Project proposal example

• Template mini-project proposal.
• Template mini-project proposal source.
• Template mini-project proposal bibtex database.

Publications from related previous courses, or publications with topics and scopes appropriate for IDES

A number of projects started in previous offerings of the course have later been published in research conferences and journals. I collaborated on each of these so I understand the work and can help with the infrastructure.

• L. Zhang, M. S. Gordon, R. P. Dick, Z. M. Mao, P. Dinda, and L. Yang, “ADEL: An Automatic Detector of Energy Leaks for Smartphone Applications,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, Oct. 2012. Notes: Data-flow taint tracking based technique to detect energy wasting network communication.
• X. He, R. P. Dick, and R. Joseph, “Spatially- and Temporally-Adaptive Communication Protocols for Zero-Maintenance Sensor Networks Relying on Opportunistic Energy Scavenging,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, Oct. 2012. Notes: Describes system design and communication techniques for battery-less energy scavenging distributed sensing systems.
• Y. Jiang, X. Pan, K. Li, Q. Lv, R. P. Dick, M. Hannigan, and L. Shang, “ARIEL: Automatic Wi-Fi based Room Fingerprinting for Indoor Localization,” in Proc. Int. Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, Sept. 2012. 19.3% acceptance rate for conference. Notes: Automatic room fingerprinting and classification technique for indoor localization.
• Y. Xiang, L. S. Bai, R. Piedrahita, R. P. Dick, Q. Lv, M. P. Hannigan, and L. Shang, “Collaborative calibration and sensor placement for mobile sensor networks,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Apr. 2012, pp. 73–84. 15% acceptance rate for conference. Notes: Technique to allow automatic calibration among mobile sensors with drifting measurement errors.
• Y. Jiang, K. Li, L. Tian, R. Piedrahita, Y. Xiang, O. Mansata, Q. Lv, R. P. Dick, M. Hannigan, and L. Shang, “MAQS: a personalized mobile sensing system for indoor air quality monitoring,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Ubiquitous Computing, Sept. 2011, pp. 271–280. 16% acceptance rate for conference. Notes: Mobile, personal air quality monitoring networked embedded system.
• D. R. Bild, Y. Liu, R. P. Dick, Z. M. Mao, and D. Wallach, “Using predictable mobility patterns to support scalable and secure MANETs of handheld devices,” in Proc. Int. Wkshp. on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture, June 2011, pp. 13–18. Notes: Regularity in human motion can be used to simplify routing and location services in ad hoc wireless networks.
• L. Bai, R. P. Dick, P. Chou, and P. A. Dinda, “Automated construction of fast and accurate system-level models for wireless sensor networks,” in Proc. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conf., Mar. 2011, pp. 1083–1088. 24% acceptance rate for conference. Notes: Technique to use low-level wireless network simulators to build models capturing the relationship between system-level design parameters and system-level quality metrics, such as network lifespan.
• L. Bai, R. P. Dick, P. A. Dinda, and P. Chou, “Simplified programming of faulty sensor networks via code transformation and run-time interval computation,” in Proc. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conf., Mar. 2011, pp. 88–93. 24% acceptance rate for conference. Notes: Compiler and run-time system make it easy for wireless sensor network users to see high-level impact of component faults without needing to explicitly consider each fault.
• L. Yang, R. P. Dick, H. Lekatsas, and S. Chakradhar, “High-performance operating system controlled on-line memory compression,” in ACM Trans. Embedded Computing Systems, to appear. Notes: New compression algorithm doubles usable embedded system memory without hardware or application changes and with negligible performance and power overhead. NEC uses this technology in their cellphones.
• S. Yazji, X. Chen, R. P. Dick, and P. Scheuermann, “Implicit user re-authentication for mobile devices,” in Proc. Int. Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Jul. 2009.
• L. Bai, H. Lekatsas, and R. P. Dick, “Adaptive filesystem compression for embedded systems,” in Proc. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conf., Mar. 2008. Notes: Technique to increase usable storage on embedded systems. Improves performance by 67% compared to currently-used technique: uniform compression. 24% acceptance rate for conference.
• S. Kim, R. P. Dick, and R. Joseph, “Power Deregulation: Eliminating Off-Chip Voltage Regulation Circuitry From Embedded Systems,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, pp. 105–110, Oct. 2007. Notes: Technique to eliminate power regulation hardware from embedded chip multiprocessors.
• S. Jevtic, M. Kotowsky, R. P. Dick, P. A. Dinda, and C. Dowding, “Lucid Dreaming: Reliable Analog Event Detection for Energy-Constrained Applications,” in Proc. Int. Symp. Information Processing in Sensor Networks, pp. 350–359, Apr. 2007. Notes: Ultra-low-power event detection sensor interface technology permits 250× reduction in power consumption for event-driven applications such as structural integrity monitoring of buildings and bridges.
• D. Zaretsky, G. Mittal, R. P. Dick, and P. Banerjee, “Balanced Scheduling and Operation Chaining in High-Level Synthesis for FPGA Designs,” in Proc. Int. Symp. Quality Electronic Design, pp. 595–601, March 2007. Notes: Techniques to reduce critical timing paths during FPGA synthesis.
• A.-H. Liu and R. P. Dick, “Automatic Run-Time Extraction of Communication Graphs From Multithreaded Applications,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, pp. 46–51, Oct. 2006. Notes: Simulator module dynamically determines communication patterns of arbitrary multi-threaded Linux applications for use in embedded system synthesis.

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