27-28 February, 2019

The 20th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2019

  • 07:30 Registration

  • 07:30 – 8.20 Breakfast (Sand View and Beach View Rooms)

  • 08:20 – 8:30 Welcome Message (Surf View Room)

  • 08:30 – 9:30 Keynote

  • Title: A view from industry: Securing IoT with Azure Sphere
    Speaker: Edmund Nightingale
    Partner Architect,
    Microsoft

    Abstract: Every year, 9 billion new devices powered by single-chip computers—MCUs—are deployed; all with little to no cybersecurity and most with no network connectivity. These devices are in your home, in your office, and in every industrial or commercial setting on the planet.


    Azure Sphere offers to improve MCU computing by bringing cloud connectivity, intelligence, and high security to these devices. The Azure Sphere solution consists of three components: a new class of cross-over MCUs incorporating Microsoft silicon security technology, a new OS built around a custom Linux kernel, and a cloud-based security service that guards every Azure Sphere-based device on the planet for its deployed lifetime.


    In this talk, I will explain the market scenarios Azure Sphere addresses, dig into the silicon and software architecture that compose the Azure Sphere solution, review some of the project’s history, and demo the Azure Sphere experience. Finally, I will look towards the future and discuss research problems out on the horizon. Specifically, I’ll explore some scenarios around the convergence mobility, IoT and facial recognition via machine learning where strong security and privacy guarantees are especially important.


    Biography: Ed Nightingale has been part of Azure Sphere from its inception and has filled many different roles as the product has grown from research to product. Currently, Ed is the Partner Director of Engineering for Azure Sphere where he is responsible for the overall software and hardware engineering effort on the team. Prior to Azure Sphere, Ed was a systems researcher and software engineer. Ed has authored papers in top systems conferences such as OSDI and SOSP. He has co-authored 20 conference and journal publications, has won 6 best paper awards, and even helped to set the world record in disk-to-disk sorting (http://sortbenchmark.org). He has also worked as an engineer and as an engineering manager running a large-scale distributed storage service. Ed really enjoys building operating systems and large-scale distributed systems.

  • 9:30 – 9:45 Coffee break

  • 9:45 – 10:45
    Session 1: Video Analytics
    Session Chair: Robert LiKamWa

  • Towards Drone-sourced Live Video Analytics for the Construction Industry

    Shilpa George (Carnegie Mellon University), Junjue Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Mihir Bala (University of Michigan), Thomas Eiszler (Carnegie Mellon University), Padmanabhan Pillai (Intel Labs), Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University), Junjue Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Scaling Video Analytics Systems to Large Camera Deployments

    Samvit Jain (University of California, Berkeley), Ganesh Ananthanarayanan (Microsoft Research), Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago), Yuanchao Shu (Microsoft Research), Joseph E. Gonzalez (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Towards a Distraction-free Waze

    Kevin Christensen (Carnegie Mellon University), Christoph Mertz (Carnegie Mellon University), Padmanabhan Pillai (Intel Labs), Martial Hebert (Carnegie Mellon University), Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

  • 11:00 – 12:00
    Session 2: Security, Privacy and Isolation
    Session Chair: Ben Greenstein

  • A Hypervisor-Based Privacy Agent for Mobile and IoT Systems

    Neil Klingensmith (University of Wisconsin), Younghyun Kim (University of Wisconsin), Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin)

  • Regulating Drones in Restricted Spaces

    Abhishek Vijeev (Indian Institute of Science), Vinod Ganapathy (Indian Institute of Science), Chiranjib Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Science)

  • Receiving Data Hidden in Music

    Manuel Eichelberger (ETH Zurich), Simon Tanner (ETH Zurich), Gabriel Voirol (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)

  • Nezha: Mobile OS Virtualization Framework for Multiple Clients on Single Computing Platform

    Bin Yang (Intel APAC R&D Center), Shoumeng Yan (Intel Labs), Shuo Liu (Intel APAC R&D Center), Zhifang Long (Intel APAC R&D Center), Jie Yu (Intel APAC R&D Center), Hongyu Zhang (Intel APAC R&D Center), Yong Yao (Intel APAC R&D Center), Randy Xu (Intel APAC R&D Center), Fleming Feng (Intel APAC R&D Center), James Wu (Intel APAC R&D Center)

  • 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch (Sand View and Beach View Rooms)

  • 13.30 – 14.30
    Session 3: Ideas for the Future
    Session Chair: Aruna Balasubramanian

  • The Computing Landscape of the 21st Century

    Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University), Wei Gao (University of Pittsburgh), Brandon Lucia (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • CryptoCurrency Mining on Mobile as an Alternative Monetization Approach

    Sinh Huynh (Singapore Management University), Kenny Tsu Wei Choo (Singapore Management University), Rajesh Krishna Balan (Singapore Management University), Youngki Lee (Seoul National University)

  • Earthquake Early Warning and Beyond: Systems Challenges in Smartphone-based Seismic Network

    Qingkai Kong (University of California Berkeley), Qin Lv (University of Colorado Boulder), Richard M. Allen (University of California Berkeley)

  • 14:30 – 14:45 Coffee break

  • 14:45 – 15:45
    Session 4: Machine Learns
    Session Chair: Iqbal Mohomed

  • Dejavu: Enhancing Videoconferencing with Prior Knowledge

    Pan Hu (Stanford University), Rakesh Misra (Uhana Inc.), Sachin Katti (Stanford University)

  • Towards Self-Driving Radios: Physical-layer Control using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Samuel Joseph (Stanford University), Rakesh Misra (Stanford University), Sachin Katti (Stanford University)

  • Hidden Figures: Comparative Latency Analysis of Cellular Networks with Fine-grained State Machine Models

    Sangwook Bae (KAIST), Mincheol Son (KAIST), Sooel Son (KAIST), Yongdae Kim (KAIST)

  • 15:45 – 16:30 Coffee break

  • 16:30 – 18:00 Poster and Demo Session (Sand View, Beach View, and Surf View Rooms)

  • 18:45 onwards Banquet (Jack O’Neill Restaurant and Lounge)

  • Thursday, February 28, 2019

  • 08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast (Sand View and Beach View Rooms)

  • 09:00 – 10:30 Pioneers Panel: The Past, Present and Future of Mobile Computing (Surf View Room)

  • HotMobile started as WMCSA in 1994. It has been 25 years, or a quarter century since. As part of the anniversary celebrations, HotMobile 2019 will feature a unique pioneers panel with panel members who were early contributors to mobile computing and who were present at the very first HotMobile workshop in 1994. The theme of the panel is to overview the past, present and future of mobile computing.
    Mahadev Satyanarayanan
    Panel Chair
    Carnegie Mellon University
     
    Mustaque Ahamad
    Georgia Tech     		Mary Baker
    HP Labs     		Nigel Davies
    Lancaster University    		 Michael Franklin
    University of Chicago     		David B. Johnson
    Rice University
     
    Randy Katz
    UC Berkeley    		 Krishan Sabnani
    Bell Labs    		 Douglas Terry
    Amazon    		 Marvin Theimer
    Amazon    		 Roy Want
    Google

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

  • 11:00 – 12:10
    Session 5: Human matters
    Session Chair: Mateusz Mikusz

  • Enabling Multiple Applications to Simultaneously Augment Reality: Challenges and Directions

    Kiron Lebeck (University of Washington), Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington), Franziska Roesner (University of Washington)

  • Scaling Up Your Experience, Everywhere

    James Newman (Northwestern University), Robert H. Belson (Northwestern University), Fabian E. Bustamante (Northwestern University)

  • EdgeDroid: An Experimental Approach to Benchmarking Human-in-the-Loop Applications

    Manuel Olguín (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Junjue Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University), James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

  • Paladin: Automated Generation of Reproducible Test Cases for Android Apps

    Yun Ma (Peking University), Yangyang Huang (Peking University), Ziniu Hu (Peking University), Xusheng Xiao (Case Western Reserve University), Xuanzhe Liu (Peking University)

  • 12:10 – 13:30 Lunch (Sand View and Beach View Rooms)

  • 13:30 – 14:00
    WMCSA 1994: Students’ Perspectives
    Session co-chairs: Geoff Voelker and Adrian Friday

  • 14:00 – 14:10 Coffee Break

  • 14:10 – 15:30
    Session 6: Internet of Things
    Session Chair: Eyal de Lara

  • IoT Maps: Charting the Internet of Things

    Peter Shaw (Lancaster University), Mateusz Mikusz (Lancaster University), Petteri Nurmi (Lancaster University and University of Helsinki), Nigel Davies (Lancaster University)

  • Freeloader's Guide Through the Google Galaxy

    Joshua Adkins (University of California, Berkeley), Branden Ghena (University of California, Berkeley), Prabal Dutta (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Consumer Smart Homes: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go

    Shrirang Mare (University of Washington), Logan Girvin (University of Washington), Franziska Roesner (University of Washington), Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington)

  • AIDE: Augmented Onboarding of IoT Devices at Ease

    Huanle Zhang (University of California, Davis), Mostafa Uddin (Nokia Bell Labs), Fang Hao (Nokia Bell Labs), Sarit Mukherjee (Nokia Bell Labs), Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis)

  • Browsing the Web of Things in Mobile Augmented Reality

    Thomas Zachariah (University of California, Berkeley), Prabal Dutta (University of California, Berkeley)

  • 15:30 – 15:50 Coffee Break

  • 15:50 – 17:00
    Session 7: Sensing & Streaming
    Session Chair: Shadi Noghabi

  • Toward Practical Volumetric Video Streaming on Commodity Smartphones

    Feng Qian (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities), Bo Han (AT&T Labs - Research), Jarrell Pair (AT&T), Vijay Gopalakrishnan (AT&T Labs - Research)

  • Multi-Year GPS Tracking Using a Coin Cell

    Manuel Eichelberger (ETH Zurich), Ferdinand von Hagen (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)

  • Evaluating Energy-Efficiency using Thermal Imaging

    Huber Flores (University of Helsinki), Jonatan Hamberg (University of Helsinki), Xin Li (University of Helsinki), Titti Malmivirta (University of Helsinki), Agustin Zuniga (University of Helsinki), Eemil Lagerspetz (University of Helsinki), Petteri Nurmi (Lancaster University and University of Helsinki)

  • Reconfigurable Streaming for the Mobile Edge

    Abhishek Tiwari (University of Toronto), Brian Ramprasad (University of Toronto), Seyed Hossein Mortazavi (University of Toronto), Moshe Gabel (University of Toronto), Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto)

  • 17:00 – 17:10 Closing Remarks

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