Instructor

Prof. Jon Youn (jyoun@mail.unomaha.edu)

Course Overview

This is an advanced graduate course which is primarily targeted for Ph.D/MS graduate students who would like to pursue research in mobile computing and wireless communications.  This course will cover not only a blend of theoretical topics and practical examples, but also the state of the art in mobile communication research with a focus on wireless sensor networks Students are expected to present research papers from the recent literature, and to participate in class discussion actively.

Prerequisites

·        thorough understanding of networks, including Ethernet and other multiple access networks, and routing and network protocols, including the TCP/IP suite.

·        programming skill in C/C++

·        sincere motivation in doing mobile network research: the course load might be higher than other graduate-level courses.

Course Materials

Textbook

•  Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications (Second Edition), Addison-Wesley, 2003

 Reference books

• William Stallings, Wireless Communications and Networks, Prentice Hall, 2001

• James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet (Second Edition), Addison-Wesley, 2002.
• by Feng Zhao, Leonidas J. Guibas, Wireless Sensor Networks : An Information Processing Approach Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking, 2004.

Lecture Slides and Tentative Schedule (Lecture notes will be posted through the semester)

•  Introduction (.5 week)

• Wireless Transmission Techniques (.5 week)

• Wireless Medium Access Control (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, etc.) (.5 week)

• Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth) (1.5 weeks)

• Cellular Wireless Networks (GSM, GPRS, UMTS) (1 weeks)

• Mobile Network Layer (Mobile IP, DHCP) (1 week)

• Mobile Transport Layer (Wireless TCP) (1 week)

• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2 weeks)

• Wireless Sensor Networks (2 weeks)

• Student Presentations (6 weeks)

Student Presentations

Session A: Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

1. "A Review of Current Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks," E. Royer and C.-K. Toh, IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 6, No. 2, (Apr. 1999), pp. 46-55.
2. "Gossiping-based Ad Hoc Routing'', Z. Haas, J.Y. Halpern, and L. Li, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, pages 1707-1716, June 2002.
3. Karp, B. and Kung, H.T., “Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks”, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2000), pp. 243-254.
4. "A Survey on Position-based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", M. Mauve, J. Widmer, and H. Hartenstein, IEEE Network, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 30-39, Nov/Dec 2001.

 Session B: 802.11 & 802.15

1. W. Pattara-Atikom, P. Krishnamurthy, S. Banerjee, “Distributed mechanisms for quality of service in wireless LANs”, IEEE Wireless Communications, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, pp. 26 - 34, June 2003.
2. Ed Callaway, Paul Gorday, Lance Hester, Jose A. Gutierrez, Marco Naeve, Bob Heile, and Venkat Bahl, “Home Networking with IEEE 802.15.4: A Developing Standard for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks” , IEEE Communications, Vol. 40, No. 8  (Aug. 2002), pp 70-77.

 Session C: Wireless Sensor Networks

 1.       Akyildiz, I.F., Su, W., Sankarasubramaniam, Y., and Cayirci, E., “A Survey on Sensor Networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp 102-114, August 2002.

2.       W. Heinzelman, A. Chandrakasan and H. Balakrishnan, “Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks,'' Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS '00), January 2000.

3.       C. Intanagonwiwat, R. Govindan and D. Estrin, “Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks,” IEEE MobiCom 2000.

4.       Y. Yu, R. Govindan, and D. Estrin, Geographical and energy aware routing: A recursive data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks, Tech. Rep. UCLA/CSD-TR-01-0023, May 2001.

5.       J. Kulik, W. Heinzelman and H. Balakrishnan, Negotiation-Based Protocols for Disseminating Information in Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks 8, 2002, pp. 169-185.

6.       F. Ye, H. Luo, J. Cheng, S. Lu, and L. Zhang, A Two-Tier Data Dissemination Model for Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks, MOBICOM 2002, pp. 148-159.

7.       D. Braginsky and D. Estrin, Rumor Routing Algorithm for Sensor Networks, First Workshop on Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA), September 28, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 22-31.

8.       Wei Ye, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin. “An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE INFOCOM 2002

9.       Ananth Rao, Christos Papadimitriou, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, Geographic Routing without Location Information, MobiCom 2003.

10.   Petrovic, R. C. Shah, K. Ramchandran, and J. Rabaey, "Data Funneling: Routing with Aggregation and Compression for Wireless Sensor Networks," SNPA 2003.