CS 284 Mobile Computing
 
Class Introduction/Introduction to Mobile Computing
    April 2
    •    The Challenges of Mobile Computing. Forman and Zahorjan, Computer, 27(4), April 1994.
 
    April 4 - QualNet Overview, MAC Overview
 
MAC Layer Protocols
 
    April 9
    •    Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network. D. Aguayo, J. Bicket, S. Biswas, G. Judd, and R. Morris, Sigcomm, August 2004.
 
 
    April 11
    •    Robust Rate Adaptation for 802.11 Wireless Networks.  S. Wong, H. Yang, S. Lu and V. Bharghavan, MobiCom 2006.
 
    April 16
    •    Experimenting with a Multi-Radio Mesh Networking Testbed. J. Robinson, K. Papagiannaki, C. Diot, X. Guo and L. Krishnamurthy, WinMee, 2005.
    •    End-to-End Performance and Fairness in Multihop Wireless Backhaul Networks. Violeta Gambiroza, Bahareh Sadeghi and Edward Knightly. ACM MobiCom, September 2004.
 
Network Layer
    April 18
    •    Optimized Link State Routing Protocol. T. Clausen, P. Jacquet, A. Laouiti, P. Muhlethaler, A. Qayyum and L. Viennot. IEEE INMIC, 2001.
    •    Performance Comparison of Two On-Demand Routing Protocols for Ad hoc Networks. Perkins, Royer, Das, and Marina, IEEE Personal Communications, February 2001.
 
    April 23
    •    Routing in Multi-Radio, Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks. Draves, Padhye and Zill. Proceedings of Mobicom, September 2004.
 
    April 25
    •    ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks.  S. Biswas and R. Morris.  SigComm, August 2005.
    
Transport Layer
    April 30
    •    A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links. Balakrishnan, Padmanabhan, Seshan and Katz, IEEE Transactions on Networking, December 1997.
    •    Analysis of TCP Performance over Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Holland and Vaidya, Proceedings of Mobicom, August 1999.
 
    May 2
    •    SCTP- A Multi-Link End-to-End Protocol for IP-based Networks. Jungwaier, Rathgeb, Schopp and Tuxen. International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2001.
    •    Experimental Evaluation of TCP Performance and Fairness in an 802.11e Testbed. Anthony Ng, David Malone and Douglas Leith. EWIND, August 2005.
    •    Quality of Service Schemes for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs - An Evaluation. Anders Lindgren, Andreas Almquist and Olov Schelen. Mobile Networks and Applications, 2003.
 
Multimedia Support
 
    May 7
    •    Sticky CSMA/CA: Implicit Synchronization and Real-time QoS in Mesh Networks. Sumit Singh, Prashanth Acharya, Upmanyu Madhow and Elizabeth Belding. Ad hoc Networks Journal, 2007.
    •    Understanding Congestion in IEEE 802.11b Wireless Networks.  A. Jardosh, K. Ramachandran, K. Almeroth and E. Belding-Royer.  IMC, October 2005.
    
Network Performance and Evaluation
 
    May 9 - Mobility Modeling and Network Usage
    •    Random Waypoint Considered Harmful. Yoon, Liu and Noble. Infocom 2003.
    •    The Changing Usage of a Mature Campus-wide Wireless Network. Henderson, Kotz and Abyzov. ACM MobiCom, September 2004.
    
    May 14: Mini-Demos in GSL
 
    May 16 - Management
    •    Self-Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments. Aditya Akella, Glenn Judd, Srinivasan Seshan and Peter Steenkiste. ACM MobiCom, August 2005.
 
Mesh Networks: The Next Generation
 
    May 21- Rural Mesh Networks: Long Distance Links
    •    Design and Evaluation of a new MAC Protocol for Long-Distance 802.11 Mesh Networks.  B. Raman and K. Chebrolu, MobiCom 2005.
    •    WILDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks.  R. Patra, S. Nedevschi, S. Surana, A. Sheth, L. Subramanian and E. Brewer.  NSDI, April 2007.
 
    May 23 - InterPlanetary Internet
    •    Satellite-Based Internet - A Tutorial. Hu and Li, IEEE Communications, March 2001.
    •    TCP/IP Performance over Satellite Links. Partridge and Shepard, IEEE Network, September/October 1997.
    •    The Invisible Internet. Vint Cerf and Adrian Hooke. Communications of the ACM, 2001.
 
  May 28: No Class - Holiday
 
    May 30 - Delay Tolerant Networking
    •    Routing in a Delay Tolerant Network. Sushant Jain, Kevin Fall and Rabin Patra. ACM SIGCOMM, August 2004.
    •    A Message Ferrying Approach for Data Delivery in Sparse Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar and Ellen Zegura. ACM MobiHoc, May 2004.
 
    
Project Presentations
    •    June 4
 
Final Exam
    •    June 6, in class