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+venue: MobiSys
+year: 2024
+papers:
+- title: 'WAIS: Leveraging WiFi for Resource-Efficient SLAM'
+  authors:
+  - Aditya Arun 0002
+  - William Hunter
+  - Roshan Sai Ayyalasomayajula
+  - Dinesh Bharadia
+  reason: "Demonstrates that commodity WiFi signals can replace LiDAR for simultaneous localization and mapping, dramatically cutting the resource cost of robot/AR navigation."
+
+- title: 'UWB-Fi: Pushing Wi-Fi towards Ultra-wideband for Fine-Granularity Sensing'
+  authors:
+  - Xin Li 0070
+  - Hongbo Wang
+  - Zhe Chen 0015
+  - Zhiping Jiang
+  - Jun Luo 0001
+  reason: "Extends standard Wi-Fi to UWB-class sensing resolution without hardware changes, enabling centimeter-level gesture and motion detection on existing infrastructure."
+
+- title: 'Radarize: Enhancing Radar SLAM with Generalizable Doppler-Based Odometry'
+  authors:
+  - Emerson Sie
+  - Xinyu Wu
+  - Heyu Guo
+  - Deepak Vasisht
+  reason: "Introduces a Doppler-derived odometry method that generalizes radar-based SLAM across environments and radar hardware without per-deployment retraining."
+
+- title: 'ChirpTransformer: Versatile LoRa Encoding for Low-power Wide-area IoT'
+  authors:
+  - Chenning Li
+  - Yidong Ren
+  - Shuai Tong
+  - Shakhrul Iman Siam
+  - Mi Zhang 0002
+  - Jiliang Wang
+  - Yunhao Liu 0001
+  - Zhichao Cao 0001
+  reason: "Redesigns LoRa chirp encoding with a transformer-based scheme that simultaneously improves throughput, range, and coexistence for large-scale IoT deployments."
+
+- title: 'Willow: Practical WiFi Backscatter Localization with Parallel Tags'
+  authors:
+  - Jinyan Jiang
+  - Jiliang Wang
+  - Yijie Chen
+  - Shuai Tong
+  - Pengjin Xie
+  - Yihao Liu
+  - Yunhao Liu 0001
+  reason: "Enables concurrent localization of multiple passive backscatter tags over commodity WiFi, making large-scale battery-free asset tracking practical."
+
+- title: 'Pantheon: Preemptible Multi-DNN Inference on Mobile Edge GPUs'
+  authors:
+  - Lixiang Han
+  - Zimu Zhou
+  - Zhenjiang Li
+  reason: "Provides a preemptible scheduling runtime for concurrent DNN workloads on edge GPUs, achieving low-latency inference without sacrificing throughput under mixed real-time demands."
+
+- title: 'ARISE: High-Capacity AR Offloading Inference Serving via Proactive Scheduling'
+  authors:
+  - Z. Jonny Kong
+  - Qiang Xu 0006
+  - Y. Charlie Hu
+  reason: "Proactively schedules AR inference offloading by predicting gaze and scene dynamics, significantly increasing server capacity while meeting strict latency budgets."
+
+- title: 'CACTUS: Dynamically Switchable Context-aware micro-Classifiers for Efficient IoT Inference'
+  authors:
+  - Mohammad Mehdi Rastikerdar
+  - Jin Huang
+  - Shiwei Fang
+  - Hui Guan 0001
+  - Deepak Ganesan
+  reason: "Deploys a family of tiny context-aware classifiers on microcontrollers that switch at runtime to match workload context, cutting energy by orders of magnitude versus monolithic models."
+
+- title: Empowering In-Browser Deep Learning Inference on Edge Through Just-In-Time Kernel Optimization
+  authors:
+  - Fucheng Jia
+  - Shiqi Jiang 0002
+  - Ting Cao 0003
+  - Wei Cui
+  - Tianrui Xia
+  - Xu Cao
+  - Yuanchun Li 0003
+  - Qipeng Wang 0001
+  - Deyu Zhang
+  - Ju Ren 0001
+  - Yunxin Liu 0001
+  - Lili Qiu
+  - Mao Yang 0004
+  reason: "Uses JIT kernel specialization to close the performance gap between browser-based and native DNN inference on edge devices, enabling high-throughput on-device AI in web apps."
+
+- title: 'FedConv: A Learning-on-Model Paradigm for Heterogeneous Federated Clients'
+  authors:
+  - Leming Shen
+  - Qiang Yang 0018
+  - Kaiyan Cui
+  - Yuanqing Zheng
+  - Xiao-Yong Wei
+  - Jianwei Liu 0008
+  - Jinsong Han
+  reason: "Proposes learning directly over model parameters rather than data, allowing federated learning to work across radically heterogeneous IoT devices without sharing raw data or requiring uniform architectures."
+
+- title: 'SoilCares: Towards Low-cost Soil Macronutrients and Moisture Monitoring Using RF-VNIR Sensing'
+  authors:
+  - Juexing Wang
+  - Yuda Feng
+  - Gouree Kumbhar
+  - Guangjing Wang 0001
+  - Qiben Yan
+  - Qingxu Jin
+  - Robert C. Ferrier
+  - Jie Xiong 0001
+  - Tianxing Li 0001
+  reason: "Combines RF and near-infrared sensing in a low-cost handheld device to measure soil nutrients and moisture, demonstrating real agricultural field deployments."
+
+- title: 'MobiAir: Unleashing Sensor Mobility for City-scale and Fine-grained Air-Quality Monitoring with AirBERT'
+  authors:
+  - Yuxuan Liu 0010
+  - Haoyang Wang 0012
+  - Fanhang Man
+  - Jingao Xu
+  - Fan Dang 0001
+  - Yunhao Liu 0001
+  - Xiao-Ping Zhang 0002
+  - Xinlei Chen
+  reason: "Leverages mobile sensors on vehicles and pedestrians with a BERT-style spatio-temporal model to achieve city-scale, fine-grained air quality maps at a fraction of the cost of static sensor networks."
+
+- title: 'Joey: Supporting Kangaroo Mother Care with Computational Fabrics'
+  authors:
+  - Qijia Shao
+  - Jiting Liu
+  - Emily Bejerano
+  - Ho-Man Colman Leung
+  - Jingping Nie
+  - Xiaofan Jiang 0001
+  - Xia Zhou
+  reason: "Embeds soft physiological sensors directly into a wearable fabric wrap to monitor premature infants during skin-to-skin care, demonstrating a compelling real-world clinical deployment."