BITS Networked Systems Laboratory
The BITS laboratory does a variety of research in Networked Systems.
Our work revolves around real-world applications, such as open wireless Internet access, transit navigation, and traffic management.
Recent Publications
- [MerrifieldEriksson13b]
- Timothy Merrifield and Jakob Eriksson. Conversion: Multi-version concurrency control for main memory segments. In EuroSys, page to appear, April 2013. [ .pdf ]
- [MerrifieldEriksson13]
- Timothy Merrifield and Jakob Eriksson. Increasing concurrency in deterministic runtimes with conversion. In 4th Workshop on Determinism and Correctness in Parallel Programming, March 2013. 5 pages. [ .pdf ]
- [BiagioniKrumm13]
- James Biagioni and John Krumm. Days of Our Lives: Assessing Day Similarity from Location Traces. In 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, page to appear. UMAP, 2013. [ .pdf ]
- [MusaEriksson12]
- A.B.M. Musa and Jakob Eriksson. Tracking Unmodified Smartphones Using Wi-Fi Monitors. In SenSys, pages 281-294. ACM, November 2012. [ .pdf ]
- [BiagioniEriksson12]
- James Biagioni and Jakob Eriksson. Map Inference in the Face of Noise and Disparity. In GIS, pages 79-88. ACM SIGSPATIAL, November 2012. [ .pdf ]
- [LiuEtal12]
- Xuemei Liu, James Biagioni, Jakob Eriksson, Yin Wang, George Forman, and Yanmin Zhu. Mining Large-Scale, Sparse GPS Traces for Map Inference: Comparison of Approaches. In KDD, pages 669-677. ACM, August 2012. [ .pdf ]
- [BiagioniEriksson12b]
- James Biagioni and Jakob Eriksson. Inferring Road Maps from GPS Traces: Survey and Comparative Evaluation. In 91st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 2012. 21 pages. [ .pdf ]
- [BiagioniEriksson12c]
- James Biagioni and Jakob Eriksson. Inferring Road Maps from Global Positioning System Traces: Survey and Comparative Evaluation. Transportation Research Record (TRR), Journal of the Transportation Research Board, (2291):61-71, 2012. [ .pdf ]
- [BiagioniEtal11]
- James Biagioni, Tomas Gerlich, Timothy Merrifield, and Jakob Eriksson. EasyTracker: Automatic Transit Tracking, Mapping, and Arrival Time Prediction Using Smartphones. In SenSys, pages 68-81. ACM, 2011. Best presentation award. [ .pdf ]
- [GerlichEtal11]
- Tomas Gerlich, James Biagioni, Timothy Merrifield, and Jakob Eriksson. Demo: Tracking Transit with EasyTracker. In SenSys, pages 401-402. ACM, 2011. [ .pdf ]
- [MusaEriksson11]
- A.B.M. Musa and Jakob Eriksson. Demo: WiFlow - Real Time Travel Time Estimation Using Wi-Fi Monitors. In SenSys, pages 429-430. ACM, 2011. [ .pdf ]
Publicity
- TV appearance on ABC7, commenting on snow plow tracking watch clip. Jan 2012.
- Cover story in the Chicago Red-Eye: Track Stars. Jan 2011.
- TV interview in CTA Connections (1 minute into the video). June 2010.
- Article in UIC News Need portable, real-time transit info? There's an app for that. Feb 2010.
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EasyTracker.png | manage | 670.7 K | 2011-11-05 - 17:30 | Main.JakobEriksson | EasyTracker screenshot from SenSys 2011 demo. |
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antenna.png | manage | 74.3 K | 2009-08-04 - 16:25 | Main.JakobEriksson | Picture of a directional WiFi antenna |
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bitslogo.png | manage | 27.3 K | 2009-05-19 - 20:07 | Main.TWikiAdminUser | |
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lab_meeting.png | manage | 558.4 K | 2010-07-01 - 22:27 | Main.JakobEriksson | |
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musa_explaining.jpg | manage | 70.9 K | 2010-07-01 - 22:25 | Main.JakobEriksson | |
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tgscreenshots.png | manage | 170.7 K | 2009-08-04 - 16:13 | Main.JakobEriksson | |
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tgscreenshots_v1.png | manage | 289.3 K | 2009-11-18 - 21:01 | Main.JamesBiagioni | TransitGenive v1.0 screenshots |
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