Refereed Publications

1. Location in Ubiquitous Computing
   Alexander Varshavsky, Shwetak Patel
   Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals, 2009, pp. 285-320
   

2. Virtual Individual Servers as Privacy-Preserving Proxies for Mobile Devices
   Ramon Caceres, Landon Cox, Harold Lim, Amre Shakimov, Alexander Varshavsky
   First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds (MobiHeld 2009), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009
   

3. Privacy, Cost, and Availability Tradeoffs in Decentralized OSNs
   Amre Shakimov, Alexander Varshavsky, Landon Cox, Ramon Caceres
   Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN 2009), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009
   

4. Proximity-based Authentication of Mobile Devices
   Adin Scannell, Alexander Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca and Eyal de Lara
   International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2009
   

5. Calibree: Calibration-free Localization using Relative Distance Estimations
   Alex Varshavsky, Denis Pankratov, John Krumm and Eyal de Lara
   to appear at the Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008), Sydney, Australia, 2008 (acceptance rate: 15%)
   

6. GSM Indoor Localization
   Alex Varshavsky, Eyal de Lara, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightower, and Veljo Otsason
   Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC), vol. 3, no. 6, pp 698-720, Elsevier, 2007
   

7. Amigo: Proximity-based Authentication of Mobile Devices
   Alex Varshavsky, Adin Scannell, Anthony LaMarca and Eyal de Lara
   Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007), Innsbruk, Austria, 2007 (acceptance rate: 19%)
   

8. An Exploration of Location Error Estimation
   Dave Dearman, Alex Varshavsky, Eyal de Lara and Khai Truong
   Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, 2007 (acceptance rate: 19%)
   

9. Enabling Secure and Spontaneous Communication between Mobile Devices using Common Radio Environment
   Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca and Eyal de Lara
   IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2007), Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2007 (acceptance rate: 33%)
   

10. The SkyLoc Floor Localization System
    Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightower and Eyal de Lara
    Fifth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2007), White Plains, NY, 2007 (acceptance rate: 14%)
    

11. Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces
    Timothy Sohn, Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Mike Y. Chen, Tanzeem Choudhury, Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Jeffrey Hightower, William G. Griswold, and Eyal de Lara
    Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006), Irvine, California, USA, 2006 (acceptance rate: 13%)
    

12. Practical Metropolitan-Scale Positioning for GSM Phones
    Mike Y. Chen, Timothy Sohn, Dmitri Chmelev, Dirk Haehnel, Jeffrey Hightower, Jeff Hughes, Anthony LaMarca, Fred Potter, Ian Smith, and Alex Varshavsky
    Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006), Irvine, California, USA, 2006 (acceptance rate: 13%)
    

13. Are GSM Phones THE Solution for Localization?
    Alex Varshavsky, Mike Chen, Eyal de Lara, Jon Froehlich, Dirk Haehnel, Jeffrey Hightower, Anthony LaMarca, Fred Potter, Timothy Sohn, Karen Tang, and Ian Smith
    IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2006), Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, USA, 2006 (acceptance rate: 30%)
    

14. Algorithms for Detecting Motion of a GSM Mobile Phone
    Ian Smith, Mike Chen, Alex Varshavsky, Timothy Sohn, and Karen Tang
    ECSCW Workshop on Location Awareness and Community (LAC 2005), Paris, France, 2005
    

15. Accurate GSM Indoor Localization
    Veljo Otsason, Alex Varshavsky, Anthony La Marca and Eyal de Lara
    Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005), Tokyo, Japan, 2005 (acceptance rate: 9%)
    

16. A Cross-Layer Approach to Service Discovery and Selection in MANETs
    Alex Varshavsky, Brad Reid and Eyal de Lara
    International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2005), Washington, DC, 2005 (acceptance rate: 33%)
    

17. Alleviating Self-Interference in MANETs
    Alex Varshavsky and Eyal de Lara
    International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN 2004), Tampa, Florida, 2004 (acceptance rate: 41%)

18. Cross-Layer Flow Control in Lightly Loaded Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks
    Alex Varshavsky, Baochun Li and Eyal de Lara
    International Workshop on Network Design and Architecture (IWNDA 2004), Montreal, Quebec, 2004

19. Deriving Specialized Program Analyses for Certifying Component-Client Conformance
    G. Ramalingam, Alex Varshavsky, John Field, Deepak Goyal and Mooly Sagiv
    Programming Languages Design and Implementation Conference (PLDI 2002), Berlin, Germany, 2002 (acceptance rate: 17%)

20. Feedback Based Post-Link Optimization for Large Subsystems
    Ealan A. Henis, Gadi Haber, Moshe Klausner, and Alex Varshavsky
    Second Workshop on Feedback-Directed Optimization (FDO 1999), Haifa, Israel, 1999 (acceptance rate: 50%)