CS 284 Syllabus

Class Introduction/Introduction to Mobile Computing

• Jan. 3
  • The Challenges of Mobile Computing. Forman and Zahorjan, Computer, 27(4), April 1994.
  • Adaptation and Mobility in Wireless Information Systems. Katz, IEEE Personal Communications, 1(1), 1994.
  • The Coming Age of Calm Technology. Weiser and Brown, 1996.

• Jan. 5 - Introduction cont., QualNet Overview
  • QualNet slides

• Jan. 10
  • MACA - A New Channel Access Method for Packet Radio. Phil Karn.
  • MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LANs, Bharghavan, Demers, Shenker, and Zhang.
  • Does the IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol Work Well in Multihop Wireless Ad hoc Networks?, Xu and Saadawi, IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2001.

• Jan. 12
  • Contention-Aware Admission Control for Ad hoc Networks. Yang and Kravets. UIUC Technical Report 2003.

• Jan. 17 - No Class (holiday)

• Jan. 19
  • PAC: Perceptive Admission Control for Mobile Wireless Networks. Chakeres and Belding-Royer, Proceedings of QShine 2004.

• Jan. 24
  • Mobile IP, Perkins.
  • IP Micro-Mobility Protocols, Campbell and Gomez-Castellanos.

• Jan. 26
  • Highly Dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV) for Mobile Computers. Perkins and Bhagwat, Computer Communications Review, October 1994.
  • Performance Comparison of Two On-Demand Routing Protocols for Ad hoc Networks. Perkins, Royer, Das, and Marina, IEEE Personal Communications, February 2001.
  • Location-Aided Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Ko and Vaidya, Proceedings of MobiCom, October 1998.

• Jan. 31
  • Routing in Multi-Radio, Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks. Draves, Padhye and Zill. Proceedings of Mobicom, September 2004.

• Feb. 2
  • The Effects of Mobility on Reliable Transport Protocols. Caceres and Iftode, 1994.
  • 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.

• Feb. 7
  • SCTP- A Multi-Link End-to-End Protocol for IP-based Networks. Jungwaier, Rathgeb, Schopp and Tuxen. International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2001.
  • A Study of SCTP Services in a Mobile-IP Network. Noonan, Perry and Murphy.

• Feb. 9 - Sensor and Actor Networks
  • Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks. Estrin, Govindan, Heidemann, Kumar, Proceedings of Mobicom '99.
  • Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks: Research Challenges. Ian Akyildiz and Ismail Kasimoglu. Ad hoc Netowrks Journal, 2(4), 2004.
  • Negotiation-based Protocols for Disseminating Information in Wireless Sensor Networks. Kulik, Heinzelman, and Balakrishnan, Proceedings of Mobicom, August 1999.

• Feb. 14 - No Class

• Feb. 16
  • Random Waypoint Considered Harmful. Yoon, Liu and Noble. Infocom 2003.

• Feb. 21 - No Class (holiday)

• Feb. 23
  • Real-World Environment Models for Mobile Network Evaluation. Jardosh, Belding-Royer, Almeroth and Suri. JSAC 2005.
  • The Changing Usage of a Mature Campus-wide Wireless Network. Henderson, Kotz and Abyzov. Proceedings of Mobicom, September 2004.

• Feb. 28
  • 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.
  • Delay-Tolerant Networking: An Approach to Interplanetary Internet. Burleigh, Hooke, et. al. IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2003.

• March 2
• March 7

• March 9 : in class