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Schedule

Time Topic
Required Reading Reviews
March 21
Course Overview (Presenter: NESIME)
None.  No paper reviews. 
March 28
Platforms & Applications (Presenters: TATYANA (3 + 4))

Platforms

1. "The Sensor Spectrum: Technology, Trends, and Requirements", J. M. Hellerstein, W. Hong, and S. Madden, ACM SIGMOD Record, December 2003.
2. "The Platforms Enabling Wireless Sensor Networks", J. Hill, M. Horton, R. Kling, and L. Krishnamurthy, Communications of the ACM, June 2004.

Sample Applications

3. "Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring", A. Mainwaring, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk D. Culler, and J. Anderson, ACM Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA), 2002.

4. "Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities", K. Lorincz, D. Malan, T. Fulford-Jones, A. Nawoj, A. Clavel, V. Shnayder, G. Mainland, S. Moulton, and M. Welsh, IEEE Pervasive Computing, October 2004.

All. No paper reviews.
April 4
Systems Support (Presenters: KAJETAN (2), MATTHIAS (3))

Operating

1. "TinyOS: An Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks", P. Levis, S. Madden, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, K. Whitehouse, A. Woo, D. Gay, J. Hill, M. Welsh, E. Brewer, and D. Culler, Book chapter in "Ambient Intelligence", edited by W. Weber, J. Rabaey, and E. Aarts, Springer, April 2005.
2. "The Emergence of Networking Abstractions and Techniques in TinyOS", P. Levis, S. Madden, D. Gay, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, A. Woo, E. Brewer, and D. Culler, NSDI Conference, March 2004.

Programming

3. "The nesC Language: A Holistic Approach to Networked Embedded Systems", D. Gay, P. Levis, J. R. von Behren, M. Welsh, E.A. Brewer, and D. E. Culler, PLDI Conference, June 2003.
4. "Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks", P. Levis, N. Patel, D. E. Culler, and S. Shenker, NSDI Conference, March 2004.
5. "Programming Sensor Networks Using Abstract Regions", M. Welsh and G. Mainland, NSDI Conference, March 2004.
Simulating

6. "TOSSIM: Accurate and Scalable Simulation of Entire TinyOS Applications", P. Levis, N. Lee, M. Welsh, and D. E. Culler, SenSys Conference, November 2003.

1, 2, 3.
Review paper 2 or 3.
April 11
Networking Support (Presenters: MATTHIAS (2 + 3), PHILIPP (5))
Medium Access Control
1. "Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control", K. Langendoen and G. Halkes, Book chapter in "Embedded Systems Handbook", edited by R. Zurawski, CRC Press, August 2005.
2. "An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks", W. Ye, J. Heidemann, and D. Estrin, INFOCOM Conference, June 2002.
3. "Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks", M. Ali, U. Saif, A. Dunkels, T. Voigt, K. Romer, K. Langendoen, J. Polastre, and Z. A. Uzmi, SIGCOMM Computing Communication Review, 36:2, April 2006.
Routing
4. "A Survey on Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks", K. Akkaya and M. F. Younis, Ad Hoc Networks, 3:3,  May 2005.
5. "Directed Diffusion for Wireless Sensor Networking", C. Intanagonwiwat, R. Govindan, D. Estrin, J. Heidemann, and F. Silvax, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 11:1, February 2003.
All. Review paper 2 or 5.
April 18
NO CLASS (ICDE Conference)
   
April 25
Data Dissemination (Presenters: ALEX (1 + 2))
1. "Matching  Data Dissemination Algorithms to Application Requirements", J. Heidemann, F. Silva, and D. Estrin, SenSys Conference, November 2003.
2. "Power-Efficient Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks", U. Cetintemel, A. Flinders, and Y. Sun, MobiDE Workshop, September 2003.
3. "WaveScheduling: Energy-Efficient Data Dissemination for Sensor Networks", N. Trigoni, Y. Yao, A. Demers, J. Gehrke, and R. Rajamaran, DMSN Workshop, August 2004.
All. Review paper 1, 2, or 3.
May 2
Storage and Indexing (Presenters: KAJETAN (1), MARTIN (3))
1. "Multi-dimensional Range Queries in Sensor Networks", X. Li, Y. J. Kim, R. Govindan, and W. Hong, SenSys Conference, November 2003.
2. "Scoop: A Hybrid, Adaptive Storage Policy for Sensor Networks", T. M. Gil and S. Madden, MIT CSAIL Technical Report, January 2006.
3. "Rethinking Data Management for Storage-centric Sensor Networks", Y. Diao, D. Ganesan, G. Mathur, and P. Shenoy, CIDR Conference, January 2007.
All. Review paper 1 or 3.
May 9
Query Processing (Presenters: MARTIN (3))
Overview
1. "Query Processing in Sensor Networks", J. Gehrke and S. Madden, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 3:1, January 2004.
In-network Processing
2. "TAG: a Tiny AGgragation Service for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks", S. Madden, M. Franklin, J. Hellerstein, and W. Hong, OSDI Conference, December 2002.
Acquisitional Processing
3. "TinyDB: An Acquisitional Query Processing System for Sensor Networks", S. Madden, M. Franklin, J. Hellerstein, and W. Hong, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 30:1, March 2005.
All. Review paper 3.
May 16
Event Detection and Processing (Presenters: ALEX (1))
Languages and Processing
1. "High-Performance Complex Event Processing over Streams", E. Wu, Y. Diao, and S. Rizvi, SIGMOD Conference, June 2006.
2. "Towards Expressive Publish/Subscribe Systems", A. Demers, J. Gehrke, M. Hong, M. Riedewald, and W. White, EDBT Conference, March 2006.
Detection
3. "REED: Robust, Efficient Filtering and Event Detection in Sensor Networks", D. Abadi, S. Madden, and W. Lindner, VLDB Conference, September 2005.
4. "Contour Map Matching for Event Detection in Sensor Networks", W. Xue, Q. Luo, L. Chen, and Y. Liu, SIGMOD Conference, June 2006.
1, 3. Review paper 1 or 3.
May 23
Uncertainty (Presenters: TATYANA (1))
1. "Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks", A. Deshpande, C. Guestrin, S. Madden, J. Hellerstein, and W. Hong, VLDB Conference, September 2004.
2. "Using Probabilistic Models for Data Management in Acquisitional Environments", A. Deshpande, C. Guestrin,  and S. Madden, CIDR Conference, January 2005.
3. "PRESTO: Feedback-driven Data Management in Sensor Networks", M. Li, D. Ganesan, and P. Shenoy, NSDI Conference, 2006.
4. "Adaptive Cleaning for RFID Data Streams", S. R. Jeffrey, M. Garofalakis, and M. J. Franklin, VLDB Conference, 2006.
All. Review paper 1, 3, or 4.
May 30
Mobility (Presenters: PHILIPP (3))

1. "Robomote: Enabling Mobility in Sensor Networks", K. Dantu, M. Rahimi, H. Shah, S. Babel, A. Dhariwal, and G.S. Sukhatme,  IPSN Conference, April 2005.

2. "CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System", B. Hull, V. Bychkovsky, Y. Zhang, K. Chen, M. Goraczko, A. Miu, E. Shih, H. Balakrishnan, and S. Madden, SenSys Conference, November 2006.
3. "ICEDB: Intermittently-Connected Continuous Query Processing", Y. Zhang, B. Hull, V. Bychkovsky, H. Balakrishnan, and S. Madden, ICDE Conference, April 2007.
4. "Publish/Subscribe in a Mobile Environment", Y. Huang and H. Garcia-Molina, Wireless Networks, 10:6, November 2004.

All. Review paper 2, 3, or 4.
June 6
Wide-Area Sensing and Wrap-up (Presenters: TATYANA (3), All)

Architecture
1. "IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web", P. Gibbons, B. Karp, Y. Ke, S. Nath, and S. Seshan, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2:4, October 2003.
2. "Hourglass: An Infrastructure for Connecting Sensor Networks and Applications", J. Shneidman, P. Pietzuch, J. Ledlie, M. Roussopoulos, M. Seltzer, and M. Welsh, Harvard Technical Report TR-21-04.
3. "Data Management in the Worldwide Sensor Web", M. Balazinska, A. Deshpande, M. J. Franklin, P. B. Gibbons, J. Gray, M. Hansen, M. Liebhold, S. Nath, A. Szalay, and V. Tao, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6:2, April 2007.

Query Processing
4. "Cache-and-Query for Wide Area Sensor Databases", A. Deshpande, S. Nath, P. B. Gibbons, and S. Seshan, SIGMOD Conference, June 2003.
Data Placement
5. "Adaptive Data Placement for Wide-Area Sensing Services", S. Nath, P. B. Gibbons, and S. Seshan, USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), December 2005.

2, 3, 5.
Review paper 2, 3, or 5.
 

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