CS 655
Wireless and Mobile Computing
Fall 2019
| Date | Topic | Due |
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| 08/26 | Course introduction [pptx] Course objectives, topics & structure |
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| 09/02 | (No class) Labor day | |
| 09/09 | Wireless MAC layer [pptx] CSMA/CA, 802.11 MAC, channelization and framing |
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| 09/16 | Wireless PHY layer Modulation, OFDM, coding and link capacity |
Review-1 |
| 09/23 | Wireless PHY layer [pptx] Rate adaptation techniques and protocols - Student presentation 1: How your smartphone connects to WiFi? 802.11 management operations including scanning, authentication, and association (Jon Dituro) - Student presentation 2: 802.11 frames under microscope Understanding WiFi frames including data, RTS/CTS, ACK (Christopher Roberts) |
Project proposal |
| 09/30 | Wireless PHY layer [pptx] MIMO, beamforming, 802.11n and 802.11ac - Student presentation 1: Might as well send more WiFi frame aggregation: pros and cons (Matthew Satyshur) - Student presentation 2: I know what you did on WiFi Understanding 802.11 security: WEP and WPA (John Murray) |
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| 10/07 | Gigabit wireless [pptx] Millimeter-wave wireless, 802.11ad and directional communication - Student presentation 1: Whose channel is it anyway? Channel assignment in Cisco's enterprise WLANs (Gaby Roland) - Student presentation 2: I can't hear you and your video is stuck!! 802.11e MAC QoS for voice and video (Ben Lister) |
Review-2 |
| 10/15 | Wireless network layer [pptx] Backhauling with mesh networking, multi-hop routing protocols - Student presentation 1: Why can't we use both? Understanding multi-path TCP on WiFi and LTE (Jingyuan Zhang) - Student presentation 2: Can we sense that using WiFi? Activity and fall detection using WiFi (Zhenyi Ze) |
Programming Assignment-1 |
| 10/21 | Wireless transport layer [pptx] Wireless packet loss vs. congestion related loss, TCP on wireless - Student presentation 1: From head to toe Capturing whole body posture and movement using 60 GHz WiFi (Panneer Santhalingam) - Student presentation 2: Shifting gears 802.11p and DSRC: vehicle-to-vehicle communicating using WiFi (Aiswarya Kannan) |
Project Milstone-1 |
| 10/28 | Wireless transport layer TCP variants for wireless: snoop TCP, wireless TCP, indirect TCP, ... - Student presentation 1: But where exactly are you? Indoor localization using Bluetoogh low energy beacons (Abhinav Gupta) - Student presentation 2: Dronets or fanets? Finding a routing protocol suitable for UAVs on mission (Shayan Amirhosseini) |
Review-3 |
| 11/4 | Mobile sensing and indoor localization [pptx] Smartphone sensors, IMU dead reckoning, activity and gesture recognition on wearables - Student presentation 1: Is it really that fast? TCP performance on multi-gigabit WiFi (Yu Han) |
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| 11/11 | Indoor localization using WiFi and visible light [pptx] [pptx] Radar, Horus, PinLoc, Zee, UnLoc, Epsilon, Luxapose - Student presentation 1: Is that a yes or a no? Head gesture detection using IMUs in smartglasses (Liming Zhang) |
Programming Assignment-2 |
| 11/18 | IoT and low-power wireless [pptx] RFID and backscatter overview, NFC, Bluetooth, ZigBee |
Review-4 |
| 11/25 | IoT and low-power wireless Wireless HART, LoRA, 6LoWPAN |
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| 12/2 | Project presentations and demos |
Final project |