Kamin Whitehouse :: Publications



2013
Andrew Frye, Michel Goraczko, Jie Liu, Anindya Prodhan, and Kamin Whitehouse. Circulo: Saving Energy with Just-In-Time Hot Water Recirculation. To appear in The 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Building (BuildSys'13), help in conjunction with ACM SenSys. November 13-14, 2013. Rome, Italy.
Dezhi Hong, Jorge Ortiz, Kamin Whitehouse, David Culler. Towards Automatic Spatial Verification of Sensor Placement in Buildings. To appear in The 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Building (BuildSys'13), help in conjunction with ACM SenSys. November 13-14, 2013. Rome, Italy.
Luca Mottola, Kamin Whitehouse, Carlo Ghezzi. Poster Abstract: Towards Spatial Macroprogramming for Sensing and Actuating Robot Swarms. To appear in The 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'13). November 13-14, 2013. Rome, Italy.
Juhi Ranjan and Kamin Whitehouse. An RF Doormat for Tracking People's Room Locations". To appear in The 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'13). September 8-12, 2013. Zurich, Switzerland.
(18% acceptance rate)
Best Paper Runner Up
Vijay Srinivasan, Jack Stankovic, Kamin Whitehouse. FixtureFinder: Discovering the Existence of Electrical and Water Fixtures. To Appear in The 12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'13). April 8-11, 2013, Philadelphia, PA. (PPT)
(21% acceptance rate)
Tamim Sookoor and Kamin Whitehouse. RoomZoner: Occupancy-based Room-Level Zoning of a Centralized HVAC System. To Appear in The 4th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'13). April 8-11, 2013, Philadelphia, PA. (ppt)
(23% acceptance rate)
Dezhi Hong and Kamin Whitehouse. A Feasibility Study: Mining Daily GPS Traces for Home Heating Control. The 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Sensing (MS'13), co-located with CPS Week'13. April 8, 2013. Philadelphia, USA. (ppt)
Tamim Sookoor, Brian Holben and Kamin Whitehouse. Feasibility of Retrofitting Centralized HVAC Systems for Room-Level Zoning. To appear in Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing, Informatics and Systems, 2013.
Kamin Whitehouse. The Rise of the Intelligent Building. IQT Quarterly. Volume 4, Number 3. Pages 5-8. Winter 2013. (Invited Paper)

2012
Timothy Hnat, Erin Griffiths, Raymond Dawson, and Kamin Whitehouse. Doorjamb: Unobtrusive Room-level Tracking of People in Homes using Doorway Sensors. The 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing Systems (SenSys'12). November 7-9, 2012, Toronto, Canada.
(19% acceptance rate)
g Anindya Prodhan and Kamin Whitehouse. Hot Water DJ: Saving Energy by Pre-mixing Hot Water. To appear in the 4th ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys'12), help in conjunction with ACM SenSys. Toronto, Canada. November 6, 2012.
Virginia Smith, Tamim Sookoor, and Kamin Whitehouse. Modeling Building Thermal Response to HVAC Zoning. To appear in ACM SIGBED Review, Special Issue on Networks of Cooperating Objects. September, 2012.
Krasimira Kapitanova, Enamul Hoque, John A. Stankovic, Sang H. Son, and Kamin Whitehouse. Being SMART About Failures: Assessing Repairs in Smart Homes. The 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'12). September 5-8, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.
(19% acceptance rate)
Kamin Whitehouse, Juhi Ranjan, Jiakang Lu, Tamim Sookoor, Mehdi Saadat, Carrie Burke, Galen Staengle Canfora, and Hossein Haj-Hariri. Towards Occupancy-driven Heating and Cooling. To appear in IEEE Design & Test, Special Issue on Green Computing. Jul/Aug 2012.
Jiakang Lu and Kamin Whitehouse. Smart Blueprints: Automatically Generated Maps of Homes and the Devices Within Them. To appear in The 10th Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'12). June 18-22, 2012, Newcastle, UK. (ppt)
(20% acceptance rate)
Tamim Sookoor, Brian Holben and Kamin Whitehouse. Feasibility of Retrofitting Centralized HVAC Systems for Room-Level Zoning. The Third International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12). June 5-8, 2012 in San Jose, CA. (key, ppt)
Jiakang Lu and Kamin Whitehouse. SunCast: Fine-grained Prediction of Natural Sunlight Levels for Improved Daylight Harvesting. The 11th ACM Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'12). April 16-20, 2012, Beijing, China. (ppt)
(15% acceptance rate)
Ginger Smith, Tamim Sookoor, and Kamin Whitehouse. Modeling Building Thermal Response To HVAC Zoning. The Third International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET'12). Co-located with the CPS Week 2012. April 16th, 2012. Beijing, China. (key, ppt)
Jing Yang, Kevin Skadron, Mary Lou Soffa, and Kamin Whitehouse. Potential of Dynamic Binary Parallelizations. The 7th International Workshop on Unique Chips and Systems (UCAS'12). February 26, 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

2011
Timothy Hnat, Vijay Srinivasan, Jiakang Lu, Tamim Sookoor, Raymond Dawson, John Stankovic, Kamin Whitehouse. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Successful Residential Sensing Deployments. To appear in The 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing Systems (SenSys'11). November 2-4, 2011, Seattle, WA. (ppt)
(19.5% acceptance rate)
Vijay Srinivasan, John Stankovic and Kamin Whitehouse. WaterSense: Water Flow Disaggregation using Motion Sensors. The 3rd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys), held in conjunction with ACM SenSys. November 1, 2011, Seattle, WA. (ppt)
Benton H. Calhoun, John Lach, John Stankovic, David D. Wentzloff, Kamin Whitehouse, Adam T. Barth, Jonathan K. Brown, Qiang Li, Seunghyun Oh, Nathan E. Roberts, Yanqing Zhang. Body Sensor Networks: A Holistic Approach from Silicon to Users. To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE, 2011.
Hengchang Liu, Zhiheng Xie, Jingyuan Li, Kamin Whitehouse, and John Stankovic, Shan Lin, David Siu. Efficient and Reliable Breadcrumb Systems via Coordination among Multiple First Responders. The 22nd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'11). September 11-14, 2011. Toronto, Canada.
Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Sean James, Christian Belady, Jiakang Lu, Kamin Whitehouse. The Data Furnace: Heating Up with Cloud Computing. The 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud'11). Jun 14-15, 2011. Portland, OR.
Jing Yang, Kevin Skadron, Mary Lou Soffa, and Kamin Whitehouse. Feasibility of Dynamic Binary Parallelization. The 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar'11). May 26-27, 2011 Berkeley, CA.
Wei Le, Jing Yang, Mary Lou Soffa and Kamin Whitehouse. Lazy Preemption to Enable Path-Based Analysis of Interrupt-Driven Code. The 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications (SESENA), in conjunction with ACM/IEEE Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). May 22, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Krasimira Kapitanova, Enamul Hoque, Jingyuan Li, Daniele Alessandrelli, John Stankovic, Sang H Son, and Kamin Whitehouse. Repair Assessment of Sensor Node Failures for Activity Detection. The Second International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET 2011). April 11, Chicago, IL.

2010
Jiakang Lu, Tamim Sookoor, Vijay Srinivasan, Gao Ge, Brian Holben, John Stankovic, Eric Field, Kamin Whitehouse. The Smart Thermostat: Using Occupancy Sensors to Save Energy in Homes. The 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensing Systems (SenSys). November 3-5, 2010, Zurich, Switzerland. (ppt)
(17% acceptance rate)
Jiakang Lu, Dagnachew Birru, Kamin Whitehouse. Using Simple Light Sensors to Achieve Smart Daylight Harvesting. The 2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys), held in conjunction with ACM SenSys. November 2, 2010, Zurich, Switzerland.
Hengchang Liu, Jingyuan Li, Zhiheng Xie, Shan Lin, Kamin Whitehouse, John A. Stankovic, David Siu. Automatic and Robust Breadcrumb System Deployment for Indoor Firefighter Applications. The 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys). June 15-18, 2010, San Francisco, CA, USA.
(20% acceptance rate)
Timothy Hnat and Kamin Whitehouse. A Relaxed Synchronization Primitive for Macroprogramming Systems. The Seventh International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems. June 15 - 18, 2010, Kassel, Germany. (ppt)
(23% acceptance rate)
S. M. Shahriar Nirjon, John A. Stankovic and Kamin Whitehouse. IAA: Interference Aware Anticipatory Algorithm for Scheduling and Routing Periodic Real-time Streams in Wireless Sensor Networks. The Seventh International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems. June 15 - 18, 2010, Kassel, Germany.
(23% acceptance rate)
Jared Alexander, Matthew Bocknek, and Kamin Whitehouse. QueueTrak: Automated Line Length Detection using a Wireless Sensor Network. The Seventh International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems. June 15 - 18, 2010, Kassel, Germany.
(23% acceptance rate)
Hengchang Liu, Aravind Srinivasan, Kamin Whitehouse, and John A. Stankovic. M“elange: Supporting Heterogeneous QoS Requirements in Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks. The Seventh International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems. June 15 - 18, 2010, Kassel, Germany.
Timothy Hnat, Tamim Sookoor, Pieter Hooimeijer, Westley Weimer, and Kamin Whitehouse A Modular and Extensible Macroprogramming Compiler. Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications (SESENA), in conjunction with ACM/IEEE Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). May 2-8, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa. (ppt)
Michael Okola and Kamin Whitehouse Unit Testing for Wireless Sensor Networks. Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications (SESENA), in conjunction with ACM/IEEE Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). May 2-8, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
Yafeng Wu, Krasimira Kapitanova, Jingyuan Li, John A. Stankovic, Sang H. Son, and Kamin Whitehouse. Run Time Assurance of Application-level Requirements in Wireless Sensor Networks. The 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '10).  Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-16, 2010.
(18% acceptance rate)
Sirajum Munir, Shan Lin, Enamul Hoque, S. M. Shahriar Nirjon, John A. Stankovic, and Kamin Whitehouse. Addressing Burstiness for Reliable Communication and Latency Bound Generation in Wireless Sensor Networks. The 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '10).  Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-16, 2010.
(18% acceptance rate)
Michael Okola and Kamin Whitehouse. Automatically Exporting TinyOS Modules as Web Services. The First International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET). April 12th, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden.
Vijay Srinivasan, John Stankovic and Kamin Whitehouse. Using Height Sensors for Biometric Identification in Multi-resident Homes. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive). Helsinki, Finland, May 17-20, 2010.
(23% acceptance rate)

2009
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)
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.
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. (PPT)
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)

2008
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) (ppt or 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)
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.
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)

2007
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)
Robert F. Dickerson, Jiakang Lu, Jingyuan Li, Billy Chantree, Jian Lu, John A. Stankovic, Kamin Whitehouse. Demo Abstract: 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).
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.

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

2005
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)
"Poster Abstract: 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
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)

2004
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, 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.
"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.

2003
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.  

2002
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, 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)

2000
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. 

1999
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.