MAS 961: Special Topics in Media Arts and Sciences
Developing Applications for Sensor Networks

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Readings and Handouts

  1. Distributed Sensor Networks, Procceedings of a Workshop held at Carnegie-Mellon University December 7-8, 1978.
  2. Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, John S. Heidemann and Satish Kumar. Mobile Computing and Networking, pages 263-270, 1999.
  3. System Architecture Directions for Networked Sensors, Jason Hill, Robert Szewczyk, Alec Woo, Seth Hollar, David Culler and Kristofer Pister. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pages 93-104, 2000.
  4. Smart Dust: Communicating with a Cubic-Millimeter Computer, Brett Warneke, Matt Last, Brian Liebowitz and Kristofer S.J. Pister, IEEE Computer, 2001.
  5. Proceedings of the Pervasive 2005 UbiApp Workshop, Munich, Germany, 11 May 2005.
  6. The 2005 UbiApp Workshop: What Makes Good Application-led Research?, Richard Sharp and Kasim Rehman, Pervasive Computing, Volume 4, Number 3, July-September 2005.
  7. The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weiser, reprinted from Scientific American, 1991.
  8. The origins of ubiquitous computing research at PARC in the late 1980s, M. Weiser, R. Gold and J.S. Brown, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 38, Number 4, 1999.
  9. Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring, Alan Mainwaring, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, David Culler and John Anderson, WSNA '02, September 28, 2002, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  10. Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with a Wireless Sensor Network, Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Jeff Johnson, Mario Ruiz, Jonathan Lees and Matt Welsh, EWSN 2005, Istabul, Turkey.
  11. Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities, Konrad Lorincz, David J. Malan, Thaddeus R.F. Fulford-Jones, Alan Nawoj, Antony Clavel, Victor Shnayder, Geoffrey Mainland, Matt Welsh and Steve Moulton, IEEE Pervasive Computing, October-December 2004.
  12. Two-tiered wireless sensor network architecture for structural health monitoring, Venkata A. Kottapalli, Anne S. Kiremidjian, Jerome P. Lynch, Ed Carryer, Thomas W. Kenny, Kincho H. Law and Ying Lei, Smart Structures and Materials 2003.
  13. DigiClip: Activating Physical Documents, Christian Decker, Michael Beigl, Adam Eames and Uwe Kubach, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshop, 2004.
  14. Parasitic Mobility for Pervasive Sensor Networks, Laibowitz, M. and Paradiso, J.A. In H. W. Gellersen, R. Want and A. Schmidt (eds): "Pervasive Computing", Third International Conference, PERVASIVE 2005, Munich, Germany, May 2005, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 255-278.
  15. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Leslie Lamport, Communications of the ACM, Volume 21, Number 7, pages 558-565, July 1978.
  16. Reality Mining: Browsing Reality with Sensor Networks, Gary Boone, Sensors, September 2004.
  17. Impact of Radio Irregularity on Wireless Sensor Networks, Gang Zhou, Tian He, Sudha Krishnamurthy and John A. Stankovic, MobiSys, June 6-9, 2004, Boston, MA, USA.
  18. Self-configuring, Lightweight Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Computing, Christopher R. Wren and Srinivasa G. Rao, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, 2003.
  19. Home networking with Zigbee, Mikhail Galeev, Embedded.com, 20 April 2004.
  20. IEEE 802.15.4 and Zigbee Overview, Joseph Dvorak, 28 September 2005.
  21. Wireless Wearable Transceivers, Mathew Laibowitz and Joseph Paradiso, Circuit Cellar #163, February 2004, pp. 28-39.
  22. Mate: A Tiny Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks, Philip Levis and David Culler, ASPLOS X, 2002.
  23. Bridging the Gap: Programming Sensor Networks with Application Specific Virtual Machines, UC Berkeley Tech Report UCB//CSD-04-1343, August 2004.
  24. Mobile Agent Middleware for Sensor Networks: An Application Case Study, Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman and Chenyang Lu, International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'05), Special track on Platform, Tools, and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors (SPOTS), Los Angeles, CA, April 2005.
  25. Region Streams: Functional Macroprogramming for Sensor Networks, Ryan Newton and Matt Welsh, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2004), Toronto, Canada, 30 August 2004.
  26. A Robust Architecture for Distributed Inference in Sensor Networks, Mark Paskin, Carlos Guestrin and Jim McFadden, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2005.
  27. Maintaining privacy in pervasive computing - enabling acceptance of sensor-based services, A. Soppera and T. Burbridge, BT Technology Journal, Volume 22, Number 3, July 2004.
  28. SPINS: Security Protocols for Sensor Networks, Adrian Perrig, Robert Szewczyk, J.D. Tygar, Victor Wen and David E. Culler, Wireless Networks 8, pages 521-534, 2002.
  29. Power Signature Analysis, Christopher Laughman, Kwangduk Lee, Robert Cox, Steven Shaw, Steven Leeb, Les Norford, and Peter Armstrong, IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, March/April 2003.
  30. Development and Validation of a Transient Event Detector, Steven B. Leeb, James L. Kirtley, Jr., Michael S. LeVan, and Joseph P. Sweeney, AMP Journal of Technology, Volume 3, November 1993.
  31. Exploration on Load Signatures, W K Lee, G S K Fung, H Y Lam, F H Y Chan, and Mark Lucente, Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Japan, 2004.
  32. Residential Energy Monitoring and Computerized Surveillance via Utility Power Flows, George W. Hart, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, June 1989.
  33. Advanced Electrical Load Monitoring: A Wealth of Information at Low Cost, L. K. Norford, S. B. Leeb, D. Luo, and S. R. Shaw, MIT technical note.
  34. SeeGreen: A Tool For Real-time Distributed Monitoring of Home Electricity Consumption, Joshua Daniel Kaufman, M.Eng. thesis at MIT Media Lab, May 2001.
  35. A Review of Induction Motors Signature Analysis as a Medium for Faults Detection, Mohamed El Hachemi Benbouzid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Volume 47, Number 5, October 2000.
  36. Experiences and Directions in Pushpin Computing, Lifton, J., Broxton, M. and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Los Angeles, CA, April 25-27, 2005, pp. 416-421.
  37. Capacity of Wireless Networks, P. Gupta and P. Kumar, Technical report, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1999.
  38. On the Interdependence of Routing and Data Compression in Multi-Hop Sensor Networks, A. Scaglione, S. D. Servetto, in the Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Atlanta, GA, September 2002.
  39. The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman, 1988.
  40. The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Primer, Neil Stephenson, 1995.
  41. A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge, 1999.