Publications

In Press
Harris, A. F., and R. Kravets, "Pincher: A power-saving wireless communication protocol", ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, In Press.
2013
Crepaldi, R., R. Welsh, and R. Kravets, "ParkingMeter: Balancing Energy Savings and Service Availability", The Tenth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking, Systems, and Applications (VANET), Taipei, Taiwan, 06/2013.  Download: [PDF] (467.01 KB)
Crepaldi, R., R. Welsh, and R. Kravets, "Governing Energy for Parked Cars", The 10th Annual Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network System and Services (WONS), Banff, Alberta, 03/2013.  Download: [PDF] (968.59 KB)
2012
Crepaldi, R., R. Beavers, B. Ehrat, J. Sze, M. Jaeger, and R. Kravets, "LoadingZones: Leveraging Street Parking to Enable Vehicular Internet Access", 7th Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2012), Istanbul, 08/2012.  Download: [PDF] (287.09 KB)
Crepaldi, R., J. Lee, R. Etkin, S. - J. Lee, and R. Kravets, "CSI-SF: Estimating Wireless Channel State Using CSI Sampling & Fusion", The 31th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Orlando, FL, 04/2012. Abstract  Download: [PDF] (236.96 KB)
Crepaldi, R., M. Bakht, and R. Kravets, "QuickSilver: Application-driven Inter- and Intra-cluster Communication in VANETs", The Third ACM/SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp), Zurich, 03/2012.  Download: [PDF] (665.5 KB)
Bakht, M., J. Carlson, A. Loeb, and R. Kravets, "United We Find: Enabling Mobile Devices to Cooperate for Efficient Neighbor Discovery", The Thirteenth International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), San Diego, California, 02/2012.
Crepaldi, R., R. Beavers, B. Ehrat, and R. Kravets, "Illinois Vehicular Project, Live Data Sampling and Opportunistic Internet Connectivity", The Third ACM/SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp), Zurich, 2012.
Crepaldi, R., R. Beavers, B. Ehrat, J. Sze, M. Jaeger, and R. Kravets, "LoadingZones: Leveraging Street Parking to Enable Vehicular Internet Access", The 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM 2012), Istanbul, 2012.  Download: [PDF] (184.35 KB)
Bakht, M., M. Trower, and R. H. Kravets, "Searchlight: won't you be my neighbor?", Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking (MobiCom), New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 185–196, 2012.
2011
Bakht, M., M. Trower, and R. Kravets, "Searchlight: Helping Mobile Devices find their Neighbors", ACM SOSP 2011 Mobiheld workshop., Portugal, October, 2011.
Paul, U., R. Crepaldi, J. Lee, S. - J. Lee, and R. Etkin, "Characterizing WiFi Link Performance in Open Outdoor Networks", 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Salt Lake City, UT, 06/2011.
Ashraf, F., R. Kravets, and N. H. Vaidya, "Any-MAC: Extending Any Asynchronous MAC with Anycast to Improve Delay in WSN", The 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011.
Ashraf, F., Y. - C. Hu, and R. Kravets, "Bankrupting the Jammer", The 9th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 2011.
Ashraf, F., Y. - C. Hu, and R. Kravets, "Bankrupting the Jammer ", ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys), 2011.
Crepaldi, R., J. Lee, R. Etkin, S. - J. Lee, and R. Kravets, "CSI-SF: Estimating Wireless Channel State Using CSI Sampling & Fusion", The 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Mobicom, Las Vegas, 2011. Abstract  Download: Abstract [PDF] (89.59 KB); Poster [PPT] (4.22 MB)
Crepaldi, R., M. Bakht, T. Abdelzaher, and R. Kravets, "Illinois vehicular project, live data sampling and energy-efficient node discovery Riccardo Crepaldi, Mehedi Bakht and Robin Kravets", ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys), 2011.  Download: Poster [PDF] (2.18 MB); Abstract [PDF] (38.62 KB)
Bakht, M., A. Loeb, J. Carlson, and R. Kravets, "Leveraging Clustering for Energy-efficient Neighbor Discovery", ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys), 2011.
Bakht, M., M. Trower, and R. Kravets, "Searchlight: helping mobile devices find their neighbors", Operating Systems Review, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 71-76, 2011.
2010
Ashraf, F., R. Crepaldi, and R. Kravets, "Know Your Neighborhood: A Strategy for Energy-efficient Communication", The 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) , San Francisco, 11/2010. Abstract  Download: [PDF] (404.22 KB)
Thompson, N., R. Crepaldi, and R. Kravets, "Locus: A Location-based Data Overlay For Disruption-Tolerant Networks", Fifth Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2010), Chicago, IL, 09/2010.  Download: [PDF] (206.13 KB)
Ashraf, F., R. Crepaldi, and R. Kravets, "Synchronization vs. Signaling: Energy-Efficient Coordination in WSN", Fifth IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh 2010), Boston, MT, 06/2010. Abstract  Download: [PDF] (129.44 KB)
Nelson, S., and R. Kravets, "Achieving Anycast in DTNs by Enhancing Existing Unicast Protocols", The Fifth ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), 2010.
Ashraf, F., R. Kravets, and N. H. Vaidya, "Exploiting Routing Redundancy using MAC layer Anycast to Improve Delay in WSN", The 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Chicago, IL, 2010.
Ashraf, F., R. Kravets, and N. H. Vaidya, "Exploiting Routing Redundancy using MAC layer Anycast to Improve Delay in WSN", The 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Chicago, IL, 2010.
Nelson, S., and R. Kravets, "For Members Only: Local and Robust Group Management in DTNs", The Fifth ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), 2010.
Bakht, M., and R. Kravets, "SearchLight: A Systematic Probing-based Asynchronous Neighbor Discovery Protocol", The International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Mobicom, Chicago, USA, 2010.
2009
Uddin, M. Y. S., H. Ahmadi, T. Abdelzaher, and R. Kravets, "A Low-energy, Multi-copy Inter-contact Routing Protocol for Disaster Response Networks", Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, 2009. SECON '09. 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on, pp. 1-9, June, 2009.
Reason, J., and R. Crepaldi, "Ambient intelligence for freight railroads", IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 53, no. 3, 2009. Abstract