WPI Computer Science Department

Computer Science Department
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Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Seminar, Spring 2006


Course Overview

The goal of this seminar class is to acquaint participants with some of the fundamental concepts and state-of-the-art research in the areas of mobile computing, wireless networking and ubiquitous computing. Focus will be on the computer science issues in mobile computing. There are no formal requirements but it is expected that participants would have taken at least introductory classes in computer networks and operating systems. The course will consist of weekly presentations, discussions and a term project.

Each week, 2-3 papers will be assigned as required reading from the list of papers for that week. For the first two weeks (and week 13), I will do all the presentation. In weeks 3 through 12, two students will present the required reading for that week. Papers assigned will include both overview and magazine articles which are rich in insight, as well as detailed case papers which investigate specific issues in more depth. In preparing your talk, please use the following powerpoint template for uniformity. Also please send me your powerpoint slides by noon on the day of your talk so that I can make the slides available on class website.

Students will be encouraged to choose papers and projects in their areas of interest. In addition to presenting their chosen papers, students will also be expected to participate in class discussions. There will also be a significant term project The projects will investigate in-depth one of the sub-topics treated in the seminar and group work will be encouraged.

Every class day, all students (except the presenters) should email me a summary of the assigned papers for that week before the start of class. The summaries should original but not exceed 20 sentences per paper or book section. It should contain the key points, findings, contributions, etc of the papers. It should also demonstrate that you have read the assigned papers and not just copied the abstract or introduction. The summaries shall be graded on a simple scale from 0-2 (0 - no effort, 1 - moderate effort, 2 - Excellent job). The summary email should be a simple text email. You can find some guidelines on what the summary should contain HERE

General Information

Discussions: Tuesdays, 6pm - 8.50pm, FL 320

Instructor: Prof. Emmanuel Agu, FL-139, 508-831-5568, emmanuel@cs.wpi.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 5:00PM - 6:00PM; Others by appointment

Required Text:

The text covers only part of the topics to be covered. Selected papers will be assigned from the literature. Please see bibliography (schedule) section below. Other relevant papers may be suggested. Students may change papers in their chosen section by proposing new ones at least two weeks before the papers are due to be presented.

Supplemental Texts:

Class Websites: The class website is at http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~emmanuel/courses/cs525m/S06/.

Grading Policy: Presentation(s): 30%, Class participation: 10%, Final project: 50%, Summaries: 10%.

Access to papers: A number of the assigned papers are from the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. To access these papers, you either have to be at home or configure your browser to use a proxy. You can find details for the proxy configuration on the CCC website at http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/CCC/Help/Software/proxy.html

Projects

Deadlines

Description Deadline
Pick partner, decide project Area February 7
Propose project March 14
Mid-project update April 4
Final presentations April 25
March 7 tentatively no class (term break)

Projects Website

I have set up a website specifically for projects with useful links and resources [ HERE ]

Topics Schedule


Week 1 (Jan. 17): Introduction



Week 2 (Jan. 24): Mobile Applications



Week 3 (Jan 31): Mobile Data and Storage



Week 4 (Feb. 7): Systems Issues



Week 5 (Feb. 14): Wireless Systems (Indoor and outdoor)



Week 6 (Feb. 21): Wireless Transport Protocols



Week 7 (Feb. 28): Mobile Routing



Week 8 (March 14): Wireless MAC Protocols



Week 9 (March 21): Performance Measurements



Week 10 (March 28): Ubiquitous Computing



Week 11 (April 4): Wireless Sensor Networks



Week 12 (April 11): Wireless Security



Week 13 (April 18): Overview of Physical Layer

Overview of Topic


Week 14: Project Presentations

All groups will give presentations of their final project.

Talk Schedule/Slides

Week Topic Presenter Slides
Week 1 Administrivia, introduction Emmanuel Agu (slides)
Week 2 Mobile Applicatons (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 3 Schiller, section 6.2 (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 3 Rhea et al, "Pond: the OceanStore Prototype" (Paul Timmins) (slides)
Week 3 S. Sobti, et al. PersonalRAID (Jason Wilson) (slides)
Week 4 Geihs, K., Middleware challenges ahead (Eric Leshay) (slides)
Week 4 J. Flinn and M Satyarayanan, "PowerScope (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 4 M Anand et al, "Ghosts in the Machine: Interfaces for Better Power Management (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 5 Schiller, Section 4.1 (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 5 Schiller, Chapter 7 (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 6 Schiller, Chapter 9 (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 6 S. Burleigh et. al., " Delay-Tolerant Networking (Jim Kaz) (slides)
Week 7 Schiller, Chapter 8 (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 7 Pertros Zerfos et al, "DIRAC: A Software-based Wireless Router System (Steve Kaz) (slides)
Week 7 Amit Kumar Saha and David B. Johnson. Routing Improvements Using Directional Antennas in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (Greg Ratner) (slides)
Week 8 Schiller, Chapter 3 (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 8 Bhaskaran Raman et al, "Design and Evaluation of a new MAC Protocol for Long-Distance 802.11 Mesh Networks" (Anupama Guha) (slides)
Week 9 Tristan Henderson and David Kotz and Ilya Abyzov. The Changing Usage of a Mature Campus-wide Wireless Network (Andrew Stone) (slides)
Week 9 J Bickett et al, "Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network" (Sean McCormick) (slides)
Week 10 M. Paciga and H. Lutfiyya, Herecast: (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)
Week 10 Lorincz et al, "Sensor networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities (Ryan Seney) (slides)
Week 11 Kahn et al, "Emerging Challenges: Mobile Networking for “Smart Dust (Patrick Gemme) (slides)
Week 11 Heidemann et al "Experimental study of the effects of Transmission Power Control and Blacklisting in Wireless Sensor Networks (Alex Lash) (slides)
Week 12 Corner and Noble, Zero-Interaction Authentication (Martin Meyer) (slides)
Week 12 Thomas Martin et al, "Denial-of-Service Attacks on Battery-powered Mobile Computers (Kevin Kardian) (slides)
Week 13 "Overview of Wireless Physical Layer", (Emmanuel Agu) (slides)

Software Resources

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