CS 6397 Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing

Wireless technology has the advantage of facilitating untethered communication and allows computing anywhere, any time. This goal of this course is to expose students with the latest advancement of wireless networking systems through a combination of textbook materials, research papers and hand-on experiences. The topics will include, basics of wireless communication, medium access schemes, IEEE 802.11/15 standard suites, Mobile IP, (mobile) ad hoc networks, mobile applications and services.

General Information

Instructor: Rong Zheng (rzheng at cs at uh at edu)

Office: PGH 565

Telephone: (713) 743-2663

Office Hours: M 4:30 ~ 6:00pm; Tue 4:00 ~ 5:30pm

TA: Babu Sundaram (babusun at bayou dot uh dot edu)

Office: PGH 204

Telephone: (713) 743-3075

Office Hours: 1 - 2.30 PM TTh

Course Homepage: http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~rzheng/course/COSC6397

Reference:

[BG92] Bertsekas and Gallager, Data Networks, 2 ed. Prentice Hall, 1992

[Rap96] T. Rappaport. Wireless Communication Principles and Practice, Upper Saddle River, Prentice-Hall, 1996

[Stal01] W. Stallings. Wireless Communication and Networks, Prentice Hall, 2001

Prerequisites: Computer networking, C++ programming

Grading

Homework & mini-projects 30%

Participation 10%

Mid-term 30%

Final Project 30%

Homework is due as specified on the assignment handout. Mini-projects are due every other week. No late submission accepted.

Announcement

A ns-2 tutorial session will be scheduled on Sept 7th (Tue.), 7pm~9pm at PGH 347. There will be no TA office hour for the same day.

08/27 WebCT (Vista) for the course is now available. Update of this page will soon be discontinued.

The first HW is due on Sept. 8th (Wed.) before class.

The list of final project ideas is out!

Course Schedule

	Content	Assignment	Reading Materials	Note
Week 1 (Aug. 23, 25)	Introduction Wireless Channel	HW1 HW1 Solution	[Rap96] Chap 1, Chap 2; Chap 4, Chap 5; [Stal01] Chap 5
Week 2 (Aug. 30, Sept. 1)	Multiple Access WLAN & IEEE 802.11	HW2 HW2 Solution	[Rap96] Chap 6, Chap 9; [Stal01]Chap 7, Chap13, Chap14;IEEE 802.11, 1999 Edition	Labor Day
Week 3 (Sep. 8)	IEEE 802.11
Week 4(Sep. 13, 15)	MANET & Routing On-demand Routing	HW3 HW3 Solution	[BG92]Chap 5.1~5.3 Royer et al.'s paper DSR, AODV
Week 5 (Sep. 20, 22)	On-demand Routing Geographical Routing and Mobility Model		GPSR A survey of mobility model
Week 6 (Sept. 27)	Review Session	Homework 4		No class on Sept. 29
Week 7 (Oct. 4, 6)	Mobile IP Midterm I		[Stal01]Chap 12 C. E. Perkins' Tutorial
Week 8 (Oct. 11, 13)	Transport 1 Transport 2	Homework 5	TCP Analysis
Week 9 (Oct. 18, 20)	Cross-layer I (Power)		802.11 Specification Chap 11	Project Proposal Due
Week 10 (Oct. 25, 27)	Cross-layer II (Security)		Recommended readings: Wireless Network Security: 802.11, Bluetooth, and Handheld Devices Secured AODV	Out of town on Oct. 25 (Babu will substitute for the lecture).
Week 11(Nov. 1, 3)	Overview of Distributed Systems & Mobile Computing WAP	HW6 Quiz 1 Sol	Distributed System Concepts & Design by Geoge Coulouris et al. (chapt. 1, 2); [Stal01] Chap12.2
Week 12 (Nov. 8, 10)	Location & Context Awareness (updated)		GPS Tutorial A Survey of Context-aware Mobile Computing RBS
Week 13 (Nov. 15, 17)	Mobile Services 1 and 2	Quiz 2 Solution Homework 5 Solution Homework 7	VNC MobiDesk	Project Status Report
Week 14 (Nov. 22)	Wireless Sensor Networks		SensorNet Reading list (the papers covered in the class are in bold font)
Week 15 (Nov. 29, Dec. 1)	Wireless Sensor Networks
Week 16 (Dec. 6, 5pm-7pm)	Project Presentation
Week 17				Project Final Report Due

Final project available here (internal use only).