Last updated: 12/03/2006 23:27:01 -0500

Schedule

Lecture

Date

Topic Suggested Reading

Announcements

1

Wednesday
Sept. 6

Overview Course Overview;
Driving Applications;
Challenges: Wireless; Mobility; Portability
Layered Network Architecture
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Wei93; Sat01; ECPS02  
2 Monday
Sept. 11
Physical
Layer (PHY)
Wireless Channels;
Diversity for Fast Fading
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
See references mentioned in slides  
3 Wednesday
Sept. 13
Diversity; Spread Spectrum
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Chap. 11 and 12 of Gast  
4 Monday
Sept. 18
ISI Equalization and OFDM
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Chap. 13 of Gast
A nice tutorial on OFDM
HW1 (doc, pdf; solution): due Sept. 25
5 Wednesday
Sept. 20
Media Access Control (MAC) Link Services, MAC
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
See references mentioned in slides  
6 Monday
Sept. 25
MAC, Cellular Systems
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
See references mentioned in slides  
7 Wednesday
Sept. 27
GSM and 802.11
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Sem HW2 (doc, pdf, solution): due Oct. 9
8 Monday
Oct. 2
802.11;
Capacity of Wireless Networks
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
GK00 (hard to read; optional; a better way is to talk to the TA or the instructor)  
9 Wednesday
Oct. 4
Capacity Improvement:
Multiple Channel MAC
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
SSCH; talk by Nitin Vaidya on multiple-channel wireless networks  
10 Monday
Oct. 9
Network Layer (NET): Routing and Forwarding Mobile IP;
Location Management in Cellular Networks
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Per97;
Nao03;
BD99
 
11 Wednesday
Oct. 11
Routing in the Presence of Dynamic Topology
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
RT99 or BMGH98
DSDV
HW3 (doc, pdf): due Oct. 23
12 Monday
Oct. 16
Routing in the Presence of Lossy link, Multiradio, and Interference
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
DSR;
ETX;
WCETT
 
13 Wednesday
Oct. 18
Non-Traditional Routing: Opportunistic and Geographical  Routing
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
EXOR;
COPE;
KK00 (GPSR)
Project Selection
14 Monday
Oct. 23
Topology Control;
Transport:
Transport for Wireless and Mobility
CBTC;
TCP
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
WLBW01;
tutorial by Nitin Vaidya on wireless networks
 
15 Wednesday
Oct. 25
Summary: Architecture Wireless TCP;
Cross Layer Architecture
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
KK04  
16 Monday
Oct. 30
Location Localization: GPS and Localizability
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
GPS;
HB01
 
17 Wednesday
Nov. 1
  Localization
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
Rigidity;
Sweep
 
18 Monday
Nov. 6
Mid-term on topics covered from lectures 1 to 15 (topics; sample exam doc, pdf)
19 Wednesday
Nov. 8
Naming and Service Discovery Naming and Service Discovery (Linda,  Intentional Naming; UIA)
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
INS; UIA  
20 Monday
Nov. 13
Applications Application Adaptation; Mobile Programming
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
See Slides  
21 Wednesday
Nov. 15
Mobile Programming
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
J2ME tutorial Project Check Point
    Fall break
22 Monday
Nov. 27
CPU and File System Support CPU Scheduling and Handling Disconnected and Weakly Connected File Systems (ppt, pdf, pdf6) tinyos tutorial;
DVS; Intel Core 2 Dual datasheet
 
HW4 (doc, pdf): due Dec. 8
23 Wednesday
Nov. 29
Security Wireless Security and
Mis-bevaviors
(ppt, pdf, pdf6)
WEP flaw;
Corsac
 
24 Monday
Dec. 4
Mobility Support  Anonymous Mobile Computing (lecture by Hong)
(draft slides)
   
25 Wednesday
Dec. 6
  Class Wrap up    
  5:00PM
Dec. 20
Project Report Due