Last updated: 05/04/2009 17:16:55 -0400

Schedule

Lecture

Date

Topic Suggested Reading

Assignments

1

Tuesday
Jan. 13

Overview Course Overview;
Driving Applications;
Challenges: Wireless; Mobility; Portability
Layered Network Architecture
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Wei93; Sat01; ECPS02  
2 Thursday
Jan. 15
Physical
Layer (PHY)
Wireless Channels;
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
See references mentioned in slides, in particular Section 2.1 of Tse;
spetrum1.m;
spetrum2.m;
ask.m;
bpsk.m
 
3 Tuesday
Jan. 20
Diversity; Spread Spectrum
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Section A.2.1 of Tse;
Chap. 11 and 12 of Gast
hw1
(sample solution)
4 Thursday
Jan. 22
Spread Spectrum;
ISI Equalization and OFDM
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
OFDM;
Chap. 13 of Gast
 
5

Tuesday
Jan. 27

Link Layer (Media Access Control) Link Layer Services; MAC
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
    
6 Thursday
Jan. 29
MAC
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
CWKS97  
7

Tuesday
Feb. 3

802.11 and Hidden Terminals
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
802.11 Throughput; BDSZ94;
ZigZag
hw2 (sample solution)
8 Thursday
Feb. 5
Mesh Network Capacities
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
GK00 (hard to read; optional; a better way is to talk to the TA or the instructor)  
9 Tuesday
Feb. 10
Multi-Channel Mesh Networks
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
SSCH; Talk by Nitin Vaidya on multiple-channel wireless networks  
10 Thursday
Feb. 12
Superposition Coding and Network Coding
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
iPack;  
11 Tuesday
Feb. 17
Network/Transport Layers Location Management in Cellular Networks;
Mobile IP;
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Per97;
Nao03;
BD99
hw3
12 Thursday
Feb. 19
Routing in the Presence of Dynamic Topology
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
ETX;
RT99 or

DSDV
 
13 Tuesday
Feb. 24
Routing in the Presence of Lossy link, Multiradio, and Interference
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
DSR;
BMGH98;
 
14 Thursday
Feb. 26
Link Metrics;
Non-Traditional Routing: Opportunistic
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
ETX;
WCETT;

EXOR;
COPE;
Project proposal due Mar. 6 by email
15 Tuesday
Mar. 3
Location Non-Traditional Routing; Transport; Location GPS
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
MIXIT;
Tutorial by Nitin Vaidya on wireless networks;
GPS;
HB01
 
16 Thursday
Mar. 5
Global Rigidity
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Rigidity  
    Spring break (Mar. 7 - Mar. 22)
17 Tuesday
Mar. 24
  GNU Radio
(ppt, pdf, odp)
  hw4 (pdf, doc)
18 Thursday
Mar. 26
  Naming and Service Discovery (UIA, Intentional Naming)
(odp, pdf)
UIA  
19 Tuesday
Mar. 31
Exam (Covers Lectures 1-16; sample 1, sample 2)
20 Thursday
Apr. 2
Location Localization (Sweep, and Georouting)
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Sweep;
 
21 Tuesday
Apr. 7
GeoRouting
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
GPSR; Georouting without Location;  
22 Thursday
Apr. 9
Naming and Service Discovery App. Service Discovery
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
INS;  
23 Tuesday
Apr. 14
Mobile Systems Mobile System Framework (TinyOS; J2ME, .NetCompact, Android)
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
 Android;
Windows Mobile(dev; safari;);
J2ME;
iPhone (wiki,
Apple);
TinyOS
 
24 Thursday
Apr. 16
App and GUI Design
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
HelloMIDlet.java;
ContentProvider.java;
Preference.java;
tablelayout.xml
 
25 Tuesday
Apr. 21
Mobile Adaptation
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
DVS (GraceOS) mob app
26 Thursday
Apr. 23
Security/Cooperation;
Class Wrap Up
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
WAP,
Adapting Web Content;
Wireless Security (WEP attack);
Challenges;
 
    Reading Period (Apr. 28 - May 5)
           
  May 12 Project Report Due