[SensorNetArch] SP Sensys Abstract and other info needed

[David Culler]

I like the title.  The abstract makes the right points.  It could be 
wordsmithed, but certainly serves the role of identifying interested 
reviewers.

I hope that other members of SNA will speak up and join in.  We also 
need people to take other aspects of the architecture and flesh them out 
before the workshop.

My other conflicts

Arvind, MIT
Matt Welsh, Harvard
Alec Woo, Microsoft
Deborah Estrin, UCLA
Larry Peterson, Princeton
Sam Madden, MIT
Joe Hellerstein, UCB
Gurav Sukhatme, USC
Mani Shrivastafa, UCLA
Hans Mulder, MIT
Phil Buonadonna, Intel

     *   Robert Szewczyk,  PhD Candidate,  Sensor Network Design for 
Long-Lived Applications
     * Phil Levis,               PhD Candidate, Programming Models for 
Sensor Networks
     * Kamin Whitehouse, PhD Candidate, Ad hoc localization and calibration
     * Joe Polastre,           PhD Candidate, Habitat Monitoring, 
Wireless Networks
     * Sukun Kim             PhD Candidate, Structures Monitoring
     * Gilman Tolle           PhD Candidate, Sensor Network Managment, 
Microclimate Modeling
     * Jonathan Hui           PhD Candidate
     * Prabal Dutta          PhD Candidate

Former Students

     * Alec Woo,             PhD 2004, Wireless Embedded Networkin, MSR
     * Frederick Wong,   PhD 2004  Message Passing on Configurable Hardware
     * Jason Hill               PhD 2003, Infrastructure Enabled Tiny 
Devices, JHL Labs
     * Matt Welsh,           PhD 8/02, Staged Event-Driven Architecture 
for Robust Internet Services, Harvard
     * Philip Buonadonna, PhD 2002 QP/IP, Intel Research
     * Brent Chun,           PhD 12/01, System Support for Computational 
Economies, Intel Research
     * Alan Mainwaring,  PhD 11/99, Virtual Networks, Intel Research
     * Richard Martin,     PhD 8/99  Performance Sensitivity, Asst. 
Prof. at Rutgers (Aug, 1999)
     * Andrea Dusseau,   Phd 11/98, Implicit Co-Scheduling, Asst. Prof 
at Wisconsin
     * Steven Lumetta,    PhD 11/98, Multi-Protocol Communication, Asst. 
Prof. at Univ. Ill, Urbana-Champaign
     * Seth Goldstein,      PhD, Lazy Threads, Asst. Prof. at CMU
     * Thorsten von Eicken, PhD Active Messages, Cornell Assoc. Prof, 
ExpertCity
     * Klaus Schauser      PhD, Compilation of Non-strict Languages, 
Assoc. Prof. UCSB, ExpertCity
     * Bruce Holmer         PhD, Automated Prolog Instruction Set 
Design, Northwestern



Joe Polastre wrote:

> Here's the current submission plan, hollar with corrections, changes,
> etc.  Title and abstract could probably be better than they are... 
> This is also the time to argue about author ordering and list; for
> those of you not currently on the author list, we can still use help
> writing the paper so let me know if you want to devote time over the
> next week to writing this thing....  I also need a list of everyone
> you think would be a conflict according to the following statement:
> 
> "List all persons in alphabetical order (including their current
> affiliations) who are currently, or who have been collaborators or
> co-authors in the past. This includes your advisor, students, and
> collaborators. Be sure to include PC members in that list of
> collaborators. Please list one person per line. This is used to avoid
> conflicts of interest when papers are assigned."
> 
> Current version of the paper is at:
> http://omega.cs.berkeley.edu/sensys05/
> 
> -Joe
> 
> Title: A Unifying Link Abstraction for Wireless Networks
> 
> Abstract:
> An explosion of link and network protocols have been proposed
> for wireless networks with varying assumptions about
> network stack composition. We suggest that wireless sensor
> networks require a unifying abstraction (or "narrow waist")
> at the link level, rather than at the network level as in IP,
> to facilitate integration of protocols into a complete system.
> We propose a unifying abstraction for wireless networks,
> SP, that provides mechanisms, such as a neighbor table and
> message pool, to share information between layers in a link-independent
> manner. Network protocols optimize their operation
> relative to SP. We implemented our SP proposal in
> TinyOS and abstracted B-MAC on mica2 and IEEE 802.15.4
> on Telos to SP.We built and analyzed collection routing, dissemination,
> and aggregation protocols above SP. Our results validate
> the feasibility of SP and show that network protocol performance
> using SP equals or exceeds their link-dependent implementations.
> We illustrate how other proposed protocols
> may be adapted to use SP and discuss how SP simplifies future
> protocol development.
> 
> Authors:
> Joseph Polastre, University of California, Berkeley
> Jonathan Hui, University of California, Berkeley
> Philip Levis, University of California, Berkeley
> Yang Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
> David Culler, University of California, Berkeley
> 
> Previous Co-authors/Conflicts:
> Alan Mainwaring
> Scott Shenker
> Ion Stoica
> Robert Szewczyk
> Kamin Whitehouse
> Alec Woo
> 
> Topics:
> Energy management 
> Operating systems
> Sensor network architecture and protocols
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