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• Notes: Channel models

Digital communications, channel models & physical-layer issues

• Wireless communications. Andrea Goldsmith, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Wireless data access, IEEE 802.11b  & wireless MAC protocols

• LTE standard.
• 802.11 Wireless Networks, The definitive guide. Matthew S. Gast, O'Reilly, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00183-5.
• Wireless Medium Access Control Protocols IEEE Communications Surveys, 2000
  
• Wireless Communications Principles and PracticeTheodore S. Rappaport, Prentice Hall (Second Edition), ISBN 0-13-042232-0.
  
• Applied Cryptography Bruce Schneier, Wiley (Second Edition), ISBN 0-471-12845-7.
  
• A Technical Tutorial on the IEEE 802.11 Protocol (PDF) IEEE802.11 A technical Overview (PPT) by Pablo Brenner Director of Engineering BreezeCom
  
• Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications
  
• Dynamic Tuning of the IEEE 802.11 Protocol to Achieve a Theoretical Throughput Limit Frederico Calμ, Marco Conti, Associate Member, IEEE, and Enrico Gregori, Associate
• Member, IEEE, IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING, VOL. 8, NO. 6, DECEMBER 2000
  
• Performance Anomaly of 802.11 b M Heusse, F Rousseau, G Berger-Sabbatel, A Duda - IEEE INFOCOM, 2003
  
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication C.E. Shannon - The Bell System Technical Journal, 1948
  
• Performance of Reliable Transport Protocol over IEEE802.11 Wireless LAN: Analysis and Enhancement H. Wu, Y. Peng, K. Long, S. Cheng, J. Ma
  
• A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links, H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, R. Katz, Sigcomm 1996
   

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Ubiquitous Computing

• Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing Mark Weiser March 23, 1993.
• The Computer for the 21st Century Mark Weiser March 23, 1993.

Security

• Responder Anonymity and Anonymous Peer-to-Peer file sharing"  V. Scarlata, B.N. Levine, and C. Sheilds ICNP 2001. 
• Sergio Marti, T.J. Giuli, Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, Mitigating Routing Misbehavior in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Proceedings of Mobicom 2000, Boston, August 2000.
• A Survey of Secure Wireless Ad Hoc Routing, Y. Hu, A. Perrig

Cognitive Radios

• Symbol-level network coding for wireless mesh networks Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi, Hari Balakrishnan and Muriel Medard - ACM SIGCOMM 2008
  
• ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals In Wireless Networks Gollakota, Shyamnath; Katabi, Dina - ACM SIGCOMM 2008
  
• What?s Going On? Learning Communication Rules In Edge Networks S Kandula, R Chandra, D Katabi - ACM SIGCOMM 2008
  
• Learning to share: narrowband-friendly wideband networks H Rahul, D Katabi, F Edalat - ACM SIGCOMM 2008
  
• Echos-enhanced capacity 802.11 hotspots A Vasan, R Ramjee, T Woo - INFOCOM 2005
  
• A Survey of Dynamic Spectrum Access, Q. Zhao, B. Sadler
  
• Spectrum Access Games and Strategic Learning in Cognitive Radio Networks for Delay-Critical Applications, M. Van Der Schaar, F. Fu
  
• Future Directions in Cognitive Radio Network Research, P. Steenkiste, D. Sicker, G. Minden, D. Raychaudhuri
  
• Rayleigh Fading Channels In Mobile Digital Communication Systems. Part I: Characterization , B. Sklar
  
• Game theory for cognitive radio networks: An overview, B. Wang, Y. Wu, K.J. Ray Liu
  
• Cognitive MIMO Radio, G. Scutari, D. Palomar, S. Barbarossa

Access Point Selection

• The need for cross-layer information in AP selection algorithms K Sundaresan, K Papagiannaki - IMC 2006
  
• Dynamic Load Balancing through coordinated scheduling in packet data systems S Das, H Viswanathan, G Rittenhouse - Infocom 2003
  
• Facilitating Access Point Selection in IEEE802.11 Wireless Networks S. Vasudevan , K. Papagiannaki , C. Diot , J. Kurose and D. Towsley - USENIX 2005
  
• IEEE 802.11 Hot Spot Load Balance and QoS-Maintained Seamless Roaming Tzu-Chieh Tsai, Chih-Feng Lien
  

Signals

• HY431 Fourier + Sampling
  

User mobility pattern

• LeZi-update: an information-theoretic framework for personal mobility tracking in PCS networks Amiya Bhattacharya and Sajal Das
  
• Intersystem Location Update and Paging Schemes for Multitier Wireless Networks by Wenye Wang and Ian Akyildiz

Location-dependent applications

• Students present & discuss novel location-dependent applications

Energy conservation, consumption and measurements

• QoS Aware Power Save Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Laura Feeney.
  
• Investigating the Energy Consumption of a Wireless Network Interface in an Ad Hoc Networking Environment Laura Feeney, Martin Nilsson, IEEE Infocom 2000.
  
• A power control MAC protocol for ad hoc networks Eun-Sun Jung, Nitin H. Vaidya, Mobicom 2002.
  
• Span: An Energy efficient coordination algorithm for topology maintanance in wireless ad hoc networks Benjie Chen et al.
  
• Distributed Energy-conserving Routing Protocols for Sensor Networks, Qun Li, Javed Aslam, Daniela Rus.
  
• Application-driven power management for mobile communication Robin Kravets, P. Krishnan.
  
• Converting SignalStrength Percentage todBm Values, Joe Bardwell, VP of Professional Services
  
• C. E. Jones, K. M. Sivalingam, P. Agrawal, and J. C. Chen. A survey of energy efficient network protocols for wireless networks. Wireless Networks, 7(4):343--358, July 2001.
  
• Power management techniques for mobile communication, Robin Kravets, P. Krishnan

Routing protocols for ad hoc networks and Mobile IP

• Elizabeth M. Royer and C.-K. Toh, A Review of Current Routing Protocols for Ad-Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, April 1999, 46--55.
  
• DSR: The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks  David B. Johnson, David A. Maltz, Josh Broch.
  
• A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing ProtocolsJosh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson, Yih-Chun Hu, Jorjeta Jetcheva. Mobicom'98, Dallas, Texas. October 25-30, 1998.
  
• Location-aided routing (LAR) in mobile ad hoc networks Y. Ko and N.H. Vaidya, Mobicom 1998.
  
• Mobile Networking Through Mobile IP Charles E. Perkins, IEEE Internet Computing, 2(1)58-69, January 1998.
  
• Topology Control and Routing in Ad hoc Networks: A Survey Rajmohan Rajaraman ACM SIGACT News, Vol 33, Issue 2, June 2002
  
• Multihop Ad Hoc Networking: The Theory, M. Conti, S. Giordano
  
• Features in Future: 4G Visions From a Technical Perspective, J. Sun, J. Sauvola, D. Howie, Globecom 2001
  
• Beyond 3G: 4G IP-based Mobile Networks, D. O'Mahony, L. Doyle

Location-sensing systems

• GPS-less Low Cost Outdoor Localization For Very Small DevicesNirupama Bulusu, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin.
  
• The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications, Nissanka B. Priyantha, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Seth Teller, Proc. 7th ACM MOBICOM, Rome, Italy, July 2001.
  
• Enhancements to the RADAR User Location and Tracking System Paramvir Bahl and Venkata N. Padmanabhan Microsoft Research, Anand Balachandran University of California at San Diego February 2000, Technical Report MSR-TR-2000-12
  
• Practical Robust Localization over Large-Scale 802.11 Wireless Networks, Andreas Haeberlen, Eliot Flannery, Andrew M. Ladd, Algis Rudys, Dan S. Wallach, Lydia E. Kavraki, Mobicom 2004
  
• Challenges: Device-free Passive Localization for Wireless Environments, M. Youssef, M. Mah, A. Agrawala, Mobicom 2007

Sensors, RF tags and sensor networks

• Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks   D. Estrin, R. Govindan, J. Heidemann and S. Kumar, In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networks (MobiCOM '99), August 1999, Seattle, Washington.
  
• Data-centric storage in Sensornets Sylvia Ratnasamy, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp, Scott Shenker, Li Yin, Fang Yu. First Workshop on Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA), September 28 2002, Atlanta, GA.
  
• Locating tiny sensors in time and space: A case study Lewis Girod, Vladimir Bychkovskiy, Jeremy Elson, and Deborah Estrin  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2002), Freiburg, Germany. September 16-18 2002. Invited paper.
  
• Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey, I. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci
  
• Physics behind different sensors and actuators.
  
• FAQ on RF tags.
   

Mesh Networks

• Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey, I. Akyildiz, X. Wang, W. Wang

 

The small world phenomenon and peer-to-peer networks

• S. Milgram. The small world problem. Psychology Today 1(1967).
  
• J. Travers and S. Milgram. An experimental study of the small world problem. Sociometry 32(1969).
  
• P. Killworth and H. Bernard, Reverse small world experiment. Social Networks 1(1978).
  
• Watts, D. J. and S. H. Strogatz. Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks. Nature 393:440-42(1998).
  
• J. Kleinberg. The small-world phenomenon: An algorithmic perspective. Proc. 32nd ACM Symposium of Theory of Computing, 2000.
  
• J. Kleinberg. Small-World Phenomena and the Dynamics of Information. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 14, 2001.
  
• D. J. Watts, P. S. Dodds, M. E. J. Newman Identity and Search in Social Networks. Science, 296, 1302-1305, 2002.
  
• F. Menczer. Growing and Navigating the Small World Web by Local Content. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99(22): 14014-14019, 2002
  
• J. Kleinfeld. Could it be a Big World After All? The `Six Degrees of Separation' Myth. Society, April 2002.
• Using the Small-World Model to Improve Freenet Performance Hui Zhang, Ashish Goel, Ramesh Govindan, IEEE Infocom 2002.
• "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System" I. Clarke, B. Wiley, O. Sanberg, T. Hong, International Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability, Springer-Verlag LNCS 2009, ed. by H. Federrat, Springer: New York (2001).
  
• What is P2P and What Isn't
  
• Gnutella protocol
  
• Free riding on Gnutella

 

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