EEC 687/787 - Mobile Computing (Spring
2008)
Instructor
Prof. Yu Chansu, e-mail: c.yu91@csuohio.edu, Office: SH 437, phone:
2584, Office hour: MW 4-6pm
Course Information
Download
here (including syllabus, grading policy, labs, course schedule, etc.)
Class projects
- Robert Fiske,
Malav Shah: Two Channel Transmitter/Receiver (final
report, presentation,
code)
- Tianning
Shen, Yuanchao Lu:
Research on key digital modulation techniques using GNU Radio (transmit a
large amount of data with π/4-DQPSK) (final report,
presentation,
code)
- Elie
Salameh: Modulate internet radio into FM radio
using USRP (final
report, presentation,
code)
- Sai
Gumudavally, Sachine Hirve: JPEG transfer using USRP and GNU Radio (final
report, presentation,
code1,
code2, code3)
- Derek Sean Zechman: Test different mobile communications using HP
iPAQ (final report
and presentation)
- Murali
Marunganti: iPAQ (final
report and presentation)
Example class projects
Lecture notes
- Week 01:
Overview of mobile computing
- Week 01 (Lab): Network
simulation with ns-2
- Week 02 (Lab): 6-station
simulation with ns-2 (revised on 1/18/08)
- Week 03: Physical
layer issues
- Reading: J.
Schiller, "Wireless transmission," Ch. 2
- Week 03 (Lab): Mobility
and traffic
- Week 04: Medium access
control
- Reading:
J. Schiller, "Medium Access Control," Chapter 3
- Reading: Kamerman, A., and Monteban, L. WaveLAN-II: A High-Performance Wireless LAN for the
Unlicensed Band. Bell Labs Technical
Journal, Summer 1997
- Week 04 (Lab): RF
propagation models in ns-2
- Week 05: IEEE 802.11 (aka Wi-Fi)
- Reading: IEEE 802.11
standard, sections 5.1~4, 7, 9.1~2 and 11.1~3
- Reading:
J. Schiller, "IEEE 802.11," Ch. 7.3
- Week 05 (Lab): Signal
capture and multirate control in ns-2
- Week 06: Midterm exam #1
- Week 07: IEEE 802.11
- Week 07 (Lab): Effect
of contention window on MAC performance
- Week 08: IEEE
802.11 MAC Management
- Reading:
J. Schiller, "Wireless LAN," Chapter 7.3.5~7.3.8, IEEE 802 spec
(Ch. 9, Ch.
11)
- Week 08: Interim project
report & presentation
- Presentation must be
based on powerpoint slides (~10 slides)
- Presentation is 13
minutes including 5-min QA and switching overhead
- Order of presentation:
Murali, Sean, Wansik,
Robert & Malav, Tianning
& Yuanchao, Elie,
Sai & Sachine
- Report is due 11:59pm,
Thursday
- Report is 2-5 pages
with 11-point font and single-spaced pages
- Report must follow the
formal paper structure, which consists of title, author names,
Introduction, Background, Your_topic, and
References. Your_topic section includes project
goal, plan, schedule, etc.
- Week 09: Spring recess
- Week 10: IP
networking and Mobile IP (1/2)
- Reading: J. Schiller, "Mobile
network layer," Chapter 8.1~8.2
- Week 10 (Lab): MAC fairness
in ns-2
- Week 11: IP networking and
Mobile IP (2/2)
- Week 11 (Lab): Mobile
IP in ns-2
- Week 12: MANET
routing
- Week 12: Midterm exam #2 -
802.11 management, Mobile IP and MANET routing (DSR only)
- Readingns
(2 papers are not for the test but for your understanding)
- Lecture notes
- ns-2 manual: Chap. 16
for Mobile IP and MANET routing
- 802.11 standard:
Section 11 for 802.11 management functions
- Textbook: J. Schiller, Section 7.3 for 802.11
management and Chapter 8 for Mobile IP and MANET routing
- Paper: J. Ioannidis, D. Duchamp, G. Maguire, Jr,
"IP-based Protocols for Mobile
Internetworking," Proc. SIGCOMM '91, pp. 235 – 245.
- Paper: D. B. Johnson
and D. A. Maltz, “Dynamic Source Routing
in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,” Mobile Computing, edited by
T. Imielinski and H. F. Korth,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
- Solution of
quiz #2
- Solution of
quiz #3
- Week 13: MANET routing -
DSDV, AODV and OLSR (lecture note updated)
- Week 13 (Lab): MANET in ns-2
- Week 14: Network
reliability (TCP) in Internet
- Week 14 (Lab): TCP
in ns-2
- Week 15: Network
reliability (TCP) in mobile networks
- Week 15 (Lab): TCP
in ns-2
- Week 16: Final project report &
presentation
- Presentation must be
based on powerpoint slides (~15 slides)
- Presentation is 25
minutes including 5-min QA and switching overhead
- Order of presentation:
Robert & Malav, Tianning
& Yuanchao, Elie
(Monday), Sai & Sachine,
Murali, Sean (Wednesday)
- Report is due 11:59pm,
Thursday
- Report is 4-8 pages
with 11-point font and single-spaced pages
- Report must follow the
formal paper structure, which consists of title, author names,
Introduction, Background, Your_topic, and
References. Your_topic section includes project
goal, experiment setup, results, discussion, etc. It is highly suggested
to include details of the experiment as an Appendix at the end of your
report. Appendix is not counted toward the page limit.
Links and Notices
Maintained by Chansu Yu (c.yu91@csuohio.edu)