Harvard Sensor Networks Lab

The camera-ready version of our position paper for HotOS 2009, Peloton: Coordinated Resource Management for Sensor Networks, has been posted here!

The call for papers for the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'09) has been posted. I am the program co-chair along with Jie Liu from Microsoft Research, and David Culler from Berkeley is the general chair. Abstracts are due on April 1 and full papers on April 8.

I encourage you to submit your best work on wireless sensor networks, in all their forms. This year we are broadening the scope of the conference to include non-"traditional" sensor network systems. Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the submission process or what kinds of papers we're looking for.

The Christian Science Monitor published an article today entitled "New Networks take Nature's Pulse" that features work done by our lab, including the volcano monitoring and CitySense projects.

Alex Wissner-Gross has joined the HSNL as a postdoctoral reseacher, supported by a two-year fellowship from the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Alex is a condensed matter physicist with interests concerning the science and technology of programmable media, with a recent focus on the intersection of computation, energy, and the environment. Alex received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2007 from Harvard University for his work on programmable surfaces. His research will involve developing a framework for instrumenting computers and other network-capable devices with enough intelligence to monitor and manage their own environmental footprints.

Our paper, An Architecture for Extensible Wireless LANs, has been accepted to HotNets-VII, to be held in Calgary in October 2008! The full text is available here.

Our group has two papers accepted to the upcoming 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'08). They are:

• Resource Aware Programming in the Pixie OS, Konrad Lorincz, Bor-rong Chen, Jason Waterman, Geoff Werner-Allen, and Matt Welsh.
• Lance: Optimizing High-Resolution Signal Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks, Geoff Werner-Allen, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, and Matt Welsh.

Click the links above for full text.

Our paper, Flask: Staged Functional Programming for Sensor Networks, has been accepted to the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2008), to be held in British Columbia in September 2008! Full text available here.

HSNL graduate student Rohan Murty won the prestigious Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship. Each year only 12 PhD students are selected for the two-year fellowship. Rohan is currently doing an internship at MSR Redmond, working with Alec Wolman and Jitendra Padhye.