ACM MobiHoc 2009 S3 Workshop

Workshop Program

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Meet and Greet, Opening Remarks

8:30-9:00

Theory Session

9:00-10:30

Chairs: Gagan Gupta (Purdue) and Tianxiong Ji (UIUC)

Reliable Distributed Computing on Unreliable Radio Channels
Calvin Newport (MIT)

Approaching Throughput-Optimality in a Distributed CSMA Algorithm: Collisions and Stability
Libin Jiang (UC-Berkeley)

Towards Performance Analysis of 802.16 Backbone Mesh Networks
Punit A. Rathod (IIT Bombay)

A Mean Field Approach to Competition in Large Scale Wireless Systems
Sachin Adlakha (Stanford)

Stochastic Link-level Dynamics in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Several Interesting Aspects
Han Cai (NC State)

Code Construction for Multiple Sources Network Coding
Mahdi Jafari (EPFL)

Break

10:30-11:00

Panel

11:00-12:30

Title: Relevance or Rigor: Bridging the Gap between Systems and Theory Research in Wireless Networking

Chairs: Emiliano Miluzzo (Dartmouth College) and Anand Prabhu Subramanian (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Han Cai (NC State) - Theoretical Aspects of Multi-hop Adhoc Networks
Wei Gao (Penn State University) - Delay Tolerant Networks
Anmol Madan (MIT) - Wearable Computing
Hariharan Rahul (MIT) - Cognitive Radios
Lenin Ravindranath (MIT) - Mobile Systems

Elevator session + Lunch

12:30-2:00

Chairs: Carri Chan (Stanford University) and Kyu-Han Kim (University of Michigan)

Presenters:
Radha Ganti (Notre Dame)
Wei Gao (Penn State University)
Juncheng Jia (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Mathieu Leconte (UIUC)
Tian Lan (Princeton)
Yunfeng Lin (University of Toronto)
Jia (Kevin) Liu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Stanislav Miskovich (Rice)
Christina Poepper (ETH Zurich)
Kannan Srinivasan (Stanford)

Judges:
Professor Yung Yi (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, since 2008)
Carri Chan (Division of Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, starting 2010)

Systems Session

2:00-3:30

Chairs: Nilanjan Banerjee (UMass-Amherst) and Nikodin Ristanovic (EPFL)

ParkNet: A Mobile Sensor Network for Harvesting Real Time Vehicular Parking Information
Suhas Mathur (Rutgers)

A Failsafe Architecture for Mesh Testbeds with Real Users
Harald Schioeberg (Technische Universität Berlin)

Aziala-net: Deploying a Scalable Multi-hop Wireless Testbed Platform for Research Purposes
Adel Aziz (EPFL)

The Haggle Architecture
Erik Nordstrom (Uppsala University)

Into the Wild: Taming Uncertainty in Perpetual Systems
Jacob Sorber (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

MeshMon: A Multi-tiered Framework for Wireless Mesh Network Monitoring
Ramya Raghavendra (UC-Santa Barbara)

Break

3:30-4:00

Closing

4:00-5:00

Chairs: Anna Pantelidou (University of Maryland) and Jay-Kumar Sundararajan (MIT)

A Cellular Perspective on Ad hoc Networks
Dr. Scott Corson (Qualcomm)

From Networks to Cyberphysical Systems
Prof. P. R. Kumar (UIUC)

Wireless Networks - A Queueing Perspective
Dr. Alexandre Proutier (Microsoft Research)