cis786-106: lecture notes and readings

CIS 786-106: Mobile Computing and Sensor Networks, Lecture Notes and Assigned Readings

Week	Lecture	Readings
01/19	Introduction to mobile computing and sensor networks. Course overview. Project Ideas(.ppt).	Reading Papers Slides
01/26	Wireless Technologies: Cellular, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth (.ppt).	Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges. M. Satyanarayanan, IEEE Personal Communications, 2001 (Required). Connecting the physical world with Pervasive Networks. D. Estrin, D. Culler, K. Pister, G. Sukhatme, IEEE Pervasive Computing, January-March 2002 (Required). The Computer for the Twenty-First Century. M. Weiser, Scientific American, 1991. Self-Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments. A. Akella, G. Judd, S. Seshan, P. Steenkiste, ACM MobiCom, August, 2005.
02/02	Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (.ppt).	Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing . C. Perkins, E. Royer. WMCSA, 1999 (Required). A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols. J. Broch, D. Maltz, D. Johnson, Y. Hu, and J. Jetcheva. MobiCom 1998 (Required). Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. D. Johnson, D. Maltz. Mobile Computing, 1996. Gossip-Based Ad-hoc Routing. Z. Haas, J. Halpern, L. Li. Infocom, 2002.
02/06	Project proposal discussions.
02/16	Location in ubiquitous computing environments (.ppt).	Accuracy Characterization for Metropolitan-scale Wi-Fi Localization . Y-C Cheng, Y. Chawathe, A. LaMarca, J. Krumm, Usenix/ACM MobiSys, June, 2005 (Required). Geographical Routing Made Practical . T-J Kim, R. Govindan, B. Karp, S. Shenker, Usenix/ACM NSDI, May, 2005 (Required). Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild . A. LaMarca, Y. Chawathe, S. Consolvo, J. Hightower, I. Smith, J. Scott, T. Sohn, J. Howard, J. Hughes, F. Potter, J. Tabert, P. Powledge, G. Borriello, B. Schilit Pervasive 2005, May, 2005. GPSR: Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks . B. Karp, H. T. Kung, ACM MobiCom, July, 2000.
02/23	Inter-vehicular Networks (.ppt).	TrafficView: Traffic Data Dissemination using Car-to-Car Communication . T. Nadeem, S. Dashtinezhad, C. Liao, L. Iftode, ACM MC2R 2004 (Required). Cooperative Downloading in Vehicular Ad Hoc Wireless Networks . A. Nandan, S. Das, G. Pau, M. Gherla, M Sanadidi, WONS 2005 (Required). Abiding Geocast: Time-stable Geocast for Ad Hoc Networks . C. Maihofer, T. Leinmuller, E. Schoch, VANET 2005
03/09	Mobility at the network and transport layers in the Internet (.ppt).	Mobile networking through Mobile IP. C. Perkins, IEEE Internet Computing 1998. (Required). I-TCP: Indirect TCP for Mobile Hosts. A. Bakre and B. Badrinath, ICDCS 1995. (Required). Flexible Network Support for Mobility. X. Zhao, C. Castelluccia, and M. Baker, MOBICOM 1998. Analysis of TCP Performance over Mobile Ad hoc Networks. G. Holland and N. Vaidya, MOBICOM 1999.
03/23	Intermediate Project Status Reports & Discussions
03/30	Programming MANET with Mobile Code (.ppt).	Smart Messages: A Distributed Computing Platform for Networks of Embedded Systems . P. Kang, C. Borcea, G. Xu, A. Saxena, U. Kremer, and L. Iftode. The Computer Journal, Special Focus on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, 2004 (Required). Spatial Programming using Smart Messages: Design and Implementation . C. Borcea, C. Intanagonwiwat, P. Kang, U. Kremer, L. Iftode. ICDCS 2004 (Required). Context-Aware Migratory Services in Ad Hoc Networks . O. Riva, T. Nadeem, C. Borcea, L. Iftode. Under submission.
04/06	Security and privacy in ubiquitous computing environments (.ppt1, .ppt2, .ppt3).	An Architecture for Privacy-Sensitive Ubiquitous Computing . J. Hong and J. Landay. MobiSys, 2004. (Required. Presenter: Mike). Ariadne: A Secure On-Demand Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks . Y-C. Hu, A. Perrig, D. Johnson. MobiCom, 2002. (Required. Presenter: Qing). The Security of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks . M. Raya and J-P. Hubaux. SASN, 2005. (Required. Presenter: Kushal). Challenges in Securing Vehicular Networks . B. Parno and A. Perrig. HotNets, 2005.
04/13	Sensor Networks (.ppt1, .ppt2, .ppt3).	System architecture directions for networked sensors. J. Hill, R. Szewczyk, A. Woo, S. Hollar, D. Culler, and K. Pister. ASPLOS, 2000. (Required. Presenter: Sanil). The nesC Language: A Holistic Approach to Networked Embedded Systems . D. Gay, P. Levis, R. von Behren, M. Welsh, E. Brewer, and D. Culler. PLDI, 2003. (Required. Presenter: Arun). TinySec: A link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks . C. Karlof, N. Sastry, D. Wagner. SENSYS 2004. (Presenter: me ).
04/20	Application Programming in Sensor Networks (.ppt).	The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor for Sensor Networks . S. Madden, M. Franklin, J. Hellerstein, and W. Hong. SIGMOD, 2003.(Required). Programming Sensor Networks Using Abstract Regions . M. Welsh and G. Mainland. NSDI 2004. (Required). EnviroTrack: Towards an Environmental Computing Paradigm for Distributed Sensor Networks . T. Abdelzaher, B. Blum, Q. Cao, Y. Chen, D. Evans, J. George, S. George, L. Gu, T. He, S. Krishnamurthy, L. Luo, S. Son, J. Stankovic, R. Stoleru, A. Wood. ICDCS 2004.
04/27	Final project report presentations