Lecture Notes: Wireless Networking, Spring 2007

• Topic 01: Introduction, Course overview, Evaluation plan [pdf]
• Topic 02: Challenges in Wireless Networks [pdf]
  Reference: "The Challenges of Mobile Computing", George H. Forman and John Zahorjan, IEEE Computer, April 1994. Tech report: [link]
• Topic 03: RF Propagation, Path Loss [pdf]
• Topic 04: Antennas [pdf]
• Topic 05: Fading, Multipath [pdf]
• Topic 06: Modulation [pdf]
• Topic 07: Multiplexing Techniques [pdf]
• Topic 08: Embedded Wireless Sensors: An Introduction [pdf]
  Reference: "Overview of Sensor Networks", D. Culler, D. Estrin, M. Srivastava, IEEE Computer Aug 2004. [pdf link]
• Topic 09: Embedded Wireless Sensors: Application Case Studies [pdf]
  Reference: "Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring", A. Mainwaring, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, D. Culler, J. Anderson, WSNA (Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications), Sep 2002. [link]
  Reference: "Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano", Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Matt Welsh, Omar Marcillo, Jeff Johnson, Mario Ruiz, Jonathan Lees, IEEE Internet Computing, Mar/Apr 2006. [pdf link]
• Topic 10: 802.15.4 [pdf]
  Reference: IEEE 802.15.4-2003 (Sections 5, 6.1, 7.5) [pdf link]
• Topic 11: Wireless performance measurements [html notes] [WinTech'06 pdf presentation]
  Reference: "Understanding Packet Delivery Performance in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks", Jerry Zhao and Ramesh Govindan, SenSys, Nov 2003. [link]
  Reference: "Implications of Link Range and (In)Stability on Sensor Network Architecture", Bhaskaran Raman, Kameswari Chebrolu, Naveen Madabhushi, Dattatraya Y Gokhale, Phani K Valiveti, and Dheeraj Jain, WiNTECH 2006, Sep 2006. [pdf link]
• Topic 12: TinyOS [pdf]
  Reference: "The Emergence of Networking Abstractions and Techniques in TinyOS", Philip Levis, Sam Madden, David Gay, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Alec Woo, Eric Brewer, and David Culler, NSDI 2004. (Read Section-2). [link]
• Topic 13: Telos [pdf]
  Reference: "Telos: Enabling Ultra-Low Power Wireless Research", Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, and David Culler, IPSN/SPOTS 2005. [pdf link]
• Topic 14: Networking Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks [pdf]
• Topic 15: Wireless Sensor Networks: Myth versus Reality
• Topic 16: 802.11 [pdf]
  Reference: IEEE 802.11-1999 Standard draft (Focus on Sections 5, 9) [link]
• Topic 17: Outdoor 802.11 performance measurements [pdf]
  Reference: "Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network", Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket, Sanjit Biswas, Glenn Judd, Robert Morris, SIGCOMM 2004. [pdf link]
  Reference: "Long-Distance 802.11b Links: Performance Measurements and Experience", Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman, and Sayandeep Sen, MOBICOM 2006. [pdf link (paper)] [pdf link (presentation)]
• Topic 18: The 2P MAC for outdoor long-distance 802.11 networks
  Reference: "Design and Evaluation of a new MAC Protocol for Long-Distance 802.11 Mesh Networks", Bhaskaran Raman and Kameswari Chebrolu, MOBICOM 2005. (Read up to Section 4.1). [paper link] [Mobicom'05 presentation] [HotNets'04 presentation]
• Topic 19: Routing in wireless mesh networks
  Reference: "Comparison of Routing Metrics for Static Multi-Hop Wireless Networks", Richard Draves, Jitendra Padhye, Brian Zill, SIGCOMM 2004. (Focus on Sections 1, 2). [pdf link]
• Topic 20: Introduction to Cryptography [pdf] [Notes by Nivedita Rajani]
  Reference: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman, "Privacy and Authentication: An Introduction to Cryptography", in Proc. IEEE, vol. 67, no.3, pp. 397 - 427, 1979.
• Topic 21: Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11
  Reference: Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, David Wagner, "Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11", Mobicom 2001. [pdf link]
• Topic 22: Mobile-IP [Lecture slides not available]
• Topic 23: TCP over wireless links [See lecture 28 and lecture 29 here]
• Topic 24: Summary of wireless networking topics, Things to remember, Take-aways from the course [See lecture 33 here]