Final Program

Thursday, February 25, 1999

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.   Introductions  

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.   Computing I: Tools and Applications   (Chair: Karin Petersen)

• PowerScope: A Tool for Profiling the Energy Usage of Mobile Applications
  Jason Flinn and M. Satyanarayanan
• Caches in the Air: Disseminating Tourist Information in the GUIDE System
  Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst, Keith Mitchell and Adrian Friday
• Adaptive Groupware for Wireless Networks
  Tara Whalen and James P. Black

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.   Networking I: Protocols and Handoffs   (Chair: Joe Duran)

• RAT: A Quick (And Dirty?) Push for Mobility Support
  Rhandeev Singh, Y. C. Tay, W. T. Teo and S. W. Yeow
• TCP Performance in Wireless Multihop Networks
  Mario Gerla, Ken Tang and Rajive Bagrodia
• Policy-Enabled Handoffs Across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
  Helen J. Wang, Randy H. Katz and Jochen Giese

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.   Work in Progress   (Chair: Cormac Sreenan)

• The Iceberg Project
  Anthony Joseph
• Adaptive Mobile Applications Based on Mobile Code
  Thomas Kunz
• The Mobile People Architecture Project
  Mary Baker
• A Case for Nomadic Computing
  David Steere
• The Milly Watt Project
  Carla Ellis
• Mackinac: Bridging the Application/Channel Gap
  Brian Noble

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.   Reception

Friday, February 26, 1999

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.   Invited Talk  

Mahmoud Naghshineh of IBM Research spoke about BlueTooth, a low-cost low-power radio technology under development by a consortium of companies.

10:00 - 10:30 p.m.   Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon   Computing II: Workflow and Databases   (Chair: Nigel Davies)

• Workflow and Application Adaptations in Mobile Environments
  Jin Jing, Karen Huff, Himanshu Sinha, Ben Hurwitz and Bill Robinson
• DataX: An Approach to Ubiquitous Database Access
  Hui Lei, Marion Blount and Carl Tait
• Broadcast of Consistent Data to Read-Only Transactions from Mobile Clients
  Kam-Yiu Lam, Mei-Wai Au and Edward Chan

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.   Networking II: Ad Hoc and Multicast   (Chair: John Zavgren)

• Ad-Hoc On Demand Distance Vector Routing
  Charles E. Perkins and Elizabeth M. Royer
• Geocasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Location-Based Multicast Algorithms
  Young-Bae Ko and Nitin H. Vaidya
• An Adaptive Protocol for Reliable Multicast in Multi-Hop Radio Networks
  Sandeep K. S. Gupta and Pradip K. Srimani

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.   Break-Out Panel   (Chair: Ramón Cáceres)

"In Silicon Valley there is perhaps no greater mystery than why it has taken anytime-anywhere wireless computing so long to arrive."   John Markoff, The New York Times, January 4, 1999

The attendees broke out into groups to prepare positions on issues related to the above statement, for example: What are the barriers to widespread integration of portable computing devices and wireless communication networks? What can the mobile computing research community do to help bring down these barriers? The workshop reconvened and representatives from each group presented the groups' positions.