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Course Description:

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced concepts in wireless and mobile networks. The material in the seminar, drawn mainly from the research literature, will be presented in a bottom-up fashion. Challenges and an introduction to basic and fundamental issues (such as Internet principles, mobile networking and wireless networks basis) are presented first, to form the foundation for further discussion. This is followed by discussions of more advanced topics in mobile wireless networks, including performance and cross-layer optimization, disruption and delay tolerant networks, survivable and opportunistic networks, applications such as e-Health and e-Government, and security/privacy issues.

Each participant will be expected to read research papers and contributed to discussions weekly in the first half of the seminar. Then, everyone is requested to pick a topic as part of the presentation series (each for ~40 minutes, plus ~20 minutes discussions) and write an essay (12~15 pages) based on the assigned papers. The objective of the seminar is to help students build on their networking knowledge and keep them up to date with the new technologies in the ever changing and dynamic world of wireless networking and mobile communications.

General Schedule:

Detailed Schedule:

• Weekly sessions: discussions and/or presentations
• Several invited talks currently being planned, potential topics include future challenges on Internet computing, pocket/sensor networking, location based systems, etc.

Schedule for presentations (note: each presentation MUST be kept within 30~40 minutes, followed by  10~20 minutes for questions and discussions):

• All talks must be based on recent publications from renowned sources, e.g., MOBICOM, MOBISYS, SIGCOMM, MOBIHOC, INFOCOM, PERCOM, UBICOMP, WCNC, ICC, GLOBECOM; TNET, TPDS, TWC, TMC, S&P, CCS, MIDDLEWARE, WCW, WWW...

Tips

• Michael J. Hanson: Efficient reading of papers in science and technology, Brochure, 1989.
• Ashwin Ram, GaTech: How to Present a Paper.
• Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia U.: Writing Technical Articles in computer science and electrical engineering, with emphasis on papers in systems and networks.
• William J. Rapaport, SUNY Buffalo: How to Study; How to Write.

Resource Collections

• Papers on Delay tolerant networks (DTNRG)
• Papers on Pervasive Computing; Morris Sloman's lecture on Pervasive Computing.
• Papers on Internet mobility paradigms and performance 
• Papers on Wireless sensor networks
• Papers on various topics:
  • T Manesis and N Avouris, A survey on position location techniques in mobile systems, in Proc ACM MobiHCI'05.
  • S. Giordano and I. Stojmenovic,  Position based routing algorithms for ad hoc networks: A taxonomy, in: X. Cheng, X. Huang and D.Z. Du (eds.), ‘Ad Hoc Wireless Networking’, Kluwer, 2004, 103-136.
  • D. Bottazzi, A Corradi and R Montanari, Context-Aware Middleware Solutions for Anytime and Anywhere Emergency Assistance to Elderly People, in IEEE Communications Magazine, Apr 2006
  • J Bellardo and S Savage, "802.11 Denial-of-Service Attacks: Real Vulnerabilities and Practical Solutions", in Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, Aug 2003
  •  (more to be added)

References

• Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, Addison-Wesley, 2003.
• Related course sites: UMass ( Prof. J. Kurose), UCLA (Prof. S. Lu), UCSB (Prof. K. Almeroth & Prof. R. Wolski), USDavis (Prof. X. Liu and Prof. D. Ghosal), WUSTL (Prof. C. Lu).
• Couses on DTN: UCSB, HUT( Prof. Joerg Ott)

Last updated: Aug 2006
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