Schedule of topics:
The presentation of each of these topics will commence during
each week's Wednesday (2 hour) class.
This schedule is almost guaranteed
to change. Please refer to this webpage (not a printed copy) when revising
material.
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Week 1
Wed 22nd July
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Introduction to Mobile
and Wireless Computing
Presented by Assoc. Prof. Chris McDonald.
Introduction and administrivia; An introduction to significant concepts of
wireless networking through wireless network monitoring.
This week's reading:
- MAP: A scalable monitoring system for
dependable 802.11 wireless networks, Yong Sheng, Keren Tan,
Udayan Deshpande, Bennet Vance, Hongda Yin, Chris McDonald, Tristan
Henderson, Guanling Chen, David Kotz, Andrew Campbell, and Joshua
Wright. IEEE Wireless Communications, special issue on Dependability
Issues with Ubiquitous Wireless Access, vol. 15, no. 5, pp10-17, Oct
2008.
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Week 2
Wed 29th July
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The IEEE802.11 wireless LAN protocol
An overview of wireless ethernets; protocols and infrastructure; frame
formats; associations with access-points.
You may also like read pages
13-17 of Lecture 6 from CITS3230
(Computer Networks).
Labsheet 1,
for Thursday 30th July.
Reading for this week's class:
- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
Wireless Protocols: A Survey and a Comparison, Ferro, E. and Potorti,
F., IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, pp12-26, Feb 2005.
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Week 3
Wed 5th Aug
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Wireless ethernet security
Reading for this week's class:
- [informal] Your 802.11
wireless network has no clothes, Arbaugh, W.A.; Shankar, N.; Wan,
Y.C.J.; Kan Zhang, IEEE Wireless Communications, Volume 9, Issue 6,
Dec. 2002, pp44-51.
- [detailed] Security
analysis and improvements for IEEE 802.11i, Changhua He, John C.
Mitchel, The 12th Annual Network and Distributed System Security
Symposium (NDSS'05), Feb. 2005, pp90-110.
Labsheet 2,
for Thursday 6th August.
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Week 4
Wed 12th Aug
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Location prediction and tracking using wireless ethernets
Reading for this week's class:
- ARIADNE: a dynamic indoor
signal map construction and localization system Yiming Ji, Saad Biaz,
Santosh Pandey, and Prathima Agrawal, Proceedings of the 4th
international conference on Mobile systems,
applications and services, June 19-22 2006, pp151-164.
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Week 5
Wed 19th Aug
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Ad-hoc networking, part 1
The motivations for ad-hoc networking (aren't mobile phones and WLANs
sufficient?); commercial applications; ad-hoc protocols; tradeoffs in
proactive versus reactive protocols; The Destination Sequenced Distance
Vector (DSDV) protocol.
Reading for this week's
class:
- Highly dynamic
Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile
computers,
in Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for
Computer Communication (SIGCOMM 1994), pp234-244, Aug 1994.
Thes notes have been used,
with permission, from a course on Mobile Computing developed by UWA's
Assoc. Prof. Amitava Datta, while he was visiting the University of
Freiburg, Germany:
Labsheet 3,
for Thursday 20th August.
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Week 6
Wed 26th Aug
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Prac. week - undertaking A laboratory
exercise on wireless LANs.
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Week 7
Wed 2nd Sept
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Ad-hoc networking, part 2
The Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol; The Ad-Hoc On-Demand
Distance-Vector (AODV) protocol; comparisons of ad-hoc wireless protocols.
Reading for this week's
class:
- Performance Comparison of
Two On-demand Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks, Perkins, C.E. Royer,
E.M. Das, S.R. Marina, M.K., in IEEE Personal Communications, Volume:
8, Issue: 1 pp16-28, Feb 2001.
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Non-teaching week
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Week 8
Wed 16th Sept
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An Introduction
to Sensor Networks (lecture slides pdf)
Presented by Prof. Rachel Cardell-Oliver
An introduction to wireless sensor networks; state of the art deployments;
some contemporary problem areas including unreliable communication and
energy.
Reading for this week’s class:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Successful Wireless Sensor
Network Deployments, Guillermo
Barrenetxea, François Ingelrest, Gunnar Schaefer and Martin Vetterli, in Proc. Sixth ACM
International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications, Raleigh, NC,
USA Nov. 5 - Nov. 7, 2008, ACM Press, 2008
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Week 9
Wed 23rd Sept
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Characteristics of Radio
Communication in WSN and Flooding Protocols
(lecture
slides pdf)
Lab exercise on Flooding Protocols requires code
download FloodingProtocol.zip
Reading for this week’s class:
The broadcast storm problem in a
mobile ad hoc network. Sze-Yao Ni, Yu-Chee Tseng, Yuh-Shyan Chen, and
Jang-Ping Sheu. In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE International
Conferenee on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'99), Seattle, WA,
1999.
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Week 10
Wed 30th Oct
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Opportunistic
Sensor Networks
Reading for this week’s class:
Opportunistic Networking: Data
Forwarding in Disconnected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Luciana
Pelusi, Andrea Passarella and Marco Conti, IEEE Communications
Magazine, Volume 44, Issue 11, November 2006
Page(s):134 - 141
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Week 11
Wed 7th Oct
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Directed
Diffusion Protocol
Lab exercise on Directed Diffusion requires code
download Pull-Diffusion.zip
and push-diffusion.zip
Reading for this week’s class:
Directed Diffusion for Wireless
Sensor Networking, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah
Estrin, John Heidemann, and Fabio Silva, IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON
NETWORKING, VOL. 11, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2003
Formal Specification and Analysis
of Performance Variation in Sensor Network Diffusion Protocols,
Sule Nair and Rachel Cardell-Oliver, In 7th ACM Symposium on Modeling,
Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MobiSWiM), Venice, October 2004, ACM Press,
pp. 170-173, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1023663.1023694
Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm
for Code Propagation
and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks, Philip
Levis, Neil Patel, David Culler, and Scott Shenker, in The First Symposium
on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, March 29-31, San Francisco,
California, 2004 (Best paper award)
See
also Trickle lecture
notes and additional Directed
Diffusion (Gupta) notes.
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Week 12
Wed 14th Oct
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Situations: Representation and Recognition
Recommended attend PhD
proposal seminar 11am Friday 9 October, Rm 1.24
Reading for this week’s class:
Representation and Recognition of Situations in
Sensor Networks, Rachel Cardell-Oliver and Wei Liu, accepted for
publication 2009
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Week 13
Wed 21st Oct
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No lecture
Students are encouraged to attend the CSSE Project Seminar Series,
to be presented by CSSE Honours and Masters students in week 13.
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