NSDR'08 Program
| Monday 2008-08-18 | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening remarks |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Keynote |
"Irrational Exuberance" and the Information Technology for Development Boom |
|
| Kenneth Kenniston (MIT) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Session 1: Long-Distance Wireless (Chair: Lakshmi Subramanian) |
Very Long Distance WiFi Networks |
|
| Rob Flickenger (Hacker Friendly LLC); Steve Okay (Inveneo); Ermanno Pietrosemoli (EsLaRed- ULA); Marco Zennaro (International Centre for Theoretical Physics); Carlo Fonda (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) | |
Optimal Scheduling and Power Control for TDMA based Point to Multipoint Wireless Networks |
|
| Rabin Patra (UC Berkeley); Sonesh Surana (UC Berkeley); Sergiu Nedevschi (UC Berkeley); Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley) | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Session 2: Security (Chair: Kentaro Toyama) |
Practical Security for Rural Internet Kiosks |
|
| Sumair Ur Rahman (University of Waterloo); Urs Hengartner (University of Waterloo); Usman Ismail (University of Waterloo); Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo) | |
Secure Rural Supply Chain Management using Low Cost Paper Watermarking |
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| Ashlesh Sharma (New York University); Lakshminarayanan Subramanian (New York University); Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Session 3: Sensor Networks (Chair: Philip Levis) |
N-SMARTS: Networked Suite of Mobile Atmospheric Real-time Sensors |
|
| Richard Honicky (UC Berkeley); Eric Paulos (Intel Research); Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley); Richard White (UC Berkeley) | |
Using Wireless Sensor Networks for Rain-fed Farming in India |
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| Jacques Panchard (EPFL); P. R. Seshagiri Rao (Chennakeshava Trust); M. S. Sheshshayee (University of Agriculture Sciences); Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos (EPFL); Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Session 4: Wireless and Web Transport (Chair: TBA) |
Serengeti Broadband |
|
| Amos Nungu (Royal Institute of Technology); Bjorn Pehrson (Royal Institute of Technology); Nsubis Genesis (Royal Institute of Technology) | |
Multistreamed Web Transport for Developing Regions |
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| Preethi Natarajan (University of Delaware); Paul D. Amer (University of Delaware); Randall Stewart (Cisco Systems) | |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Closing Remarks |