CSE 726: Selected Topics in Cyber-Physical Systems

Fall 2014

Basic Information

Instructor: Lu Su (lusu@buffalo.edu)
Time: 11am-1pm Friday
Location: 113A Davis Hall
Office Hour: 3:00-4:00pm Friday
Office: 321 Davis Hall

Overview

The recent confluence of sensing, computing, and communication technologies has given rise to Cyber-Physical Systems, an emergent infrastructure that connects the cyber, social, and physical worlds in ways previously unimaginable. Today, the increasingly capable and affordable cyber-physical systems, ranging from human-carried smartphones, digital watches, and smart glasses to large complex systems like autonomous vehicles, traffic lights, and factory controllers, have boosted a rich variety of applications, such as assisted living and healthcare, smart city and transportation, environmental monitoring and control, manufacturing, and much more. In this seminar, we will survey existing cyber-physical systems and their applications, and discuss key opportunities as well as challenges emerging in the future.

Prerequisites

There is no hard prerequisite, but the students enrolled are expected to have basic knowledge of system programming and data mining/machine learning.

Course Structure

We will discuss two or three papers each week. The papers are selected from recent publications in top conferences/journals in cyber-physical systems or relevant domains. Each student is required to present one or two papers in class. Also, each student will be asked to write reviews for three or four papers different from the ones presented by him/her. The students who registered more than 1 credit are required to complete research projects (in team) or surveys (individually). Grading is S/U, based on the performance of presentation, review, project, survey as well as participation.

Course Topics and Schedule

In this seminar, we will discuss several representative research topics in cyber-physical systems:

Localization
Privacy
Smart Transportation
Health Care
Crowdsourcing

29 papers out of the above topics will be reviewed and presented. Below is the detailed schedule:

Date	Papers	Presenter	Reviewer
Week 1 (August 29)	Overview	Lu Su	N/A
Week 2 (September 5)	Resolving Conflicts in Heterogeneous Data by Truth Discovery and Source Reliability Estimation	Qi Li	N/A
Week 3 (September 12)	Travel Time Estimation of a Path using Sparse Trajectories	Chuishi Meng	Jingyuan Fan, Gaurav Vasantrao Talokar, Qi Li
Week 4 (September 19)	CarSafe App: Alerting Drowsy and Distracted Drivers using Dual Cameras on Smartphones ParkSense: A Smartphone Based Sensing System For On-Street Parking How Long to Wait?: Predicting Bus Arrival Time with Mobile Phone based Participatory Sensing	Jingyuan Fan Xiaoliang Li Xianglong Chen	Chuishi Meng, Ninad Vijay Kale, Abhishek Cumbakonam Desikan Ninad Vijay Kale, Weihao Qu, Jingyuan Fan Ninad Vijay Kale, Bhushan Anil Shitole, Xinyang Li
Week 5 (September 26)	SenSpeed: Sensing Driving Conditions to Estimate Vehicle Speed in Urban Environments Accelerometer-Based Transportation Mode Detection on Smartphones	Senghor Etienne Ninad Vijay Kale	Ninad Vijay Kale, Weihao Qu, Jingyuan Fan Gaurav Vasantrao Talokar, Chunyu Chen, Farshad Ghanei
Week 6 (October 3)	Kyun Queue: A Sensor Network System To Monitor Road Traffic Queues Inferring Gas Consumption and Pollution Emission of Vehicles throughout a City Accurate Indoor Localization With Zero Start-up Cost	Uthish Balaji Chuishi Meng Gaurav Vasantrao Talokar	Ninad Vijay Kale, Xiaoliang Li, Bhushan Anil Shitole Fenglong Ma, Ninad Vijay Kale, Manoj Ganjigunte Anantha Murthy Xianglong Chen, Senghor Etienne, Bhushan Anil Shitole
Week 7 (October 10)	I Am the Antenna: Accurate Outdoor AP Location Using Smartphones I am a Smartphone and I can Tell my User's Walking Direction	Weihao Qu Abhishek Cumbakonam Desikan	Xin Liu, Ninad Vijay Kale, Abhishek Cumbakonam Desikan Senghor Etienne, Manoj Ganjigunte Anantha Murthy, Ninad Vijay Kale
Week 8 (October 17)	Energy-efficient Trajectory Tracking for Mobile Devices Social-Loc: Improving Indoor Localization with Social Sensing	Chunyu Chen Hengtong Zhang	Farshad Ghanei, Uthish Balaji, Xinyang Li Jingyuan Fan, Xiaoliang Li, Qi Li
Week 9 (October 24)	MusicalHeart: A Hearty Way of Listening to Music Towards wearable cognitive assistance PBN: Towards Practical Activity Recognition Using Smartphone-Based Body Sensor Networks	Wenjun Jiang Xin Liu Fenglong Ma	Fenglong Ma, Xianglong Chen, Xin Liu Farshad Ghanei, Manoj Ganjigunte Anantha Murthy, Uthish Balaji Wenjun Jiang, Xinyang Li, Abhishek Cumbakonam Desikan
Week 10 (October 31)	RisQ: Recognizing Smoking Gestures with Inertial Sensors on a Wristband A Wearable System That Knows Who Wears It	Wenjun Jiang Manoj Ganjigunte Anantha Murthy	Fenglong Ma, Ninad Vijay Kale, Chunyu Chen Ninad Vijay Kale, Chunyu Chen, Wenjun Jiang
Week 11 (November 7)	Leveraging graphical models to improve accuracy and reduce privacy risks of mobile sensing ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS Devices Using Crowdsourcing All Your Location are Belong to Us: Breaking Mobile Social Networks for Automated User Location Tracking	Qi Li Farshad Ghanei Xinyang Li	Chuishi Meng, Wenjun Jiang, Chenglin Miao Ninad Vijay Kale, Chenglin Miao, Weihao Qu Ninad Vijay Kale, Chenglin Miao, Hengtong Zhang
Week 12 (November 14)	Differentially Private Spectrum Auction With Approximate Revenue Maximization Exploring Human Mobility with Multi-Source Data at Extremely Large Metropolitan Scales	Chenglin Miao Fenglong Ma	Ninad Vijay Kale, Gaurav Vasantrao Talokar, Xin Liu Qi Li, Chuishi Meng, Hengtong Zhang
Week 13 (November 21)	Jigsaw: Indoor Floor Plan Reconstruction via Mobile Crowdsensing Crowdsourcing to Smartphones: Incentive Mechanism Design for Mobile Phone Sensing Enabling Physical Analytics in Retail Stores Using Smart Glasses	Jingyuan Fan Chenglin Miao Bhushan Anil Shitole	Qi Li, Ninad Vijay Kale, Uthish Balaji Qi Li, Ninad Vijay Kale, Hengtong Zhang Ninad Vijay Kale, Wenjun Jiang, Senghor Etienne
Week 14 (November 28)	Fall Recess	N/A	N/A
Week 15 (December 5)	Balancing Lifetime and Classification Accuracy of Wireless Sensor Networks NuActiv: Recognizing Unseen New Activities Using Semantic Attribute-Based Learning	Qi Li Hengtong Zhang	Hengtong Zhang, Chuishi Meng, Xianglong Chen Fenglong Ma, Chenglin Miao, Xiaoliang Li