The list here is still tentative and subject to change.
If you are interested in presenting papers not in the list but also published in top-tier venues (e.g., MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, IMWUT/UBICOMP, NSDI, SIGCOMM, UIST, CHI). We can be flexible in selecting papers as long as the papers are high-quality and relevant to the topics we will discuss.
Mobile Communication & Networking
- [GDL+23] SIGNiPHY: Reconciling random access with directional reception for efficient mmWave WLANs. MobiSys 2023.
- [CMG+23] mmWall: A Steerable, Transflective Metamaterial Surface for NextG mmWave Networks. NSDI 2023.
- [YXW23] When VLC Meets Under-Display Camera. MobiSys 2023.
- [HV22] Harmony: An In-band Time Synchronisation System for Visible Light Communication. SenSys 2022.
- [XGL+22] Low-Latency Visible Light Backscatter Networking with RetroMUMIMO. SenSys 2022.
- [CWX22] Bracelet+: Harvesting the Leaked RF Energy in VLC with Wearable Bracelet Antenna. SenSys 2022.
- [JLX+23] BioScatter: Low-Power Sweat Sensing with Backscatter. MobiSys 2023.
- [KG23] LeakyScatter: A Frequency-Agile Directional Backscatter Network Above 100 GHz. NSDI 2023.
Mobile Sensing
- [SMI+23] Contactless Material Identification with Millimeter Wave Vibrometry. MobiSys 2023.
- [XKY+23] mm3DFace: Nonintrusive 3D Facial Reconstruction Leveraging mmWave Signals. MobiSys 2023.
- [YZQ+23] SLNet: A Spectrogram Learning Neural Network for Deep Wireless Sensing. NSDI 2023.
- [WSZ+23] Wireless Actuation for Soft Electronics-free Robots. MobiCom 2023.
- [BLD+23] Augmenting Augmented Reality with Non-Line-of-Sight Perception. NSDI 2023.
- [SLV23] BatMobility: Towards Flying Without Seeing for Autonomous Drones. MobiCom 2023.
- [SCC+22] MicroFluID - A Multi-Chip RFID Tag for Interaction Sensing Based on Microfluidic Switches. IMWUT/UBICOMP 2022.
- [LCL+22] Experience: Practical Problems for Acoustic Sensing. MobiCom 2022.
- [CGI+23] Wireless earbuds for low-cost hearing screening. MobiSys 2023.
- [YLY+23] BioCase: Privacy Protection via Acoustic Sensing of Finger Touches on Smartphone Case Mini-Structures. MobiSys 2023.
- [ZWY+23] Acoustic Sensing and Communication Using Metasurface. NSDI 2023.
- [VPS+23] NeuriCam: Key-Frame Video Super-Resolution and Colorization for IoT Cameras. MobiCom 2023.
- [CWH+23] LiT: Fine-gained Toothbrushing Monitoring with Commercial LED Toothbrush. MobiCom 2023.
- [XLY+23] Taming Event Cameras with Bio-Inspired Architecture and Algorithm: A Case for Drone Obstacle Avoidance. MobiCom 2023.
- [ZJL+23] Quantum Wireless Sensing: Principle, Design and Implementation. MobiCom 2023.
- [HFY+23] The Wisdom of 1,170 Teams: Lessons and Experiences from a Large Indoor Localization Competition. MobiCom 2023.
- [DXZ+23] GPSMirror: Expanding Accurate GPS Positioning to Shadowed and Indoor Regions with Backscatter. MobiCom 2023.
New Frontiers of Mobile Computing
- [CJF+23] DisPad: Flexible On-Body Displacement of Fabric Sensors for Robust Joint-Motion Tracking. IMWUT/UBICOMP 2023.
- [JPY+23] FlexTure: Designing Configurable and Dynamic Surface Features. DIS 2023.
- [KHH+22] FabToys: Plush Toys with Large Arrays of Fabric-based Pressure Sensors to Enable Fine-grained Interaction Detection. MobiSys 2022.
- [CCG23] Underwater 3D positioning on smart devices. SIGCOMM 2023.
- [CCG22] Underwater Messaging Using Mobile Devices. SIGCOMM 2022.
- [LWX+23] UQRCom: Underwater Wireless Communication Based on QR code. UBICOMP/IMWUT 2023.
- [LLL+23] A Networking Perspective on Starlink's Self-Driving LEO Mega-Constellation. MobiCom 2023.
- [TMG+23] Transmitting, Fast and Slow: Scheduling Satellite Traffic through Space and Time. MobiCom 2023.
- [PQO+23] PMSat: Optimizing Passive Metasurface for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication. MobiCom 2023.
- [VHR+22] First 210 solar days of Mars 2020 Perseverance Robotic Operations – Mobility, Robotic Arm, Sampling, and Helicopter. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2022.
Mobile HCI
- [KFX+23] AccessWear: Making Smartphone Applications Accessible to Blind Users. MobiCom 2023.
- [PCW+22] ForceSight: Non-Contact Force Sensing with Laser Speckle Imaging. UIST 2022.
- [VHC+22] Computational Design of Active Kinesthetic Garments. UIST 2022.
- [YQT+22] DEEP: 3D Gaze Pointing in Virtual Reality Leveraging Eyelid Movement. UIST 2022.
- [AYM+23] PrISM-Tracker: A Framework for Multimodal Procedure Tracking Using Wearable Sensors and State Transition Information with User-Driven Handling of Errors and Uncertainty. IMWUT/UBICOMP 2023.
Mobile Security/Privacy
- [SR23] "Is this my president speaking?" Tamper-proofing Speech in Live Recordings. MobiSys 2023.
- [CJS+23] BystandAR: Protecting Bystander Visual Data in Augmented Reality Systems. MobiSys 2023.
- [GCL+23] Cancelling Speech Signals for Speech Privacy Protection against Microphone Eavesdropping. MobiCom 2023.
- [YTC+23] Minimizing a Smartphone's TCB for Security-Critical Programs with Exclusively-Used, Physically-Isolated, Statically-Partitioned Hardware. MobiSys 2023.
- [YT23] ReMark: Privacy-preserving Fiducial Marker System via Single-pixel Imaging. MobiCom 2023.
Mobile AI/ML
- [LXS+23] Exploring Practical Vulnerabilities of Machine Learning-based Wireless Systems. NSDI 2023.
- [CWW+23] Federated Few-Shot Learning for Mobile NLP. MobiCom 2023.
- [MJZ+23] Cost-effective On-device Continual Learning over Memory Hierarchy with Miro. MobiCom 2023.
- [SLD+22] FedSEA: A Semi-Asynchronous Federated Learning Framework for Extremely Heterogeneous Devices. SenSys 2022.
Background Reading
- [ARY95] J. Andersen, T. Rappaport, and S. Yoshida. Propagation Measurements and Models for Wireless Communications Channels. IEEE Communications Magazine. 1995.
- [ALV+06] I. Akyildiz et al. NeXt generation/dynamic spectrum access/cognitive radio wireless networks: A survey. Computer Networks Journal (ELSEVIER). 2006.
- [ZGS+08] X. Zhou et al. eBay in the Sky: strategy-proof wireless spectrum auctions. MobiCom. 2008.
- [YZZ+12] Lei Yang et al. Enforcing Dynamic Spectrum Access with Spectrum Permits. MobiHoc. 2012.
- [ZLB14] T. Zhang, N. Leng, and S. Banerjee. Vehicle-based Measurement Framework for Enhancing Whitespace Spectrum Databases. MobiCom. 2014.
- [NZZ+14] A. Nika et al. Towards Commoditized Real-time Spectrum Monitoring. HotWireless. 2014.
- [HAW08] D. Halperin, T. Anderson, D. Wetherall. Taking the Sting out of Carrier Sense: Interference Cancellation for Wireless LANs. MobiCom. 2008.
- [GK08] S. Gollakota and D. Katabi. ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks. SIGCOMM. 2008.
- [ZZW+13] X. Zhou et al. Practical Conflict Graphs for Dynamic Spectrum Distribution. SIGMETRICS. 2013.
- [LPT+13] V. Liu et al. Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air. SIGCOMM. 2013.
- [KPG+14] B. Kellogg et al. Wi-Fi Backscatter: Internet Connectivity for RF-Powered Devices. SIGCOMM. 2014.
- [KPH+14] Ye-Sheng Kuo, Pat Pannuto, Ko-Jen Hsiao, and Prabal Dutta. Luxapose: Indoor Positioning with Mobile Phones and Visible Light. MobiCom. 2014.
- [LHP+14] Liqun Li et al. Epsilon: A Visible Light Based Positioning System. NSDI. 2014.
- [VSC21] L2D2: low latency distributed downlink for LEO satellites. SIGCOMM 2021.
- [SPZ+21] A community-driven approach to democratize access to satellite ground stations. MobiCom 2021.
- [JA19] Underwater backscatter networking. SIGCOMM. 2019.
- [GAR+20] Ultra-Wideband Underwater Backscatter via Piezoelectric Metamaterials. SIGCOMM. 2020.
- [LYX+21] Shrimp: A Robust Underwater Visible Light Communication System. MobiCom 2021.
- [KBG+18] Fabric as a Sensor: Towards Unobtrusive Sensing of Human Behavior with Triboelectric Textiles. SenSys 2018.
- [LSW+19] Reconstructing Human Joint Motion with Computational Fabrics. UbiComp 2019.
- [ASA20] SATURN: an introduction to the internet of materials. Communications of the ACM. 2020.
- [LHP+14] Liqun Li et al. Epsilon: A Visible Light Based Positioning System. NSDI. 2014.
- [KPH+14] Ye-Sheng Kuo, Pat Pannuto, Ko-Jen Hsiao, and Prabal Dutta. Luxapose: Indoor Positioning with Mobile Phones and Visible Light. MobiCom. 2014.
- [LLS+15] Jiangtao Li et al. Retro-VLC: Enabling Battery-free Duplex Visible Light Communication for Mobile and IoT Applications. HotMobile. 2015.
- [LLT+15] Hui-Yu Lee et al. RollingLight: Enabling Line-of-Sight Light-to-Camera Communications. MobiSys. 2015.
- [LAT+15] Tianxing Li et al. Human Sensing Using Visible Light Communication. MobiCom. 2015.
- [CCS+15] Jiska Classen et al. The Spy Next Door: Eavesdropping on High Throughput Visible Light Communications. VLCS. 2015.
- [CWX21] RadioInLight: doubling the data rate of VLC systems. MobiCom 2021.
- [PGG+13] Q. Pu et al. Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals. MobiCom. 2013.
- [AKK+14] F. Adib et al. 3D Tracking via Body Radio Reflections. NSDI. 2014.
- [AKK15] Fadel Adib, Zachary Kabelac, and Dina Katabi. Multi-Person Localization via RF Body Reflections. NSDI. 2015.
- [WVK14] J. Wang, D. Vasisht, and D. Katabi. RF-IDraw: Virtual Touch Screen in the Air Using RF Signals. SIGCOMM. 2014.