EECS-395/495 - Detailed Schedule

The entire class time will be dedicated to presenting and discussing an interesting paper pushing distributed systems into "uncomfortable corners".

Welcome to Distributed Systems in Challenging Environments Slides [.pdf]

  1. Outer space, under water and throughout the savanna
    1. Delay-Tolerant Networking -- An Approach to Interplanetary Internet, by S. Burleigh, A. Hooke, L. Torgerson, K. Fall, V. Cerf, B. Durst, K. Scott, H. Weiss. IEEE Communications Magazine, Jun. 2003.
      Presenter (Date): Fabian (April 1)
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. A Survey of Practical Issues in Underwater Networks, by J. Partan, J. Kurose, and B. Neil Levine, Proc. ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), Sep. 2006.

      (Alternate reading) Data Collection, Storage, and Retrieval with an Underwater Sensor Network, by I, Valescu, K. Kotay, D. Rus, M. Dumbabin and P. Corke, Proc. of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Nov. 2005.

      Presenter (Date): Fabian (April 8)
      Slides [.pdf]
    3. Implementing Software on Resource-Constrained Mobile Sensors: Experiences with Impala and ZebraNet, by T. Liu, C. Sadler, P. Zhang and M. Martonosi. Proc. ACM Conference on Mobile Systems Applications and Services (MobiSys), Jun. 2004.
      Presenter (Date): Fabian (April 10)
      Slides [.pdf]

  2. Keeping an eye on the world
    1. Fidelity and Yield in a Volcano Monitoring Sensor Network, by G. Werner-Allen, K. Lorincz, J. Johnson, J. Lees, M. Welsh. Proc. of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Nov. 2006.
      Presenter (Date): Rahul Potharaju (April 15)
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. SensorFlock: An Airborne Wireless Sensor Network of Micro-Air Vehicles, by J. Allred, A. Bilal Hasan, S. Panichsakul, W. Pisano, P. Gray, J. Huang, R. Han, D. Lawrence, K. Mohseni. Proc. of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Nov. 2007.
      Presenter (Date): J. Scott Miller (April 17)
      Slides [.pdf]
    3. A Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Monitoring, by N. Xu, S. Rangwala, K. Chintalapudi, D. Ganesan, A. Broad, R. Govindan, D. Estrin. Proc. of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Nov. 2004.
      Presenter (Date): Gregory Peaker (April 22)
      Slides [.pdf]

  3. Distributed systems on wheels
    1. Towards Commercial Mobile Ad Hoc Network Applications: A Radio Dispatch System, E. Huang, W. Hu, J. Crowcroft, I. Wassell. Proc. of the ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing (MobiHoc), May 2005.
      Presenter (Date): Olusanya Soyannwo (April 24)
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System, by B. Hull, V. Bychkovsky, Y. Zhang, K. Chen, M. Goraczko, A. Miu, E. Shih, H. Balakrishnan, S. Madden. Proc. of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Nov. 2006.
      Presenter (Date): Ionut Trestian (April 29)
      Slides [.pdf]
    3. Analysis of Multi-Hop Emergency Message Propagation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, by G. Resta, P. Santi, and J. Simon. Proc. of the ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing (MobiHoc), Sep. 2007.
      Presenter (Date): John Otto (May 1)
      Slides [.pdf]

  4. Midterm project presentations - May 1
  5. It's a hard world
    1. Network Coordinates in the Wild, by J. Ledlie, P. Gardner, M. Seltzer. Proc. of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Apr. 2007.
      Presenter (Date): Nikhil Sethi (May 6)
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Impact of the Inaccuracy of Distance Prediction Algorithms on Internet Applications -- an Analytical and Comparative Study, by R. Zhang, C. Tang, Y. C. Hu, S. Fahmy, and X. Lin. Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Apr. 2006.
      Presenter (Date): Chris Karr (May 8)
      Slides [.pdf]
    3. Replay Debugging for Distributed Applications, by D. Geels, G. Altekar, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica. Proc. of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2006.
      Presenter (Date): Ionut Trestian (May 13)
      Slides [.pdf]
    4. Improving the Reliability of Internet Paths with One-hop Source Routing, by Krishna P. Gummadi, Harsha V. Madhyastha, S. Gribble, H. Levy, and D. Wetherall. Proc. of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Dec. 2004.
      Presenter (Date): J. Scott Miller (May 15)
      Slides [.pdf]

  6. Blocking busybodies
    1. Information Slicing: Anonymity Using Unreliable Overlays, by S. Katti, J. Cohen, and D. Katabi. Proc. of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Apr. 2007.
      Presenter (Date): Xian Teng (May 20)
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Devices That Tell on You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing, by T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Sameer Agarwal, and Tadayoshi Kohno. Proc. of USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2007.
      Presenter (Date): Rahul Potharaju (May 22)
      Slides [.pdf]
    3. Hiding in the Crowd: Privacy Preservation on Evolving Streams through Correlation Tracking, by Feifei Li, Jimeng Sun, Spiros Papadimitriou, George A. Mihaila, Ioana Stanoi. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Apr. 2007.
      Presenter (Date): Bejamin Prosnitz (May 27)
      Slides [.pdf]

  7. It's all about connecting people in the end
    1. PeopleNet: Engineering A Wireless Virtual Social Network, by M. Motani, V., P. Nuggehalli. Proc. of the ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking (MobiCom), Sep. 2005.
      Presenter (Date): John Otto (May 29)
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Social Network Analysis for Routing in Disconnected Delay-Tolerant MANETs, by E. Daly and M. Haahr. Proc. of the ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing (MobiHoc), Sep. 2007.
      Presenter (Date): Patrick Wong (June 3)
      Slides [.pdf]
    3. Turning the Postal System into a Generic Digital Communication Mechanism, by R. Wang, S. Sobti,, N. Garg, E. Ziskind, J. Lai, A. Krishnamurth. Proc. of ACM conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications (SIGCOMM), Sep. 2004.
      Presenter (Date): Lam Chan (June 5)
      Slides [.pdf]

  8. Final project presentations - finals week

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