ECE-572 - Parallel and Distributed Computing

Spring 2003

Pervasive Computing Reading List ([*] indicates required reading by all students)

Introduction/Overview

[*] D. Saha, A. Mukherjee, Pervasive Computing: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, IEEE Computer, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 25-31, March 2003.
M. Weiser, The world is not a desktop, Interactions, pp. 7-8, January 1994.
M. Weiser, Hot Topics: Ubiquitous Computing, IEEE Computer, October 1993.
M. Weiser, Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing, Communications of the ACM, July 1993. (reprinted as "Ubiquitous Computing". Nikkei Electronics; December 6, 1993; pp. 137-143.)
M. Weiser, The Computer for the Twenty-First Century, Scientific American, pp. 94-10, September 1991.
M. Satyanarayanan, Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges, IEEE Personal Communications , August 2001.
G. Banavar, J. Beck, E. Gluzberg, J. Munson, J. Sussman, D. Zukowski, Challenges: An Application Model for Pervasive Computing, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2000, pp.266-274.
J. Edwards and R. Grinter. At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges, Ubiquitous Computing 2001 , Atlanta, GA, September 2001.
R. Want, B. N. Schilit, N. I. Adams, R. Gold, K. Petersen, D. Goldberg, J. R. Ellis and M. Weiser, The ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment
T. Erickson, Some Problems with the Notion of Context-Aware Computing, Communications of the ACM, Feb 2002(45), pp.102-104.
A. K. Dey and G. D. Abowd, Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness, in the Workshop on The What, Who, Where, When, and How of Context-Awareness, as part of the 2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2000).

Pervasive Programming/Applications/Systems

A. Harter, A. Hopper, P. Steggles, A. Ward and P. Webster, The Anatomy of a Context-Aware Application, In Proc. of the ACM/IEEE MobiCom, August 1999.
B. N. Schilit, N. Adams, and R. Want. Context-aware computing applications, In Proceedings Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications. IEEE, December 1994. (Sumir Chandra)
A. Rakotonirainy, Context-Oriented Programming for Pervasive Systems.
R. Grimm, J. Davis, E. Lemar, A. MacBeth, S. Swanson, T. Anderson, B. Bershad, G. Borriello, S. Gribble, and D. Wetherall, Programming for pervasive computing environments, (PDF, 345 KB). Submitted for publication. (Manish Agarwal)
M.D. Addlesee, R. Curwen, S. Hodges, J. Newman, P. Steggles, A. Ward, and A. Hopper, Implementing a Sentient Computing System, IEEE Computer Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 8, August 2001, pp. 50-56. (Manish Agarwal)
D. Garlan, D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, and P. Steenkiste Project Aura: Towards Distraction-Free Pervasive Computing, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 1(2):22--31, April-June 2002. (Sumir Chandra)

Middleware for Pervasive Computing

S. S. Yau, F. Karim, Y. Wang, B. Wang, S. K.S. Gupta, Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware for Pervasive Computing, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 33-40, July-September 2002. (Viraj Bhat)
C. Bisdikian, I. Boamah, P. Castro, A. Misra, J. Rubas, N. Villoutreix, D. Yeh, Intelligent pervasive middleware for context-based and localized telematics services, Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobile commerce, ACM Press, pp 15-24, 2002. (Viraj Bhat)

Mobile Computing

C. Perkins, Mobile networking through Mobile IP, IEEE internet computing, January 1998. Pages 58-69. (Xiaolin Li)
A. C. Snoeren and H. Balakrishnan An End-to-End Approach to Host Mobility Proc. 6th ACM MOBICOM , Boston, MA, August 2000. (Xiaolin Li)
B. Noble, System Support for Mobile, Adaptive Applications IEEE Personal Communications , Vol. 7, No. 1, February, 2000. (Manish Mahajan)
Anthony D. Joseph, Joshua A. Tauber, and M. Frans Kaashoek. Mobile Computing with the Rover Toolkit , IEEE Transactions on Computers: Special issue on Mobile Computing , 46(3). March 1997.
H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan and R. Katz, A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links, IEEE/ACM transactions on networking, December 1997. (Manish Mahajan)
S. D. Gribble, M. Welsh, R. von Behren, E. A. Brewer, D. Culler, N. Borisov, S. Czerwinski, R. Gummadi, J. Hill, A. Joseph, R. H. Katz, The Ninja Architecture for Robust Internet-Scale Systems and Services , Computer Networks , Volume 35, Issue 4, March 2001.
W. Adjie-Winoto, E. Schwartz, H. Balakrishnan, and J. Lilley. The design and implementation of an intentional naming system Proc. 17th ACM SOSP , Kiawah Island, SC, December 1999.

Synchronization of Distributed Data

J. J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan, Disconnected operation in the coda file system. Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on operating systems principles, October 13-16, 1991, Pacific Grove, California. Pages 213-225. (Nicu Daniel CORNEA)
L. B. Mummert, M. R. Ebling and M. Satyanarayanan, Exploiting weak connectivity for mobile file access. Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on operating systems principles, December 3-6, 1995, Copper Mountain, Colorado. Pages 143-155. (Nicu Daniel CORNEA)

Location Awareness

P. Castro, P. Chiu, T. Kremenek, and R. Muntz A Probabilistic Location Service for Wireless Network Environments , Ubiquitous Computing 2001 , Atlanta, GA, September 2001. (Ajit Kunjal)
N. Priyantha, A. Chakraborty and H. Balakrishnan, The Cricket Location Support System. I Sixth Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking , Boston, MA, August 2000. (Ajit Kunjal)
J. Hightower and G. Borriello, A Survey and Taxonomy of Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing, Extended paper from Computer, 34(8), August 2001, pp.57-66. (Ajit Kunjal)

Smart Spaces / Wireless Sensors

J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz and K. S. J. Pister, Mobile Networking for Smart Dust , ACM/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 99), Seattle, WA, August 17-19, 1999.
W. Heinzelman, J. Kulik, and H. Balakrishnan. Adaptive Protocols for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks . Proc. 5th ACM/IEEE MobiCom , Seattle, WA, August 1999. (Manish Mahajan)
S. R. Ponnekanti, B. Lee, A. Fox, P. Hanrahan, and T. Winograd ICrafter: A Service Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments Ubiquitous Computing 2001 , Atlanta, GA, September 2001.
W. Mark. Turning pervasive computing into mediated spaces IBM Systems Journal , Vol 38, No. 4. 1999.
R. Hermann, D. Husemann, M. Moser, M. Nidd, C. Rohner, and A. Schade (IBM Zurich Research Lab), DEAPspace -- Transient Ad-hoc Networking of Pervasive Devices, MobiHoc 2000. (Manish Mahajan)

Devices

K. F. Eustice, T. J. Lehman, A. Morales et. al. A universal information appliance . IBM Systems Journal , Vol 38, No. 4. 1999.

Conferences/Publications

IEEE Pervasive Computing .
UbiComp 2002
IEEE Personal Communications, Aug 2001 issue . Focused on Pervasive Computing.
IBM Systems Journal - Pervasive Computing Issue. . Vol 38. No 4. 1999.
Computer Networks Volume 35, Issue 4, March 2001 - special issue on Pervasive Computing.

Interesting Projects (Tezaswi Raja)

Project Aura Distraction-free Ubiquitous Computing, CMU.
MIT Project Oxygen
Portolano, University of Washington.
Endeavour, UC Berkeley.
one.world, University of Washington

Manish Parashar, parashar@ece.rutgers.edu
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rutgers University