Published Papers and Technical Reports

2009
The Abstract MAC Layer
Fabian Kuhn, Nancy Lynch, and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC). Nominated for Best Paper and Best Student Paper Award. (To Appear.)
Modeling Radio Networks
Calvin Newport and Nancy Lynch
Proceedings of the International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR). September, 2009.
The Wireless Synchronization Problem
Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Fabian Kuhn and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC). August, 2009.
Brief Announcement: Hardness of Broadcasting in Wireless Networks with Unreliable Communication
Fabian Kuhn, Nancy Lynch and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC). August, 2009.
Using Virtual Infrastructure to Adapt Wireline Protocols to MANET
Jiang Wu, Nancy Griffeth, Nancy Lynch, Calvin Newport, and Ralph Droms
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA). Winner of Best Paper Award. July, 2009
Reliable Distributed Computing on Unreliable Radio Channels
Calvin Newport
The MobiHoc S3 Student Workshop (Invited). May, 2009
The Abstract MAC Layer
Fabian Kuhn, Nancy Lynch and Calvin Newport
MIT Technical Report (2009-02-21) 2009
Interference-Resilient Information Exchange
Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Darek Kowalski, and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) April, 2009
On the weakest failure detector ever
by Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Petr Kouznetsov, Nancy Lynch, and Calvin Newport
Distributed Computing (To Appear.)
Of Malicious Motes and Suspicious Sensors: On the Efficiency of Malicious Interference in Wireless Networks
by Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui and Calvin Newport
Theoretical Computer Science 410(6-7): 546-569 2009
2008
Secure Communication Over Radio Channels
by Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) August, 2008.
Consensus and Collision Detectors in Radio Networks
by Gregory Chockler, Murat Demirbas, Seth Gilbert, Nancy Lynch, Calvin Newport and Tina Nolte
Distributed Computing, 21(1): 55--84 June, 2008.
2007
Experimental evaluation of wireless simulation assumptions
by Calvin Newport, David Kotz, Yougu Yuan, Robert S. Gray, Jason Liu, and Chip Elliott
SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 83(9): 643--661 September, 2007.
Provably Secure Ciphertext Policy ABE
by Ling Cheung and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October, 2007.
Gossiping in a Multi-Channel Radio Network: An Oblivious Approach to Coping with Malicious Interference
by Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the 21th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), September, 2007.
On the weakest failure detector ever
by Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Petr Kouznetsov, Nancy Lynch, and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), August, 2007.
Provably Secure Ciphertext Policy ABE
by Ling Cheung and Calvin Newport
ePrint Report 2007/183, Cryptology ePrint archive, 2007
Collusion-Resistant Group Key Management Using Attribute-Based Encryption.
by Ling Cheung, Joseph A. Cooley, Roger Khazan, and Calvin Newport
Book of Abstracts from the 1st International Workshop on Group-Oriented Cryptographic Protocols, July, 2007.
The Virtual Node Layer: A Programming Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
by Matthew Brown, Seth Gilbert, Nancy Lynch, Calvin Newport, Tina Nolte, and Michael Spindel
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Sensor Network Architecture (WWSNA), April, 2007.
2006
Of Malicious Motes and Suspicious Sensors: On the Efficiency of Malicious Interference in Wireless Networks
by Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, and Calvin Newport
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), December, 2006.
The Virtual Node Infrastructure Approach to Programming Cyber-Physical Systems
Nancy Lynch and Calvin Newport
NSF Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, October 2006.
Consensus and Collision Detectors in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
by Calvin Newport
MIT Masters Thesis. Advisor: Nancy Lynch (Co-advisor: Gregory Chockler). June 2006.
Of Malicious Motes and Suspicious Sensors
by Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, and Calvin Newport.
MIT Technical Report, April 2006.
Encrypted Keyword Search in a Distributed Storage System
by Shay Artzi, Adam Kiezun, Calvin Newport, and David Schultz.
MIT Technical Report, February 2006.
2005
A Middleware Framework for Robust Applications in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
by Gregory Chockler, Murat Demirbas, Seth Gilbert, and Calvin Newport
43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September, 2005 (Invited)
Consensus and Collision Detectors in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
by Gregory Chockler, Murat Demirbas, Seth Gilbert, Calvin Newport, and Tina Nolte
24th Annual Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), July, 2005
Reconciling the Theory and Practice of (Un)Reliable Wireless Broadcast
by Gregory Chockler, Murat Demirbas, Seth Gilbert, Nancy A. Lynch, Calvin Newport, and Tina Nolte
International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN), June, 2005
Empirical Validation of Wireless Models in Simulations of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols
Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, David M. Nicol, Robert S. Gray, Calvin C. Newport, David Kotz, and Luiz Felipe Perrone
Simulation, Volume 81, Issue 4, Pages 307-323, April 2005
2004
Experimental Evaluation of Wireless Simulation Assumptions
by David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Robert S. Gray, Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, and Chip Elliott
7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems, October 2004.
Outdoor Experimental Comparison of Four Ad Hoc Routing Algorithms
by Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Nikita Dubrovsky, Aaron Fiske, Jason Liu, Christopher Masone, Susan McGrath, and Yougu Yuan
th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems, October 2004. Finalist for Best Paper Award.
Simulation Validation using Direct Execution of Wireless Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols
by Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, David M. Nicol, Robert S. Gray, Calvin C. Newport, David Kotz, and Luiz Felipe Perrone
Proceedings of the eighteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation (PADS), May 2004.
Outdoor Experimental Comparison of Four Ad Hoc Routing Algorithms
by Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Nikita Dubrovsky, Aaron Fiske, Jason Liu, Christopher Masone, Susan McGrath, and Yougu Yuan
Dartmouth College Technical Report (TR2004-511), 2004.
Experimental Evaluation of Wireless Simulation Assumptions
by David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Robert S. Gray, Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, and Chip Elliott
Listed as "Recommended Reading" at the Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Bibliography.
Dartmouth College Technical Report (TR2004-507), 2004.
Simulating mobile ad hoc networks: a quantitative evaluation of common MANET simulation models
by Calvin Newport
Senior Honors Thesis. Advisor David Kotz. Dartmouth College Technical Report (TR2004-504), 2004.
2003
The Mistaken Axioms of Wireless-Network Research
by David Kotz, Calvin Newport, and Chip Elliott
Dartmouth College Technical Report (TR2003-467), 2003