Pervasive Computing Reading List

Basic Readings

• M. Weiser, "Some computer science issues in ubiquitous computing." Communications of the ACM, July 1993. Pages 75-84.
• M. Weiser, "The computer for the twenty-first century." Scientific American, September 1991. Pages 66-.
  
  
• M. Satyanarayanan, "Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges." IEEE Personal Communications , August 2001.
• Guruduth Banavar, James Beck, Eugene Gluzberg, Jonathan Munson, Jeremy Sussman, Deborra Zukowski. Challenges: an application model for pervasive computing Proc. 6th ACM MOBICOM , Boston, MA, August 2000.
• Keith Edwards and Rebecca Grinter. At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges , Ubiquitous Computing 2001 , Atlanta, GA, September 2001.
• Roy Want, Bill N. Schilit, Norman I. Adams, Rich Gold, Karin Petersen, David Goldberg, John R. Ellis and Mark Weiser. The ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment
• Gregory D. Abowd. Software Engineering Issues for Ubiquitous Computing

Mobile Computing

• C. Perkins, "Mobile networking through Mobile IP." IEEE internet computing, January 1998. Pages 58-69.
• Alex C. Snoeren and Hari Balakrishnan An End-to-End Approach to Host Mobility Proc. 6th ACM MOBICOM , Boston, MA, August 2000.
• Noble, Brian System Support for Mobile, Adaptive Applications IEEE Personal Communications , Vol. 7, No. 1, February, 2000
• Anthony D. Joseph, Joshua A. Tauber, and M. Frans Kaashoek. Mobile Computing with the Rover Toolkit , IEEE Transactions on Computers: Special issue on Mobile Computing , 46(3). March 1997.
• H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan and R. Katz, "A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links." IEEE/ACM transactions on networking, December 1997.
• Steven D. Gribble, Matt Welsh, Rob von Behren, Eric A. Brewer, David Culler, N. Borisov, S. Czerwinski, R. Gummadi, J. Hill, A. Joseph, R.H. Katz, The Ninja Architecture for Robust Internet-Scale Systems and Services , Computer Networks , Volume 35, Issue 4, March 2001.
• William Adjie-Winoto, Elliot Schwartz, Hari Balakrishnan, and Jeremy Lilley. The design and implementation of an intentional naming system Proc. 17th ACM SOSP , Kiawah Island, SC, December 1999.

Syncronization of Distributed Data

• James J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan, "Disconnected operation in the coda file system." Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on operating systems principles, October 13-16, 1991, Pacific Grove, California. Pages 213-225.
• L. B. Mummert, M. R. Ebling and M. Satyanarayanan, "Exploiting weak connectivity for mobile file access." Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on operating systems principles, December 3-6, 1995, Copper Mountain, Colorado. Pages 143-155.

Location Awareness

• Paul Castro, Patrick Chiu, Ted Kremenek, and Richard Muntz A Probabilistic Location Service for Wireless Network Environments , Ubiquitous Computing 2001 , Atlanta, GA, September 2001.
• Hightower, J.; Borriello, G. Location systems for ubiquitous computing IEEE Computer August, 2001.
• Priyantha, N., Chakraborty, A., Balakrishnan, H. The Cricket Location Support System. I Sixth Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking , Boston, MA, August 2000.

Smart Spaces / Wireless Sensors

• J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz and K. S. J. Pister, Mobile Networking for Smart Dust , ACM/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 99), Seattle, WA, August 17-19, 1999.
• Wendi Heinzelman, Joanna Kulik, and Hari Balakrishnan. Adaptive Protocols for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks . Proc. 5th ACM/IEEE MobiCom , Seattle, WA, August 1999.
• Shankar R. Ponnekanti, Brian Lee, Armando Fox, Pat Hanrahan, and Terry Winograd ICrafter: A Service Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments Ubiquitous Computing 2001 , Atlanta, GA, September 2001.
• W. Mark. Turning pervasive computing into mediated spaces IBM Systems Journal , Vol 38, No. 4. 1999.
• Reto Hermann, Dirk Husemann, Michael Moser, Michael Nidd, Christian Rohner, and Andreas Schade (IBM Zurich Research Lab), DEAPspace -- Transient Ad-hoc Networking of Pervasive Devices, MobiHoc 2000 .

Devices

• K. F. Eustice, T. J. Lehman, A. Morales et. al. A universal information appliance . IBM Systems Journal , Vol 38, No. 4. 1999.

Conferences/Publications

• IEEE Pervasive Computing . New publication from 2002.
• UbiComp 2002

Previous Issues

• UbiComp 2001
• IEEE Personal Communications, Aug 2001 issue . Focussed on Pervasive Computing.
• IBM Systems Journal - Pervasive Computing Issue. . Vol 38. No 4. 1999.
• Computer Networks Volume 35, Issue 4, March 2001 - special issue on Pervasive Computing.

Interesting Projects Around

• Project Aura Distraction-free Ubiquitous Computing, CMU.
• MIT Project Oxygen
• Portolano , University of Washington.
• Endeavour , UC Berkeley.

Sachin Goyal