WISP in hand, image copyright Intel
WISP Summit 2009
First workshop on Wirelessly Powered Sensor Networks and Computational RFID
in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2009
November 3, 2009 ⇒ Berkeley, California
Final program posted

See you Tuesday Nov 3! Please note small afternoon timing changes.

The Workshop:
WISP (Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform) is a platform for sensing and computation that is powered and read by standard RFID readers. WISPs are being used in a variety of contexts, from wirelessly powered sensor networks to computational RFID. To seed the growth of a WISP community, Intel has distributed WISPs to academic applicants through a program known as the WISP Challenge. Participants in the WISP Challenge program are particularly encouraged to participate in the workshop. This workshop is for the presentation of any research on wirelessly powered sensor networks, computational RFID, and related topics, regardless of what hardware platform is used for the implementation:

Submission and registration:
The program has been finalized and registration is closed. To communicate with the organizers, please send email to wisp-summit-submission@cs.umass.edu.


Proceedings:
A volume of papers surveying this area will be published in 2010. The best contributions from the workshop will be selected for inclusion in this volume.

Important Dates:
Oct 1, 2009:Abstracts due
Oct 5, 2009:Abstracts due (extended deadline)
Nov 3, 2009:WISP Summit
Dec 15, 2009:Post-proceedings submissions due
Feb 1, 2010:Notification of acceptance
Mar 1, 2010:Camera ready copy due

Where:
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 175 (Ground floor)
Berkeley, CA 94704

Intel Research is approximately 2.8 miles from the SenSys hotel.

Organizing Committee:
Joshua R. Smith, Intel Labs Seattle
Kevin Fu, Ben Ransford, Shane Clark, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alanson Sample, Intel Labs Seattle & University of Washington

Local Arrangements:
Dan Yeager, Dan Holcomb, U.C. Berkeley




Program

Talks are 15 minutes in length. Work in Progress (WIP) talks are 5 minutes.


08:30 - 09:00
Registration and Coffee

09:00 - 09:30
Welcome Joshua Smith and Kevin Fu

9:30 - 10:30
Session 1: Energy Harvesting
Maxwell's Demon and power harvesting principles, Joshua Smith
Wireless Ambient Radio Power (WARP) and Wireless Resonant Energy Link (WREL), Alanson Sample
Solar-Assisted WISP, Kevin Fu
A WISP with combined RF and photovoltaic antenna, Jeff Braun

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee

11:00 - 12:00
Session 2: Platforms
The Blue Devil WISP: Expanding the Frontiers of the Passive RFID Physical Layer, Matt Reynolds
SoCWISP: Ultra-low power wireless sensing RFID chip, Brian Otis and Dan Yeager
Improved Range of WISP Tags using Power Optimized Waveforms, Matthew Trotter
Semi-Passive RFID Prototype Tags, Manfred Aigner

12:00 - 13:00
Lunch (provided onsite)

13:00 - 13:15
Minutes of MADNESS!

13:15 - 14:00
WISP Tutorial
Hardware: Alanson Sample
Protocols: Michael Buettner
Firmware and Application Software: Dan Yeager

14:00 - 14:45
Session 3: Software and Systems
System Building Using the WISP I: A Flexible UHF RFID Reader, Michael Buettner
Challenges to WISP Application Designers, Ben Ransford
System Building Using the WISP II: An Energy Aware Scheduler for Computational RFID Programs, Michael Buettner

14:45 - 15:00
Coffee

15:00 - 16:00
Session 4: Crypto
Flyweight authentication with forward and backward security, Mike Burmester
Pathchecker Authentication Scheme, Nicolas Reffe
Performance Comparison of Lightweight Public-Key Identification Schemes, Bagus Santoso
Accelerometer Based Random Number Generation on RFID Tags, Jon Voris

16:00 - 16:15
Break

16:15 - 17:05
Session 5: Sensing Applications, with Work In Progress (WIP) talks
(WIP) Networked OBJECTS and THEIR Information Exchanges, German W Aparicio
(WIP) USB Flash Drive Enhanced through RFID Authentication, Jorge Vasconcelos
(WIP) Behavior evaluation of sika deer (Cervus nippon) by RFID system, Norihisa Segawa
(WIP) Porfido (Physical Oceanography by RFID): WISP in an Undersea Neutrino Telescope, Luciano Trasatti
Measuring Foot Pronation Using RFID Sensor Networks, Varick Erickson
NeuralWISP, Brian Otis and Dan Yeager

17:05 - 17:20
Wrap up, Discussion