Geoffrey Werner Challen

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Dissertation

• Data Fidelity and Resource Management for Data-Rich Sensor Networks
  Defended 10 May 2010. (PDF).
• Thesis Proposal: Optimizing High-Resolution Signal Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Defended 11 Nov 2008. (PDF).

Papers

• IDEA: Integrated Distributed Energy Awareness for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Geoffrey Werner Challen, Jason Waterman and Matt Welsh. To appear in Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys’10), June 2010. (PDF).
• Mercury: A Wearable Sensor Network Platform for High-Fidelity Motion Analysis
  Konrad Lorincz, Bor-rong Chen, Geoffrey Werner Challen, Atanu Roy Chowdhury, Shyamal Patel, Paolo Bonato and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’09), November 2009. (PDF).
• Peloton: Coordinated Resource Management for Sensor Networks
  Jason Waterman, Geoffrey Werner Challen, and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-XII), May, 2009. (PDF).

Nota Bene: Papers published before 2009 bear my old, single name, Geoffrey Werner-Allen (as opposed to Geoffrey Werner Challen above).

• Lance: Optimizing High-Resolution Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’08), November, 2008. (PDF).
• Resource Aware Programming in the Pixie OS
  Konrad Lorincz, Bor-rong Chen, Jason Waterman, Geoff Werner-Allen and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’08), November 2008. (PDF).
• Pixie: An Operating System for Resource-Aware Programming of Embedded Sensors
  Konrad Lorincz, Bor-rong Chen, Jason Waterman, Geoffrey Werner-Allen, and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets’08), June 2008. (PDF).
• Fidelity and Yield in a Volcano Monitoring Sensor Network
  Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Jeff Johnson, Jonathan Lees and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Seventh USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI’06), November 2006. (PDF).
• Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano
  Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Mario Ruiz, Omar Marcillo, Jeff Johnson, Jonathan Lees and Matt Welsh. In March/April 2006 special Sensor Nets issue of IEEE Internet Computing (PDF). We made the cover.
• Firefly-Inspired Sensor Network Synchronicity with Realistic Radio Effects
  Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Geetika Tewari, Ankit Patel, Radhika Nagpal and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’05), November 2005. (PDF).
• MoteLab: A Wireless Sensor Network Testbed
  Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Pat Swieskowski, and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’05), Special Track on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors (SPOTS), April 2005. (PDF).
• Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with a Wireless Sensor Network
  Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Jeff Johnson, Mario Ruiz, Jonathan Lees, and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN’05), January 2005. (PDF).
• Simulating the Power Consumption of Large-Scale Sensor Network Applications
  Victor Shnayder, Mark Hempstead, Bor-rong Chen, Geoff Werner-Allen and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’04), Baltimore, MD, November 2004. (PDF)

Posters, Abstracts, and WIPs

• Lance: Optimizing High Resolution Signal Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Omar Marcillo, Jeff Johnson and Matt Welsh. Poster presented at the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’08), San Francisco, CA, 16 April 2008. Proposal (PDF), Poster (PDF).
• Real-Time Volcanic Earthquake Localization
  Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Pat Swieskowski and Matt Welsh. Poster and demo presented at the Fourth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’06), Boulder, CO, 02 Nov 2006. Abstract (PDF), Poster (PDF).
• A Wireless Seismoacoustic Array for Monitoring Activity at Volcán Reventador, Ecuador
  Matt Welsh, Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Omar Marcillo, Mario Ruiz, Jeff Johnson and Jonathan Lees. Poster presented at the America Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 5-7, 2005, San Francisco, CA. Abstract accepted to AGU Fall Meeting and Cities on Volcanoes 4, January 23-27, 2006, Quito, Ecuador. Poster (6MB PDF) (1/4 size), Abstract (PDF).
• Monitoring Volcanos With a Wireless Sensor Network
  Geoff Werner-Allen, Jeff Johnson, Mario Ruiz, Jonathan Lees, and Matt Welsh. Presented at the Second TinyOS Technology Exchange, Berkeley, CA, 11 Feb 2005. (PDF).
• MoteLab : A Wireless Sensor Network Testbed
  Geoff Werner-Allen, Patrick Swieskowski and Matt Welsh. Presented at the Second TinyOS Technology Exchange, Berkeley, CA, 11 Feb 2005. (PDF).
• Infrasonic Monitoring of Eruptions at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador using a Wireless Sensor Network.
  Geoff Werner-Allen, Jeff Johnson, Mario Ruiz, Jonathan Lees, and Matt Welsh. Eos Trans. American Geophysical Union, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract SF44A-03, December 13-17, 2004, San Francisco, CA. Abstract (HTML).