EWSN 2019 Program

	Day 1 (Feb. 25, 2019) Location: FIT Building, Tsinghua University
8:00 – 17:00	Registration
8:30 – 10:00	CISC (Room 312)	6LoWPAN / LPNET (Room 315)
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00	CISC (Room 312)	6LoWPAN / LPNET (Room 315)
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	CoWireless / DFSD (Room 312)	WSRRWSN (Room 315)	PhD Forum (Room 415)
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30	CoWireless / DFSD (Room 312)	WSRRWSN (Room 315)	PhD Forum (Room 415)
18:30	Welcome Reception

	Day 2 (Feb. 26, 2019) Location: FIT Building, Tsinghua University
8:00 – 17:00	Registration
8:40 – 9:00	Opening (Host: Yunhao Liu) Remarks by: Yunhao Liu, Guoliang Xing, Gian Pietro Picco, Yuan He
9:00 – 10:00	Keynote: Research Challenges and Solutions for IOTT/CPS By Prof. John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:10	Session 1: New and Improved (Session Chair: TBD) Paxos Made Wireless: Consensus in the Air Valentin Poirot, Beshr Al Nahas, Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology) Improving Sensor Network Convergecast Performance with Directional Antennas Javier Schandy (Universidad de la República); Simon Olofsson (Imperial College London); Leonardo Steinfeld (Universidad de la República); Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University and RISE SICS) Improving the Timeliness of Bluetooth Low Energy in Noisy RF Environments Michael Spörk, Carlo Alberto Boano, Kay Römer (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Instant: A TSCH Schedule for Data Collection from Mobile Nodes Atis Elsts (Institute of Electronics and Computer Science); James Pope (University of Montevallo); Xenofon Fafoutis (Technical University of Denmark); Robert Piechocki, George Oikonomou (University of Bristol)
12:15 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:15	Keynote: Challenges and Practices of Large Scale Visual Intelligence in the Real-World By Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua (Alibaba Group)
14:15 – 15:30	Session 2: Battery, or not? (Session Chair: TBD) Modelling Battery-free Communications for the Cooja Simulator Carlos Pérez-Penichet, Georgios Theodoros Daglaridis, Dilushi Piumwardane (Uppsala University); Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University and RISE SICS, Sweden) Bursting: Increasing Energy Efficiency of Erasure-Coded Data in Animal-Borne Sensor Networks Björn Cassens (TU Braunschweig); Markus Hartmann, Thorsten Nowak, Niklas Duda, Jörn Thielecke (FAU Erlangen); Alexander Kölpin (BTU Cottbus); Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig) AsTAR: Sustainable Battery Free Energy Harvesting for Heterogeneous Platforms and Dynamic Environments Fan Yang, Ashok Samraj Thangarajan (KU Leuven); Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, Bhaskar Krishnamachari (Uni. of Southern California); Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven); Christophe Huygens, Danny Hughes (KU Leuven & VersaSense NV)
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45	Competition Awards - And talks by the winners
16:45 – 17:30	1-Minute Madness Session for Posters and Demos
17:30 – 19:00	Posters & Demos Session
19:30	Conference Banquet

	Day 3 (Feb. 27, 2019) Location: FIT Building, Tsinghua University
8:30 – 9:30	Keynote from Industry
9:30 – 10:20	Session 3: How good can it be? (Session Chair: TBD) JamLab-NG: Benchmarking Low-Power Wireless Protocols under Controllable and Repeatable Wi-Fi Interference Markus Schuß, Carlo Alberto Boano, Manuel Weber (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Matthias Schulz, Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Kay Römer (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Optimizing Sensor Deployment With Line-Of-Sight Constraints: Theory and Practice Kin Sum Liu, Brent Schiller, Jie Gao, Shan Lin, Joseph S.B. Mitchell (Stony Brook University)
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:05	Session 4: Concurrent Transmissions (Session Chair: TBD) Synchronous Transmissions Made Easy: Design Your Network Stack with Baloo Romain Jacob, Reto Da Forno, Jonas Baechli, Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich) Aligner: Make the Utmost of Transmission Concurrency for Low Power Wireless Networks Daibo Liu (uestc); Zhichao Cao (Tsinghua University); Mengshu Hou (uestc) Concurrent Transmissions for Multi-hop Bluetooth 5 Beshr Al Nahas (Chalmers University of Technology); Simon Duquennoy (RISE SICS); Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Kiel University, Germany)
12:15 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:45	Session 5: Signals, signals, signals! (Session Chair: TBD) Study and Mitigation of Non-Cooperative UWB Interference on Ranging Hessam Mohammadmoradi, Omprakash Gnawali (University of Houston) ARASID: Artificial Reverberation-Adjusted Indoor Speaker Identification Dealing with Variable Distances Zeya Chen, Mohsin Y Ahmed, Asif Salekin, John Stankovic (University of Virginia) Accurate CSI Estimation to Eliminate Unnecessary Transmission for MU-MIMO Networks Shiyuan Zhang, Wei Xi, Qigui Xu, Kun Zhao, Yuanhang Cai (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
14:45 – 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:20	Session 6: Applications and Tools (Session Chair: TBD) (Short Paper) S-HRVM: Smart Watch-based Heart Rate Variability Monitoring System Qing Wang, Zhao Wang, Xiaoming Dai, Shiwei Song, Tianzhang Xing (Northwest University) EyeSec: A Retrofittable Augmented Reality Tool for Troubleshooting Wireless Sensor Networks in the Field Martin Striegel, Carsten Rolfes (Fraunhofer AISEC); Fabian Helfert, Max Hornung (Technical University of Munich); Johann Heyszl (Fraunhofer AISEC); Georg Sigl (Technical University of Munich) A low-power hardware platform for smart environments as a call for more flexibility and re-usability Emekcan Aras, Stéphane Delbruel, Fan Yang, Wouter Joosen, Danny Hughes (KU Leuven)
16:20 - 16:30	Closing Remarks