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Course Overview

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced concepts in wireless and mobile networks. The material in the seminar, drawn mainly from the research literature, will be presented in a bottom-up fashion. Challenges and an introduction to basic and fundamental issues (such as Internet principles, mobile networking and wireless networks basis) are presented first, to form the foundation for further discussion. This is followed by discussions of more advanced topics in mobile wireless networks, including wireless mesh network, vehicular/mobile networks and delay tolerant and opportunistic networks.

Requirement of Engagement

• Each participant is required to read the selected paper before the seminar and prepare the review of the paper, which should include the following parts:
  • Summary of the paper
  • pros and cons of the paper (your conclusion)

  NOTE!! Every participant should provide the paper review BEFORE the seminar. => Download the form

• During the seminar, one is chosen for giving the overview of the paper. And the list of pros and cons is discussed by all the participant.
• In the end of the semester, everyone is requested to pick a paper and prepare:
  • presentation (each for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes discussions)
  • essay (12~15 pages)

Schedule

• 17.04 Introduction of the lecture
• 24.04 session 1
• 01.05 public holiday
• 08.05 session 2
• 15.05 session 3
• 22.05 session 4
• 29.05 session 5
• 05.06 session 6
• 12.06 session 7: paper selection for final presentations
• 19.06 session 8
• 26.06 session 9
• 03.07 session 10: submission of slides for final presentations
• 10.07 Final presentation I
• 17.07 Final presentation II

Session Reading List

• Mobility and Routing
• Session 1: Scalable Routing
A Scalable Routing System Design for Future Internet, ACM SIGCOMM workshop in IPv6, Aug. 2007, Daniel Massey, Lan Wang, Beichuan Zhang, Lixia Zhang
• Session 2: Virtual ID
Virtual Id Routing, MobiArch'08, Aug. 2008, G.-H. Lu, S. Jain, S. Chen and Z.-L. Zhang
• Wireless Mesh Network
• Session 3: Fairness/Congestion Control
Measurement and Modeling of the Origins of Starvation in Congestion Controlled Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2008, J. Shi, O. Gurewitz, V. Mancuso, J. Camp, and E. Knightly
• Session 4: Measurement
Analysis of a mixed-use urban wifi network: when metropolitan becomes neapolitan , ACM IMC'08, Mikhail Afanasyev , Tsuwei Chen , Geoffrey M. Voelker , Alex C. Snoeren
• Session 5: Security
DARWIN: Distributed and Adaptive Reputation mechanism for Wireless ad-hoc Networks, ACM MobiCom'07, Juan Jose Jaramillo and R. Srikant
• Vehicular/Mobile Networks
• Session 6: Handoff Algorithm
Supporting Vehicular Mobility in Urban Multi-hop Wireless Networks, ACM MobiSys 2008, A. Giannoulis, M. Fiore, and E. Knightly,
• session 7: Deployment issue
Relays, Base Stations, and Meshes: Enhancing Mobile Networks with Infrastructure, MobiCom'08, Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, Don Towsley, and Brian Neil Levine
• Session 8: Content Delivery
Cabernet: Vehicular Content Delivery Using WiFi, MobiCom'08, Jakob Eriksson, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden
• Delay Tolerant and Opportunistic Networks (mainly focus on "pocket switched networks (PSNs)")
• Session 9: Routing
BUBBLE Rap: Social-based Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks, ACM MobiHoc 2008, Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft and Eiko Yoneki
• Session 10: Content Distribution
Media Sharing based on Colocation Prediction in Urban Transport, MobiCom'08, Liam McNamara, Cecilia Mascolo and Licia Capra

Related Materials

• Mobility and Routing
• Towards A New Internet Routing Architecture: Arguments forSeparating Edges from Transit Core, ACM Worshop HotNets, Oct. 2008, Dan Jen et al.
• A Survey on Wireless Mesh Networks, APT: A Practical Tunneling Architecture for Routing Scalability, D. Jen, M Meisel, D. Massey, et al, Technical Report 080004, UCLA, 2008.
• Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding Reconsidered, August, 2005, S. Keshav
• Evaluating the benefits of Locator/ID separation,Mobiarch 2007, B. Quoitin, L. Iannone, C. de Launois and O. Bonaventure.
• Wireless Mesh Network
• Mesh networks: commodity multihop ad hoc networks, IEEE Communications Magazine 2005, R. Bruno, M. Conti and E. Gregori
• A Survey on Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine 2005, I.F. Akyildiz and X. Wang
• Extended Service Set Mesh Networking Standard, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2008, J. Camp and E. Knightly
• Hardware and Software Solutions for Wireless Mesh Network Testbeds, IEEE Communication Magazine 2008, R. Riggio, N. Scalabrino, D. Miorandi, F. Granelli, Y. Fang, E. Gregori, I. Chlamtac
• Delay Tolerant and Opportunistic Networks
• Promoting Tolerance for Delay Tolerant Network Research, CCR editorial note 2008, Jon Crowcroft, Eiko Yoneki, Pan Hui and Tristan Henderson
• DTN material from Prof. Jon Crowcroft at University of Cambridge

Paper List for Final Presentation/Report

The list will be provided before 05.06 (session 6).

Resource Collections

• Michael J. Hanson: Efficient reading of papers in science and technology , Brochure, 1989.
• Ashwin Ram, GaTech: How to Present a Paper.
• Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia U.: Writing Technical Articles in computer science and electrical engineering, with emphasis on papers in systems and networks.
• William J. Rapaport, SUNY Buffalo: How to Study ; How to Write .