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CS294-1 Course Plan

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Overview -- Monday January 26, 1998

Student presenters: Ben Zhao and Jimmy Shih.

• Mark Weiser, The Computer for the Twenty-First Century. Scientific American, September 1991.

• D. Cox. Wireless Personal Communications: What is It? (pdf) IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, vol. 2, no. 2, April 1995, p. 20-35.

• Katz, R. H. Adaptation and Mobility in Wireless Information Systems. (pdf) IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, (First Quarter 1994), p. 6-17.

• G. H. Forman and J. Zahorjan. The Challenges of Mobile Computing. (pdf) IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 4, April 1994, p. 38-47.

Wireless Media -- Monday February 2, 1998

Student presenter: Bhaskaran Raman.

• A. DeSimone, S. Nanda, Wireless Data: Systems, Standards, Services, ACM Wireless Networks, vol. 1, no. 3, October 1995, p. 241-253.

• Bantz, D.F., Bauchot, F.J. Wireless LAN design alternatives. (pdf) IEEE Network, vol. 8, no. 2, March-April 1994. p.43-53.

Wireless IR Systems -- Monday February 2, 1998

Student presenter: Josh MacDonald.

• Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Bill N. Schilit, Michael M. Tso, and Roy Want, An Infrared Network for Mobile Computers. Proceedings of the Usenix Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing, Summer 1993.

• Condon, J.H., Duff, T.S., Jukl, M.F., Kalmanek, C.R., Locanthi, B.N., Savicki, J.P., Venutolo, J.H. Rednet: a wireless ATM local area network using infrared links. MOBICOM'95. Proceedings of The First Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, (MOBICOM'95). Berkeley, CA, USA, 13-15 Nov. 1995. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 1995. p. 151-159.

Wireless RF Systems -- Monday February 9, 1998

Student presenters: Priya Viswanath and Kimberly Oden

• N. Reynolds and D. Duchamp. Measured Performance of a Wireless LAN. In Proc. 17th Conf. on Local Computer Networks, IEEE, Minneapolis, Sep. 1992, p. 494-499.

• Hollemans, W., Verschoor, A. (Edited by: Weber, J.H., Arnbak, J.C., Prasad, R.) Performance study of WaveLAN and Altair radio-LANs. (pdf) Proceedings of Wireless Networks - Catching the Mobile Future, 5th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'94), and ICCC Regional Meeting on Wireless Computer Networks (WCN), The Hague, Netherlands, 18-23 Sept. 1994.) Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, 1994. p. 831-837 vol. 3.

• Cheshire, S. and Baker, M. A wireless network in MosquitoNet. (pdf) IEEE Micro, vol. 16, no. 1, Feb. 1996, p. 44-52.

• V. Bose, M. Ismert, M. Welborn, J. Guttag, Virtual Radios, to appear in JSAC issue on software radios, 4th Qtr., 98

• Background: Claessen, A., Monteban, L., Moelard, H. (Edited by: Weber, J.H., Arnbak, J.C., Prasad, R.) The AT&T GIS WaveLAN air interface and protocol stack. (pdf) Proceedings of Wireless Networks - Catching the Mobile Future, 5th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'94), and ICCC Regional Meeting on Wireless Computer Networks (WCN), The Hague, Netherlands, 18-23 Sept. 1994.) Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, 1994. p. 1442-1446 vol. 4.

• Background: V. G. Bose and A. B. Shah, Software Radios for Wireless Networking, accepted to Infocomm '98, San Fransisco, April, 1997.

President's Day Holiday -- Monday February 16, 1998

Mobile Telephony -- Monday February 23, 1998

Guest Lecturer: Reiner Ludwig from Ericsson

Student presenter: Rajarshi Gupta

• Rahnema, M. Overview of the GSM system and protocol architecture. (pdf) IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 31, no. 4, April 1993, p. 92-100.

• Jain Cai and Goodman, D.J. General packet radio service in GSM. (pdf) IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.35, (no.10), IEEE, Oct. 1997. p. 122-131.

• Badr, N.G. Cellular Digital Packet Data CDPD. (pdf) Conference Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Fourteenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 28-31 March 1995. p. 659-665.

Mobile IP -- Monday March 2, 1998

Student presenters: Soheila Bana and Sreedhar Mukkamalla.

• David B. Johnson. Scalable Support for Transparent Mobile Host Internetworking. in Mobile Computing, edited by Tomasz Imielinski and Hank Korth, Chapter 3, pages 103-128, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. A version of this paper also appeared in the journal Wireless Networks, special issue on ``Recent Advances in Wireless Networking Technology,'' ACM and Baltzer Science Publishers, 1(3):311-321, October 1995. Revised version of a paper presented at the Ninth Annual IEEE Workshop on Computer Communications, IEEE Communications Society, Duck Key, Marathon, FL, October 1994.

• IP Mobility Support (RFC 2002)

• Myles, A., Johnson, D.B., Perkins, C. A mobile host protocol supporting route optimization and authentication. (pdf) IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 13, no. 5, June 1995. p.839-849.

• Akyildiz, I.F., Ho, S.M. On location management for personal communications networks. (pdf) IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 34, no. 9, IEEE, Sept. 1996. p. 138-145.

• Background: Route Optimization in Mobile IP

Privacy, Authentication, Security, and Mobility -- Monday March 9, 1998

Student presenter: Suchitra Raman.

• Brookson, C. GSM security: a description of the reasons for security and the techniques. (pdf) IEE Colloquium on 'Security and Cryptography Applications to Radio Systems' (Digest No.1994/141), London, UK, 3 June 1994. p. 2/1-4.

• A. Aziz and W. Diffie, Privacy and Authentication for Wireless Local Area Networks (pdf). IEEE Personal Communications, First Quarter 1994, p. 25-31.

• D. Brown, Techniques for privacy and authentication in Personal Communication Systems. (pdf) IEEE Personal Communications, August 1995.

• Ross Anderson, GSM hack -- operator flunks the challenge. Personal communications in RISKS DIGEST 19.48, November 1997.

Privacy, Authentication, Security, and Mobility -- Monday March 16, 1998

Student presenter: Deidra Ritcherson.

• Y. Frankel, et al., Security Issues in a CDPD Wireless Network (pdf). IEEE Personal Communications, August 1995, p. 16-27.

• Molva, R., Samfat, D., Tsudik, G. Authentication of mobile users. (pdf) IEEE Network, vol. 8, no. 2, March-April 1994. p. 26-34.

• Samfat, D., Molva, R. A method providing identity privacy to mobile users during authentication. (pdf) Proceedings Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 8-9 Dec. 1994. p. 196-199.

Power Management -- Monday March 30, 1998

Student presenter: Kristin Wright

• Douglis, F., Kaashoek, F., Marsh, B., Caceres, R., Kai Li, Tauber, J.A. Storage alternatives for mobile computers. Proceedings of the First USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Monterey, CA, USA, 14-17 Nov. 1994. p. 25-37.

• Mark Stemm and Randy H. Katz. Measuring and Reducing Energy Consumption of Network Interfaces in Hand-Held devices. IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Transactions on Communications, special Issue on Mobile Computing.

• Background: Mark Weiser, Alan Demers, Brent Welch, Scott Shenker. Scheduling for Reduced CPU Energy, Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI) Conference, Monterey, CA. November, 1994.

Environmental Awareness -- Monday March 30, 1998

Student presenter: Andrew Swan.

• Todd D. Hodes and Randy H. Katz. Composable Ad-hoc Location-based Services for Heterogeneous Mobile Clients. Submitted for review, Wireless Networks Journal special issue, November 1997.

• Girish Welling and B. R. Badrinath. A Framework for Environment Aware Applications. In Proceedings of the 17th ICDCS Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May, 1997

Ubiquitous Computing -- Monday April 6, 1998

Student presenters: Mehul Shah and Steven Czerwinski.

• Mark Weiser, Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing, Communications of the ACM, July 1993.

• Want, R., Schilit, B.N., Adams, N.I., Gold, R., Petersen, K., Goldberg, D., Ellis, J.R., Weiser, M. An overview of the PARCTAB ubiquitous computing experiment. (pdf) IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 2, no. 6, Dec. 1995. p. 28-43.

• Background: Roy Want, Bill N. Schilit, Norman I. Adams, Rich Gold, Karin Petersen, David Goldberg, John R. Ellis and Mark Weiser. The PARCTAB Ubiquitous Computing Experiment. Technical Report CSL-95-1, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, March 1995.

Mobile File Systems (Disconnected Operation) -- Monday April 13, 1998

Student presenters: Jose Maria Gonzalez and Roy Sutton.

Guest Lecturer: Professor B.R. Badrinath from Rutgers University

• Satyanarayanan, M. Fundamental Challenges in Mobile Computing. Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing May 1996, Philadelphia, PA

• Satyanarayanan, M. Coda: A Highly Available File System for a Distributed Workstation Environment. Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems Sep. 1989, Pacific Grove, CA

• B. R. Badrinath and Shirish Hemant Phatak. A Database Architecture for Handling Mobile Cliennts. Draft.

Mobile Applications (Intermittent Connectivity) -- Monday April 20, 1998

Student presenter: Helen Wang and Tina Wong.

• Anthony D. Joseph, Joshua A. Tauber, and M. Frans Kaashoek. Mobile Computing with the Rover Toolkit., IEEE Transactions on Computers: Special issue on Mobile Computing, 46(3). March 1997. p. 337-352

• D. B. Terry, M. M. Theimer, Karin Petersen, A. J. Demers, M. J. Spreitzer and C. H. Hauser. Managing update conflicts in Bayou, a weakly connected replicated storage system. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1995. p. 172-182.

Mobile Applications (Continuous Connectivity) -- Monday April 27, 1998

Student presenter: Kostas Sarrigeorgidis.

• Noble, B., Satyanarayanan, M., Narayanan, D., Tilton, J.E., Flinn, J., Walker, K. Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles October 1997, St. Malo, France

• Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, and Elan Amir. Adapting to Network and Client Variation via On-Demand, Dynamic Distillation In Proc. ASPLOS-VII, Boston, MA, October 1996.

Project Presentations -- Monday May 4, 1998

1. Latency & Scaling Issues in Mobile-IP, Bhaskaran Raman and Sreedhar Mukkamalla.
2. TCP Performance over GSM, Kimberly Oden, Almudena Ordonez, and Kostas Sarrigeorgidis.
3. Quantitative Characterization of Content-Based FEC Techniques on Interactive-Audio Transmissions over Wireless Networks, Jose Maria Gonzalez.
4. Priya Viswanath.
5. Using IMAP4 on Mobile Clients, Steven E. Czerwinski and Mehul Shah.
6. Josh MacDonald.

Project Presentations -- Wednesday May 6, 1998

1. Deidra D. Ritcherson.
2. Intra-Cell Bandwidth Allocation Policies, Ben Y. Zhao.
3. Admission Control in a Cellular Network, Jimmy Ssu-Ging Shih.
4. Experimentation with Wireless Network Emulation and MASHCast, Kristin Wright.
5. Tina Wong.
6. Roy A. Sutton.
7. A Study of Short-Term Fairness in Wireless MAC Protocols (ps) (pdf). Suchitra Raman and Andrew Swan.
8. Rajarshi Gupta.
9. Helen J. Wang.

Mobility on the Road -- Monday May 11, 1998

Guest Lecturer: Matthias Stuempfle from Daimler-Benz Research & Technology North America.

• Akhtar Jameel, Matthias Stuempfle, Daniel Jiang, and Axel Fuchs. Web on wheels: Toward Internet-enabled cars. (pdf) IEEE Computer. Vol. 31, (no. 1), January 1998. p. 69-76.