Azer Bestavros
Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Arts & Sciences
Boston University
 

Office: 111 Cummington Street, MCS-276, Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617.353.9726 / Fax: 617.353.6457 / Email: best @bu.edu

 

TEACHING
[CS109] [CS350] [CS697] [DWE]

RESEARCH
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(c) Azer Bestavros

Meeting Time: Tuesdays 2:00-3:30pm / Meeting Place: SAR 218

Date

Readings Lecturer/Scribe Notes

Introduction

09/09

Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century. Scientific American, 1991

Embedded Everywhere: A research agenda for networked systems of embedded computers,  CSTB Report.

J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, and K. S. J. Pister, Next Century Challenges: Mobile Networking for Smart Dust, Mobicom'99.

The Sensorium project white paper, Computer Science Department, Boston University.

A. Mainwaring, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, D. Culler, and J. Anderson, Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring, WSNA'02.

M. Srivastava, R. Muntz and M. Potkonjak, Smart Kindergarten: Sensor-based Wireless Networks for Smart Developmental Problem-solving Environments. Mobicom'01

Akyildiz, Su, Sankarasubramaniam. A Survey on Sensor Networks. IEEE Communications Magazine. August 2002.

Azer Bestavros Slides

Scheduling and Resource Management

09/16

H. Aydin, R. Melhem, D. Mosse and P. Mejia-Alvarez; "Power-Aware Scheduling for Periodic Real-Time Tasks''. TOCS'03.

W. Ye, J. Heidemann and D. Estrin, An energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks,   IEEE Infocom 2002.

R. Melhem, D. Mosse and E.(Mootaz) Elnozahy; The Interplay of Power Management and Fault Recovery in Real-Time Systems''. IEEE TOCS, 2003.

Azer Bestavros
Kanishka Gupta
Kanishka Gupta
Slides
09/23

B. Chen, K. Jamieson, H. Balakrishnan, and R. Morris, Span: An Energy-Efficient Coordination Algorithm for Topology Maintenance in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, MobiCom 2001.

K. Whitehouse and D. Culler. Calibration as parameter estimation in sensor networks. WSNA 2002.

R. Karp, J. Elson, D. Estrin, and S. Shenker. Optimal and Global Time Synchronization in Sensornets. Technical Report CENS. April 2003.

J. Elson, L. Girod and D. Estrin. Fine-Grained Network Time Synchronization using Reference Broadcasts, OSDI 2002.

Azer Bestavros
Brenda Zhuang
Wei Li
Slides I
Slides II

Programming Support and Abstractions

10/01

D. Gay, P. Levis, R. von Behren, M. Welsh, E. Brewer, and D. Culler. The nesC Language: A Holistic Approach to Networked Embedded Systems, PLDI  2003.

P. Levis and D. Culler. Mate: A tiny virtual machine for sensor networks. ASPLOS 2002.

J. Hill, R. Szewczyk, A. Woo, S. Hollar, D. Culler, and K. Pister, "System architecture directions for network sensors," ASPLOS 2000.

Matt Welch
Nahur Fonseca
 
Script

Routing, Location Management, and Transport

10/07

F. Ye, G. Zhong, S. Lu, L. Zhang, GRAdient Broadcast: A Robust Data Delivery Protocol for Large Scale Sensor Networks, ACM WINET (Wireless Networks)

Ibrahim Matta
Niky Riga
Vijay Erramilli
Slides
Script
10/21

Y. Yu, Ramesh Govindan and D. Estrin, Geographical and Energy Aware Routing: A Recursive Data Dissemination Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, UCLA/CSD-TR-01-0023, May 2001.

B. Krishnamachari, Y. Mourtada, and S.Wicker, The Energy-Robustness Tradeoff for Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2003.

B. Krishnamachari and F. Ordnez, Analysis of Energy-Efficient, Fair Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks through Non-linear Optimization

Ibrahim Matta
Vijay Erramilli
Wei Li
Niky Riga
Slides
10/28

C. Wan, A. Campbell, L. Krishnamurthy. PSFQ: A Reliable Transport Protocol For Wireless Sensor Networks. WSNA'02

George Smaragdakis Slides

Data Management, Indexing, and Storage

10/28

Y. Yao and J. E. Gehrke. Query Processing in Sensor Networks. In CIDR 2003.

George Kollios
William Mullally
 
11/04

S. R. Madden, M. J. Franklin, J. M. Hellerstein, and W.Hong, The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor for Sensor Networks, SIGMOD'03.

A. Das, J. E. Gehrke, and M. Riedewald. Approximate Join Processing Over Data Streams. SIGMOD'03.

George Kollios
Feifei Li
William Mullally
Slides
11/11

A. Deshpande, S. Nath, P. Gibbons, and S. Seshan. Cache-and-Query for Wide Area Sensor Databases, SIGMOD'03.

P. B. Gibbons, B. Karp, Y. Ke, S. Nath, S. Seshan. IrisNet: An Architecture for a World-Wide Sensor Web. To appear, IEEE Pervasive Computing.

J. Considine, F. Li, G. Kollios, and J. Byers. Approximate Aggregation Techniques for Sensor Databases. ICDE'04.

George Kollios
William Mullally
Feifei Li
Script
11/18

Miscellaneous

11/25 John Byers
12/02 John Byers
Dhiman Barman
Slides
12/09 Nahur Fonseca
Dhiman Barman
Script
12/16

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

Gary Wong Slides
Notes