Advanced Program

Tuesday, April 17
8:15 - 8:30
Opening Remarks
8:30 - 9:30
CPS-WEEK Plenary Session I

Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems using Reachability Analysis with Machine Learning

Claire Tomlin
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley


9:30 - 10:00
Break
10:00 - 11:30
IP Track: Compressive Sensing and Control
Session Chair: Thomas Moscriboda
In-Situ Soil Moisture Sensing: Measurement Scheduling and Estimation using Compressive Sensing
Xiaopei Wu, Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan)
Efficient Cross-Correlation via Sparse Representation in Sensor Networks
Prasant Misra (University of New South Wales), Wen Hu, Mingrui Yang (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Sanjay Jha (University of New South Wales)
Closing the Loop: A Simple Distributed Method for Control over Wireless Networks
Miroslav Pajic (University of Pennsylvania), Shreyas Sundaram (University of Waterloo), Jerome Le Ny, George J. Pappas, Rahul Mangharam (University of Pennsylvania)
11:30 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
SPOTS Track: Experiences
Session Chair: Luca Mottola
@scale: Insights from a Large, Long-Lived Appliance Energy WSN
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty (University of California - Berkeley), Steven Lanzisera (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jay Taneja (UC Berkeley), Richard Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), David Culler (University of California - Berkeley)
Poster/Demo Pitch Talks
Short talks by selected poster and demo authors
14:30 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 16:30
SPOTS Track: Group Behavior
Session Chair: Thiemo Voigt
Simbeeotic: A Simulator and Testbed for Micro-Aerial Vehicle Swarm Experiments
Bryan Kate, Jason Waterman, Karthik Dantu (Harvard University), Matt Welsh (Google)
TriopusNet: Automating Wireless Sensor Network Deployment and Replacement in Pipeline Monitoring
Ted Tsung-Te Lai, Wei-Ju Chen, Kuei-Han Li, Polly Huang, Hao-Hua Chu (National Taiwan University)
Collaborative Calibration and Sensor Placement for Mobile Sensor Networks
Yun Xiang (University of Michigan), Lan Bai (EMC), Ricardo Piedrahita (University of Colorado), Robert P. Dick (University of Michigan), Qin Lv, Michael Hannigan, Li Shang (University of Colorado)
16:30 - 19:00
19:00 - 21:00

Welcome Dinner
Juying Restaurant, 2nd Floor of Friendship Hotel

Wednesday, April 18
8:30 - 9:30
CPS-WEEK Plenary Session II

Medical Device Interoperability Ecosystem: Medical Device Clock Time and the Regulatory Pathway

Julian Goldman M.D.
Director, CIMIT Program on Interoperability and Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability Program, Massachusetts General Hospital


9:30 - 10:00
Break
10:00 - 11:30
IP Track: Networking
Session Chair: Mike Chieh-Jan Liang
Strawman: Resolving Collisions in Bursty Low-Power Wireless Networks
Fredrik Osterlind, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, Nicolas Tsiftes, Adam Dunkels (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
pTunes: Runtime Parameter Adaptation for Low-power MAC Protocols
Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari (ETH - Zurich), Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Lothar Thiele (ETH - Zurich)
Low Power, Low Delay: Opportunistic Routing meets Duty Cycling
Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology), Euhanna Ghadimi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Simon Duquennoy (Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Mikael Johansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
11:30 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
SPOTS Track: Platforms
Session Chair: Polly Huang
Grafting Energy-Harvesting Leaves onto the Sensornet Tree
Lohit Yerva, Brad Campbell, Apoorva Bansal (University of Michigan), Thomas Schmid (University of Utah), Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan)
Improving RF-Based Device-Free Passive Localization In Cluttered Indoor Environments Through Probabilistic Classification Methods
Chenren Xu, Bernhard Firner, Yanyong Zhang, Richard Howard, Jun Li, Xiaodong Lin (Rutgers University)
Design and Evaluation of a Wireless Magnetic-based Proximity Detection Platform for Indoor Applications
Xiaofan Jiang, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Kaifei Chen, Ben Zhang, Jeff Hsu (Microsoft Research Asia), Jie Liu (Microsoft Research), Bin Cao, Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research Asia)
14:30 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 17:00
IP Track: Differentiating Knowledge from Noise
Session Chair: Kay Romer
On Truth Discovery in Social Sensing: A Maximum Likelihood Estimation Approach
Dong Wang(University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Lance Kaplan (US Army Research Labs), Hieu Le (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign & Lund University [Sabbatical Affiliation])
SunCast: Fine-grained Prediction of Natural Sunlight Levels for Improved Daylight Harvesting
Jiakang Lu, Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia)
An Effective Coreset Compression Algorithm for Large Scale Sensor Networks
Dan Feldman, Andrew Sugaya, Daniela Rus (MIT)
17:00 - 18:00
Business Meeting
Thursday, April 19
8:30 - 9:30
CPS-WEEK Plenary Session III

Challenges in Cyber-Physical Coupling for Creating Ubiquitous Services

Hideyuki Tokuda
Dean of the Graduate School of Media and Governance and Professor of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan


9:30 - 10:00
Break
10:00 - 11:30
IP Track: Algorithms
Session Chair: Subhash Suri
mPuff: Automated Detection of Cigarette Smoking Puffs from Respiration Measurements
Amin Ahsan Ali, Syed Monowar Hossain, Karen Hovsepian, Md Mahmubur Rahman, Kurt Plarre, Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis)
Accuracy-Aware Aquatic Diffusion Process Profiling Using Robotic Sensor Networks
Yu Wang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianxun Wang, Xiaobo Tan (Michigan State University)
Error-Resilient and Complexity-Constrained Distributed Coding for Large Scale Sensor Networks
Kumar Viswanatha, Sharadh Ramaswamy, Ankur Saxena, Kenneth Rose (University of California - Santa Barbara)
11:30 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
SPOTS Track: Extreme Communications
Session Chair: Rahul Mangharam
Fully Wireless Implementation of Distributed Beamforming on a Software-Defined Radio Platform
Muhammad M Rahman, Henry E. Baidoo-Williams, Raghuraman Mudumbai, Soura Dasgupta (University of Iowa)
Magneto-Inductive NEtworked Rescue System (MINERS): Taking sensor networks underground
Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni (University of Oxford)
Sensing Through the Continent: Towards Monitoring Migratory Birds using Cellular Sensor Networks
David Anthony, William P. Bennett, Mehmet C. Vuran, Matthew B. Dwyer, Sebastian Elbaum (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Anne Lacy, Mike Engels (International Crane Foundation), Walter Wehtje (Crane Trust)