WIreless Networking Group (WING) News

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2010

3/2009 Fengyuan Xu, Hao Han, Bo Sheng, Lei Xie presented their papers at Infocom (San Diego).
2/2009 Chiu C. Tan's paper "Privacy Protection for RFID-based Tracking Systems" was accepted to IEEE RFID with acceptance rate 30%. Congratulations!

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2009

12/2009 Fengyuan Xu, Hao Han, Bo Sheng, Lei Xie's papers were accepted to Infocom! Congratulations!
9/25/2009 Bo Sheng successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations!
7/19/2009 Haodong successfuly passed his PhD thesis defense! Congratulations!
4/2009 Chiu presented his paper at Infocom 2009 in Brazil.
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2008

5/2008 Chiu presented his paper at Pervasive 2008 in Sydney, Austrilia.

4/2008 Bo and Haodong presented their papers at Infocom in Phoenix, Arizona.

4/4/2008 Bo Sheng received Park Award given to the studen who made significant contribution in research.

2/2008 Bo's paper (Finding Popular Categories for RFID tags) was accepted by Mobihoc. Acceptance rate 15%

2/2008 Two ICDCS papers (Haodong and Chiu as first authors respectively) accepted. Acceptance rate 16%

1/2008 Qun received NSF Career Award

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2007

12/2007 "Microsearch: when search engines meet small devices" was accepted by Pervasive 2008 (acceptance rate 15%)

12/2007 "Body Sensor Network Security: An Identity-Based Cryptography Approach" was accepted by ACM WiSec 2008 (acceptance rate: 26/96=27%).

11/2007 Two papers were accepted to IEEE Infocom 2008: "Snoogle: A Search Engine for the Physical World" and "Verifiable Privacy-Preserving Range Query in Sensor Networks" (acceptance rate: 21%).

Summer/2007 Haodong did his summer Intern in Siemens Research, Princeton.

7/2007 Our ECC implementation is available to public now.
We recently ran our ECC implementation on Moteiv Tmote, whose clock rate can reach 8MHz. Here are the performance data:
		Tmote Sky: ECDSA Signature: 0.77s, ECDSA Verification: 1.12s
MicaZ: ECDSA Signature: 1.35s, ECDSA Verification: 1.96s
TelosB: ECDSA Signature: 1.55s, ECDSA Verification: 2.25s

4/24/2007 Bo's paper "Outlier Detection in Sensor Networks" was accepted by ACM Mobihoc 2007 (acceptance rate: 27/146=18.5%)

3/2007 Chiu presented his paper "Serverless Search and Authentication Protocols for RFID" at Percom 2007 in NY.


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2006

2006/11 New ECC implementation on MicaZ and TelosB
MicaZ: ECDSA Signature: 1.35s, ECDSA Verification: 1.96s.
TelosB: ECDSA Signature: 1.55s, ECDSA Verification: 2.25s.
2006/11 "Chiu C. Tan, Bo Sheng, and Qun Li. Serverless Search and Authentication Protocols for RFID" was accepted by IEEE Percom'07. Acceptance rate 20/208.

2006/9 Chiu's first paper "A Robust and Secure RFID-based Tracking System" was accepted by ICICS as a short paper.

2006/6 Haodong's paper "Distributed User Access Control in Sensor Networks" was accepted by DCOSS'06.

2006/6 Bo presented "Storage Placement in Sensor Networks" in Mobihoc, Florence, Italy. Mobihoc acceptance rate this year is 31/321.

2006/1-3 Haodong's new elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and RSA implementation on MicaZ.
ECC Fixed Point Multiplication: 1.2s, ECC Random Point Multiplication: 1.3s.
ECDSA Signature: 1.3s, ECDSA Verification: 2.8s.
RSA public key operation: 0.79s, RSA private operation: 21.5s

2006/1 New Motes MicaZ.

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2005

Oct. 2005

10/18/2005 Haodong's new ECC implementation on TelosB
Fixed Point Multiplication: 3.1 seconds.
Random Point Multiplication: 3.5 seconds.
ECDSA Signature: 3.3 seconds.
ECDSA Verification: 6.7 seconds.


10/10/2005 Public Key Cryptography on Motes Haodong's ECC implementation on TelosB Motes is ready.
Performance sketch:
fixed point multiplication: 6.4s,
random point multiplication: ~7.3s,
ECDSA signature: 6.6s,
ECDSA verification: 13.8s

Sept. 2005

9/15/2005 The first batch of Telos Motes arrived.