel Aziz, Ruben Merz, Seva Shneer, and Patrick Thiran (EPFL)

10:35 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

Systems 1

Chairs: Hossein Falaki and Daniel Halperin

1. How Effective is Mobile Browser Cache?
   Zhen Wang, Xiaozhu Lin, Lin Zhong, and Mansoor Chishtie (Rice University)
   
   
2. Smart Phone based Systems for Social Psychological Research: Challenges and Design Guidelines
   Kiran K. Rachuri and Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
   
   
3. Anticipatory Wireless Bitrate Control for Blocks
   Xiaozheng Tie, Anand Seetharam, Arun Venkataramani, Deepak Ganesan, and Dennis L. Goeckel (UMass Amherst)

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch + Poster/Demo

Chairs: Naren Anand and Chuan Qin

1. Your Smartphone Can Watch the Road and You: Mobile Assistant for Inattentive Driver
   Sanjeev Singh and Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina)
   
   
2. Narrowing the Beam: Lowering Complexity and Power in Cellular Networks by Scaling Up
   Clayton Shepard (Rice University)
   
   
3. STROBE: Actively Securing Wireless Communications using Zero-Forcing Beamforming
   Narendra Anand (Rice University)
   
   
4. Noise Not Considered Harmful
   Mahanth Gowda (Duke University)
   
   
5. PHY Aware Predictive Rate Control for Wireless Networks
   Souvik Sen (Duke University)

13:30 - 14:10

Systems 2

1. Enabling Opportunistic Resources Sharing on Mobile Operating Systems: Benefits and Challenges
   Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Christos Efstratiou, Geoffrey Xie, and Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)
   
   
2. Towards Jamming-Resistant and Competitive Medium Access in the SINR Model
   Andrea Richa, Christian Scheideler, Stefan Schmid, and Jin Zhang (Arizona State University)

14:15 - 15:15

Panel

Moderators: Pralhad Deshpande and Ioannis Pefkianakis

"Industry vs. Academia: Career Opportunities and Impact"

Participants:
Kostas Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh
Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Washington
Jean Bolot, Technicolor
Krishna Chintalapudi, MSR India
Bozidar Radunovic, MSR Cambridge

15:15 - 15:45

Break

15:45 - 16:45

PhD Forum

Chairs: Swati Rallapalli and Ardalan Amir Sani

Judges:
Sharad Agarwal, MSR Redmond
Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata

Participants:
David Kao, Rice University
Kiran Rachuri, University of Cambridge
Chunyi Peng, UCLA
Robert LiKamWa, Rice University
Eduardo Cuervo Laffaye, Duke
Yi-Chao Chen, UT Austin
Akash Baid, Rutgers
Ashwin Ashok, Rutgers
Anand Seetharam, UMass

16:45 - 17:00

Break

17:00 - 17:45

ACM S3 Startup challenge (Open for all MOBICOM attendees)

Moderator: Farhana Ashraf

Venture capitalist presentation by: Gian Brown, VP of Strategic Transactions at SAIC.

17:45

Closing Remarks