Lectures

Main topics

• Introduction to mobile computing, wireless networks, and physical Layer
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  • Addtional notes: Channel models, Channel models:Survey
• MAC Layer
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• Wireless network measurements and modeling
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• Additional notes: Chapt. 4 & 5 from: Peer-to-peer Computing for Mobile Networks: Information Discovery and Dissemination
• Cognitive radios
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  • Addtional notes: Optimization, Opportunistic dynamic spectrum acces
• Positionining
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  • Additional notes: Chapt. 2 from: Peer-to-peer Computing for Mobile Networks: Information Discovery and Dissemination
• Performance of VoIP over wireless networks
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  • Addtional notes: Subjective tests: Guidelines
• Dynamic Spectrum Access
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  • Addtional notes: Spectrum markets

Other topics

• Sensor networks
  • Wireless Sensor Networks: A survey
  • Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks
  • Energy-efficient protocols for low duty cycle wireless microsensor networks
  • DataSpace: querying and monitoring deeply networked collections in physical space
• Mesh networks
  • Wireless Mesh Networks: A survey
  • Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network
  • Roofnet design
• Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11
• Performance Anomaly of 802.11b
• Echos: enhanced capacity 802.11 hotspots
• TCP over wireless
• A comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links
• Hari Balakrishnan PhD Thesis
• 4G
• Features in Future: 4G visions From a Technical Perspective
• Beyond 3G: 4G IP-based Mobile Networks
• Security in wireless
• A survey of secure wireless Ad Hoc Networks
• A survey of secure mobile ad hoc routing protocols
• Localization
• Challenges: Device-free Passive Localization For Wireless Environments
• The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications
• Cognitive radios
• Learning to Share: Narrowband-Friendly Wideband Networks
• Zip Tx: Harnessing Partial Packets in 802.11 Networks

The lectures of the spring semester 2010 can be found here

Presentations