Graduate Seminar - Fall 2002

Instructors: Jorg Liebeherr and Chengzhi Li

• Seminar Content: Recent advances in portable computing device and wireless communication technology make it possible to provide seamless and ubiquitous services for mobile users.  Today, mobile computing is one of the most active fields in computer science.  The shared access of wireless communication channels,  the  limited transmission range of wireless devices,  node mobility, and limited battery lifetime create a plethora of challenging research problems.   This seminar will cover several topics related to these problems, including wireless medium access control protocols, routing protocols for mobile ad-hoc wireless networks, performance of transport protocols over wireless networks,  impact of mobility  on performance, quality-of-service issues,  location management in mobile environments, energy efficient  and power aware protocol designs. The  topics are presented in terms of presentations by students.

• Seminar Material: Selected papers from various journals and conferences will be used.

• Time: Tuesday  6:45 - 8:00 pm   Thursday 3:30 - 4:45 pm

• Place: Olsson Hall 228E

• Prerequisites: Graduate standing, reasonable background in computer networks.

• Enrollment: A maximum number of 20 students may enroll in this class due to space limitations. Enrollment is under the permissions of the instructors only.

• Seminar Pointers

oPresentation Schedule

oPresentation Grading Criteria

oPDF version of syllabus

oSome Potential Projects

• Outline of Seminar

1. Introduction:  Vision and Challenges (1 lectures)

1) Motivation, objectives,  and logistics of the course; introductory vision  papers
 

2. Wireless  Medium Access  Control( 2 lectures)

1)MACA and  MACAW
2)DBTMA
 

3. IEEE 802.11 (3 lectures)

1) IEEE 802.11
2) Does the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol work well in multihop wireless ad hoc networks?
3) Real-Time Traffic Over the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control Layer
 

4. Mobile Ad Hoc  Routing  (3 lecture)

1) DSR and Unicast Routing Protocols in a Flat  Network Structure
2) ZRP and  Unicast Hierarchical Routing Protocols
3) LAR and  Unicast Geographic Position Information Assisted Routing Protocols
 

5. Mobile IP  (1 lectures)

1) Mobile Networking through Mobile IP
 

6. TCP over Wireless Link (3 lectures)

1) I-TCP: indirect TCP for mobile hosts
2) Improving TCP/IP Performance over Wireless Networks
3) Improving Wireless LAN Performance via Adaptive Local Error Control 
 

7. Energy Efficient  and Power Aware Protocols (3 lectures)

1) An energy efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks 
2) Power-Aware Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 
3) Span: An Energy-Efficient Coordination Algorithm for Topology Maintenance in  Ad Hoc Wireless Networks 
 

8. Capacity of Wireless Network (1 lectures)

1) Capacity of ad hoc wireless networks 
 

9. Mobile Data Management  (3 lectures)

 1) Scheduling Data Broadcast In Asymmetric Communication Environments
 2) A Mobile Transaction Model That Captures Both the Data and Movement Behavior 
 3) Data consistency in intermittently connected distributed systems 
 

10. Address Autoconfiguration  (1 lecture )

1) Duplicate Address Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 
 

11. Location Tracking  (2 lecture)

1) Indoor location service 
2) Outdoor location service 
 

12. Multicast in Mobile Ad Hoc Network (option)

1) GeoTora 
 

13. Security (option)

1) Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11 
2) Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

• Seminar Grading

• Presentation:  40%
• Project:  40%
• Reading Summaries:  20%

• Related Links

2.IETF manet (Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks) working group

3.Blue Tooth

4.HomeRF

5.IEEE 802.11 working group

6.The Network Simulator - ns-2

Updated by Chengzhi Li (10/14/2002 4:33 PM)