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Academic

Dissertation

A Unifying Link Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
Joseph Polastre
Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
David Culler (chair), Scott Shenker, and Paul Wright
October 25, 2005.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks
Muneeb Ali, Umar Saif, Adam Dunkels, Thiemo Voigt, Kay Romer,
Koen Langendoen, Joseph Polastre, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), April 2006.

A Unifying Link Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
Joseph Polastre, Jonathan Hui, Philip Levis, Jerry Zhao,
David Culler, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
In Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2-4, 2005.

A Macroscope in the Redwoods
Gilman Tolle, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Neil Turner, Kevin Tu,
Phil Buonadonna, Stephen Burgess, David Gay, Wei Hong, Todd Dawson, David Culler
In Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2-4, 2005.

Towards a sensor network architecture:
Lowering the waistline

David Culler, Prabal Dutta, C. T. Ee, Rodrigo Fonseca, Jonathan Hui, Philip Levis, Joseph Polastre, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Gilman Tolle, Jerry Zhao
In Proceedings of HotOS X: Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, June 12-15, 2005

Perpetual Environmentally Powered Sensor Networks
Xiaofan Jiang, Joseph Polastre, David Culler
In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: Special track on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors (IPSN/SPOTS), April 25-27, 2005
Received best paper award

Telos: Enabling Ultra-Low Power Wireless Research
Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, David Culler
In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: Special track on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors (IPSN/SPOTS), April 25-27, 2005

Exploiting the Capture Effect for Collision Detection and Recovery
Alec Woo, Kamin Whitehouse, Xiaofan Jiang, Joseph Polastre, David Culler
In Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II), May 30-31, 2005

Flexible Hardware Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
Vlado Handziski, Joseph Polastre, Jan-Hinrich Hauer, Cory Sharp, Adam Wolisz, David Culler
In Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN '05), January 31-February 2, 2005

Versatile Low Power Media Access for Wireless Sensor Networks
Joseph Polastre, Jason Hill, David Culler
In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 3-5, 2004.
[ Conference Presentation Slides ]

An Analysis of a Large Scale Habitat Monitoring Application
Robert Szewczyk, Alan Mainwaring, Joseph Polastre, David Culler
In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 3-5, 2004.

The Mote Revolution:
Low Power Wireless Sensor Network Devices

Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Cory Sharp, David Culler
[abstract] [table]
In Hot Chips 16: A Symposium on High Performance Chips. August 22-24, 2004.

Application driven systems research:
Habitat monitoring with sensor networks

Robert Szewczyk, Eric Osterweil, Joseph Polastre, Michael Hamilton, Alan Mainwaring, Deborah Estrin
In Communications of the ACM Special Issue on Sensor Networks.
June 2004.

The Emergence of Networking Abstractions and Techniques in TinyOS
Philip Levis, Sam Madden, David Gay, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Alec Woo, Eric Brewer, David Culler
In Proceedings of the First USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2004).
San Francisco, CA. March 29-31, 2004.

TinyOS: An Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks
Philip Levis, Sam Madden, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Kamin Whitehouse, Alec Woo, David Gay, Jason Hill, Matt Welsh, Eric Brewer, David Culler
To appear in the book Ambient Intelligence edited by W Weber, J Rabaey, and E Aarts. 2005.

Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring
Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Alan Mainwaring, David Culler
In the book Wireless Sensor Networks edited by
Cauligi S. Raghavendra, Krishna M. Sivalingam, and Taieb Znati.

Available from Kluwer Academic Publishers. May 2004.

Lessons from a Sensor Network Expedition
Robert Szewczyk, Joseph Polastre, Alan Mainwaring, David Culler
In the 1st European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN '04), Berlin, Germany, January 19-21, 2004.

Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring.
Alan Mainwaring, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, David Culler, John Anderson.
In the 2002 ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications. WSNA '02, Atlanta GA, September 28, 2002. (also Intel Research, IRB-TR-02-006)

Peer-Reviewed Posters and Demos

Low Power Mesh Networking with Telos and IEEE 802.15.4
Joseph Polastre
In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 3-5, 2004.

Flexible Hardware Abstraction of the
TI MSP430 Microcontroller in TinyOS
Vlado Handziski, Joseph Polastre, Jan-Hinrich Hauer, Cory Sharp
In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 3-5, 2004.

Other Publications

Design and Implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring
Joseph Polastre. Master's Thesis. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. May 23, 2003.
Commitee: David E. Culler and Eric A. Brewer

ARRIVE: Algorithm for Robust Routing In Volatile Environments.
Joseph Polastre, Chris Karlof, Yaping Li.
University of California at Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-03-1233. March 2003.