"Data-Driven Processing in
Sensor Networks,"
Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard, Gregory Filpus, Gavino Puggioni, Alan Gelfand and Jun Yang,
Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems
Research (CIDR '07), Asilomar, California, January 2007.
"Constraint-Chaining:
On Energy-Efficient Continuous Monitoring in Sensor Networks,"
Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard and Jun Yang,
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
Management of Data (SIGMOD '06), Chicago, Illinois, June 2006.
"Extending Network
Lifetime Using an Automatically Tuned Energy-Aware MAC Protocol," Rebecca Braynard, Adam Silberstein and Carla Ellis,
European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN '06), Zurich, Switzerland, 2006,
[PDF][PDF-full version]
"A Sampling-Based
Approach to Optimizing Top-k Queries in Sensor Networks,"
Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard, Carla Ellis, Kamesh Munagala and Jun Yang.
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '06),
Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.
[PDF-full
version]
"Constraint-Chaining:
Energy-Efficient Continuous Isoline Queries in Sensor Networks,"
Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard and Jun Yang.  
Poster at 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '06),
Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.
[PDF-short
paper][PDF-poster]
"Exploring the Design of
an Asynchronous and Asymmetric MAC Protocol,"
Rebecca Braynard, Shobana Ravi and Carla Ellis.
Third International Workshop on Measurement, Modeling and Performance
Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks (SenMetrics), July 2005. [PDF]
"Wireless MAC-Layer
Flexibility via Asynchrony and Asymmetry,"
Rebecca Braynard, Adam Silberstein and Carla Ellis,
Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) Poster 2005, Boston, MA, May 2005. [PPT]
"Asynchronous and Asymmetric Communication for Balancing Energy Consumption
in Sensor Networks
," Rebecca Braynard and Carla Ellis,
Duke University Technical Report CS-2004-11, Dec 2004. [PDF]
"Opus: an Overlay Peer Utility
Service," Rebecca Braynard, Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeffrey
Chase, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings
of the 5th International Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming
(OPENARCH), June 2002. [PDF]
"Self-Organizing Subsets: From
Each According to His Abilities, To Each According to His Needs," Amin
Vahdat, Jeffrey Chase, Rebecca Braynard, Dejan Kostic, and Adolfo
Rodriguez.
Proceedings of the First International Peer to Peer Symposium (IPTPS),
March 2002. [PDF]
"OPUS: Overlay Utility Service", Rebecca Braynard, Dejan
Kostic,
Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeff Chase and Amin Vahdat, poster at 18th ACM Symposium on
Operating System Principles (SOSP), Banff, Canada, October 2001. [PDF].
"Masking Failures Using Anti Entropy and Redundant Independent
Paths", Rebecca Braynard and Amin Vahdat, Work in
Progress at 18th ACM Symposium on
Operating System Principles (SOSP), Banff, Canada, October 2001. [PPT].
Education:
B.S. (M-Computer Science, m-Math, Physics) Illinois State University - May
2000
Ph.D. Computer Science, Duke University, Advisor: Carla Ellis, April 2006
Activities and Awards: EWSN 2007, EWSN 2008 Program Committee
Member
Second Place Poster at inDuke Frontiers Conference
IECON 2006 Reviewer
Globecom 2006 Reviewer
ISPASS 2005 Reviewer
MobiSys 2004 Reviewer
Research Interests:
Energy-Efficient MAC layer protocols for wireless devices
Energy-Efficient Sensor Network Queries
Distributed Systems and Networks
Former Projects:
OPUS: Overlay Peer Utility Service Malachi (event delivery system/group membership)
LPARD: Low Power Ad hoc Route Discovery
Modifications to the DSR ad hoc routing protocol
NS ad hoc routing simulations (ns - 2 webpage)
Windows CE applications