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JANUARY 2010N E W S L E T T E R

Started in 2008, the Spin Fundprogram has nanced up to nowour projects. Each o them led to a

start-up. New projects are expectedto receive MICS support.

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Proessor o Computer Science atthe University o Neuchtel, PascalFelber concentratres - among other

elds - on dependable and distrib-uted systems. Two o his activitiesinvolve him with the NCCR-MICS.

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A scientic cooperation projectshould help the population o a re-gion o Burkina Faso to better man-

age its natural resources (pictureabove - Olivier Couach, ThierryBertholet and Scott Tyler)

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The review o the phase 3 propos-

al took place in September o last year. The SNF panel emphasized

that MICS had been achieving ex-cellent results, but elt that it could

achieve its mission in phase 3 moreeciently by condensing the work

plan and ocusing on applicationsand technology transer.

Ater detailed discussions with theSNF, we decided to complete phase3 in 3 years, to simpliy the struc-ture o the center by eliminatingthe clusters and to restructure theresearch agenda in 6 larger proj-ects. It was also decided that theNCCR MICS will organize a big nalevent in 2012 to present the out-

come o the center activities to theinterested public.

As a result, we will have the ollow-ing projects in phase 3:

1. Envirnmental mnitringr scientic purpses

Head: Sabine SsstrunkParticipants: Christophe Ancey,

Pascal Fua, Marc Parlange, MartinVetterli

The environmental monitoringproject aims to develop new sens-

ing paradigms and methodologiesto understand and monitor envi-ronmental phenomena. Speci-cally, sediment transport and watercirculation in alpine settings will bestudied, which is essential to im-prove predictions o catastrophicevents.

Current measurement techniques,such as sediment trapping, are

quite rudimentary and not su-cient to gain real insight into waterow behavior. New optical sens-ing techniques, such as 3-D, stereo,and multi-spectral cameras will beused in conjunction with conven-tional hydrological measurementsto model water surace and sedi-ments, and to detect changes tonormal water and sediment ow.

The developed sensors and meth-odologies will be tested in numer-

ous eld experiments.

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2. Endtend sensr datamanagement

Head: Guillermo BarrenetxeaParticipants: Karl Aberer, Anastasia

Ailamaki, Hoyoung Jeung, MarcParlange, Patrick Thiran, Martin Vet-terli

The severity o potential global

warming and climate changes -and their consequences on the hu-man race as a whole - is a strikingexample o phenomena that callor careul study through environ-mental monitoring. The amounto environmental data is expo-nentially growing and it requires achange in the way environmentaldata is collected and managed. Tothis purpose, old instruments, like

standalone data loggers, are beinggradually replaced by state-o-the-art wireless sensor networks.

These networks are sel-organizedand very simple to use, even or acommunity with no expert knowl-edge in networking. They are alsohighly relevant to environmentalmonitoring, as they allow or bothreal-time (e.g., storms) and long-term (e.g., ice melting) monitoring

in areas o varying size with nespatial resolution.

To ully utilize these large amountso environmental data, it is also es-sential to provide a reliable datamanagement inrastructure. This in-rastructure should provide mecha-nisms to assess the quality o thedata, to share it among worldwidecollaborators, or to ensure its saety

and its durability.

The end-to-end sensor data man-agement project aims at develop-ing an end-to-end architecture to

MICS WILL CoMPLETE

PhASE 3 WIThIN ThREE YEARS


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collect, process, and store environ-mental data. Particularly, the twomain objectives are: To providethe scientic community with anecient and inexpensive out-o-the-box monitoring system basedon a WSN; To develop a data man-agement platorm or reliable long-term data storage, ecient data ac-cess, and support or data analysisand data provenance.

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3. PermaSense

Head: Jan BeutelParticipants: Stephan Gruber, Fri-edemann Mattern, Kay Rmer, Lo-thar Thiele, Christian Tschudin

The PermaSense project is investi-gating the stability o permarostin steep alpine rock walls. Basedon the activities in phase 2 wewill expand our activities makinguse o adaptive and higher delitysensors. To this extent, the exist-ing temperature and crack dilata-tion sensors will be augmented byhigh-resolution imaging and activeacoustic sensors.

Using distributed vibration sourcesand acoustic sensor arrays will al-low to characterize material param-eters and detect actual cracking

events deep inside the permarostrock walls. Together with our exist-ing measurements this will allowever more detailed modelling othe mountain crysophere. Coupledwith this efort are research ques-tions on the ecient and correctdesign o distributed networkedsensing systems where we are o-cussing on methods or observ-able sensor networks with the

goal to increase their reliability inlong-term usage.

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4. higtrugput UWB lcalisatin r mbile rbts

Head: Cyril BotteronParticipants: Catherine Dehollain,

Pierre-Andr Farine, John Farse-rotu, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Alche-rio Martinoli, Stephan Robert, AnjaSkrivervik

In this project, we propose to capi-talize on the research and know-how on Ultra Wide Band (UWB)technology as well as distributedmobile robotics acquired duringprevious MICS phases (both within

and outside MICS sponsored proj-ects).

The goal is to build a system thatallows a team o mobile robots to

locate themselves with high preci-sion (order o a ew centimeters),very requently (approximatelyonce per second) and securely, inorder to perorm collaborative ac-tions on a two dimensional work-ing area, such as distributed clean-ing, search, coverage, or mapping.Even though applications o local-ization systems are presumed to gowell beyond robotic applications,

a development platorm based onmobile robots has been selected,among others because it allows re-peatable measurements requiredor reliable perormance evalua-tions.

In addition to the above goal, theproject will also ocus on the devel-opment o low power implementa-tions o integrated circuits at theemitter level and localization algo-

rithms that merge the UWB-basedranging inormation with urthersensing and positioning signalsavailable on the robotic platorm.

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5. Security prtcls r wireless netwrs

Head: David BasinParticipants: Srdjan Capkun, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Serge Vaudenay

The aim o this project is to provide


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MICS with oundations, methods,and tools or securing wireless net-works as well as a collection o pro-tocols that have been proven cor-rect and implemented.

We will develop ecient designsand protocols or wireless envi-ronments, analyze their resistanceagainst attacks, and provide op-timized proo-o-concept imple-

mentations ready or industrial ap-plications.

This encompasses both the devel-opment o security protocols ando encryption and authenticationprimitives (including symmetricand public key based primitivesand hash unctions).

The protocols that we will study in-clude: secure neighborhood discov-

ery, secure positioning in all-wire-less networks, (location) privacy inwireless networking applications,and secure broadcast authentica-tion protocols. We will also developnew protocols or secure time syn-chronization, device identication,and anti-jamming communication.

We will urther develop here ap-propriate privacy models or RFID

protocols and the concept otwo-channel cryptography or re-source-bounded devices in orderto identiy necessary and sucientcryptographic primitives.

We will also develop techniques orormally analyzing protocols, i.e.,models and methods or veriyingor nding errors in security proto-cols or wireless networks. Thesemethods will either be integratedinto automated analysis tools likemodel-checkers or will orm thebasis o theories or interactive ver-ication using interactive theoremprovers.

Here we will build on previous workon the OFMC and Scyther model-checkers and theories or veriyingphysical security protocols in Isa-belle/HOL.

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6. Custmizing te wrld pervasive data

Head: Gustavo AlonsoParticipants: Donald Kossmann,Nesime Tatbul, Roger Wattenhoer

A range o diferent technologies(Internet, wireless, mobile devices)and social trends (social networks,data streams, 24h connectivity)

conorm a challenging and asci-nating world o massive amountso data permanently available toany user, anywhere in the world, atany time.

In this project we will apply severaltechnologies developed in MICSphases I and II to study and even-tually build the underlying abricor such a pervasive world o dataaccessible through a multitude omobile and communication devic-es. Our research and developmentocus will concentrate on the man-agement o data, its disseminationin the orm o streams, and in highly

distributed processing mechanismsto give every user the ability to cus-tomize the data they receive.

Karl aberer/Jacques bovay


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CoNSIDERING MoBILE

PEER-To-PEER NETWoRkS

Proessor o Computer Science atthe University o Neuchtel, Pas-

cal Felber concentratres - amongother felds - on dependable and

distributed systems. Two o his ac-tivities involve him with the NCCR-

MICS.

cent Tech.) in Murray Hill. I workedthere until 2002, in the DistributedSystems and Internet ManagementResearch Department.

Aterwards, I moved back to Europeand to academia. I was an AssistantProessor at the Institut Eurcom(Sophia Antipolis, France), in theCorporate Communications De-partment. I nally returned to Swit-

zerland in 2004 at the University oNeuchtel, where I was appointedas a Full Proessor. My group ismainly researching on dependableand distributed computing.

- Have you always concentratedon this feld o research?

Yes I have worked mainly in theseelds o research, but also in con-current systems.

- What links you to the NCCR-MICS?

The work I am doing within theMICS Center concerns distributedsystems and networks. Our groupcurrently ocuses on designingtechniques or the speculative pro-cessing o events in distributedevent processing systems (e.g.,a network o sensors with somenodes implementing processing

operators).

Some events generated by the sen-sors might be dependent o one an-other, while others not. Dependent

events must oten be processedin a specic order, and dependen-cies may not be known a priori. Insuch settings, one can use specula-tive techniques to process eventsoptimistically beore we know ithey depend on another not-yet-received event (in which case wemight have to cancel the process-ing and redo it).

Speculation can take place on anode (and it is especially beneciali the node has multiple cores), butit can also span multiple nodes tra-versed by the events. This is whatwe call DSTM (Distributed Sotware

Transactional Memory).

Apart rom this activity, I have beenworking together with my col-league, Pro. Peter Krop, on over-lays or MANETs (Mobile Ad-hod

Networks). The objective is to e-ciently locate content spread acrossmultiple wireless devices, as well asprovide support or ecient dis-semination o inormation in suchnetworks.

- Can you give more details about

this second activity?

Various peer-to-peer architecturesor ad-hoc networks have been

proposed over the last ew years.Most o them are unstructured anduse some orm o ooding to locatecontent, because the physical con-straints o the underlying network

- Tell us about your academic and

proessional background...

I nished my PhD at EPFL in 1998 inthe domain o ault-tolerant distrib-

uted middleware. Then, I movedto the USA where I worked orOracle Corp. in Portland as part othe Oracle Message Broker Team. Ipursued my career at Bell-Labs (Lu-


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make the construction o arbitraryapplication-layer overlay structuresimpractical.

Our approach was driven by mech-anisms derived rom distributedhash tables (DHTs), commonly usedin wired peer-to-peer networks,which we adapted or ad-hoc net-works. DHTs are interesting becausethey can eciently locate content

without ooding, but they are notwell adapted to mobile networksas messages can ollow very long

routes beore reaching their desti-nation, sometimes even traversingthe same node multiple times.

Thereore, we have combined asimplistic DHT structure with lowmaintenance overhead with a moresophisticated lookup protocol thatis aware o the physical neighbor-hood o the nodes, i.e., o the othernodes in the communication range.

This protocol has been implement-ed and successully tested on asmall network o wireless devices.

In a second phase o this project,we have leveraged our DHT tobuild and maintain multicast treesor eciently disseminating con-tent to a group o nodes across thenetwork. Besides its low overhead,an original aspect o our approachis the ability o the multicast treesto quickly sel-adapt under mobil-ity and churn, based on local-onlyreorganizations.

Florence luy

In December 2009, the selection othe 2nd wave o major Nano-Tera.

ch projects was nalized. Nano- Tera.ch and involved partners willinvest around 45.6 MCH in the com-ing next 3 years or 9 newly select-ed Research Technology and Devel-opment (RTD). These large projects,with budgets oscillating between 4to 7 million each, have been evalu-ated scientically by the SNF andwill ocially start on March 1st.

Participating academic institutionsinvolved are ALP, CSEM, CHUV,EMPA, EPFL, ETHZ, HES-SO, PSI,UniBS, UniGE UniL, and USI. A com-mon striking characteristic o the

selected projects is that they all ad-dress scientic challenges aiming

at societal and well being improve-ments in health, security and envi-ronment.

The NCCR-MICS is also concernedby the initiative through two proj-ects:- OpenSense - Open sensor net-works or air quality monitoring.Led by Karl Aberer, it will addresskey research challenges in the do-

main o inormation and communi-cation systems related to commu-nity-based sensing using wirelesssensor network technology in thecontext o air pollution monitoring.

- X-Sense - Monitoring alpine massmovements at multiple scales. Led

by Lothar Thiele, it intends to de-velop wireless sensing technologyor environmental sensing underextreme conditions in terms otemperature variations, humidity,mechanical orces, snow coverage.

The idea is to utilize this new mea-surement technology to advanceapplications in science and soci-ety: geophysical research and earlywarning against landslides and

rock-all, thereby securing peoplein their homes, during recreationalactivities, in public transportationand cars.

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A NEW WAVE oF NANoTERA.Ch PRoJECTS SELECTED


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The Ino4Dourou project should

eventually help the population oa region o Burkina Faso to better

manage its natural resources. Bet-ter yet, it aims to make available a

support system o participatory planning. A fne example o sci-

entifc cooperation or develop-ment.

Water is the key element o anydevelopment strategy and espe-cially on a continent such as Arica.In Burkina Faso, savannah coveredmuch o the territory. The agricul-tural areas have replaced it and areused to grow cotton, sorghum, mil-let and maize. In the south, a proj-ect o scientic cooperation or de-

velopment has been established tostudy the water cycle. Called Ino-4Dourou it is part o the UNESCOChair in technologies or develop-ment o the EPFL. A rst o its kind.

A PARTICIPAToRY SYSTEM

The goal o this initiative is to helppeople make rational use o water,armland and orest resources. To

do this, we had to establish a par-ticipatory system, explains Alexan-dre Repetti, project coordinator orthe unit Cooperation@ep. A rstmeeting took place in 2008 with

the population. As we inormedpeople about the project, they toldus about the situation o their vil-lages, their elds, orests and water,

says Guillermo Barrenetxea, projectcoordinator or Sensorscope. Backin Switzerland, scientists have madea synthesis o everything they hadlearned. It turned out clear thatprecise measurements on soils,plants, water and atmosphere wereneeded there to understand thehydrological cycle.

The researchers then designed

measurement systems developedin the ramework o the NCCR MICS.We wondered i these Sensor-Scope stations were useul or Ari-ca and i we could develop models

suited to the needs o people, saysAlexandre Repetti. For purposeso the project, collaboration wasestablished between several EPFL

laboratories and the InternationalInstitute o Engineering o Waterand Environment (2iE) in Ouaga-dougou.

TEChNoLoGY AT WoRk

In May 2009 - at the beginning othe rainy season - with the supporto the MICS Center, teen Sen-sorscope stations were deployed

on the watershed Singou. Eachone was equipped with sensors tomeasure rainall, humidity and soiltemperature, wind speed, solarradiation. All these technologies

ThE SENSoRS oF hoPE

GRoW IN BURkINA FASo

Olivier Couach, Thierry Bertholet and Scott Tyler


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were completed with two weatherstations. Furthermore, a tree wasalso equipped with sensors to con-trol the amount o sap in the rootsor the rate o soil moisture. Thisstrange plant should allow having

inormation on the consequences- positive or negative - o deoresta-tion.

To PRoVIDE PRECISE DATA

The stations will remain in placeor two years during which mainte-nance is perormed by a village resi-dent. They will provide precise datain a small watershed and quantiy

the hydrologic ows surroundinglarge woody vegetation. This hightemporal and spatial resolutiondata will be used to model and un-derstand the hydrologic unction

o a watershed in the highly hetero-geneous savanna and neighboringagricultural eld.

Scientists will use the dry season toanalyze the data. They visited the

area last December to conduct aninterim assessment o the project.Ater seven months, the instru-ments were almost undamaged.

The people eeling concerned, theyhave ensured that the equipmentis not damaged, says AlexandreRepetti.

ThE NEEDS EVALUATED

One has now to evaluate the re-source management and the nativeneeds in order to implement mi-cro-projects. We have a ew hints,including the creation o elds on

which two cultures would grow in arow. The coordinator also wants toinvolve young Burkinabe into envi-ronmental education.

Florence luy

The eld campaign in Burkina Faso Olivier Couach, Thierry Bertholet and Scott Tyler


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Started in 2008, the Spin Fund pro-gram has nanced up to now ourprojects. Each o them led to a start-up. New projects are expected toreceive MICS support.

Mounir Krichane was the rst MICS

member to obtain a Spin Fund. Heused this nancial support to im-prove the SensorScope weatherstations so that, eventually, theycould be commercialized. In March2009, the start-up SensorScopeSrl was created, involving ourassociates: Guillermo Barrenetxea(Communication systems), FranoisIngelrest (Computer science), Da-vis Daidi (Microengineering) and

Sudharshini Ariarajah (Business/Marketing). A complete productwas designed and production wasthen undertaken with a local indus-trial partner.

Under the project name Pulsar,MICS researchers Nicolas Burri,Remo Meier, and Dr. Pascal vonRickenbach were also granted aMICS Spinund. The project was

hosted by Pro. Wattenhoer at ETHZurich and commercializes an aca-demic prototype o a new multime-dia streaming technique.

As or sreee!, it evaluates the merg-ing o social networks and emerg-ing mobility patterns and seeks tocombine these with game mechan-ics in order to achieve critical masswith the intended target audience.

MICS SPIND FUND:

STATE oF ThE ART

For this project, ETH Zurich andMICS researchers Dr. Stefen P. Walzand Thomas Seibert were hostedby Pro. Hovestadt (CAAD group atthe ETH Zurich) and prepared thestart-up sreee!.

Finally, Moritz Khler and PhilippBolliger have received support orkicking of their Koubachi venture.

The company the two ounded is an

ocial ETH spin-of (and a CTI start-up) coming out o the DistributedSystems Group led by Pro. Mattern.Koubachi is a wireless smart plantpot which enables people to inter-act with their plants in a completelynew way. It will be one o the rstentertainment products or thesmart home o the uture.

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The 2009 Hydrologic Scienceaward goes to Pro. Marc Parlange,

Laboratory o Environmental FluidMechanics and Hydrology at EPFL,who recently ended an outstand-ing period o service as Editor-in-Chie o Water Resources Research.

AWARDS - AWARDS - AWARDS - AWARDS- AWARDS

Pro. Parlange is cited or his pio-neering contributions in develop-

ing the eld o environmental uidmechanics or the study o the at-mospheric boundary layer andland-atmosphere interaction.

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Proessor Martin Vetterli has beenelected to ACM Fellow or his con-

tributions to the theory and prac-tice o multimedia compressionand communication.

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NEW PUBLICATIoNS

Jurnal papers:

Davide Brunelli, Clemens Moser,Lothar Thiele and Luca Benini, De-sign o a Solar Harvesting Circuit orBattery-less Embedded Systems, IEEE

Transactions on Circuits and Sys-tems I, regular papers, Volume 56,

Issue 11, Nov. 2009.

M. Durvy, O. Dousse and P. Thi-ran, On the Fairness o Large CSMANetworks, IEEE Journal on SelectedArea in Communications, Volume27, Issue 7, Sep 2009.

Cnerence papers:

Adriaan de Jong, Matthias Woeh-

rle and Koen Langendoen, MoMi -Model-Based Diagnosis Middleware

or Sensor Networks, 4th Intl Con.Workshop on Middleware Tools,Services and Run-Time Support orSensor Networks (MidSens09).

Jian-Jia Chen, Nikolay Stoimenovand Lothar Thiele, Feasibility Analy-sis o On-Line DVS Algorithms or

Scheduling Arbitrary Event Streams,

RTSS 09 - Real-Time Systems Sym-posium, Washington, 2-4 Dec 09.

Qin Yin, Adrian Schupbach, Jus-tin Cappos, Andrew Baumann, and

ThE CSEC VISITEDThE EPF LAUSANNE

The members o the Swiss Commis-sion o science, education and cul-ture (CSEC) visited the EPFL on No-vember 5th 2009 in order to explorethe achievements o some NCCRs,among which the NCCR-MICS.

The bus Sciences interest me! wasinstalled and under the tent wherehand-on experiments took place,I presented the accomplishmentsthrough the collaboration between

the Oce o equal opportunities atEPFL and the NCCRs MICS and QP.

Three groups o members o theParliament, together with repre-sentatives o the SNF, visited theexhibition, presented by the sci-entic staf and the students. Theyshowed a high interest and askedmany questions. The eed-backconcerning the collaboration and

the actions was very positive andsome politicians recommendedmultiplying such actions all aroundSwitzerland.

Farnazmoser


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Haghani, Parisa; Michel, Sebastian;Aberer, Karl, Evaluating Top-k Que-ries over Incomplete Data Streams,18h ACM Conerence on Inorma-tion and Knowledge Management(CIKM); Hong Kong, November 2-6,2009.

Markus Waelchli, Reto Zurbuchen, Thomas Staub and Torsten Braun,Backbone MAC or Energy-con-

strained Wireless Sensor Networks,34th IEEE Conerence on LocalComputer Networks (LCN), Zrich,22-23 Oct 09.

Shokri, Reza; Pedarsani, Pedram; Theodorakopoulos, George; Hu-baux, Jean-Pierre, Preserving Priva-cy in Collaborative Filtering throughDistributed Aggregation o Oine

Proles, ACM Recommender Sys-tems (RecSys); New York, NY, USA,

October 22-25, 2009.

Lothar Thiele and Nikolay Stoi-menov, Modular Perormance Analysis o Cyclic Dataow Graphs,EMSOFT 09 - 9th ACM InternationalConerence on Embedded Sot-ware, Grenoble, 12-16 Oct 09.

Korada, Satish Babu; Urbanke, Ru-diger, Polar Codes are Optimal or

Lossy Source Coding, IEEE Inorma-tion Theory Workshop (ITW 2009);

Taormina, 11-16 Oct 09.

Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, Suhas Dig-

gavi, Christina Fragouli, Vinod Prab-hakaran, On degraded two messageset broadcasting, IEEE Inorma-tion Theory Workshop (ITW 2009);

Taormina, 11-16 Oct 09.

O. Leveque, Degrees o Freedomothe MIMO Intererence Channel withVarying Intererence Level, IEEE In-ormation Theory Workshop (ITW2009); Taormina, 11-16 Oct 09.

E. Telatar, Perormance o Polariza-tion Codes, IEEE Inormation TheoryWorkshop (ITW 2009); Taormina,11-16 Oct 09.

Etienne Perron, Suhas Diggavi,Emre Telatar, A Multiple Access Ap- proach or the Compound WiretapChannel, IEEE Inormation TheoryWorkshop (ITW 2009); Taormina,11-16 Oct 09.

Kolundzija, Mihailo; Faller, Christo;Vetterli, Martin, Designing PracticalFilters For Sound Field Reconstruc-

tion, AES 127th Convention; NewYork, October 9-12, 2009, no Pre-print 7851.

Markus Waelchli and TorstenBraun, Building Intrusion Detectionwith a Wireless Sensor Network, First

International Conerence on AdHoc Networks (Adhocnets 2009),Niagara Falls, 23-25 Sep 09.

Niclass, C. ; Favi, C. ; Kluter, T. ; Mon-

Timothy Roscoe, Rhizoma: a runtimeor sel-deploying, sel-managingoverlays, 10th International Middle-ware Conerence, Middleware 2009,Urbana Champaign, 30.11-4.12.09.

Jrme Rousselot, Jean-Domi-nique Decotignie, Marc Aoun, Petervan der Stock, Ramon Serna Oliver,Gerhard Fohler, Accurate Timeli-ness Simulations or Real-Time Wire-

less Sensor Networks, 3rd EuropeanSymposium on Computer Model-ing and Simulation (EMS 2009),Athens, 25-27 Nov 09.

Achanta, Radhakrishna; Ssstrunk,Sabine, Saliency Detection or Con-tent-aware Image Resizing, IEEE In-ternational Conerence on ImageProcessing; Cairo, Egypt, November7-11, 2009.

Jan Beutel, Roman Lim, AndreasMeier, Lothar Thiele, ChristophWalser, Matthias Woehrle, MustaaYuecel, Poster abstract: The FlockLabTestbed Architecture, 7th ACM Con.Embedded Networked Sensor Sys-tems (SenSys 2009), Berkeley, 4-6Nov 09.

Matthias Keller, Jan Beutel, An-dreas Meier, Roman Lim, Lothar

Thiele, Poster Abstract: Learningrom Sensor Network Data, 7th ACMCon. Embedded Networked Sen-sor Systems (SenSys 2009), Berke-ley, 4-6 Nov 09.


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Editor : Florence LuyMail : [email protected]

The National Centres o Competence

in Research are a research instrument

o the Swiss National Science Foundation

EPFL IC NCCR MICS

Station 14CH-1015 Lausanne

Tel +41 (0)21 693 8106

Fax +41 (0)21 693 8140

www.mics.org | [email protected]

hollain, Stephan Robert, Jean-YvesLe Boudec, Concurrent Transmis-sions in IR-UWB Networks : an Experi-

mental Validation, IEEE Internation-al Conerence on Ultra-Wideband,Vancouver, 9-11 Sep 09.

Prakash E. Thoppay, CatherineDehollain, Michel J. Declercq andMichael M. Green, A multi-band PLL

based tuning circuitry or the super-regenerative IR-UWB receiver system,IEEE International Conerence onUltra-Wideband, Vancouver, 9-11Sep 09.

Hai Zhan, Jean-Yves Le Boudec,Jaouhar Ayadi and John Farserotu,One Step Impulse Radio Ultra-Wide-Band Positioning Algorithm, IEEEInternational Conerence on Ultra-Wideband, Vancouver, 9-11 Sep 09.

Heinrich Luecken, ChristophSteiner, and Armin Wittneben, MLTiming Estimation or GeneralizedUWB-IR Energy Detection Receivers,IEEE International Conerence onUltra-Wideband, Vancouver, 9-11Sep 09.

Christoph Steiner and Armin

Wittneben, Robust Time-o-ArrivalEstimation with an Energy DetectionReceiver, IEEE International Coner-ence on Ultra-Wideband, Vancou-ver, 9-11 Sep 09.

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