2011 Proceeding- General Chair:
- Parmesh Ramanathan,
- Program Chairs:
- Berk Birand,
- Souvik Sen
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Wireless of the students, by the students, for the students workshop -- ACM S3'11. Now in its third year, this workshop continues the tradition of being a unique venue for graduate students around the world to present, discuss, and exchange ideas on research in systems and theory of mobile wireless networks. Last year's workshop continued to attract numerous student researchers worldwide and we hope that the new additions to the program will make S3 even more interesting and more relevant.
Building on the success of two previous workshops, this year's program comprises several new sessions. Nine research presentations are divided between the systems and theory tracks, including negative result presentations. A new startup/wild ideas session promises to be an interesting setting for participants to showcase their creativity. A PhD forum session enables participants to discuss interesting aspects of their research beyond their results, such as their impact and relevance. Finally, a panel of recent graduates of wireless research will discuss the pros and cons of their career choices to guide student researchers in their future career paths.
Proceeding Downloads
A case for the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks
As the ISM spectrum becomes crowded by various network devices, such as WiFi and ZigBee, the coexistence between them poses a critical challenge, due to their heterogeneous MAC/PHY layers. Recent measurement studies have shown moderate to high WiFi ...
A simple queueing network model of mobility in a campus wireless network
Although wireless networks have become ubiquitous, surprisingly few models of user-level mobility have been developed and validated against traces of measured user behavior. In this paper, we develop a simple, parameterized, open queueing network model ...
A markov chain model for coarse timescale channel variation in an 802.16e wireless network
We are developing a finite-state Markov Chain (MC) channel model to capture wireless channel variations due to shadowing, which occur at a time scale of seconds. The Markov Chain is constructed by partitioning the entire range of shadowing into a finite ...
A measurement-based algorithm to maximize the utility of wireless networks
The goal of jointly providing fairness and efficiency in wireless networks can be seen as the problem of maximizing a given utility function. The main difficulty when solving this problem is that the capacity region of wireless networks is typically ...
How effective is mobile browser cache?
We report a study on the effectiveness of the mobile browser's cache. The study is based on the browsing history from 24 smartphone users over one year. We make two interesting findings. Firstly, increasing the cache size of the browser on smartphones ...
Smart phone based systems for social psychological research: challenges and design guidelines
Social psychology research deals with understanding many aspects of human behavior, and this helps not only to gain insights into this complex phenomenon but also to provide useful feedback to the participants. Social psychological research is mainly ...
Anticipatory wireless bitrate control for blocks
We present BlockRate, a wireless bitrate adaptation algorithm designed for blocks, or large contiguous units of transmitted data, as opposed to small packets. In contrast to state-of-the-art algorithms that can either have the amortization benefits of ...
Enabling opportunistic resources sharing on mobile operating systems: benefits and challenges
The intense use of hardware resources by mobile applications has a significant impact on the battery life of mobile devices. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for the efficient use of mobile phone resources, by considering the coordinated ...
Towards jamming-resistant and competitive medium access in the SINR model
The efficient coordination of medium access is arguably one of the most relevant applications of distributed computing. Recently, progress has been made in the design of robust medium access (MAC) protocols that guarantee a competitive throughput ...