WMCSA 2004 Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

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WMCSA 2004Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile
Computing Systems and Applications

• Iqbal Mohomed and Jing Su

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Statistics

• 2 days
• 7 sessions with 3 papers each
• Record high submissions and acceptance this year
  (approx 84-85 submitted, 21 accepted rather than
  the typical 17-19)

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Opening Panel Discussion

• Where has this research community succeeded and
  where has it failed?
• What are some of the reasons for the failures?

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Notable Posters/ Demos

• "SoulPad Personalized Computing with Minimal
  Infrastructure" Ramón Cáceres, Casey Carter,
  Chandra Narayanaswami, M. T. Raghunath IBM
  Research.
• "Seamful game" Marek Bell, Paul Tennent,
  University of Glasgow.

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Notable Posters/ Demos

• "Client-based Location Sensing on Mobile Phones
  James W. Scott and Tim Sohn. Intel Research,
  Cambridge and Department of Computer Science and
  Engineering, UCSD.
• "A Mobile and ubiquitous system for the new
  millennium. Doing new things with ancient
  technology from the 70s! Gorka Guardiola,
  Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
• "An epidemic protocol for data dissemination in
  large-scale wireless ad-hoc networks Daniela P.
  Gavidia Simonetti and Maarten van Steen. Vrije
  Universiteit Amsterdam.

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Session I Applications

• Enriched Media-Experience of Sport Events
• Physical Posters as Gateways to Context-aware
  Services for Mobile Devices
• A CSCW System for Distributed Search/Collection
  Tasks using Wearable Computers

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Session II Location traces

• Analysis of Wide Area User Mobility Patterns
• User Mobility for Opportunistic Ad-Hoc Networking
• Cell-ID location technique, limits and benefits
  an experimental study

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Session III Context awareness

• Using Stigmergy to Co-ordinate Pervasive
  Computing Environments
• Ubiquitous Computing using Wireless Broadcast
• Towards Distributed Awareness - An Artifact based
  Approach

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Session IV Ad hoc networks

• Anticipatory Routing for Highly Mobile Endpoints
• A Test-Bed for Misbehavior Detection in Mobile
  Ad-hoc Networks
• /net. A Network Abstraction for Mobile and
  Ubiquitous Computing Environments in the Plan B OS

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Session V Pervasive technologies

• Community-Driven Adaptation Automatic Content
  Adaptation in Pervasive Environments
• Instant Personalization and Temporary Ownership
  of Handheld Devices
• Information Transfer Techniques for Mobile
  Devices by Toss and Swing Actions

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Session VI Mobile P2P and sensor networks

• Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing in a Mobile Ad
  Hoc Environment
• Ekta An Efficient DHT Substrate for Distributed
  Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
• Infrastructureless Location Aware Configuration
  for Sensor Networks

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Session VII Middleware models

• A Lightweight Secure Cyberforaging Infrastructure
  for Resource-Constrained Devices
• A Programming Framework for Mobilizing Enterprise
  Applications
• PAWP A Power Aware Web proxy for Wireless LAN
  Clients

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Practical Lessons Learned

• If you get a paper accepted, consider submitted a
  poster or demo too. Youre spending the to
  attend so might as well.
• If you are going to a foreign land, take backup
  hardware, power transformers/plugs, dont rely on
  Internet connectivity, etc.
• Bring foreign currency from home ... the
  commissions and exchange rates for tourists are
  horrid