Lectures

Main topics

• Introduction to mobile computing and wireless networks
  • slides (last update: 17 February 2016)
• Physical Layer, channel models and radio propagation
  • slides (last update: 17 February 2016),
  • Addtional notes: Channel models, Channel models:Survey
• MAC Layer
  • slides (last update: 21 March 2014, 2.5 lectures)
• Wireless network measurements and modeling
• slides (last update: 26 April 2013, 2 lectures)
• slides: wireless network topics (last update: 26 April 2013)
• Additional notes:
  • Chapt. 4 & 5 from: Peer-to-peer Computing for Mobile Networks: Information Discovery and Dissemination
  • EIFFEL Position Paper on NETWORK MONITORING, MEASUREMENTS & MODELING
• Analysis of Quality of Experience (QoE) for Video Streaming
  • slides (last update: 6 April 2016)
• Sensor Networks (e.g., sensor, IEEE 802.15.4, platforms for simulations and experiments), data dissemination and routing protocols for ad-hoc networks
  • slides (last update: 26 April 2013, 2 lectures)
  • slides: part 1, part 2 (last update: 08 April 2014)
• Routing protocols for ad hoc networks: main concepts and popular routing protocols (e.g., AODV, DSR)
  • slides
• Cognitive radios
  • slides
  • Addtional notes: Optimization, Opportunistic dynamic spectrum acces
• Positionining (e.g., GPS, RSSI fingerprinting, cricket)
  • slides (last update: 26 April 2013, 2.5 lectures)
  • slides
  • Additional notes: Chapt. 2 from: Peer-to-peer Computing for Mobile Networks: Information Discovery and Dissemination
• Performance of VoIP over wireless networks
  • slides (1 lecture)
  • Addtional notes: Subjective tests: Guidelines
• Dynamic Spectrum Access
  • slides (1 lecture)
  • Addtional notes: Spectrum markets
• A user-centric, QoE-based recommendation tool for wireless access markets
  • slides (last update: 26 April 2013, 2 lectures)
• Review session (2 lectures)
• Student projects discussions, with each team separately (4 2-hour sessions, during May 15th - June 15th)

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