The 3rd Rutgers-Helsinki PhD Student Workshop on Spontaneous Networking

Rutgers University, May 5 - May 9, 2008

Room 301 (Core A) Core Building, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University



Technical Program


Day 1 - Monday, May 5, 2008
AM Session I 9:30am - 10:30am

Middleware Platforms for Mobile Social Computing
Cristian Borcea (NJIT)

Break 10:30am - 11:00am
AM Session II 11:00am - 12:00 noon

Privacy and Location-Aware Networking
Marco Gruteser (Winlab, Rutgers University)

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:30pm
PM Session I: Systems and Applications I 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Cooperative Storage in Mobile DTNs
Mikko Pitkanen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

A Content Delivery Protocol for Vehicles using Hybrid Wifi/3G Networks
Pravin Shankar (Rutgers University)

Virtual Trip Lines for Distributed Privacy-Preserving Traffic Monitoring
Baik Hoh (Rutgers University)

Break 3:00pm - 3:30pm
PM Session II: Programming 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Delivering RSS over SIP
Johannes Korpela (Helsinki University of Technology)

Automating Service Management
Tiina Niklander (University of Helsinki)

Performance of Ajax on Mobile Devices: The Swiftness of Differing Aspects
Mikko Pervila (University of Helsinki)

Dinner 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Day 2 - Tuesday, May 6, 2008
AM Session
Rutgers - Winlab Demos
PM Free


Day 3 - Wednesday, May 7, 2008
AM Session I 9:30am - 10:30am

Reflecting Human Behavior to Motivate Desirable Lifestyle
Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Japan)

Break 10:30am - 11:00am
AM Session II 11:00am - 12:00 noon

Video over Wireless: Dynamic Distributed Cross-Layer Control
Justinian Rosca (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:30pm
PM Session I: Security 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Minding your Ps and Queues: a Cautionary Tale in WiFi Spoof Detection
John-Austen Francisco (Rutgers University)

System-Wide Privacy Protection for Mobile Computers
Janne Lindqvist (Helsinki University of Technology)

Extracting a Cryptographic Key from the Wireless Channel
Suhas Mathur (Rutgers University)

Break 3:00pm -3:30pm
PM Session II: Systems and Applications II 3:30pm - 5:00pm

A Virtualization for Embedded Systems
Yuki Kinebuchi (NII, Japan)

RoadSpeak: Enabling Voice Chat on Roadways using Vehicular Social Networks
Lu Han (Rutgers University)

Lane Reservation for Highways
Stephen Smaldone (Rutgers University)

Dinner 6:00pm - 9:00pm


Day 4 - Thursday, May 8, 2008
AM Session I 9:00am - 10:00am

Emerging Localization Stacks
Richard Martin (Rutgers University)

Break 10:00am - 10:15am
AM Session II 10:15am - 11:15am

Peer-to-Peer Communications for First Response
Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki)

Break 11:15am - 11:30am
AM Session III 11:30am - 12:30pm

Middleware for Context-aware Computing
Ichiro Satoh (NII, Japan)

Lunch 12:30pm - 2:00pm
PM Session I: Networking 2:00pm - 3:30pm

The Impact of Using Multiple Antennas on Wireless Localization
Konstantin Kleisouris (Rutgers University)

Context-Aware Youtube Services: Powered by Adaptive Middleware
Ramya Sri Kalyanaraman (HIIT)

Decentralized Fountain Codes for Minimum-Delay Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Silvija Kokalj-Filipovi (Rutgers University)

Break 3:30pm - 4:00pm
PM Session II: Tools 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Sarana: A Space and Resource Aware Programming Infrastructure for Dynamic Networks
Pradip Hari (Rutgers University)

Reviving Internet Evolution
Jani Heikkinen (Helsinki University of Technology)

Platform for Integrated Communications and Control Design, Simulation, Implementation and Modeling
Shekar Nethi (Helsinki University of Technology)

Day 5 - Friday, May 9, 2008
AM Session I 9:30am - 10:30am

Energy Estimation in Wireless Sensor Network
Hyungshin Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea)

Break 10:30am - 11:00am
AM Session II 11:00am - 12:00 noon

Understanding the Limitations of Transmit Power Control for Indoor WLANs
Tamer Nadeem (Siemens Research, USA)