CS434/534 Reading List
Last Update:
10/30/2006 11:55:10 AM -0500
Topics for Mid-term
- Overview
- ubiquitous computing, location aware computing, smart environments, user
mobility
- Wireless mobile networks
- physical layer
- radio propagation characteristics due to wireless and
mobility: fading, interference and ISI.
- modulation and modem design, in particular diversity
to handle fading, and how to handle ISI
- Example networks: GSM and 802.11
- link layer
- media access control: basic problems such as hidden
terminal
- media access control: basic schemes such as CSMA/CA,
RTS/CTS, integration of polling and random access
- capacity and how to improve capacity (e.g., multiple
channels)
- network layer routing
- basic problems facing routing?
- location management:
- mobile IP, Internet mobility: how to
make laptop continue to work when you move around?
- location management in cellular networks:
how does cellular phone companies know my location when
I am roaming?
- routing in ad hoc networks
- traditional routing model: DSDV, Link state, link
reversal, DSR
- non-traditional routing:
- Opportunistic routing and coding
- geographic routing
- geographic routing:
what is geographic routing? why do it? how to do it?
- geographic
routing without localization: can I do geographic
routing without knowing true positions?
- topology control
- transport layer: reliability and congestion control
- transport protocols:
why TCP does not work well in wireless mobile networks and how to
improve it?
- cross layer design
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