Note: topics of future classes are tentative and subject to change.
| Lecture |
Date |
Topic | Suggested Reading |
Announcements |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wednesday |
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 | ||||