publish-assistant/site/data/cloud-edge/papers/MobiSys-2024-digest.yaml

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."