It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), held as part of the Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPSWEEK) from April 11-14th, 2016. Since its inception 15 years ago, IPSN has grown to become one of the premium forums, bringing together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research on networked sensing systems.
This year we are excited to present a strong and diverse technical program. I would like to thank the dedicated effort of Program Chairs, David Culler, Suman Nath, and Niki Trigoni, who did an excellent job in coordinating the review process and producing this program. I would also like to thank each member of the Technical Program Committee who worked very hard to review the submissions. In addition I would like to draw your attention to a new focus area of the Internet of Things (IoT), which reflects the increasing interest in IoT from both industry and academia, and complements IPSN's traditional focus areas of information processing and sensor platforms, tools & design methods.
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Characterizing the accuracy of a self-synchronized reverse-GPS wildlife localization system
We characterize the accuracy of a wildlife localization system that is based on the reverse-GPS or time-of-arrival (TOA) principle, in which radio receivers at known locations collaborate to determine the location of a transmitter attached to a wild ...
Sensor-assisted face recognition system on smart glass via multi-view sparse representation classification
Face recognition is one of the most popular research problems on various platforms. New research issues arise when it comes to resource constrained devices, such as smart glasses, due to the overwhelming computation and energy requirements of the ...
Walkie-Talkie: motion-assisted automatic key generation for secure on-body device communication
The ubiquity of wearable and implantable devices has sparked a new set of mobile computing applications that leverage the abundant information from sensors. For many of these applications, ensuring the security of communication between legitimate ...
WiWho: wifi-based person identification in smart spaces
There has been a growing interest in equipping the objects and environment surrounding users with sensing capabilities. Smart indoor spaces such as smart homes and offices can implement the sensing and processing functionality, relieving users from the ...
Indoor tracking using crowdsourced maps
Using crowdsourced visual and inertial sensor data for indoor mapping has attracted much attention in recent years. Nevertheless, the opportunities and challenges of indoor tracking using crowdsourced maps have not been fully explored. In this work, we ...
Highly reliable signal strength-based boundary crossing localization in outdoor time-varying environments
Detecting and locating outdoor boundary crossing events is valuable information in curbing drug trafficking, reducing poaching, and protecting high-asset equipment and goods. However, boundary sensing is notoriously challenging, prone to false alarms ...
Topic-aware social sensing with arbitrary source dependency graphs
This work is motivated by the emergence of social sensing as a new paradigm of collecting observations about the physical environment from humans or devices on their behalf. These observations may be true or false, and hence are viewed as binary claims. ...
Burnout: a wearable system for unobtrusive skeletal muscle fatigue estimation
Skeletal muscles are pivotal for sports and exercise. However, overexertion of skeletal muscles causes muscle fatigue which can lead to injury. Consequently, understanding skeletal muscle fatigue is important for injury prevention. Current ways to ...
MAGIC: model-based actuation for ground irrigation control
Lawns make up the largest irrigated crop by surface area in North America, and carries with it a demand for over 9 billion gallons of freshwater each day. Despite recent developments in irrigation control and sprinkler technology, state-of-the-art ...
CrossZig: combating cross-technology interference in low-power wireless networks
Low-power wireless devices suffer notoriously from Cross-Technology Interference (CTI). To enable co-existence, researchers have proposed a variety of interference mitigation strategies. Existing solutions, however, are designed to work with the ...
VibID: user identification through bio-vibrometry
User identification is an essential problem for security protection and data privacy preservation of wearable devices. With proper user identification, wearable devices can adopt personalized settings for different users, automatically label the ...
Generic route repair: augmenting wireless ad hoc sensor networks for local connectivity
Routes in a wireless network can be repaired reactively after node failures by broadcasting the message across the neighborhood of the failed node. This broadcast problem is easily solvable, if the neighborhood of every node in the network induces a ...
RNFD: routing-layer detection of DODAG (root) node failures in low-power wireless networks
While routing protocols for low-power wireless networks, such as CTP or RPL, handle link failures relatively well, node failures have received considerably less research attention. This paper thus studies crash-failures of destination nodes in distance-...
Recursive ground truth estimator for social data streams
- Shuochao Yao,
- Md Tanvir Amin,
- Lu Su,
- Shaohan Hu,
- Shen Li,
- Shiguang Wang,
- Yiran Zhao,
- Tarek Abdelzaher,
- Lance Kaplan,
- Charu Aggarwal,
- Aylin Yener
The paper develops a recursive state estimator for social network data streams that allows exploitation of social networks, such as Twitter, as sensor networks to reliably observe physical events. Recent literature suggested using social networks as ...
Harmonium: asymmetric, bandstitched UWB for fast, accurate, and robust indoor localization
We introduce Harmonium, a novel ultra-wideband RF localization architecture that achieves decimeter-scale accuracy indoors. Harmonium strikes a balance between tag simplicity and processing complexity to provide fast and accurate indoor location ...
Accurate power quality monitoring in microgrids
Traditional power grid is not resistant to severe weather conditions, especially in remote areas. For some areas with few people, such as islands, it is difficult and expensive to maintain their connectivity to the traditional power grid. Therefore, a ...
System design for a synergistic, low power mote/BLE embedded platform
Modern IoT prototyping platforms fall short in terms of energy efficiency, connectivity and software programming practices. We present the design of a new hardware and software platform that addresses these shortcomings by bringing together Mobile, ...
TinySDM: software defined measurement in wireless sensor networks
Network measurement, which provides detailed information about the behaviors of operational networks, is essential for network management in wireless sensor networks. In the literature, there have been many approaches focusing on measuring individual ...
Oppcast: exploiting spatial and channel diversity for robust data collection in urban environments
ZigBee shares the 2.4 GHz ISM band with a number of wireless technologies like WiFi, Bluetooth, and common household appliances like a microwave and a cordless phone to name a few. Due to the large-scale penetration of these technologies in urban ...
Frame counter: achieving accurate and real-time link estimation in low power wireless sensor networks
Link estimation is a fundamental component of forwarding protocols in wireless sensor networks. In low power forwarding, however, the asynchronous nature of widely adopted duty-cycled radio control brings new challenges to achieve accurate and real-time ...
HeadScan: a wearable system for radio-based sensing of head and mouth-related activities
The popularity of wearables continues to rise. However, possible applications, and even their raw functionality are constrained by the types of sensors that are currently available. Accelerometers and gyroscopes struggle to capture complex user ...
HB-phone: a bed-mounted geophone-based heartbeat monitoring system
- Zhenhua Jia,
- Musaab Alaziz,
- Xiang Chi,
- Richard E. Howard,
- Yanyong Zhang,
- Pei Zhang,
- Wade Trappe,
- Anand Sivasubramaniam,
- Ning An
Heartbeat monitoring during sleep is critically important to ensuring the well-being of many people, ranging from patients to elderly. Technologies that support heartbeat monitoring should be unobtrusive, and thus solutions that are accurate and can be ...
DeepX: a software accelerator for low-power deep learning inference on mobile devices
- Nicholas D. Lane,
- Sourav Bhattacharya,
- Petko Georgiev,
- Claudio Forlivesi,
- Lei Jiao,
- Lorena Qendro,
- Fahim Kawsar
Breakthroughs from the field of deep learning are radically changing how sensor data are interpreted to extract the high-level information needed by mobile apps. It is critical that the gains in inference accuracy that deep models afford become embedded ...
Back to the future: sustainable transiently powered embedded systems: Ph.D. forum abstract
We aim at developing software techniques which enables 32-bit transiently powered embedded systems to make progress across periods of energy unavailability without resorting to hardware modifications. Recently, we have seen a huge surge in wearable and ...
Human tracking and activity monitoring using 60 GHz mmWave: poster abstract
We propose human mobility tracking and activity monitoring using 60 GHz millimeter wave (mmWave). We discuss the benefits of using mmWave signals for the purpose over existing 2.4/5 GHz based techniques. We also identify related challenges of ...
Research platform for visible light communication and sensing systems: demonstration abstract
OpenVLC (www.openvlc.org) is an open-source project for research in Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems. It has the potential to help create a new type of infrastructure, an Internet of Lights (IoL), where LED-based devices (e.g., car lights, city ...
Activity-based implicit authentication for wearable devices: Ph.D. forum abstract
Recent hardware advances have led to the development and consumerization of wearable computing devices ranging from exercise and sleep tracking bracelets, vital signs (e.g. heart rate and blood pressure) monitoring devices to augmented reality glasses. ...
Node deployment mechanism for quick, indoor, and device-free localization: poster abstract
Radio frequency based device-free passive localization has been actively studied. An important issue with this technique is that a large amount of sensor nodes are usually deployed in localization environments, causing high deployment cost, high ...
Enabling robust data collection in unplanned cross-technology interference of urban environments: demonstration abstract
It is widely known that cross-technology interference (CTI) adversely affects the reliability of 802.15.4 (ZigBee) communications. With the 2.4 GHz ISM band getting increasingly congested because of multiple wireless technologies like IEEE 802.11 (WiFi),...
Personal energy footprint in shared building environment: poster abstract
With smart buildings becoming popular, it is important to track the wastage of energy in public shared buildings to save energy. Current monitoring systems do not provide real-time visibility into the impact of occupants' actions on energy consumption ...
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