Kamin Whitehouse :: Publications



Research Publications Misc
Conferences,
Workshops,
and Journals

Shan Lin, Gang Zhou, Kamin Whitehouse, Yafeng Wu, John A. Stankovic, and Tian He. Towards Stable Network Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks. In the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2009). Washington, DC, 2009.
(21% acceptance rate)

Tamim Sookoor, Timothy Hnat, Pieter Hooimeijer, Westley Weimer, and Kamin Whitehouse. Macrodebugging: Global Views of Distributed Program Execution. The 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009).  Berkeley, CA, Nov. 2009.
(17.6% acceptance rate)

Nithya Ramanathan, Tom Schoellhammer, Eddie Kohler, Kamin Whitehouse, Thomas Harmon, and Deborah Estrin. Suelo: Human-assisted Sensing for Exploratory Soil Monitoring Studies. The 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009).  Berkeley, CA, Nov. 2009.
(17.6% acceptance rate)

Ge Gao and Kamin Whitehouse. The Self-Programming Thermostat: Optimizing Setback Schedules based on Home Occupancy Patterns. First ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys '09), held in conjunction with ACM SenSys. Berkeley, CA, Nov. 2009.

Jiakang Lu, and Kamin Whitehouse. Flash Flooding: Exploiting the Capture Effect for Rapid Flooding in Wireless Sensor Networks. The 28th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2009).  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2009.
(19.6% acceptance rate)

Timothy Hnat, Tamim Sookoor, Pieter Hooimeijer, Westley Weimer, and Kamin Whitehouse "MacroLab: A Vector-based Macroprogramming Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems". . The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008).  Raleigh, NC, Nov. 2008.
(16% acceptance rate) (pdf)

Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, Kamin Whitehouse, and Liqian Luo. Declarative Tracepoints: A Programmable and Application Independent Debugging System for Wireless Sensor Networks. The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008).  Raleigh, NC, Nov. 2008.
(16% acceptance rate)

Vijay Srinivasan, John A. Stankovic and Kamin Whitehouse. Protecting Your Daily In-home Activity Information from a Wireless Snooping Attack. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). Seoul, Korea, September 2008.
(19% acceptance rate)

Jingbin Zhang, Gang Zhou, Sang H. Son, John A. Stankovic and Kamin Whitehouse. Performance Analysis of Group Based Detection for Sparse Sensor Networks. The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). Beijing, China, June 2008.
(16% acceptance rate)

Robert Dickerson, Jiakang Lu, Jian Lu, and Kamin Whitehouse. Stream Feeds - An Abstraction for the World Wide Sensor Web. Conference on the Internet of Things (IOT). Zurich, Switzerland, March 2008.
(25% acceptance rate)

Jing Yang, M.L. Soffa, L. Selavo, and K. Whitehouse. Clairvoyant: A Comprehensive Source-Level Debugger for Wireless Sensor Networks. The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys). Sydney, Australia, November 2007.
(17% acceptance rate) (PPT)

Kamin Whitehouse, Chris Karlof, David Culler. "A Practical Evaluation of Radio Signal Strength for Ranging-based Localization".  ACM Journal on Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), Special Issue on Localization Technologies and Algorithms. 2007.

"Instrumenting Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-time Surveillance" Phoebus Chen, Songhwai Oh, Michael Manzo, Bruno Sinopoli, Cory Sharp, Kamin Whitehouse, Gilman Tolle, Jaein Jeong, Prabal Dutta, Jonathan Hui, Shawn Shaffert, Sukun Kim, Jay Taneja, Bonnie Zhu, Tanya Roosta, Mike Howard, David Culler, Shankar Sastry. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '06), May 15-19, 2006, Orlando, FL.

Kamin Whitehouse, David Culler. "A Robustness Analysis of Multi-hop Ranging-based Localization Approximations".  The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '06).  Nashville, TN, April 19-21, 2006.
(25% acceptance rate)

Kamin Whitehouse, Gilman Tolle, Jay Taneja, Cory Sharp, Sukun Kim, Jaein Jeong, Jonathan Hui, Prabal Dutta, and David Culler. "Marionette: Using RPC for Interactive Development and Debugging of Wireless Embedded Networks".  The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: Special Track on Sensor Platform, Tools, and Design Methods for Network Embedded Systems (IPSN/SPOTS '06).  Nashville, TN, April 21, 2006.
(25% acceptance rate) (ppt)

Prabal Dutta, Jonathan Hui, Jaein Jeong, Sukun Kim, Cory Sharp, Jay Taneja, Gilman Tolle, Kamin Whitehouse, and David Culler. "Trio: Enabling Sustainable and Scalable Outdoor Wireless Sensor Network Deployments".  The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: Special Track on Sensor Platform, Tools, and Design Methods for Network Embedded Systems (IPSN/SPOTS '06).  Nashville, TN, April 21, 2006.
(25% acceptance rate)

Kamin Whitehouse, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao."Semantic Streams: a Framework for Composable Inference over Sensor Data". The Third European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Zurich, Switzerland. February 13-15, 2006.
(16% acceptance rate) (ppt)

Kamin Whitehouse, Alec Woo, Fred Jiang, Joseph Polastre, David Culler.  "Exploiting the Capture Effect for Collision Detection and Recovery."  The Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II).  Sydney, Australia. May 30-31, 2005. (ppt)

Kamin Whitehouse, Chris Karlof, Alec Woo, Fred Jiang, David Culler.  "The Effects of Ranging Noise on Multihop Localization: an Empirical Study"  The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '05).  Los Angeles, California. April 25-27, 2005.
(21% acceptance rate) (ppt)

Kamin Whitehouse, Cory Sharp, Eric Brewer, David Culler.  "Hood: a Neighborhood Abstraction for Sensor Networks."  In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '04).  Boston, MA, June, 2004.  ACM Press.
(14% acceptance rate) (ppt)

Kamin Whitehouse, David Culler.  "Macro-calibration in Sensor/Actuator Networks."  ACM Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks.  June, 2003.  ACM Press.  

Kamin Whitehouse, David Culler.  "Calibration as Parameter Estimation in Sensor Networks."  In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA'02).  Atlanta, Georgia, September 28, 2002.  ACM Press.  
(25% acceptance rate) (ppt)

Michael Tadross, Kamin Whitehouse, Melissa Hornstein, Vicky Eng, Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou.  "A Three-Dimensional Physiologically Realistic Model of the Retina."  In Proceedings of The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'00),   Como, Italy, July 2000.   IEEE Press. 

Suzanne Stevenson, Paola Merlo, Natalia Karieava, Kamin Whitehouse.  "Supervised Learning of Lexical Semantic Verb Classes Using Frequency Distributions."  In Proceedings of ACL SigLex '99,   College Park, Maryland, June 1999. 

Book Chapters

"TinyOS: An Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks" , Philip Levis, Sam Madden, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Kamin Whitehouse, Alec Woo, David Gay, Jason Hill, Matt Welsh, Eric Brewer, and David Culler. Ambient Intelligence. W. Weber, J. Rabaey, and E. Aarts (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2004.

Posters and Demos

Timothy W. Hnat, Tamim I. Sookoor, and Kamin Whitehouse, "Demo Abstract: Macrodebugging with MDB".  The 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009).  Berkeley, CA, Nov. 2009.

Jiakang Lu, and Kamin Whitehouse. "Poster Abstract: Exploiting the capture effect for low-latency flooding in wireless sensor networks". The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys).  Raleigh, NC, Nov. 2008.

Tamim I. Sookoor, Timothy W. Hnat, and Kamin Whitehouse. Demo Abstract: Programming Cyber-Physical Systems with MacroLab . The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008).  Raleigh, NC, Nov. 2008.

Robert F. Dickerson, Jiakang Lu, Jingyuan Li, Billy Chantree, Jian Lu, John A. Stankovic, Kamin Whitehouse. MetroNet: Case Study for Collaborative Data Sharing on the World Wide Web. The Seventh International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2007 (IPSN '07).

"Automatic Programming with Semantic Streams", Kamin Whitehouse, Feng Zhao, Jie Liu. The 3rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '05), November 2-4 2005. ppt

"Maintaining High-bandwidth Communication Between Mobile Groups of Nodes", Kamin Whitehouse, Ying Zhang, Markus Fromherz. NEST Retreat, January 2004. ppt

Patents Under Submission

Kamin Whitehouse, Feng Zhao, and Jie Liu.  "Automatic Composition of Services in Response to Declarative Queries of Sensor Networks."  Submitted July 2005. 

Theses

Kamin Whitehouse.  "The Design of Calamari: an Ad-hoc Localization System for Sensor Networks."  Master's Thesis, University of California at Berkeley,   2002. 

Kamin Whitehouse.  "Understanding the Prediction Gap in Multi-hop Localization."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley,   2006. 

Tech Reports

Kamin Whitehouse, Fred Jiang, Alec Woo, Chris Karlof, David Culler.  "Sensor Field Localization: a deployment and empirical analysis."  UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-04-1349,   April 9, 2004.



Kamin Whitehouse
Computer Science Department
The University of Virginia
217 Olsson Hall
Charlottesville, Virginia 94720