Publications and Presentations by Mark Yarvis

Publications (by topic)

Healthcare

  1. Lama Nachman, Jonathan Huang, Raymond Kong, Rahul Shah, Junaith Shahabdeen, Chieh-Yih Wan, and Mark Yarvis, "On-Body Health Data Aggregation Using Mobile Phones," ACM SenSys 2007 Workshop on Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research, University of New South Wales, Australia, November 2007.

  2. Janani Sriram, Minho Shin, David Kotz, Anand Rajan, Manoj Sastry, and Mark Yarvis, "Challenges in Data Quality Assurance in Pervasive Health Monitoring Systems," Future of Trust In Computing Conference, Berlin, Germany, June/July 2008. [pdf]

  3. Rita H. Wouhaybi, Mark D. Yarvis, Philip Muse, Chieh-Yih Wan, Sangita Sharma, Sai Prasad, Lenitra Durham, Ritu Sahni, Robert Norton, Merlin Curry, Holly Jimison, Richard Harper, and Robert A. Lowe, "A Context-Management Framework for Telemedicine: An Emergency Medicine Case Study," Wireless Health 2010, San Diego, California, October 2010. (Best Paper Award) [pdf]

  4. Rita H. Wouhaybi, Mark D. Yarvis, Sangita Sharma, Philip Muse, Chieh-Yih Wan, Sai Prasad, Lenitra Durham, Ritu Sahni, Robert Norton, Merlin Curry, Holly Jimison, Richard Harper, and Robert A. Lowe, "Experiences with Context Management in Emergency Medicine," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Special Issue on Wireless Health Systems, Vol 12, No 4, June 2013. [pdf]

Wireless Networks

  1. Mark Yarvis, Konstantina Papagiannaki, and W. Steven Conner, "Characterization of 802.11 Wireless Networks in the Home," Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee 2005), Trentino, Italy, April 2005. [pdf] [tech report]

  2. Konstantina Papagiannaki, Mark Yarvis, W. Steven Conner, "Experimental Characterization of Home Wireless Networks and Design Implications," Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2006), Barcelona, Spain, April 2006. [doi:10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.293]
    • Data from this paper is availabe at CRAWDAD

Ad Hoc Networks

  1. Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Steven Conner, Mark Yarvis, Jasmeet Chhabra, Carl Ellison, Chuck Brabenac, and Ernest Tsui, "Meeting the Demands of the Digital Home with High-Speed Multi-Hop Wireless Networks," Intel Technology Journal: Special Issue on Interoperable Home Infrastructure, 6(4):57-68, November 2002. [pdf]

  2. Mustafa Demirhan, Mousumi Hazra, Mark Yarvis, Nandakishore Kushalnagar, "Self Configuring Transmission Channel for Wireless Mesh Networks," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop 2005, Beijing, China, April 2005.

  3. Changwen Liu, Mark Yarvis, W. Steven Conner and Xingang Guo, "Guaranteed On-Demand Discovery of Node-Disjoint Paths in Ad Hoc Networks," In Computer Communications Journal Special Issue on Network Coverage and Routing Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks, Hsiao-Hwa Chen and Yang Yang (eds.), Volume 30, Issue 14-15, October 2007, pp. 2917-2930. [doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2007.05.028]

  4. Deborah Agarwal, Duc A. Tran, and Mark Yarvis (eds.), Special Issue on Ordered Communication in Ad Hoc Networks, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (IJPCC), Vol. 5, Issue 4, Emerald Group Publishing, 2009.

Sensor Networks

  1. Mark D. Yarvis, W. Steven Conner, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Jasmeet Chhabra, Brent Elliott, and Alan Mainwaring, "Real-World Experiences with an Interactive Ad Hoc Sensor Network," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Ad Hoc Networking (IWAHN 2002), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August, 2002, pp. 143-151. [pdf] [doi:10.1109/ICPPW.2002.1039724]

  2. W. Steven Conner, Jasmeet Chhabra, Mark Yarvis, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, "Experimental Evaluation of Topology Control and Synchronization for In-Building Sensor Network Applications," Intel Technical Report IR-TR-2003-12, Intel Corporation, August 2003. [pdf]

  3. W. Steven Conner, Jasmeet Chhabra, Mark Yarvis, and Lakshman Krishnamurthy, "Experimental Evaluation of Synchronization and Topology Control for In-Building Sensor Network Applications," Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA '03), San Diego, California, September 2003, pp. 38-49. [pdf] [doi:10.1145/941350.941357]

  4. Omprakash Gnawali and Mark Yarvis, "'Do Not Disturb': An application Leveraging Heterogeneous Sensor Networks," University of Southern California Computer Science Department Technical Report 03-808, December 2003. [pdf]

  5. Mark Yarvis and Wei Ye, "Tiered Architectures in Sensor Networks," Mohammad Ilyas and Imad Mahgoub (eds.), Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems , CRC Press, July 2004, pp. 13:1-13:22. [Amazon] [B&N]

  6. Omprakash Gnawali, Mark Yarvis, John Heidemann, Ramesh Govindan, "Interaction of Retransmission, Blacklisting, and Routing Metrics for Reliability in Sensor Network Routing," Proceedings of The First International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2004), Santa Clara, CA, October 2004, pp. 34-43. [pdf] [CDL] [doi:10.1109/SAHCN.2004.1381900]

  7. Mark Yarvis, Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Harkirat Singh, Anand Rangarajan, York Liu, and Suresh Singh, "Exploiting Heterogeneity in Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM 2005), Miami, FL, March 2005, Vol. 2, pp. 878-890. [pdf] [doi:10.1109/INFCOM.2005.1498318]

  8. Nithya Ramanathan, Mark Yarvis, Jasmeet Chhabra, Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, and Deobrah Estrin, "A Stream-Oriented Power Management Protocol for Low Duty Cycle Sensor Network Applications," In Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II), Sydney, Australia, May 2005, pp. 53-62. [pdf] [CDL]

  9. W. Steven Conner, Jasmeet Chhabra, Mark Yarvis, and Lakshman Krishnamurthy, "Experimental Evaluation of Synchronization and Topology Control for In-Building Sensor Network Applications," In Mobile Networks and Applicaitons (MONET): Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks, Parmesh Ramanthan, Ramesh Govindan, and Krishna Sivalingam (eds.), 10(4): 545-562, August 2005. (invited, extended version) [doi:10.1007/s11036-005-1566-9]

  10. W. Steven Conner, John Heidemann, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Xi Wang, and Mark Yarvis, "Workplace Applications of Sensor Networks," In Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systems Perspective, Nirupama Bulusu and Sanjay Jha (eds.), Artech House, August 2005, pp. 289-308. [Amazon] [B&N]

  11. Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Robert Adler, Phil Buonadonna, Jasmeet Chhabra, Mick Flanigan, Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Lama Nachman, and Mark Yarvis, "Design and Deployment of Industrial Sensor Networks: Experiences from a Semiconductor Plant and the North Sea," In Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2005), San Diego, California, November 2005, pp. 64-75. [pdf] [doi:10.1145/1098918.1098926]

  12. Robert P. Adler, Jonathan Huang, Raymond Kong, Philip Muse, Lama Nachman, Rahul C. Shah, Chieh-yih Wan, and Mark Yarvis, "Edge Processing and Enterprise Integration: Closing the Gap on Deployable Industrial Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007), San Diego, California, June 2007. [doi:10.1109/SAHCN.2007.4292874]

  13. Gang Zhou, Jian Lu, Chieh-Yih Wan, Mark D. Yarvis, and John A. Stankovic, "BodyQoS: Adaptive and Radio-Agnostic QoS for Body Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2008), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008. [pdf]

  14. Mark Yarvis and Michele Zorzi (eds.), Special Issue on Energy Efficient Design in Wireless and Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 8, Elsevier, November 2008. [doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2007.11.005]

  15. Gang Zhou, Qiang Li, Jingyuan Li, Yafeng Wu, Shan Lin, Jian Lu, Chieh-Yih Wan, Mark D. Yarvis, and John A. Stankovic, "Adaptive and Radio-Agnostic QoS for Body Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 10, Issue 4, November 2011. [doi:10.1145/2043662.2043672] [pdf]

Network Adaptation

  1. Mark Yarvis, Peter Reiher, and Gerald J. Popek, "Conductor: A Framework for Distributed Adaptation," Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS VII), Rio Rico, Arizona, March 1999, pp. 44-49. [pdf] [doi:10.1109/HOTOS.1999.798376]

  2. Mark Yarvis, An-I A. Wang, Alexey Rudenko, Peter Reiher, and Gerald J. Popek, "Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Complex Networks," UCLA Tech Report CSD-TR-990042, August 1999. [pdf]

  3. Mark Yarvis, Peter Reiher, and Gerald J. Popek, "A Reliability Model for Distributed Adaptation," The Third IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPENARCH 2000), Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000, pp. 88-97. [pdf] [doi:10.1109/OPNARC.2000.828136]

  4. Peter Reiher, Richard Guy, Mark Yarvis, and Alexey Rudenko, "Automated Planning for Open Architectures," short paper presented at OPENARCH 2000, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000. [pdf]

  5. Mark Yarvis, "Distributed Adaptation: A Research Proposal," Ph.D. prospectus, UCLA Tech Report CSD-TR-200018, July 2000. [pdf]

  6. Peter Reiher, Richard Guy, Kevin Eustice, Vincent Ferreria, and Mark Yarvis, "Co-operative Adaptation Between End Points," Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS 2000), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 2000.

  7. Peter Reiher, Richard Guy, Kevin Eustice, Vincent Ferreria, and Mark Yarvis, "Co-operative Adaptation Between End Points," Salim Hariri, Craig A. Lee, and Cauligi Raghavendra (eds.), Active Middleware Services , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, October 2000. (ISBN 0-7923-7973-X)

  8. Jun Li, Mark Yarvis, and Peter Reiher, "Securing Distributed Adaptation," Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Open Architecutres and Network Programming (OPENARCH 2001), Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001, pp. 71-82. [pdf] [doi:10.1109/OPNARC.2001.916840]

  9. Mark Yarvis, Peter Reiher, Kevin Eustice, and Gerald J. Popek, "Conductor: Enabling Distributed Adaptation," UCLA Tech Report CSD-TR-010025, June 2001. [pdf]

  10. Mark Yarvis, "Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA Department of Computer Science, November 2001.

  11. Jun Li, Mark Yarvis, and Peter Reiher, "Securing Distributed Adaptation," In Computer Networks: Special Issue on Programmable Networks, A.T. Campbell, David Wetherall, and Raj Yavatkar (eds.), 38(3):347-371, February 2002. (invited, extended version) [doi:10.1016/S1389-1286(01)00291-2]

  12. Mark D. Yarvis, Peter Reiher, and Gerald J. Popek, Condutor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, May 2002. (ISBN 1-4020-7087-X) [Amazon] [B&N]

Performance Measurement

  1. Jun Li, Peter Reiher, Gerald Popek, Mark Yarvis, and Geoff Kuenning, "Position Statement: An Approach to Measuring Large-Scale Distributed Systems," IFIP 14th International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TestCom 2002), Berlin, Germany, March 2002. [pdf]

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Last updated January 2009