Wireless Networking: Principles and Practice, Course Outline

1. Introduction, Course outline, Evaluation plan, Logistics
2. Basics of wireless propagation, fading, path loss, antennas, modulation (overview only, not in-depth)
   Reference: Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Theodore S. Rappaport, Pearson Education, 2nd Edition, Chapters 4, 5, 6
6. A variety of wireless networks: PAN, LAN, WAN, Sensor networks, RFIDs; Issues in wireless networks: multi-access, mobility, low-power, security, wless errors
   References:
   The Challenges of Mobile Computing, George H. Forman and John Zahorjan, IEEE Computer, April 1994
   
7. Multi-access in 802.11
9. Measurements in WLAN networks
   References:
   Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket, Sanjit Biswas, Glenn Judd, Robert Morris, Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network, SIGCOMM 2004, Aug 2004
   The Changing Usage of a Mature Campus-wide Wireless Network Tristan Henderson, David Kotz, Ilya Abyzov (Dartmouth College, USA), Mobicom 2004
   
11. Discussion of class projects
12. 802.11e
    References: To be announced
13. Wireless mesh networks
    References:
    John Bicket, Daniel Aguayo, Sanjit Biswas, and Robert Morris, Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network , Mobicom 2005, Aug 2005
    Sanjit Biswas and Robert Morris, Opportunistic Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, SIGCOMM 2005, Aug. 2005
    
15. WPANs (Bluetooth, 802.15.4, Zigbee)
    References: To be announced
17. Sensor networks
    References:
    David Culler, Deborah Estrin, and Mani Srivastava, Overview of Sensor Networks, IEEE Computer, August 2004
    Chee-Yee Chong; Kumar, S.P., Sensor networks: Evolution, opportunities, and challenges, Proc IEEE, August 2003
    A.Mainwaring, R. Szewczyk, D. Culler, J. Anderson, Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA), 2002
    Ning Xu et al, A Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Monitoring;, ACM SenSys 2004
    Christopher Sadler et al, Hardware Design Experiences in ZebraNet, ACM SenSys 2004
    Fan Ye, Haiyun Luo, Jerry Cheng, Songwu Lu, Lixia Zhang, A Two-tier Data Dissemination Model for Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Mobicom 2002
    
21. Overview of the WiMax (802.16) system/standard
22. GSM system overview
    Reference:
    Overview Of The GSM System and Protocol Architecture, Moe Rahnema, IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1993
23. Basics of cryptography and security
    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
24. Authentication and Privacy in mobile systems
    References: To be announced
26. 802.11 (in)security
    Reference:
    Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11 Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, and David Wagner. MOBICOM 2001
27. Security analysis of 802.15.4
    Reference:
    Security Considerations for IEEE 802.15.4 Networks Naveen Sastry and David Wagner. ACM WiSe 2004, October 1, 2004
28. Mobile-IP
    References:
    Andrew Myles, Charles Perkins, and David B. Johnson, "The Internet Mobile Host Protocol (IMHP), INET, June 1994
    Stuart Cheshire and Mary Baker, "Internet Mobility 4x4", ACM SIGCOMM, Aug 1996
30. TCP over wireless
    References:
    Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Elan Amir, Randy H. Katz, Improving TCP/IP Performance over Wireless Networks, ACM Mobicom, Nov 1995
32. RFID systems
    
34. Measurement/survey project presentations