Publications

Liu14c
Tao Liu, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Temporal Adaptive Link Quality Prediction with Online Learning," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 10 (3), pp. 42 pages, August, 2014.
Erickson14a
Varick L. Erickson, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Occupancy Modeling and Prediction for Building Energy Management," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 10 (3), pp. 29 pages, August, 2014.
Achleitner14a
Stefan Achleitner, Ankur U. Kamthe, Tao Liu, Alberto E. Cerpa, "SIPS: Solar Irradiance Prediction System," Proceedings of the Thirtheenth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing on Sensor Networks (IPSN 2014), pp. 225--236, ACM/IEEEIEEE Press, Berlin, BE, Germany, April, 2014.
Liu14b
Tao Liu, Ankur U. Kamthe, Varick L. Erickson, Carlos F. M. Coimbra, Alberto E. Cerpa, "SDI: Solar Dome Instrument for Solar Irrandiance Monitoring," UC Merced Technical Report 2014-001, pp. 1--12, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA, March, 2014.
Liu14a
Tao Liu, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Data-driven Link Quality Prediction Using Link Features," ACM Transactions of Sensor Networks (TOSN), 10 (2), pp. 37:1--37:35, ACM, New York, NY, USA, January, 2014.
Kamthe13b
Ankur Kamthe, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Improving Wireless Link Simulation Using Multilevel Markov Models," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 10 (1), pp. 17:1--17:28, ACM, New York, NY, USA, December, 2013.
Erickson13c
Varick L. Erickson, Alex Beltran, Daniel A. Winkler, Niloufar P. Esfahani, John R. Lusby, Alberto E. Cerpa, "TOSS: Thermal Occupancy Sensing System," Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys 2013), pp. 35:1--35:2, ACM, Rome, Province of Rome, Italy, 2013.
Beltran13a
Alex Beltran, Varick L. Erickson, Alberto E. Cerpa, "ThermoSense: Occupancy Thermal Based Sensing for HVAC Control," Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys 2013), pp. 11:1--11:8, ACM, Rome, Province of Rome, Italy, 2013.
Erickson13b
Varick L. Erickson, Alex Beltran, Daniel A. Winkler, Niloufar P. Esfahani, John R. Lusby, Alberto E. Cerpa, "ThermoSense: Thermal Array Sensor Networks in Building Management," Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2013), pp. 87:1--87:2, ACM, Rome, Province of Rome, Italy, November, 2013.
Achleitner13a
Stefan Achleitner, Tao Liu, Ankur U. Kamthe, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Short Term Solar Energy Forecasting Using Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Second UC Solar Research Symposium, Davis, CA, USA, April, 2013.
Kamthe13a
Ankur Kamthe, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Quick construction of data-driven models of the short-term behavior of wireless links," Proceedings of Thirty Second Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013) Mini-Conference, pp. 160--164, IEEE, Turin, Province of Turin, Italy, April, 2013.
Erickson13a
Varick Erickson, Stefan Achleitner, Alberto E. Cerpa, "POEM: Power-efficient Occupancy-based Energy Management System," Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing on Sensor Networks (IPSN 2013), pp. 203--216, ACM/IEEE, Philadelphia, PA, USA, April, 2013.
Liu12a
Tao Liu, Alberto E. Cerpa, "TALENT: Temporal Adaptive Link Estimator with No Training," Proceedings of the Tenth ACM conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2012), pp. 253--266, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November, 2012.
Erickson12a
Varick Erickson, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Thermovote: Participatory Sensing for Efficient Building HVAC Conditioning," Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys 2012), pp. 9--16, ACM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2012.
Zaveri11a
Siddharth Zaveri, Shane Ross, Varick Erickson, Ankur U. Kamthe, Tao Liu, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Building Energy Management Systems Actuated Using Wireless Camera Sensor Network," Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys 2011), pp. 39--40, Seattle, WA, USA, 2011.
Kamthe11b
Ankur Kamthe, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Enabling Building Energy Auditing Using Adapted Occupancy Models," Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys 2011), pp. 33--38, Seattle, WA, USA, 2011.
Kamthe11a
Ankur Kamthe, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Adaptation of a mixture of multivariate bernoulli distributions," Proceedings of the Twenty Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), pp. 1336--1341, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 2011.
Liu11a
Tao Liu, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Foresee (4C): Wireless link prediction using link features," Proceedings of the Tenth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing on Sensor Networks (IPSN 2011), pp. 294--305, Chicago, IL, USA, April, 2011.
Erickson11a
Varick Erickson, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto E. Cerpa, "OBSERVE: Occupancy-based system for efficient reduction of HVAC energy," Proceedings of the Tenth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing on Sensor Networks (IPSN 2011), pp. 258--269, ACM/IEEE, Chicago, IL, USA, April, 2011.
Erickson10a
Varick Erickson, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Occupancy based demand response HVAC control strategy," Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys 2010), pp. 7--12, ACM, Zurich, Zurich Canton, Switzerland, November, 2010.
Sohn10a
Michael D. Sohn, Doug R. Black, Phillip N. Price, Yiqing Lin, Rohini Brahme, Amit Surana, Satish Narayanan, Alberto Cerpa, Varick Erickson, Ankur Kamthe, "Occupancy-Based Energy Management in Buildings: Final Report to Sponsors," LBNL Technical Report, pp. 1--58, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, USA, June, 2010.
Erickson09b
Varick Erickson, Ankur U. Kamthe, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Measuring Foot Pronation Using RFID Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), pp. 325--326, ACM, Berkeley, CA, USA, November, 2009.
Erickson09a
Varick L. Erickson, Yiqing Lin, Ankur Kamthe, Rohini Brahme, Alberto E. Cerpa, Michael D. Sohn, Satish Narayanan, "Energy Efficient Building Environment Control Strategies Using Real-time Occupancy Measurements," Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys 2009), pp. 19--24, ACM, Berkeley, CA, USA, November, 2009.
Kamthe09c
Ankur U. Kamthe, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Wireless Link Simulations using Multi-level Markov Models," Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), pp. 391--392, ACM, Berkeley, CA, USA, November, 2009.
Jiang09b
Lun Jiang, Ankur U. Kamthe, Alberto E. Cerpa, "A Wireless Pedestrian Tracking Network," Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), pp. 393--394, ACM, Berkeley, CA, USA, November, 2009.
Kamthe09b
Ankur U. Kamthe, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto E. Cerpa, "M & M: Multi-level Markov Model for Wireless Link Simulations," Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), pp. 57--70, ACM, Berkeley, CA, USA, November, 2009.
Jiang09a
Lun Jiang, Jyh-How Huang, Ankur Kamthe, Tao Liu, Ian Freeman, John Ledbetter, Shivakant Mishra, Richard Han, Alberto Cerpa, "SenSearch: GPS and Witness Assisted Tracking for Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Ad-hoc and Wireless Networks (ADHOC-NOW 2009), pp. 255--269, Springer-Verlag, Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain, September, 2009.
Liu09a
Tao Liu, Ankur Kamthe, Lun Jiang, Alberto Cerpa, "Performance Evaluation of Link Quality Estimation Metrics for Static Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), pp. 583--591, IEEE, Rome, Province of Rome, Italy, June, 2009.
Kamthe09a
Ankur Kamthe, Lun Jiang, Matt Dudys, Alberto Cerpa, "SCOPES: Smart Cameras Object Position Estimation System," Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2009), pp. 279--295, Springer-Verlag, Cork, Munster, Ireland, February, 2009.
Kamthe08a
Ankur Kamthe, Lun Jiang, Alberto Cerpa, Matt Dudys, Edward Smith, "SCOPES: Smart Cameras Object Position Estimation System," UC Merced Research Poster Competition, Merced, CA, USA, March, 2008.
Wright07a
Jeff Wright, Stefano Carpin, Alberto Cerpa, German Gavilan, Marcelo Kallmann, Cameron Laird, Kyler Laird, Shawn Newsam, David Noelle, "Collaboratory: An Open Source Teaching and Learning Facility for Computer Science and Engineering Education," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS 2007), pp. 368--373, IEEE, Las Vegas, NV, June, 2007.
Kamthe07a
Ankur Kamthe, Lun Jiang, Alberto Cerpa, "SCOPES: Smart Cameras Object Position Estimation System," UCM Technical Report TR-2007-002, pp. 1--17, University of California, Merced, June, 2007.
Lee07a
HyungJune Lee, Alberto Cerpa, Philip Levis, "Improving Wireless Simulation Through Noise Modeling," Proceedings of the Sixth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing on Sensor Networks (IPSN 2007), pp. 368--373, ACM/IEEE, Cambridge, MA, USA, April, 2007.
Huang06a
Jyh-How Huang, Lun Jiang, Ankur Kamthe, Richard Han, John Ledbetter, Shivakant Mishra, Alberto Cerpa, "SenSearch: GPS and Witness Assisted Tracking for Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks," UCM Technical Report TR-2006-001, pp. 1--13, University of California, Merced, December, 2006.
Cerpa06a
Alberto Cerpa,, "Sensor Network Challenges for Intelligent Buildings," Proceedings of the National Workshop on Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber Physical Systems, pp. 2 pages, Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November, 2006.
Jafari05a
Roozbeh Jafari, Alberto Cerpa, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, "On Minimal Energy Skew Routing in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks," UCLA Technical Report TR-05-0056, pp. 1--15, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, December, 2005.
Cerpa05b
Alberto Cerpa, Jennifer Wong, Miodrag Potkonjak, Deborah Estrin, "Temporal Properties of Low Power Wireless Links: Modeling and Implications on Multi-Hop Routing," Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2005), pp. 414--425, ACM, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, August, 2005.
Cerpa05a
Alberto Cerpa, Jennifer Wong, Louane Kuang, Miodrag Potkonjak, Deborah Estrin, "Statistical Model of Lossy Links in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Fourth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2005), pp. 81--88, ACM/IEEE, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July, 2005.
Bennet05a
Bradley Bennett, Alberto Cerpa, Jessica Feng, Farinaz Koushanfar, Richard Park, Thomas Schoellhammer, Jennifer L. Wong, Miodrag Potkonjak, "Understanding and Controlling Instrumented Physical Systems: Modeling is Complex, but Optimization is Easy," Third Annual Research Review of the Center of Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), Los Angeles, CA, USA, March, 2005.
Cerpa04a
Alberto Cerpa, Deborah Estrin, "ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring sEnsor Networks Topologies," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 3 (3), pp. 272--285, September, 2004.
Ganesan04a
Deepak Ganesan, Alberto Cerpa, Yan Yu, Wei Ye, Jerry Zhao, Deborah Estrin, "Networking Issues in Sensor Networks," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 64 (7), pp. 799--814, Elseiver, 2004.
Girod04a
Lewis Girod, Jeremy Elson, Alberto Cerpa, Thanos Stathopoulos, Nithya Ramanathan, Deborah Estrin, "EmStar: A Software Environment for Developing and Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2004), pp. 283--296, USENIX, Boston, MA, USA, June, 2004.
Parker04a
Andrew Parker, Athanasios Stathopoulos, Jeremy Elson, Lewis Girod, Ning Xu, Alberto Cerpa, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin, "Delay Tolerant Networking for Sensor Networks," Second Annual Research Review of the Center of Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), Los Angeles, CA, USA, March, 2004.
Cerpa03a
Alberto Cerpa, Naim Busek, Deborah Estrin, "SCALE: A Tool for Simple Connectivity Assessment in Lossy Environments," CENS Technical Report 0021, pp. 1--13, Center of Embedded Networked Systems (CENS), University of California, Los Angeles, September, 2003.
Elson03b
Jeremy Elson, Alberto Cerpa, "ICAP: The Internet Content Adaptation Protocol," Request for Comments (RFC) 3507, pp. 1--49, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), April, 2003.
Girod03a
Lewis Girod, Alberto Cerpa, Henri Dubois-Ferriere, "EmView: The Em* Visualizer," First Annual Research Review of the Center of Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), pp. 1--2, Los Angeles, CA, USA, March, 2003.
Elson03a
Jeremy Elson, Solomon Bien, Naim Busek, Vladimir Bychkovskiy, Alberto Cerpa, Deepak Ganesan, Lewis Girod, Ben Greenstein, Tom Schoellhammer, Thanos Stathopoulos, Deborah Estrin, "EmStar: An Environment for Developing Wireless Embedded Systems Software," CENS Technical Report 0009, pp. 1--13, Center of Embedded Networked Systems (CENS), University of California, Los Angeles, March, 2003.
Braden03b
Bob Braden, Alberto Cerpa, Ted Faber, Bob Lindell, Graham Phillips, Jeff Kann, Vivek Shenoy, "Introduction to the ASP Execution Environment (Release 1.6)," ISI Technical Report, pp. 1--39, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, February, 2003.
Braden03a
Bob Braden, Alberto Cerpa, Jeff Kann, Bob Lindell, Ted Faber, Graham Phillips, Vivek Shenoy, Ya Xu, "Writing an Active Application for the ASP Execution Environment (Release 1.6)," ISI Technical Report, pp. 1--54, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, February, 2003.
Xu03a
Ya Xu, Solomon Bien, Yutaka Mori, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin, Alberto Cerpa, "Topology Control Protocols to Conserve Energy in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," CENS Technical Report 0006, pp. 1--37, Center of Embedded Networked Systems (CENS), University of California, Los Angeles, January, 2003.
Cerpa02b
Alberto Cerpa, Deborah Estrin, "ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring Sensor Networks Topologies," Proceedings of the Twenty First International Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 2002), pp. 1278--1287, IEEE, New York, NY, USA, June, 2002.
Cerpa02a
Alberto Cerpa, Deborah Estrin, "ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring Sensor Networks Topologies," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, 32 (1), pp. 62--62, January, 2002.
Cerpa01d
Alberto Cerpa, Deborah Estrin, "ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring Sensor Networks Topologies," Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2001), ACM, San Diego, CA, USA, August, 2001.
Cerpa01c
Alberto Cerpa, Jeremy Elson, Deborah Estrin, Lewis Girod, Michael Hamilton, Jerry Zhao, "Habitat Monitoring: Application Driver for Wireless Communications Technology," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, 31 (2), pp. 20--41, April, 2001.
Cerpa01b
Alberto Cerpa, Jeremy Elson, Deborah Estrin, Lewis Girod, Michael Hamilton, Jerry Zhao, "Habitat Monitoring: Application Driver for Wireless Communications Technology," Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Data Communications in Latin America and the Caribbean (LANC 2001), pp. 1--8, ACM, San Jose, Province of San Jose, Costa Rica, April, 2001.
Cerpa01a
Alberto Cerpa, Deborah Estrin, "ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring sEnsor Networks Topologies.," UCLA Technical Report TR-01-0009, pp. 1--14, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, February, 2001.
Helmy00a
Ahmed Helmy, Sandeep Gupta, Deborah Estrin, Alberto Cerpa, Yan Yu, "Systematic Performance Evaluation of Multipoint Protocols," Proceedings of the IFIP 20th Joint International Conference on Formal Description Techniques for Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols (FORTE 2000) and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification (PSTV 2000), pp. 187--202, Kluwer Academic Publication, Pisa, Province of Pisa, Italy, October, 2000.
Cerpa00a
Alberto Cerpa, Jeremy Elson, Hooman Beheshti, Anawat Cankhunthod, Peter Danzig, Raj Jana, Chuck Neerdaels, Ted Schroeder, Gary Tomlinson, "NECP: Network Element Control Protocol," Internet-Draft, pp. 1--38, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), March, 2000.
Khalil99a
Mohamed M. Khalil, Haseeb Akhtar, Emad A. Qaddoura, Charles E. Perkins, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Buffer Management for Mobile IP," Internet-Draft, pp. 1--20, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), October, 1999.
Braden99b
Bob Braden, Alberto Cerpa, Ted Faber, Bob Lindell, Graham Phillips, Jeff Kann, "ASP EE: An active execution environment for network control protocols," ISI Technical Report, pp. 1--32, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, July, 1999.
Braden99a
Bob Braden, Jeff Kann, Graham Phillips, Ya Xu, Alberto Cerpa, "Notes on Jrsvp -- RSVP Implementation in Java," ISI Technical Report, pp. 1--10, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, July, 1999.