Paper Digest: MOBICOM 2015 Highlights
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TABLE 1: MOBICOM 2015 Papers
Title | Authors | Highlight | |
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1 | Agility and Fragility in a Real-time World | Gilles Grapinet | Agility and Fragility in a Real-time World |
2 | Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices | Lixin Shi, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi, David Perreault | This paper introduces MultiSpot, a new wireless charging technology that can charge multiple devices, even as the user is wearing them or carrying them in her pocket. |
3 | Rethinking Energy-Performance Trade-Off in Mobile Web Page Loading | Duc Hoang Bui, Yunxin Liu, Hyosu Kim, Insik Shin, Feng Zhao | In this work, we aim to reduce the energy consumed to load web pages on smartphones, preferably without increasing page load time and compromising user experience. |
4 | Optimizing Smartphone Power Consumption through Dynamic Resolution Scaling | Songtao He, Yunxin Liu, Hucheng Zhou | In this paper, we present a flexible dynamic resolution scaling system for smartphones. |
5 | Smartphone Background Activities in the Wild: Origin, Energy Drain, and Optimization | Xiaomeng Chen, Abhilash Jindal, Ning Ding, Yu Charlie Hu, Maruti Gupta, Rath Vannithamby | This paper makes several contributions. |
6 | Precise Power Delay Profiling with Commodity WiFi | Yaxiong Xie, Zhenjiang Li, Mo Li | In this paper, we present Splicer, a software-based system that derives high-resolution power delay profiles by splicing the CSI measurements from multiple WiFi frequency bands. We propose a set of key techniques to separate the mixed hardware errors from the collected CSI measurements. |
7 | Understanding and Modeling of WiFi Signal Based Human Activity Recognition | Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Kang Ling, Sanglu Lu | In this paper, we propose CARM, a CSI based human Activity Recognition and Monitoring system. |
8 | WiDraw: Enabling Hands-free Drawing in the Air on Commodity WiFi Devices | Li Sun, Souvik Sen, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Kyu-Han Kim | This paper demonstrates that it is possible to leverage WiFi signals from commodity mobile devices to enable hands-free drawing in the air. |
9 | Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals | Kamran Ali, Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, Muhammad Shahzad | In this paper, we propose a WiFi signal based keystroke recognition system called WiKey. |
10 | Reusing 60GHz Radios for Mobile Radar Imaging | Yanzi Zhu, Yibo Zhu, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng | We address this challenge by proposing a new 60GHz imaging algorithm, {\em RSS Series Analysis}, which images an object using only RSS measurements recorded along the device’s trajectory. |
11 | mTrack: High-Precision Passive Tracking Using Millimeter Wave Radios | Teng Wei, Xinyu Zhang | This paper explores the feasibility of tracking a passive writing object (e.g., pen) at sub-centimeter precision. |
12 | Acoustic Eavesdropping through Wireless Vibrometry | Teng Wei, Shu Wang, Anfu Zhou, Xinyu Zhang | In this paper, we explore a new acoustic eavesdropping attack that can subvert such protectors using radio devices. |
13 | Snooping Keystrokes with mm-level Audio Ranging on a Single Phone | Jian Liu, Yan Wang, Gorkem Kar, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, Marco Gruteser | In this work, we show that mobile audio hardware advances can be exploited to discriminate mm-level position differences and that this makes it feasible to locate the origin of keystrokes from only a single phone behind the keyboard. |
14 | MoLe: Motion Leaks through Smartwatch Sensors | He Wang, Ted Tsung-Te Lai, Romit Roy Choudhury | We find that when motion signal processing is combined with patterns in English language, the leakage is substantial. |
15 | Demo: Platform for Collecting Data From Urban Sensors Using Vehicular Networking | Pedro M. Santos, Tania Calcada, Diogo Guimarães, Tiago Condeixa, Susana Sargento, Ana Aguiar, João Barros | Demo: Platform for Collecting Data From Urban Sensors Using Vehicular Networking |
16 | Demo: AntMonitor: A System for Mobile Traffic Monitoring and Real-Time Prevention of Privacy Leaks | Anastasia Shuba, Anh Le, Minas Gjoka, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Athina Markopoulou | We propose AntMonitor– the first system of its kind that supports (i) collection of large-scale, semantic-rich network traffic in a way that respects users’ privacy preferences and (ii) detection and prevention of leakage of private information in real time. |
17 | Demo: Car-Fi: Opportunistic V2I by Exploiting Dual-Access Wi-Fi Networks | Davide Pesavento, Giulio Grassi, Giovanni Pau, Paramvir Bahl, Serge Fdida | Car-Fi proposes an approach that leverages existing home Wi-Fi access points configured in dual-access mode, in order to offload all data traffic from the congested and expensive cellular infrastructure to whatever Wi-Fi network is available. |
18 | Demo: FIT IoT-LABA: Large Scale Open Experimental IoT Testbed | Gaetan Harter, Roger Pissard-Gibollet, Frederic Saint-Marcel, Guillaume Schreiner, Julien Vandaele | Our demonstration purpose is to illustrate what the IoT-LAB platform offers through small applications involving radio communications and mobile nodes. |
19 | Demo: OpenVLC1.0 Platform for Research in Visible Light Communication Networks | Qing Wang, Shengrong Yin, Omprakash Gnawali, Domenico Giustiniano | In this work, we introduce and demonstrate the OpenVLC1.0 platform, a flexible, software-defined, and low-cost research platform. |
20 | Demo: An Open-source Software Defined Platform for Collaborative and Energy-aware WiFi Offloading | Aaron Yi Ding, Yanhe Liu, Sasu Tarkoma, Hannu Flinck, Jon Crowcroft | Driven by our extensive measurements of energy consumption on smartphones, we propose an effective energy-aware offloading algorithm and integrate it to our platform. |
21 | Demo: Optimizing Smartphone Power Consumption through Dynamic Resolution Scaling | Songtao He, Yunxin Liu, Hucheng Zhou | We present a flexible dynamic resolution scaling system for smartphones. |
22 | Demo: Modular Multi-radio Wireless Sensor Platform for IoT Trials with Plug&Play Module Connection | Konstantin Mikhaylov, Juha Petäjäjärvi, Marko Mäkeläinen, Anton Paatelma, Tuomo Hänninen | In the paper we present and demonstrate the modular prototyping platform designed for trialing the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. |
23 | Demo: Wireless Link Selection on Smartphone: Throughput vs Battery Drain | Krzysztof Grochla, Pawel Foremski | The method for automatic selection of wireless interface on smart phones is presented. |
24 | Demo: Closer to Cloud-RAN: RAN as a Service | Navid Nikaein, Raymond Knopp, Lionel Gauthier, Eryk Schiller, Torsten Braun, Dominique Pichon, Christian Bonnet, Florian Kaltenberger, Dominique Nussbaum | In this work, we present RANaaS, which is a cloudified radio access network delivered as a service. |
25 | Demo: Witals, AP-centric Health Diagnosis of WiFiNetworks | Mukulika Maity, Avinash Chaurasia, Rachit Srivastava, Bhaskaran Raman, Mythili Vutukuru | We present Witals, a system for WiFi performance diagnosis. |
26 | Demo: OneLab: Major Computer Networking Testbeds for IoT and Wireless Experimentation | Loïc Baron, Fadwa Boubekeur, Radomir Klacza, Mohammed Yasin Rahman, Ciro Scognamiglio, Nina Kurose, Timur Friedman, Serge Fdida | Demo: OneLab: Major Computer Networking Testbeds for IoT and Wireless Experimentation |
27 | Demo: Molecular MIMO with Drift | Changmin Lee, Bonhong Koo, Na-Rae Kim, H. Birkan Yilmaz, Nariman Farsad, Andrew Eckford, Chan-Byoung Chae | Until now it was unclear whether MIMO techniques, which are extensively used in modern radio frequency (RF) communications, could be applied to molecular communication. |
28 | Demo: Exploring Autoregressive Integrated Models for Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks | Wasif Masood, Jorge F. Schmidt | In this demonstration, we present a novel time synchronization scheme that is based on time series analysis. |
29 | Demo: Abstract: Live Adaptations of Low-power MAC Protocols | Georgios Z. Papadopoulos, Antoine Gallais, Guillaume Schreiner, Thomas Noël | To do so, we implemented the ability for users to generate traffic at some remote nodes that are involved in two distinct deployed topologies. |
30 | Demo: Implementation of Real-time WiFi Receiver in Ziria, Language for Rapid Prototyping of Wireless PHY | Gordon Stewart, Mahanth Gowda, Geoffrey Mainland, Božidar Radunović, Dimitrios Vytiniotis | In this demo we present our novel SDR programming environment called Ziria. |
31 | Poster: Mobile Data Offloading Testbed | Matteo Pozza, Claudio Enrico Palazzi, Armir Bujari | Recent research has proposed swarming protocols as a possible approach to offload the Internet infrastructure when some content can be shared by several users. |
32 | Poster: Can Smart Devices Protect Us from Violent Crime? | Alan Ferrari, Daniele Puccinelli, Silvia Giordano | To explore the applicability of mobile smart devices to personal protection against violent crime, we propose a system that can detect the onset of hazardous situations involving violent crime by leveraging standard activity recognition strategies on smartphones and sensory inputs from wearable devices, as well as send help requests to alert the authorities. |
33 | Poster: Privacy-Preserving Server-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Access System | Yanzhi Dou, Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng, Yaling Yang | To address the privacy issues, this paper presents a privacy-preserving SAS design, which realizes the complex spectrum allocation decision process of DSA through secure computation over ciphertext based on homomorphic encryption, thus none of the IU or SU operation parameters are exposed to SAS. |
34 | Poster: On the Low-Cost and Distance-Adaptive Device-free Localization | Chen Liu, Dingyi Fang, Hongbo Jiang, Xiaojiang Chen, Zhany Tang, Ju Wang, Weike Nie | Unlike the previous Radio Signal Strength (RSS)-based systems which depend on the dense deployment to provide high accuracy, JRD extracts the fine-grained RSS distributions of a single link and presents a voting algorithm based on multi-link to identify the object location accurately while maintaining a low-cost deployment. |
35 | Poster: NLOS-aware Localization Based on Phase Shift Measurements | Yannic Schröder, Georg von Zengen, Lars Wolf | We present a position estimation algorithm for indoor localization systems based on phase measurements of electromagnetic signals. |
36 | Poster: 3D Printing Your Wireless Coverage | Justin Chan, Changxi Zheng, Xia Zhou | Poster: 3D Printing Your Wireless Coverage |
37 | Poster: Evaluating Android Applications with Multipath TCP | Quentin De Coninck, Matthieu Baerts, Benjamin Hesmans, Olivier Bonaventure | Poster: Evaluating Android Applications with Multipath TCP |
38 | Poster: Network-Based UE Mobility Estimation in Mobile Networks | Dalia-Georgiana Herculea, Majed Haddad, Veronique Capdevielle, Chung Shue Chen | In this work, we introduce an algorithm that takes as input sounding reference signal (SRS) measurements available at the base station (eNodeB in 4G systems) to estimate with a low computational requirement the mobility level of the user and with no modification at the user device/equipment (UE) side. |
39 | Poster: Extremely Parallel Resource Pre-Fetching for Energy Optimized Mobile Web Browsing | Mohammad A. Hoque, Sasu Tarkoma, Tuikku Anttila | In this work, we measure the performance of SPDY for mobile web browsing. |
40 | Poster: VPN Tunnels for Energy Efficient Multimedia Streaming | Mohammad A. Hoque, Kasperi Saarikoski, Eemil Lagerspetz, Julien Mineraud, Sasu Tarkoma | In this article, we analyze the energy efficiency of a new set of applications which use Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnels for secure communication. |
41 | Poster: A Low Cost People Flow Monitoring System For Sensing The Potential Danger | Ju Wang, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen, Liqiong Chang, Zhanyong Tang, Tianzhang Xing, Chen Liu | This paper presents DanSen, a low-cost people flow monitoring system for sensing the potential danger using the existing wifi infrastructures. |
42 | Poster: Unified RemoteU¡ for Mobile Environments | Miguel Almeida Carvalho, João Nuno Silva | In this paper, we present remoteU¡, a middleware that allows the interaction of those devices with users, resorting to simple but expressive programming mechanisms, and providing efficient implementation and communication. |
43 | Poster: Use your Senses: A Smooth Multipath TCP WiFi/Mobile Handover | Alexander Frömmgen, Sreeram Sadasivam, Sabrina Müller, Anja Klein, Alejandro Buchmann | In this paper, we argue that this trade-off is not necessary. |
44 | Poster: Towards Encrypted Query Processing for the Internet of Things | Hossein Shafagh, Anwar Hithnawi, Andreas Droescher, Simon Duquennoy, Wen Hu | To address these privacy and security concerns, we introduce our system that stores IoT data securely in the Cloud database while still allowing query processing over the encrypted data. |
45 | Poster: Regression-based Characterization of 802.11ac Indoor Performance | Edgar Costa Molero, Lito Kriara, Thomas Gross | We investigate the applicability of IEEE 802.11ac for entertainment low-latency show control systems (to orchestrate free-riding vehicles in a theme-park environment) by experimentally characterizing the indoor throughput and jitter performance of 802.11ac using statistical analysis. |
46 | Poster: ParkMaster: Leveraging Edge Computing in Visual Analytics | Giulio Grassi, Matteo Sammarco, Paramvir Bahl, Kyle Jamieson, Giovanni Pau | In this work we propose ParkMaster, a low-cost crowdsourcing architecture which exploits machine learning techniques and vision algorithms to evaluate parking availability in cities. |
47 | Poster: User Location Fingerprinting at Scale | Puneet Jain, Justin Manweiler, Romit Roy Choudhury | In this extended-abstract, we propose a vision based scheme to uniquely fingerprint an environment which can in turn be used to identify user’s location from the uploaded visual features. |
48 | Poster: Understanding YouTube QoE in Cellular Networks with YoMoApp: A QoE Monitoring Tool for YouTube Mobile | Florian Wamser, Michael Seufert, Pedro Casas, Ralf Irmer, Phuoc Tran-Gia, Raimund Schatz | In this paper we present YoMoApp (YouTube Performance Monitoring Application), an Android application which passively monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) of YouTube adaptive video streaming on end-user smartphones. |
49 | Poster: Continuous and Fine-grained Respiration Volume Monitoring Using Continuous Wave Radar | Phuc Nguyen, Xinyu Zhang, Ann C. Halbower, Tam Vu | In this work, we propose for the first time an autonomous system that monitors a patient’s breathing volume with high resolution. We also present an initial system design encompassing a continuous wave radar, motion tracking and control system, and a set of methods to accurately derive breathing volume from the reflected signal and to address challenges caused by body movement and posture changes. |
50 | Poster: Distributed Voronoi-based Acoustic Source Localization with Wireless Sensor Networks | Xueshu Zheng, Naigao Jin, Lei Wang, Mathew L. Wymore, Daji Qiao | This paper presents DiVA, a new acoustic source localization scheme that uses an ad-hoc network of microphone sensor nodes to produce an accurate estimate of the source’s location. |
51 | Poster: TRIM: A Truthful Incentive Mechanism for Dynamic and Heterogeneous Tasks in Mobile Crowdsensing | Yue Fan, Hailong Sun, Xudong Liu | In this work, we propose an auction-based truthful mechanism for realistic mobile crowdsensing. |
52 | Poster: A Multi-Drone Platform for Empowering Drones’ Teamwork | Seungho Yoo, Kangho Kim, Jongtack Jung, Albert Yongjoon Chung, Jiyeon Lee, Suk Kyu Lee, Hyung Kyu Lee, Hwangnam Kim | In this paper, we propose Net-Drone, a multi-drone platform for applications that require cooperation of multiple drones. |
53 | Poster: Visible Light Communication in the Dark | Zhao Tian, Andrew T. Campbell, Xia Zhou | We present a new visible light communication (VLC) primitive: VLC in the dark, where the communication sustains even when the LED light appears dark. |
54 | Poster: Scoping Environment to Assist 60 GHz Link Deployment | Sanjib Sur, Xinyu Zhang | In this poster, we propose a new technique called BeamScope, that predicts best possible location for a randomly deployed link in an indoor environment without the need of any explicit war-driving. |
55 | Poster: Crowdsourced Location Aware Wi-Fi Access Control | Bingxian Lu, Zhicheng Zeng, Lei Wang, Brian Peck, Daji Qiao | In this work, we develop and implement CLaWa, a Crowdsourced Location Aware Wi-Fi Access Control scheme to address this challenge. |
56 | Poster: An Insomnia Therapy for Clock Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks | Meng Jin, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen, Lin Cai, Zhe Yang, Zhanyong Tang | We present the theory behind RobSync, and provide preliminary results by experiments to compare our approach and the recent approach. |
57 | Research Challenges and Opportunities in a Mobility-centric World | James F. Kurose | Research Challenges and Opportunities in a Mobility-centric World |
58 | Recitation: Rehearsing Wireless Packet Reception in Software | Zhenjiang Li, Yaxiong Xie, Mo Li, Kyle Jamieson | This paper presents Recitation, the first software system that uses lightweight channel state information (CSI) to accurately predict error-prone bit positions in a packet so that applications atop the wireless physical layer may take the best action during subsequent transmissions. |
59 | Hekaton: Efficient and Practical Large-Scale MIMO | Xiufeng Xie, Eugene Chai, Xinyu Zhang, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Amir Khojastepour, Sampath Rangarajan | In this paper, we present Hekaton, a novel large-scale MU-MIMO framework that combines legacy MU-MIMO beamforming with phased-array antennas. |
60 | FreeBee: Cross-technology Communication via Free Side-channel | Song Min Kim, Tian He | This paper presents FreeBee, which enables direct unicast as well as cross-technology/channel broadcast among three popular wireless technologies: WiFi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth. |
61 | Human Sensing Using Visible Light Communication | Tianxing Li, Chuankai An, Zhao Tian, Andrew T. Campbell, Xia Zhou | We present LiSense, the first-of-its-kind system that enables both data communication and fine-grained, real-time human skeleton reconstruction using Visible Light Communication (VLC). |
62 | Extending Mobile Interaction Through Near-Field Visible Light Sensing | Chi Zhang, Josh Tabor, Jialiang Zhang, Xinyu Zhang | In this paper, we propose a novel system called Okuli to meet this challenge. |
63 | EcoDrive: A Mobile Sensing and Control System for Fuel Efficient Driving | Lei Kang, Bozhao Qi, Dan Janecek, Suman Banerjee | This paper introduces EcoDrive, a fuel consumption sensing and control system for modern vehicles, implemented in an embedded platform, to improve fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. |
64 | Kaleido: You Can Watch It But Cannot Record It | Lan Zhang, Cheng Bo, Jiahui Hou, Xiang-Yang Li, Yu Wang, Kebin Liu, Yunhao Liu | In this paper we study an opposite problem: how to prevent unauthorized users from videotaping a video played on a screen, such as in a theater, while do not affect the viewing experience of legitimate audiences. |
65 | CAreDroid: Adaptation Framework for Android Context-Aware Applications | Salma Elmalaki, Lucas Wanner, Mani Srivastava | In this paper, we introduce CAreDroid, which is a framework that is designed to decouple the application logic from the complex adaptation decisions in Android context-aware applications. |
66 | CIDER: Enabling Robustness-Power Tradeoffs on a Computational Eyeglass | Addison Mayberry, Yamin Tun, Pan Hu, Duncan Smith-Freedman, Deepak Ganesan, Benjamin M. Marlin, Christopher Salthouse | This paper explores the power–robustness tradeoffs inherent in the design of a wearable eye tracker, and proposes a novel staged architecture that enables graceful adaptation across the spectrum of real-world illumination. |
67 | piStream: Physical Layer Informed Adaptive Video Streaming over LTE | Xiufeng Xie, Xinyu Zhang, Swarun Kumar, Li Erran Li | Given the PHY-informed bandwidth estimation, piStream uses a probabilistic algorithm to balance video quality and the risk of stalling, taking into account the burstiness of LTE downlink traffic loads. |
68 | The Design and Implementation of a Wireless Video Surveillance System | Tan Zhang, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Paramvir (Victor) Bahl, Kyle Jamieson, Suman Banerjee | In this paper, we present Vigil, a real-time distributed wireless surveillance system that leverages edge computing to support real-time tracking and surveillance in enterprise campuses, retail stores, and across smart cities. |
69 | SAMPLES: Self Adaptive Mining of Persistent LExical Snippets for Classifying Mobile Application Traffic | Hongyi Yao, Gyan Ranjan, Alok Tongaonkar, Yong Liao, Zhuoqing Morley Mao | We present SAMPLES: Self Adaptive Mining of Persistent LExical Snippets; a systematic framework for classifying network traffic generated by mobile applications. |
70 | Performance Characterization and Call Reliability Diagnosis Support for Voice over LTE | Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Jie Hui, Kranthi Sontinei, Alex Yoon, Samson Kwong, Kevin Lau | To understand VoLTE performance in a commercial deployment, in this paper we conduct the first comprehensive performance characterization of commercially deployed VoLTE, and compare with legacy call and over-the-top (OTT) VoIP call. |
71 | ABSENCE: Usage-based Failure Detection in Mobile Networks | Binh Nguyen, Zihui Ge, Jacobus Van der Merwe, He Yan, Jennifer Yates | We present our proposed ABSENCE system which detects service disruptions in mobile networks using aggregated customer usage data. |
72 | Experience: Rethinking RRC State Machine Optimization in Light of Recent Advancements | Theodore Stoner, Xuetao Wei, Joseph Knight, Lei Guo | We study the availability and performance of these enhancements on a network serving a market with a population in the millions. |
73 | European Research towards 5G | Rémy Bayou | The talk will address the scientific research challenges to develop 5G networks, the technology building blocks new projects are dealing with, notably as regards the Radio Access Network and the novel mobile architectures. |
74 | See Through Walls with COTS RFID System! | Lei Yang, Qiongzheng Lin, Xiangyang Li, Tianci Liu, Yunhao Liu | In this work, we present a system, named Tadar, for tracking moving objects without instrumenting them us- ing COTS RFID readers and tags. |
75 | Come and Be Served: Parallel Decoding for COTS RFID Tags | Jiajue Ou, Mo Li, Yuanqing Zheng | In this paper, we present BiGroup, a novel RFID communication paradigm that allows the reader to decode the collision from multiple COTS (commodity-off-the-shelf) RFID tags in one communication round. |
76 | Last-Mile Navigation Using Smartphones | Yuanchao Shu, Kang G. Shin, Tian He, Jiming Chen | To bridge the gap between the end position obtained from legacy navigation services and the real destination, we propose FollowMe, a "last-mile" navigation system to enable plug-and-play navigation in indoor and semi-outdoor environments. |
77 | EchoTag: Accurate Infrastructure-Free Indoor Location Tagging with Smartphones | Yu-Chih Tung, Kang G. Shin | We propose a novel mobile system, called EchoTag, that enables phones to tag and remember indoor locations without requiring any additional sensors or pre-installed infrastructure. |
78 | ToneTrack: Leveraging Frequency-Agile Radios for Time-Based Indoor Wireless Localization | Jie Xiong, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Kyle Jamieson | We implement ToneTrack on the WARP hardware radio platform and use six of them served as APs to localize Wi-Fi clients in an indoor testbed over one floor of an office building. |
79 | Big Data, IoT, …. Buzz Words for Academia or Reality for Industry? | Rui Luis Aguiar, Nora Benhabiles, Tobias Pfeiffer, Pablo Rodriguez, Harish Viswanathan, Jia Wang, Hui Zang | Academic works are presenting this as the natural evolution for our current technologies. |
80 | mZig: Enabling Multi-Packet Reception in ZigBee | Linghe Kong, Xue Liu | This paper presents mZig, a novel physical layer design that enables a receiver to simultaneously decode multiple packets from different transmitters in ZigBee. |
81 | AirExpress: Enabling Seamless In-band Wireless Multi-hop Transmission | Bo Chen, Yue Qiao, Ouyang Zhang, Kannan Srinivasan | This paper describes the design and implementation of AirExpress, a system that enables in-band wireless cut-through transmission. |
82 | Control Channel Design for Many-Antenna MU-MIMO | Clayton Shepard, Abeer Javed, Lin Zhong | We present a novel control channel design for many-antenna MU-MIMO, Faros, that allows the number of base-station antennas to scale up to 100s in practice. |
83 | QuickSync: Improving Synchronization Efficiency for Mobile Cloud Storage Services | Yong Cui, Zeqi Lai, Xin Wang, Ningwei Dai, Congcong Miao | In this paper, we identify, analyze and address the synchronization (sync) inefficiency problem of modern mobile cloud storage services. |
84 | FlexiWeb: Network-Aware Compaction for Accelerating Mobile Web Transfers | Shailendra Singh, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Ramesh Govindan | Guided by our study, we design and implement FlexiWeb, a framework that determines both when to use a middlebox and how to use it, based on the client’s network conditions. |