Structuring your Critical Reviews:
- Your review should contain:
- A brief summary of the paper (3-4 sentences). This should clearly identify the key insights (usually no more than 2) used in the paper.
- A (bulletized) summary of the salient points made in the paper.
- A critique of the limitations.
- A “broader perspective” section, which could include things like:
- your assessment of the importance of the paper.
- open issues not addressed in the paper.
- other areas in which the insights might apply.
- You need not write a review larger than a page.
- Please email me the review in PDF format.
- The review is due before class begins on the day of the corresponding presentation. Late reviews will be penalized.
Candidate Papers:
Here are some papers that would be good candidates for your paper presentations. The list below is by no means comprehensive — feel free to add/suggest papers you find interesting.
Physical Layer:
Backscatter Communication:
- Jang, et. al., Underwater Backscatter Networking, ACM SIGCOMM 2019.
- Peng, et. al., PLoRa: a passive long-range data network from ambient LoRa transmissions, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
- Iyer, et. al., Inter-Technology Backscatter: Towards Internet Connectivity for Implanted Devices, ACM SIGCOMM 2016.
- Zhang, et. al., Enabling Practical Backscatter Communication for On-body Sensors, ACM SIGCOMM 2016.
- Hu, et. al., Laissez-Faire: Fully Asymmetric Backscatter Communication, ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
- Bharadia, et. al., BackFi: High Throughput WiFi Backscatter, ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
- Kellogg, et. al., Wi-fi backscatter: Internet Connectivity for RF-powered Devices, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
- Parks, et. al., Turbocharging Ambient Backscatter Communication, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
- Liu et. al., Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air, ACM SIGCOMM 2013.
- Wang et. al., Efficient and Reliable Low-Power Backscatter Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2012.
Battery-free and Low-power:
- Ma, et. al., Drone Relays for Battery-free Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2017.
- Eletreby, et. al., Empowering Low-power Wide Area Networks in Urban Settings, ACM SIGCOMM 2017.
In-body communication:
- Vasisht, et. al., In-body Backscatter Communication and Localization, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
- Ma, et. al., Enabling deep-tissue networking for miniature medical devices, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
Full-duplex and MIMO:
- Hamed, et. al., Chorus: Truly Distributed Distributed-MIMO, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
- Hamed, et. al., Real-time Distributed MIMO Systems, ACM SIGCOMM 2016.
- Nikitopoulos, et. al., Geosphere: Consistently Turning MIMO Capacity Into Throughput, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
- Bharadia, et. al., Full Duplex Radios, ACM SIGCOMM 2013.
- Bharadia et. al., FastForward: fast and constructive full duplex relays, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
Managing Interference/Collisions:
- Abari, et. al., Caraoke: An E-Toll Transponder Network for Smart Cities, ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
- Gollakota, et. al., Clearing the RF Smog: Making 802.11 Robust to Cross-technology Interference, ACM SIGCOMM 2011.
- Gudipati, et. al., Strider: Automatic Rate Adaptation and Collision Handling, ACM SIGCOMM 2011.
- Gollakota, et. al., Interference Alignment and Cancellation, ACM SIGCOMM 2009.
- Gollakota, et. al., ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
- Mishra, et. al., Partially Overlapping Channel NOT Considered Harmful, Sigmetrics 2006.
Others:
- Mazaheri, et. al., A Millimeter Wave Network for Billions of Things, ACM SIGCOMM 2019.
- Tonolini, et. al., Networking across boundaries: enabling wireless communication through the water-air interface, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
- Hassanieh, et. al., Fast Millimeter Wave Beam Alignment, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
- Shen, et. al., MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
- Hu, et. al., Braidio: An Integrated Active-Passive Radio for Mobile Devices with Asymmetric Energy Budgets, ACM SIGCOMM 2016.
- Hamedazimi, et. al., Firefly: A Reconfigurable Wireless Data Center Fabric Using Free-space Optics, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
- Rahul, et. al., JMB: Scaling Wireless Capacity with User Demands, ACM SIGCOMM 2012.
- Zhou, et. al., Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling: Flexible Wireless Links for Data Centers, ACM SIGCOMM 2012.
- Liu, et. al., DIRC: Increasing Indoor Wireless Capacity Using Directional Antennas, ACM SIGCOMM 2009.
- Chandra, et. al., A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
- Rahul, et. al., Learning to Share: Narrowband-Friendly Wideband Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
- Balasubramanian, et. al., Interactive WiFi Connectivity For Moving Vehicles, ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
Localization:
- Vasisht, et. al., Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point, NSDI 2016.
- Kotaru, et. al., SpotFi: Decimeter Level Localization Using WiFi, ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
- Wang et. al., RF-IDraw: Virtual Touch Screen In the Air Using RF Signals, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
- Wang et. al., Dude, Where’s My Card? RFID Positioning That Works with Multipath and Non-line of Sight, ACM SIGCOMM 2013.
- Wang et. al., Ubiquitous keyboard for small mobile devices: harnessing multipath fading for fine-grained keystroke localization, MobiSys 2014.
- Cheng, et. al., Accuracy Characterization for Metropolitan-scale Wi-Fi Localization, MobiSys 2005.
- Azizyan, et. al., SurroundSense: Mobile Phone Localization Via Ambience Fingerpriting, Mobicom 2009.
- Constandache, et. al., Towards Mobile Phone Localization without War-Driving, Infocom 2010.
- Bahl, Padmanabhan, RADAR: An In-Building RF-Based User Location and Tracking System, INFOCOM 2000.
Wireless-based Sensors:
- Wu et. al., RF-based Inertial Measurement, ACM SIGCOMM 2019.
- Zhao, et. al., RF-based 3D Skeletons, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
- Adib et. al., See Through Walls with Wi-Fi!, ACM SIGCOMM 2013.
- Pu et. al., Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals, ACM MOBICOM 2013.
- Kumar, et. al., CarSpeak: A Content-Centric Network for Autonomous Driving, ACM SIGCOMM 2012.
Cellular Network Measurements/Coverage:
- Qazi, et. al., A High Performance Packet Core for Next Generation Cellular Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2017.
- Ali et. al., Expanding Rural Cellular Networks with Virtual Coverage, NSDI 2013.
- Tu et. al., Control-plane Protocol Interactions in Cellular Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
- Huang, et. al., An In-depth Study of LTE: Effect of Network Protocol and Application Behavior on Performance, ACM SIGCOMM 2013.
- Kumar, et. al., LTE Radio Analytics Made Easy and Accessible, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
Medium Access Control:
- Yenamandra, et. al., Vidyut: Exploiting Power Line Infrastructure for Enterprise Wireless Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
- Cidon, et. al., Flashback: Decoupled Lightweight Wireless Control, ACM SIGCOMM 2012.
- Sen, et. al., CSMA/CN: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Notification, MobiCom 2010.
- Manweiler, et. al., Order Matters: Transmission Reordering in Wireless Networks, MobiCom 2009.
Ad-hoc and Mesh Networks:
- Katti, et. al., Symbol-level Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
- Dutta, et. al., SMACK: A SMart ACKnowledgement Scheme for Broadcast Messages in Wireless Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2009.
- Biswas, Morris, ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-hop routing for Wireless Networks, Sigcomm 2005 (Best Paper Award).
- Karp, Kung, GPSR: Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks, Mobicom 2000.
Congestion Control and Transport Protocols:
- Li et. al., A measurement study on multi-path TCP with multiple cellular carriers on high speed rails, ACM SIGCOMM 2018.
- Zaki, et. al., Adaptive Congestion Control for Unpredictable Cellular Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2015.
Mobile Name Service:
- Sharma, et. al., A Global Name Service for a Highly Mobile Internetwork, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.