CPE556 Computing Principles for Embedded Systems
Fall 2008

The objective of this course is to introduce students to understand applied computing principles in emerging technologies and applications for embedded systems. This course will focus on emerging computing paradigms in the areas of context-aware pervasive systems, spatio-temporal access control with distributed software agents, vehicular computing, information systems cryptography, trust and privacy in mobile environments, location-aware services, RFID systems, wireless medical networks, and urban sensing. The students will be proficient with computing methods by studying the programming aspects in sensor networks and learn how to program with sensor nodes.

Some knowledge of C programming

• Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing by Frank Adelstein, Sandeep K.S. Gupta, Golden G. Richard III, and Loren Schwiebert, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005, ISBN-10:0071412379, ISBN-13: 978-0071412377.
• Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: Architectures for a New Breed of Applications by Seng Loke, Publisher: AUERBACH, 1st edition (December 7, 2006), ISBN-10: 0849372550, ISBN-13: 978-0849372551.

• Principles of real-time embedded systems
• Wireless sensor networks and urban sensing applications
• Wireless localization and location-based services (LBS)
• Methodology of distributed systems and access control computing paradigm
• Vehicular computing
• Computer and network security
• Privacy techniques
• RFID systems
• Wireless medical networks

• Presentation: (30%) Each student is expected to present 2 papers and lead the discussion.
• Project: (25%) A team (2 students) project involves sensor network programming.
• Midterm: (20%) Each student needs to write a term paper as the midterm exam.
• Active Class Participation: (15%) Each student needs to actively participate in asking questions and involve in the class discussion.
• Final Exam: (10%) Team project presentation.

Students are expected to attend all classes and perform all reading assignments. Students will be evaluated according to their performance on class attendance, presentation, project, midterm and final exam.

• Maruti Gupta, Suresh Singh, Greening of the Internet, in Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2003.
  Presenter: Xiuyuan Zheng
  Slides

• J.C. Haartsen, The Bluetooth Radio System, IEEE Personal Communications 7(1), February, 2000.
  Presenter: Yingying Chen
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• J. Hightower, G. Boriel lo, Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing, IEEE Computer 33(8), August, 2001 .
  Presenter: Jie Yang
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• Anhalt, J., Smailagic, A., Sie wiorek, D., Gemperle, F., Salber, D., Weber, S., Beck, J., Jennings, J., Toward Context-Aware Computing: Experiences and Lessons, IEEE Intelligent Systems 16(3) , May/June, 2001.
  Presenter: Stephen D. DeLuca
  Slides

• Priyantha, N.B., Miu, A.K.L., Balak rishnan, H., Teller, S. The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Application s. In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Compu ting and Networking (MobiCom). Rome, Italy, July, 2001.
  Presenter: Yanzhi Ren
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• Estrin, D., Culler, D., Pister, K., Sukhatme, G. Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks. IEEE Pervasive Computing 1(1), January-March, 2002.
  Presenter: Hongbo Liu
  Slides

• Lorincz, K., Malan, D.J., Fulford-Jones, T.R.F., Nawoj, A., Clavel, A., Shnayder, V., Mainland, G., Welsh, M., Moulton, S, Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities. IEEE Pervasive Computing 3(4), October-December, 2004.
  Presenter: Schilan Costa
  Slides

• Chen, S., Zhang, Y., and Trappe, W. 2006. Inverting sensor networks and actuating the environment for spatio-temp oral access control. In Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN), October, 2006.
  Presenter: Srisakthi Manohar
  Slides

• M. Jakobsson and S. Wetzel. Security weaknesses in bluetooth. In Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2001, volume 2020, pages 176 -191, San Francisco, April 2001. Springer.
  Presenter: Kittimasak Nilphong-umpai
  

• Li, Z., Trappe, W. , Zhang, Y., and Nath, B. 2005. Robust statistical methods for securing wireless localization in sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 4th international Sympos ium on information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) (Los Angeles, California , April 24 - 27, 2005).
  Presenter: Leila Saadawi

• Xu, W., Trappe, W., Zhang, Y., and Wood, T. 2005. "The feasibility of launching and detecting jamming attacks in wireless networks." In Proceedings of the 6th ACM international Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, May 25 - 27, 2005). MobiHoc '05. ACM, New York, NY, 46-57.
  Presenter: Hongbo Liu

• Yingying Chen, Wade Trappe, Rich ard P. Martin, "Detecting and Localizing Wireless Spoofing Attacks," in Proceedi ngs of the Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007), San Diego, CA, USA, May 200 7.
  Presenter: Jie Yang

• Baik Hoh, Marco Gruteser, Hui Xiong, Ansaf Alrabady, Preserving Privacy in GPS Traces via Uncertainty-Aware Path Clo aking., ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007.
  Presenter: Xiuyuan Zheng

• Myles, G., Friday, A., Davies, N. Pr eserving Privacy in Environments with Location-Based Applications. IEEE Pervasiv e Computing 2(1), January-March, 2003.
  Presenter: Stephen D. DeLuca

• Baik Hoh, Marco Gruteser, Ryan Her ring, Jeff Ban, Dan Work, Juan-Carlos Herrera, Alexandre Bayen, Murali Annavaram , Quinn Jacobson. .Virtual Trip Lines for Distributed Privacy-Preserving Traffic Monitoring.. ACM Mobisys, 2008.
  Presenter: Yanzhi Ren

• P. Papadimitratos, V. G ligor, and J.-P. Hubaux. "Securing Vehicular Communications - Assumptions, Requi rements, and Principles," In Proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded Security in Cars (ESCAR) 2006, November 2006.
  Presenter: Schilan Costa, Srisakhi Manohar

• Ari Juels, "RFID Security and Privacy: A Research Survey". Journal of Selected Areas in Communication (J-S AC), 24(2):381-395, February 2006.
  Presenter: Leila Saadawi

• David Jea, Rahul Balani, Ju- Lan Hsu, Dae-Ki Cho, Mario Gerla, Man Srivastava, Diagnostic Quality Driven Phys iological Data Collection for Personal Healthcare, 30th Annual International Con ference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver Conve ntion & Exhibition Centre Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  Presenter: Kittimasak Nilphong-umpai