12-13 February, 2015

The 16th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

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  • Mahadev Satyanarayanan

    Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  • Pei Zhang

    Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  • Alex Snoeren

    University of California, San Diego, USA

  • Eric Rozner

    IBM Research – Austin, USA

  • Tamer Nadeem

    Old Dominion University, USA

  • Qin Lv

    University of Colorado, USA

  • Rajesh Krishna Balan

    Singapore Management University

  • Heather Zheng

    University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

  • Kyu-Han Kim

    HP Labs, USA

  • Thursday, February 12, 2015

  • 08:00 Registration Open

  • 08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast

  • 09:00 – 10:30 Opening Session

  • Keynote

    Title: Academia, Startups, and Mobile Advertising
    Speaker: Mark Corner
    Associate Professor University of Massachusetts Amherst,
    Founder and CTO at Fiksu Inc.

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00 – 12:15
    Session 1: Gesture
    Mahadev Satyanarayanan

  • Memory Stones: An Intuitive Information Transfer Technique between Multi-touch Computers

    Kaori Ikematsu and Itiro Siio (Ochanomizu University)

  • Finger-writing with Smartwatch: A Case for Finger and Hand Gesture Recognition using Smartwatch

    Chao Xu, Parth H. Pathak, and Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis)

  • Mobile Touch-Free Interaction for Global Health

    Nicola Dell, Krittika D'Silva, and Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington)

  • 12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

  • 13:15 – 14:45
    Session 2: IoT       &       Session 3: Energy
    Pei Zhang
    Alex Snoeren

  • Retro-VLC: Enabling Battery-free Visible Light Communication for Mobile and IoT Applications

    Jiangtao Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Angli Liu (University of Washington), Guobin Shen and Liqun Li (Microsoft Research), Chao Sun (Shandong University), and Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research)

  • The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem

    Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins, Neal Jackson, and Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan)

  • Reducing Energy Consumption of Alarm-induced Wake-ups on Android Smartphones

    Sewook Park, Dongwon Kim, and Hojung Cha (Dept. of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Korea)

  • Energy-Efficiency Comparison of Mobile Platforms and Applications: A Quantitative Approach

    Grace Metri, Weisong Shi, and Monica Brockmeyer (Wayne State University)

  • 14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break

  • 15:00 – 16:30
    Session 4: Cellular
    Eric Rozner

  • CQIC: Cross Layer Congestion Control for Cellular Networks

    Feng Lu (UC San Diego), Hao Du and Ankur Jain (Google), Geoffrey M. Voelker and Alex C. Snoeren (UC San Diego), and Andreas Terzis (Google)

  • The Case for Offload Shaping

    Wenlu Hu, Brandon Amos, Zhuo Chen, Kiryong Ha, and Wolfgang Richter (Carnegie Mellon University), Padmanabhan Pillai(Intel Labs), and Benjamin Gilbert, Jan Harkes, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Can Accurate Predictions Improve Video Streaming in Cellular Networks?

    Xuan Kelvin Zou (Princeton University), Jeffrey Erman, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Emir Halepovic, and Rittwik Jana (AT&T Labs – Research), Xin Jin and Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), and Rakesh K. Sinha (AT&T Labs – Research)

  • 18:00 – 19:30 Poster & Demo Session – Reception

  • 19:30 – 21:30 Banquet

  • Friday, February 13, 2015

  • 08:00 Registration Open

  • 08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast

  • 09:00 – 10:30
    Session 5: Network monitoring and Imaging
    Tamer Nadeem

  • CrowdREM: Harnessing the Power of the Mobile Crowd for Flexible Wireless Network Monitoring

    Andreas Achtzehn, Janne Riihijärvi, Irving Antonio Barría Castillo, Marina Petrova, and Petri Mähönen (Institute for Networked Systems, RWTH Aachen University)

  • A Wireless Spectrum Analyzer in Your Pocket

    Tan Zhang, Ashish Patro, Ning Leng, and Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • 60GHz Mobile Imaging Radar

    Yibo Zhu, Yanzi Zhu, Zengbin Zhang, Ben Y. Zhao, and Haitao Zheng (UC Santa Barbara)

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00 – 12:30
    Session 6: Location
    Qin Lv

  • Indoor Person Identification through Footstep Induced Structural Vibration

    Shijia Pan and Ningning Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Yuqiu Qian (University of Science and Technology of China), and Irem Velibeyoglu, Hae Young Noh, and Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Human Assisted Positioning Using Textual Signs

    Bo Han, Feng Qian, and Moo-Ryong Ra (AT&T Labs – Research)

  • Step-by-step Detection of Personally Collocated Mobile Devices

    Animesh Srivastava (Duke University) and Jeremy Gummeson, Mary Baker, and Kyu-Han Kim (HP Labs)

  • 12:30 – 13:45 Lunch

  • 13:45 – 15:15
    Session 7: Mobile platforms
    Rajesh Balan

  • The Missing Numerator: Toward a Value Measure for Smartphone Apps

    Anudipa Maiti and Geoffrey Challen (University at Buffalo)

  • maybe We Should Enable More Uncertain Mobile App Programming

    Geoffrey Challen, Jerry Antony Ajay, Nick DiRienzo, Oliver Kennedy, Anudipa Maiti, Anandatirtha Nandugudi, Guru Prasad, Sriram Shantharam, Jinghao Shi, and Lukasz Ziarek (University at Buffalo)

  • The case for operating system management of user attention

    Kyungmin Lee, Jason Flinn, and Brian Noble (University of Michigan)

  • 15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break

  • 15:30 – 16:30
    Session 8: Learning
    Heather Zheng

  • Can Deep Learning Revolutionize Mobile Sensing?

    Nicholas D. Lane (Microsoft Research) and Petko Georgiev (University of Cambridge)

  • Mobile AD(D)

    John Rula, Byungjin Jun, and Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University)

  • 16:30 – 17:30
    Session 9: Privacy
    Kyu-han Kim

  • Policy-Carrying Data: A Privacy Abstraction for Mobile Services

    Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, and Sharad Agarwal (Microsoft Research)

  • Sound Shredding: Privacy Preserved Audio Sensing

    Sumeet Kumar, Le T. Nguyen, Ming Zeng, Kate Liu, and Joy Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • 17:30 – 17:40 Closing Remarks

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