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.
Featured Research Projects
Cloudsweeper
Cloudsweeper allows users to audit, encrypt, and redact sensitive information within cloud storage accounts. This project helps us better understand the role of cleartext password emailing, the underground value of stolen accounts, and new ways to improve the security of sensitive, globally acceissible information.Recent Publications
- [MerrifieldEtal15]
- Timothy Merrifield, Joe Devietti, and Jakob Eriksson. High-performance determinism with total store order consistency. In Eurosys, 2015.
- [BiagioniEtal13]
- James Biagioni, ABM Musa, and Jakob Eriksson. Thrifty tracking: Online gps tracking with low data uplink usage. In GIS. ACM, November 2013. 4 pages. [ .pdf ]
- [MerrifieldEriksson13b]
- Timothy Merrifield and Jakob Eriksson. Conversion: Multi-version concurrency control for main memory segments. In EuroSys, pages 127-139, 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 User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, volume 7899 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 89-101. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 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 ]
Financial Support
BITS lab has received or is currently receiving support from NSF Awards CNS-1351058, CNS-1017877, CNS-1149989, CNS-1320235, IDOT ICT awards R27-131, R27-091, TRB TRANSIT IDEA Project 65, Amazon Web Services, and Nokia Corporation.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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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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lab_members_14.jpg | manage | 584.7 K | 2014-09-13 - 17:35 | Main.UnknownUser | |
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lab_members_2014.jpg | manage | 467.5 K | 2014-09-13 - 17:23 | Main.UnknownUser | Lab members 2014 |
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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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