Readings

Overview

• M. Weiser, J. S. Brown, The Coming Age of  Calm Technology, (1996). [links]
• D. Estrin, R. Govindan, J. Heidemann, S. Kumar, Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks, ACM Mobicom Conference, Seattle, WA, (August 1999). (or as Architecture)
• J. Kahn, R. H. Katz, K. Pister, Next Century Challenges: Mobile Networking for 'Smart Dust', ACM MOBICOM Conference, Seattle, WA, (August 1999).

Technology

MEMS

GPS

• GPS Tutorials: UTexas, Trimble Navigation

Low Power

• John Kymisis, Clyde Kendall, Joseph Paradiso, and Neil Gershenfeld, "Parasitic Power Harvesting in Shoes," Second IEEE International Conference on Wearable Computing (ISWC), Pittsburgh, PA, (October 1998). (Pdf)(Overview HTML)

Mobile Devices

• Intel Mobile Computing Web Page

Applications

• Java Car
• W. Mark, Turning Pervasive Computing into Mediated Spaces, IBM Systems Journal, Vol 38, No. 4, Pervasive Computing Special Issue, 1999.
• G. Abowd, Classroom 2000: An Experiment with the Instrumentation of a Living Educational Environment, IBM Systems Journal, Vol 38, No. 4, Pervasive Computing Special Issue, 1999.
• J. C. Spohrer, Information in Places, IBM Systems Journal, Vol 38, No. 4, Pervasive Computing Special Issue, 1999.

Badge Location Systems

• Roy Want, Andy Hopper, Veronica Falcao, Jonathon Gibbons, "The Active Badge Location System," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, (January 1992), pp. 91-102. (Pdf)(Compressed Postscript)
• Roy Want, Andy Hopper, "Active Badges and Personal Interactive Computing Objects," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 38, No. 1, (February 1992), pp. 10-20. (Compressed Postscript)
• Andy Ward, Alan Jones, Andy Hopper, "A New Location Technique for the Active Office," IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 4, No. 5, (October 1997), pp. 42-47. (Pdf)(Compressed Postscript)

Services-Enabled New Internet

• Vitria: http://www.vitria.com/home/about.html
• Tibco: http://www.tibco.com/products/index.html
• BEA Systems: http://www.bea.com/products/ecommerce_wp.html

System Architecture

Mobile Networking

• Mobile IP Tutorial: Charles E. Perkins, Mobile Networking Through Mobile IP IEEE Internet Computing, January 1998
• MosquitoNet: Mary Baker, Xinhua Zhao, Stuart Cheshire, Jonathan Stone, "Supporting Mobility in MosquitoNet.", Proceedings of the 1996 USENIX Conference, San Diego, CA, January 1996.

Protocols for Discovery (Lookup)

• LDAP: "The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: X.500 Lite", Timothy A. Howes, July 27, 1995, CITI Technical Report 95-8
  -- This paper gives a good overview of the X.500 model, and then describes the LDAP model and rationale in detail.
• IETF Service Lookup Protocol (SLP): read  http://playground.sun.com/srvloc/slp_white_paper.html  background: http://www.svrloc.org/
• Jini Lookup: read  Lookup service spec at http://www.sun.com/jini/specs/     background: http://www.jini.org/

Coordination

• Di Caro G. and M. Dorigo (1998). Mobile Agents for Adaptive Routing. Proceedings of the 31st Hawaii International Conference on

     System, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 74-83.
• Dorigo M., V. Maniezzo & A. Colorni (1996). The Ant System: Optimization by a Colony of Cooperating Agents. IEEE

          Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B, 26(1):29-41

Naming Information Flows

Embedded Operating Systems

• pOSEK:    http://www.isi.com/products/posek/index.htm
• Neutrino:  http://support.qnx.com/support/docs/qnx_neutrino/sys_arch/kernel.html#id1
• uClinux:           http://www.uclinux.com/
• Wind River Systems VxWorks: http://www.wrs.com
• PSOS:           http://www.wrs.com/products/html/psosystem_ds.html
• QNX neutrino: http://www.qnx.com/products/os/neutrino.html
• QNX RTOS:   http://www.qnx.com/products/os/qnxrtos.html
• JMI C-executive:   http://www.mcb.net/jmi/cexec.html
• geos:             http://www.geoworks.com
• harmony:          http://wwwsel.iit.nrc.ca/projects/harmony/
• CREEM:          http://www.goofee.com/creem.htm  (Follow-on to TERSE by Barry Kauler)
• POSIX Realtime:      http://www.db.opengroup.org/sib.htm#ISO_9945-1-96
•        http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/ailab/links/embedded.html
•       http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~cdaly/embed/

Miscellaneous

• Server load balancing: http://www.alteonwebsystems.com/products/white_papers/SLB/index.shtml
• Denial of Service: http://www.arrowpoint.com/switch/technotes/Web_Site_Security.html

Network-Aware Applications

•  "On the Placement of Internet Instrumentation"  Sugih Jamin (University of Michigan), Cheng Jin (University of Michigan), Yixin Jin (University of California at Berkeley), Danny Raz (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Yuval Shavitt (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Lixia Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles)
•  "Heuristics for Internet Map Discovery"  Ramesh Govindan (USC/Information Sciences Institute), Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
•  "Collecting Network Status Information for Network-Aware Applications"  Nancy Miller (Carnegie Mellon University), Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University)