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.

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)

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.

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.

Method and System for Determining the Location of a Mobile Computer.
Patent # 6,664,925. Issued December 16, 2003.
Timothy Moore, Joseph Polastre, Warren Barkley, Victor Bahl. Microsoft Corporation.

Getting Started with Wireless Sensing
Texas Instruments Developer Conference
Dallas, TX, November 2005
Munich, Germany, December 2005

A Unifying Link Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
Sensys 2005, San Diego, CA, November 2005

From Research to Reality:
Challenges for Wireless Sensor Network Impact
IPSN 2005, Los Angeles CA, April 2005

A Unifying Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
ICSI Berkeley, Berkeley CA, April 2005

Telos: Enabling Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks
TinyOS Technology Exchange, Berkeley CA, February 2005

Wireless Sensor Networks:
Vision, Research, and Accomplishments
Chipcon AS, Oslo Norway, January 2005

Versatile Low Power Media Access for Wireless Sensor Networks
SenSys 2004, Baltimore MD, November 2004

The Mote Revolution:
Low Power Wireless Sensor Network Devices
HotChips 2004, Stanford CA, July 2004

Link Layer Control Abstractions for Efficient Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks
MIT, Cambridge MA, August 2004

The Mote Revolution and Flexible Hardware Control
Harvard SYRAH Meeting, Cambridge MA, August 2004

Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring
WSNA 2002, Atlanta GA, September 2002

The Ultimate On-The-Fly Network
Wired Magazine
December 2003 : Issue 11.12

Sensing nature's ways / Tiny sensors keep a watchful eye on remote habitats [pdf]
Forefront
Fall 2003

Networking the redwoods
Slashdot
August 19, 2003

Remote possibilities grow with redwoods / Tiny sensors a huge help in tracking trees' progress
San Francisco Chronicle
August 18, 2003

Redwoods now part of wireless network
CNN
August 15, 2003

Redwoods go high tech: Researchers use wireless sensors to study California's state tree
University of California, Berkeley Press Release
July 28, 2003

Shy birds tell sensor motes their secrets
Sensors Magazine
January 2003

Letter from Steven Katona, President of the College of the Atlantic
August 23, 2002

Wireless sensors from UC Berkeley and Intel researchers help conservation biologists monitor elusive seabird in Maine
University of California, Berkeley Press Release
August 5, 2002

Extreme Blue / Sharing the summer with the best and the brightest
IBM Press Release
August 1999

Big Blue Reinvents Internships
Wired News
August 4, 1999