Low-Power and Multimedia Study Group
Fall 2006

What is it about: It is basically an interest-oriented study group. We are going to read interesting papers. The topics to be addressed will focus on (but not limited to): energy-efficient multimedia applications, video sensor networks, power efficient streaming techniques and mobile elements in sensor networks. See following for the list of papers to be read/discussed.

How it works: the group will meet once a week (for around one hour). Participants in this group are expected to involve in the discussion, read/present papers to the group. The group organizers will give talks for the introduction and background information at the beginning. Through the discussion, the organizers hope and expect to bring some aspirations among the group, stimulate research interests of the students, and find interesting projects to work together.

How to participate: All are welcome to attend this study group. Please send an email to Dr. Dakai Zhu (dzhu@cs.utsa.edu) to add your email to the group mailing-list. Or you can just stop by if your are interested in certain topics.

Where: CS conference room (SB 4.01.20)
When: 3:00pm -- 5:00pm, Friday
Organizers: Dr. Ali Saman Tosun  and Dr. Dakai Zhu
 

Schedule for Fall 2006 (Last updated: 09/29/2006) [Schedule for previous year: Fall 2005 ]

Mobile Elements in Wireless Sensor Networks for Power Efficiency

• A. A. Somasundara, A. Ramamoorthy, and M. B. Srivastava, Mobile Element Scheduling for Efficient Data Collection in Wireless Networks with Dynamic Deadlines, Proc. of RTSS 2004
• David Jea, Arun A Somasundara, Mani B Srivastava, .Multiple Controlled Mobile Elements (Data Mules) for Data Collection in Sensor Networks., in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2005
• Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "A Message Ferrying Approach for Data Delivery in Sparse Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of ACM Mobihoc 2004
• Yaoyao Gu, Doruk Bozdag, Eylem Ekici: Mobile Element Based Differentiated Message Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks. WOWMOM 2006
• Yaoyao Gu, Doruk Bozdag, Eylem Ekici, Fusun Ozguner, and Chang-Gun Lee, Partitioning-Based Mobile Element Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE SECON 2005;

Power Efficient Streaming Techniques:

• S. Mohapatra, R. Cornea, N. Dutt, A. Nicolau and N. Venkatasubramanian. Integrated Power Management for Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices. Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, 2003.
• J. Korhonen and Y. Wang. Power-Efficient Streaming for Mobile Terminals, International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video , 2005

Application level Power Management for Multimedia Applications

• X. Liu, P. Shenoy and M. Corner. Chameleon: Application level Power Management with Performance Isolation, Proc. of MM 2005
• B. Raman, S. Chakraborty, W-T. Ooi, Meeting CPU Constraints by Delaying Playout of Multimedia Tasks, International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video , 2005

Video Based Sensor Networks

• Jie Huang, Wuchi Feng, Wuchang Feng, David Romano, Multi-hop Buffering and Adaptation for Video-Based Sensor Networking Applications, ACM NOSSDAV 2006
•  Wuchi Feng, Nirupama Bulusu, Wuchang Feng, Dissecting the Video Sensing Landscape,ACM NOSSDAV 2005
•  Zhenyu Yang, Klara Nahrstedt , A Bandwidth Management Framework for Wireless Camera Array, ACM NOSSDAV 2005