Syllabus

(under construction)

Introduction/Overview

• Scope, Applications, & Issues.

For more depth:

• Mark Weiser, "Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing." Communications of the ACM, July 1993.
• G. Forman, J. Zahorjan, "The Challenges of Mobile Computing," IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 4, April 1994, pp. 38-47.
• Mark Weiser, "The Computer for the Twenty-First Century," Scientific American, pp. 94-10, September 1991. 
• M. Weiser, J. S. Brown, "The Coming Age of Calm Technology." (1996). 
• A.C. Huang, B. Ling, S. Ponnekanti, and A. Fox, "Pervasive Computing: What Is It Good For?" Workshop on Mobile Data Management (MobiDE) in conjunction with ACM.
• Sentient Computing home page.
• R. Want, B. Schilit, N. Adams, R. Gold, K. Petersen, D. Goldberg, J. Ellis, M. Weiser, "An Overview of the ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 2, no. 6, December 1995, pp. 28-43.  [See also a longer 30 page version with clearer images].
• S. Narayanaswamy, S. Sesrhan, E. Amir, E. Brewer, R. Brodersen, F. Burghardt, A. Burstein, Y. Crhang; A. Fox, J. Gilbert, R. Han, R. Katz, A. Long, D. Messerschmitt, J. Rabaey, "A Low-Power, Lightweight Unit to Provide Ubiquitous Information Access: Application and Network Support for InfoPad," IEEE Personal Communications , Vol. 3, no. 2 , April 1996, pp. 4 -17.
• T. Truman, T Pering, R. Doering, R. Brodersen, "The InfoPad Multimedia Terminal: A Portable Device For Wireless Information Access," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 47, no. 10, October 1998, pp. 1073-1087.

Replication

• Case study:
• J. Kistler, M. Satyanarayanan, "Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1992
• Hoarding
• C. Tait , H. Lei , S. Acharya , H. Crhang, "Intelligent file hoarding for mobile computers," Proceedings of the first annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking, p.119-125, November 13-15, 1995.
• G. Kueening, G. Popek, "Automated Hoarding for Mobile Computers," ACM SOSP, 1997, pp. 264-275
• Consistency Guarantees
• D. B. Terry, A. J. Demers, K. Petersen, M. J. Spreitzer, M. M. Theimer and B. B. Welch. Session guarantees for weakly consistent replicated data. Proceedings Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Austin, Texas, September 1994, pages 140-149.
• Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, "Design and Evaluation of a Continuous Consistency Model for Replicated Services." Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, October 2000. 
• Update Propagation
• L. Mummert, M. Ebling, M. Satyanarayanan, "Exploiting Weak Connectivity For Mobile File Access," 15th ACM SOSP, 1995
• K. Petersen, M. Spreitzer, D. Terry, M. Theimer, A. Demers, "Flexible Update Propagation For Weakly Consistent Replication," Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 1997, pp. 288-301.
• Fine-grained Merging
• J. P. Munson and P. Dewan. A flexible object merging framework. Proceedings ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 1994, pages 231-242.
• D. Terry, M. Theimer, K. Petersen, A. Demers, M. Spreitzer, C. Hauser, "Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System," Proceedings of the Fifteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles," December 1995, pp. 172-18
• Anthony D. Joseph, Alan F. deLespinasse, Joshua A. Tauber,David K. Gifford, M. Frans Kaashoek, " Rover: A Toolkit for Mobile Information Access", Proceedings of the Fifteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles," December 1995.

For more depth:

• R. Guy, P. Reicher, D. Ratner, M. Guner, W. Ma, G. Popek, "Rumor: Mobile Data Access Through Optimistic Peer-to-peer Replication," Proceedings: ER'98 Workshop on Mobile Data Access, 1998.
• E. Swierk, E. Kiciman, V. Laviano, M. Baker, "The Roma Personal Metadata Service," 3rd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA), December 2000.
• J. Heidemann, T. Page, R. Guy, G. Popek, "Primarily Disconnected Operation: Experience with Ficus," 2nd International Workshop on Management of Replicated Data, November 1992.
• Xerox PARC's Bayou Project. 
• Peter J. Keleher and Ugur Cetintemel, "Consistency Management in Deno." To appear in the Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET). 
• Jim Gray, Pat Helland, Patrick O'Neil, and Dennis Shasha, "The Dangers of Replication and a Solution." Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 1996
• B. Noble, B. Fleis, M. Kim, and J. Zajkowski, "Fluid Replication." Proceedings of  Netstore '99, the Network Storage Symposium, October, 1999. 
• B. Liskov, S. Ghemawat, R. Gruber, P. Johnson, L. Shrira, and M Williams, "Replication in the Harp File System." Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating System Principles, pages 226--238, October 1991.
• David Bindel, Yan Chen, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Sean Rhea, Haim Weatherspoon, Westley Weimer, Christopher Wells, Ben Zhao, and John Kubiatowicz, "Oceanstore: An Extremely Wide-Area Storage System." Proceedings of the Nine International Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS IX), November 2000. 
• A. Joseph, J. Tauber, M. Frans Kaashoek, "Mobile Computing With the Rover Toolkit," IEEE Transactions on Computers: Special Issue on Mobile Computing, vol. 46, no. 3, March 1997, pp. 337-352.

Distributed Devices

• Device Servers vs. Conventional Servers
• Case Study
• UPNP white paper, (or click here to go to http://www.upnp.org's version)
• Device Discovery
• Y. Goland , T. Cai, P. Leach, Y. Gu, S. Albright, " Simple Service Discovery Protocol/1.0 Operating without an Arbiter," IETF Draft. <draft-cai-ssdp-v1-03.txt  
• Jini architectural white paper, (from http://www.jini.org, and Jini network technology http://www.sun.com/jini/)
• E. Guttman, " Service Location Protocol: Automatic Discovery of IP Network Services," IEEE Internet Computing, Jul.-Aug. 1999. pp. 71-80.
• S. Czerwinski, B. Zhao, T. Hodes, A. Joseph, R. Katz, "An Architecture for a Secure Service Discovery Service", ACM MobiCom 1999, pp. 24-35.
• W. Adjie-Winoto, E. Schwartz, H. Balakrishnan, "The Design and Implementation of an Intentional Name System." Proceedings of SOSP, December 1999, pp. 186-201.
• Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas Anderson, and Amit Aggarwal. "Active Names: Flexible Location and Transport of Wide-Area Resources,'' Proceedings of the Second USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, October 1999. 
• High-Level Communication
• Roussev, V., P. Dewan, and V. Jain. Composable Collaboration Infrastructures based on Programming Patterns. in Procedings of ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 2000.
• P. Wyckoff, S. McLaughry, T. Lehman, D. Ford, "T Spaces," IBM Systems Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, 1998, pp. 454-474.
• User-Interface Deployment
• Wireless Application Protocol White Paper
  WAP TRAP paper
• Venners, B. How to attach a user interface to a Jini service.
• Dewan, P. and M. Solomon, An Approach to Support Automatic Generation of User Interfaces. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, October 1990. 12(4): p. 566-609.
• T. Hodes, R. Katz, "A Document-based Framework for Internet Application Control," 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 1999, pp. 59-70.
• Device Composition
• T. Hodes, R. Katz, "Composable Ad Hoc Location-Based Services For Heterogeneous Mobile Clients," Wireless Networks, no. 5, 1999, pp. 411-427.
• R. Han, V. Perret, M. Naghshineh, "WebSplitter: A Unified XML Framework For Multi-Device Collaborative Web Browsing,"  ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2000, pp.221-230.
• Omojokun, O. and P. Dewan, Directions in Ubiquitous Computing: A Position Statement. Proceedings of Second IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications, 2001.
• Ponnekanti, S.R., et al. ICrafter: A Service Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. in Ubicomp 2001. Atlanta.

For more depth

• Tim Kindberg, John Barton, Jeff Morgan, Gene Becker, Ilja Bedner, Debbie Caswell, Phillipe Debaty, Gita Gopal, Marcos Frid, Venky Krishnan, Howard Morris, Celine Pering, John Schettino, Bill Serra, "People, Places, Things: Web Presence for the Real World,"  Proceedings of 3rd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications WMCSA 2000, pp. 19-30. (or see http://www.cooltown.com/papers/webpres/WebPresence.htm, www.cooltown.hp.com )
• Edwards, W.K. and R.E. Grinter. At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges. in UbiComp 01. 2001. Atlanta.
• Microsoft: B. Brumitt, B. Meyers, J. Krumm, A. Kern, S. Shafer, "EasyLiving: Technologies For Intelligent Environments," Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, September 2000.  See also www.research.microsoft.com/easyliving/
• "What is holding up Sun's much-hyped technology?", by Stephen Srhankland, News.com, March 15, 2000.
• P. Lettieri, M. Srivastava, "Advances in Wireless Terminals," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 6, no. 1, February 1999.
• MIT's Oxygen Project.
• CMU's Aura Project
• Georgia Tech's Classroom 2000 Project
• G. Banavar, J. Beck, E. Gluzberg, J. Munson, J. Sussman, D. Zukowski, "Challenges: An Application Model for Pervasive Computing," ACM MobiCom 2000, pp. 266-274. 
• A. Roychowdhury, S. Moyer, "Instant Messaging and Presence for SIP Enabled Networked Appliances," Telcordia, http://www.argreenhouse.com/papers/stanm/sip-iptel2001.pdf
• JavaSpaces
• Pub/sub: Gryphon
• Mor Harchol-Balter, Tom Leighton, Daniel Lewin, "Resource Discovery in Distributed Networks." 18th Annual ACM-SIGACT/SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Atlanta, May 1999.
• DHCP: www.dhcp-rhandbook.com
• UDDI, WSDL, Microsoft's .Net initiative, SOAP, 
• Vivek Pai, Mohit Aron, Gaurav Banga, Michael Svendsen, Peter Druschel, Willy Zwaenepoel, and Eric Nahum, "Locality-Aware Request Distribution in Cluster-based Network Servers." Proc. 8th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, October 1998.
• Butler Lampson, "Designing a Global Name Service." Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pages 1-10, August 1986.
• Dina Katabi, John Wroclawski, "A Framework for Scalable Global IP-Anycast"  Proceedings of Sigcomm, August 2000. 
• "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol" http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/; see also http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/dbtools.html

Networking

• Wireless Physical Layer
• Overview of the IEEE 802.11b wireless Ethernet standard, 3Com.
• J. Haartsen, "The Bluetooth radio system," IEEE Personal Communications , Volume: 7 Issue: 1 , Feb. 2000, pp. 28 -36.
• Wi-Fi™ (802.11b) and Bluetooth™: An Examination of Coexistence Approaches, Mobilian Corporation, 2001.
• J. Cai, D. Goodman, "General Packet Radio Service in GSM," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 35, no. 10, October 1997, pp. 122-131.
• S. Williams, "IrDA: Past, Present and Future," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 7, no. 1, February 2000. 
• J. M. Kahn , R. H. Katz , K. S. J. Pister, "Next century challenges: mobile networking for "Smart Dust"", MobiCom 1999, pp. 271-278.
• Wireless TCP/IP
• Hari Balakrishnan, Venkat Padmanabrhan, Srinivasan Sesrhan, and Randy H. Katz, "A Comparison of Mecrhanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1997. 
• Mobile TCP/IP
• Charlie Perkins tutorial on Mobile IP.  
• Alex C. Snoeren and Hari Balakrishnan , "An End-to-End Approach to Host Mobility." Proc. 6th ACM MOBICOM, August 2000.
• Large IP Address Space
• IPv6 Tutorial
• Ad-hoc Routing
• Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson, Yih-Chun Hu, and Jorjeta Jetcheva, ``A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols.'' Proc. of MobiCom '98, Oct. 1998, pp. 85-97. 
• E. Royer, C. Toh, "A Review of Current Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 6 no. 2, April 1999.
• Confederate IP
• David Ott and Ketan Mayer-Patel, "Transport-level Protocol Coordination in Clister-To-Cluster Applications," Proceedings of the Interactive Distributed Multimedia Workshop, 2001"

For more depth

• Jaap Haartsen, Mahmoud Naghshineh, Jon Inouye, Olaf J. Joeresson, and Warren Allen, "Bluetooth: Vision, Goals, and Architecture", ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Volume 2, Number 4, October 1998, pp. 38-45. 
• W. Stallings, "IEEE 802.11: moving closer to practical wireless LANs," IT Professional , Volume: 3 Issue: 3 , May-June 2001, pp. 17-23.
• D. Tang, M. Baker, "Analysis of a Metropolitan-Area Wireless Network," ACM MobiCom 1999.
• D. Eckhardt, P. Steenkiste, "Measurement and Analysis of the Error Characteristics of an In-Building Wireless System," ACM SIGCOMM 1996.
• A. DeSimone, S. Nanda, "Wireless Data: Systems, Standards, Services,"  ACM Wireless Networks, vol. 1, no. 3, October 1995, pp. 241-253.
• N. Adams, R. Gold, B. Schilit, M. Tso, R. Want, "An Infrared Network For Mobile Computers," Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing, Summer 1993.
• K. Negus, A. Stephens, J. Lansford, "HomeRF: Wireless Networking for the Connected Home," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 7, no. 1, February 2000.
• M. Rahnema, "Overview of the GSM System and Protocol Architecture," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 31, no. 4, April 1993, pp. 92-100.
• N. Badr, "Cellular Digital Packet Data CDPD," Proceedings of 1995 IEEE Fourteenth Annual Internation Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, March 1995, pp. 659-665.
• N. Tripathi, J. Reed, H. VanLandingham, "Handoff in Cellular Systems," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 5, no. 6, December 1998.
• http://www.bluetooth.com
• R. Schneiderman, "Bluetooth's slow dawn," IEEE Spectrum , Volume: 37 Issue: 11 , Nov. 2000,  pp. 61 -65.
• P. Bhagwat, "Bluetooth: technology for short-range wireless apps," IEEE Internet Computing , Volume: 5 Issue: 3 , May/Jun 2001, pp. 96 -103.
• T. Siep, I. Gifford, R. Braley, R. Heile, "Paving the way for personal area network standards: an overview of the IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks," IEEE Personal Communications , Volume: 7 Issue: 1 , Feb. 2000, pp. 37 -43.
• Bluetooth and 802.11b Coexistence papers, plus the following:
• Howitt, V. Mitter, J. Gutierrez, "Empirical study for IEEE 802.11 and bluetooth interoperability," Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd , Volume: 2 , 2001, pp. 1109 -1113.
• Howitt, "IEEE 802.11 and bluetooth coexistence analysis methodology," Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd , Volume: 2 , 2001, pp. 1114 -1118.
• P. Bhagwat, C. Bisdikian, I. Korpeoglu, M. Naghshineh, "BlueSky: A Cordless Networking Solution for Palmtop Computers," ACM MobiCom 1999, pp. 69-76.
• H. Balakrishnan, R. Katz, "Explicit Loss Notification and Wireless Web Performance," Proc. IEEE Globecom Internet Mini-Conference, November 1998.
• Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata Padmanabrhan, and Randy H. Katz , "The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance." Proc. Third ACM/IEEE Mobicom Conference, September 1997.
• C. Perkins, Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practices, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
• C. Perkins, RFC 2002_Fall_2001 - IP Mobility Support. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2002_Fall_2001.txt. October 1996.
• Chen Yi-an. A Survey Paper on Mobile IP.
• D. Ghosh, http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds7-2/mobileip.htmlMobile IP; ACM Crossroads 7, 2 (Dec. 2000), Pages 10 - 17.
• X. Zhao, C. Castelluccia and M. Baker, "Flexible Network Support for Mobile Hosts." Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on Management of Mobility in Distributed Systems, volume 6, number 2, March/April 2001.
• V. Bharghavan, A. Demers, S. Shenker, and L. Zrhang, ``MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LANs.'' ACM SIGCOMM, September 1994.
• R. Sivakumar, B. Das, and V. Bharghavan, ``An Improved Spine-based Infrastructure for Routing in Ad Hoc Networks.'' IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications '98, Athens, Greece. June 1998.
• Z. J. Haas and M. R. Pearlman. ``The Performance of Query Control Schemes for the Zone Routing Protocol.'' Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM '98, pages 167-177, Sep. 1998.
• Sze-Yao Ni, Yu-Chee Tseng, Yuh-Shyan Chen and Jang-Ping Sheu, "The Broadcast Storm Problem in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network." Proceedings of the fifth annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking, 1999.
• Qun Li and Daniela Rus, "Sending Messages to Mobile Users in Disconnected Ad Hoc Wireless Networks." Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom), August 2000 
• Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, "Measuring Link Bandwidths Using a Deterministic Model of Packet Delay." Sigcomm 2000.
• Jinyang Li, John Jannotti, Douglas S. J. De Couto, David R. Karger, Robert Morris, "A Scalable Location Service for Geographic Ad Hoc Routing." Proceedings of  ACM Mobicom, August 2000.  
• University of Washington's Portolano Project: Mike Esler, Jeffrey Hightower, Tom Anderson, and Gaetano Borriello, "Next Century Challenges: Data-Centric Networking for Invisible Computing." Proceedings of Mobicomm, August 1999.
• R. Ramjee, L. Li, T. La Porta and S. Kasera, "IP Paging Service For Mobile Hosts," MobiCom 2001, pp. 332-345.

Location -Aware Computing

• Tracking Location
• P. Enge, P. Misra, "Special Issue on Global Positioning System," Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 87, No. 1, January, 1999, pp. 3-15.
• "Locating cell phone callers indoors", News.com, Sept. 25, 2001.
• R. Want, A. Hopper, V. Falcao, J. Gibbons, "The Active Badge Location System," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1992, pp. 91-102.
• M. Spreitzer, M. Theimer, "Providing Location Information in a Ubiquitous Computing Environment, 14th SOSP, December 1993, pp. 270-283.
• K. Cheverst, N. Davies, K. Mitchell, A. Friday, "Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project,"  ACM MobiCom 2000, pp. 20-31
• Nissanka B. Priyantha, Anit Chakraborty, and Hari Balakrishnan, "The Cricket Location-Support System." Proc. 6th ACM MOBICOM, August 2000, pp. 32-43.
• Tracking Orientation/Pose
• N. Priyantha, A. Miu, H. Balakrishnan, S. Teller, "The Cricket Compass For Context-Aware Mobile Applications,"  ACM MobiCom 2001, pp. 1-14.
• P. Bahl, V. Padmanabrhan, "RADAR: An In-Building RF-based User Location and Tracking System," IEEE INFOCOM 2000, vol. 2, pp. 775-784.   .   
• Touring Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile Augmented Reality Systems for Exploring the Urban Environment. S. Feiner, B. MacIntyre, T. Hollerer, and A. Webster
• Greg Welch & Gary Bishop, SCAAT: Incremental Tracking with Incomplete Information, SIGGRAPH 97.
• Software Architecture
• Andy Harter, Andy Hopper, Pete Steggles, Andy Ward, and Paul Webster, "The Anatomy of a Context-Aware Application." Proceedings of 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom '99), August 1999, pp. 59-68.
• Daniel Salber, Anind K. Dey and Gregory D. Abowd. The Context Toolkit: Aiding the Development of Context-Enabled Applications. CHI'99 , Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20,1999. (PDF)

For more depth

• H. Maass, "Location-aware Mobile Applications Based On Directory Services,"  Mobile Networks and Applications, no. 3, 1998, pp. 157-173.
• I. Getting, "The Global Positioning System,"  IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 30, No. 12, December 1993, pp. 36-47.
• S. Long, D. Aust, G. Abowd, C. Atkeson, "Cyberguide: Prototyping Context-aware Mobile Applications," Proceeding of 1996 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1996. short paper
• J. Reed, K. Krizman, B. Woerner, T. Rappaport, "An Overview of the Challenges and Progress in Meeting the E-911 Requirement for Location Service,"  IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1998, pp. 30-37.
• A. Ward, A. Jones, A. Hopper, "A New Location Technique For the Active Office," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 4, no. 5, October 1997.
• Greg Welch Gary Bishop, Leandra Vicci, Stephen Brumback, Kurtis Keller, D'Nardo C, High Performance Wide-Area Tracking for Virtual and Augmented Environments, VRST 99.

Resource Conservation

• Hardware Support
• W. Hamburgen, D. Wallach, M. Viredaz, L. Brakmo, C. Waldspurger, J. Bartlett, T. Mann, K. Farkas, "Itsy: Stretching the Bounds of Mobile Computing," IEEE Computer, vol. 34, no. 4, April 2001, pp. 28-36.
• F. Douglis, R. Caceres, F. Kaashoek, K. Li, B. Marsh, J. Tauber, "Storage Alternatives For Mobile Computers," Proceedings of the First USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Nov. 1994.
• Scheduling
• Mark Weiser, Brent Welch, Alan Demers, Scott Shenker, "Scheduling for Reduced CPU Energy," Proceedings of the First USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Nov. 1994.
• Tiny OS
• Nov. 16: Jason Hill, Robert Szewcyzk, Alec Woo, Seth Hollar, David Culler, Kristofer Pister, "System Architecture Directions for Networked Sensors." Proceedings of Ninth International Conference on Architectural Support for Porgramming Languages and Operating Systems, November 2000.
• Storage Management
• John Griffin, Steve Schlosser, Greg Ganger, and David Nagle, "Operating Systems Management of MEMS-based Storage Devices." Proceedings of OSDI 2000, October, 2000.
• T. Imielinski, S. Viswanatrhan, B. Badrinath, "Energy Efficient Indexing on Air," ACM SIGMOD 1994.
• Fidelity Management
• Fox, S. Gribble, Y. Chawathe, E. Brewer, "Adapting to Network and Client Variation Using Infrastructural Proxies: Lessons and Perspectives,"  IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 5, no. 4, August 1998, pp. 10-19.
• R. Han, P. Bhagwat, R. LaMaire, T. Mummert, V. Perret, J. Rubas, "Dynamic Adaptation In an Image Transcoding Proxy For Mobile Web Browsing," IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, vol. 5, no. 6, Dec. 1998, pp. 8-17.
• B. Noble, M. Satyanarayanan, D. Narayanan, J. E. Tilton, J. Flinn, K. Walker. "Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility." Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, October 1997.
• Jason Flinn and M. Satyanarayanan, "Energy-aware Adaptation for Mobile Applications." Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December, 1999
• Ad-hoc Routing
• S. Singh, M. Woo, C. Raghavendra, "Power-Aware Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," ACM MobiCom, 1998, pp. 181-190.
• Q. Li, J. Aslam, D. Rus, "Online power-aware routing in wireless Ad-hoc networks," ACM MobiCom, 2001, pp. 97-107.
• Distributed Algorithms
• B. Chen, K. Jamieson, H. Balakrishnan, R. Morris, "Span: An energy-efficient coordination algorithm for topology maintenance in Ad Hoc wireless networks," MobiCom 2001, pp. 85-96.
• P. Bonnet, J. Gehrke, P. Seshadri, "Querying the Physical World," IEEE Personal Communications, October 2000, pp. 10-15. D.
• Estrin , R. Govindan , J. Heidemann , S. Kumar, "Next century challenges: scalable coordination in sensor networks," MobiCom 1999, pp. 263-270.

For more depth:

• B. Chen, K. Jamieson, H. Balakrishnan, R. Morris, "Span: An energy-efficient coordination algorithm for topology maintenance in Ad Hoc wireless networks," MobiCom 2001, pp. 85-96.
• Chalermek Intanagonwiwat , Ramesh Govindan , Deborah Estrin, "Directed Diffusion," MobiCom 2000, pp. 56-67.
• T. Mudge, "Power: A First-Class Architectural Design Constraint," IEEE Computer, vol. 34, no. 4, April 2001, pp. 52-58.
• R. Kravets, P. Krishnan, "Power Management Techniques For Mobile Communication," ACM MobiCom 1998, pp. 157-168.
• G. Welch, "A Survey of Power Management Techniques in Mobile Computing Operating Systems," ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 29, Issue 4, October 1995, pp. 47-56.
• M. Stemm, R. Katz, "Measuring and Reducing Energy Consumption of Network Interfaces in Hand-Held Devices," IEICE Transactions on Communications, special Issue on Mobile Computing, vol. E80-B, no. 8, pp. 1125-1131.
• Kester Li, Roger Kumpf, Paul Horton, Thomas Anderson, "A Quantitative Analysis of Disk Drive Power Management in Portable Computers", Proc. of Winter 1994 USENIX Conference, January 1994, pp 279-292.
• T. Meng, A. Hung, E. Tsern, B. Gordon, "Low-Power Signal Processing System Design For Wireless Applications," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 5, no. 3, June 1998.
• Chlamtac, C. Petrioli, J. Redi, "Energy-Conserving Access Protocols for Identification Networks, " IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 7, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 51-59.
• J. Chen, K. Sivalingam, P. Agrawal, "Performance Comparison of Battery Power Consumption in Wireless Multiple Access Protocols," Wireless Networks, no. 5, 1999, pp. 445-460.
• K. Farkas, J. Flinn, G. Back, D. Grunwald, J. Anderson, "Quantifying the Energy Consumption of a Pocket Computer and a Java Virtual Machine," Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2000, June 2000.
• E. Amir, S. McCanne, R. Katz, "An Active Services Framework and Its Application to Real-Time Multimedia Transcoding," ACM SIGCOMM 1998, pp. 178-189.
• J. Moura, R. Jasinchi, H. Shiojiri, C. Lin, "Video Over Wireless," IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 3, no. 1, February 1996.
• C. Kantarjiev, A. Demers, R. Frederick, R. Krivacic, M. Weiser, "Experiences With X in a Wireless Environment," Proceedings of the USENIX Mobile and Location-Independent Computing Symposium, 1993, pp. 117-128
• W. Heinzelman , J. Kulik , H. Balakrishnan, "Adaptive protocols for information dissemination in wireless sensor networks," MobiCom 1999, pp. 174-185.
• Woo, D. Culler, "A transmission control scheme for media access in sensor networks," MobiCom 2001, pp. 221 - 235.
• E. Shih , S. Cho , N. Ickes , R. Min , A. Sinha , A. Wang , A. Crhandrakasan, "Physical layer driven protocol and algorithm design for energy-efficient wireless sensor networks," MobiCom 2001, pp. 272 - 287.
• Savvides , C. Han , M. Strivastava, "Dynamic fine-grained localization in Ad-Hoc networks of sensors," MobiCom 2001, pp. 166 - 179.
• S. Meguerdichian , F. Kousrhanfar , G. Qu , M. Potkonjak, "Exposure in wireless Ad-Hoc sensor networks," MobiCom pp. 139 - 150.
• V. Tsiatsis , S. Zimbeck , M. Srivastava, "Architecture strategies for energy-efficient packet forwarding in wireless sensor networks," Proceedings of the 2001 international symposium on Low power electronics and design, pp. 92-95.
• Embedded operating systems: Linux, MMlite, Inferno, Wind River Systems, Epoc.

Synchronous Collaboration

• Multi-Device Collaboration
• Myers, B.A., H. Stiel, and R. Gargiulo. Collaboration Using Multiple PDAs Connected to a PC. in Procedings of ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 1998 . 
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• R. Han, V. Perret, M. Naghshineh, "WebSplitter: A Unified XML Framework For Multi-Device Collaborative Web Browsing,"  ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2000, pp.221-230.
• Tandler. P, "Software Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Environment: Supporting Synchronous Collaboration with Heterogeneous Devices", Proc Ubicomp 2001, 96-115.
• Adaptive Architecture
• Chung, G. and P. Dewan. A Mecrhanism for Supporting Client Migration in a Shared Window System. in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on User Interface Software and Technology. October 1996.
• Little, R. and A. Prakash. Developing Adaptive Groupware Applications Using a Mobile Component Framework. in Procedings of ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 2000.
• Chung, G. and P. Dewan. Flexible Support for Application-Sharing Architecture. in Proc. European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 2001. Bonn.