EEC 687/787 - Mobile Computing (Spring 2008)

EEC 687/787 - Mobile Computing (Spring 2009)

Instructor

Prof. Yu Chansu, e-mail: c.yu91@csuohio.edu, Office: SH 437, phone: 2584, Office hour: M 4-5pm, T 2-5pm

Course Information

Download here (including syllabus, grading policy, labs, course schedule, etc.)

Class projects

Matthew Dolloff, Aircraft Communication Scanner Transmitted Over Local FM Radio, Final report, Presentation
Seth Myers, Intelligent agents / cognitive radio with GNU Radio, Final report, Presentation (a similar work presented at IEEE PerCom Workshop, PWN09)
Zeyu Long, Analysis of modulation/demodulation software in GNU Radio, Final report, Presentation (code)
Avinash.V.C & Priyaraj Banerjee, Radio communication using USRP / GNU radio, Final report, Presentation (code)
Darshana Vishu, Voice Transmission and Reception using GNU Radio and USRP, Final report, Presentation
Gaurav Konchady and Sriram Sanka, Communication between wireless sensor devices and GNU radio, Final report, Presentation
Kushal Shah, Evaluation of GNU Software Radio platform for wireless testbeds, Final report, Presentation

Previous class projects

Robert Fiske, Malav Shah: Two Channel Transmitter/Receiver (report, presentation)
Tianning Shen, Yuanchao Lu: Research on key digital modulation techniques using GNU Radio (transmit a large amount of data with π/4-DQPSK) (report, presentation)
Elie Salameh: Modulate internet radio into FM radio using USRP (report, presentation)
Sai Gumudavally, Sachine Hirve: JPEG transfer using USRP and GNU Radio (report, presentation)
Derek Sean Zechman: Test different mobile communications using HP iPAQ (report, presentation)
Murali Marunganti: iPAQ (report, presentation)

Example class projects

Setting up and simple communication test using GNU Radio and USRP
File transfer based on GNU Radio but without USRP (see reference website)
Analysis of modulation/demodulation software in GNU Radio (e.g. BPSK modulation)
Network application using iPAQs and Windows Mobile (see Purdue class website)
Embedded linux installation on iPAQ (see Familiar website), also see Guideline for older version of iPAQ)
Multihop or multirate communication on iPAQs (see UIUC website)
GNU Radio runs on Ubuntu Linux. This is the guideline for installing Ubuntu with VMware on Windows XP

Lecture notes

Week 01 (Jan. 21): Overview of mobile computing
Week 02 (Jan. 26): Physical layer issues

Reading: J. Schiller, "Wireless transmission," Ch. 2

Week 03 (Feb. 2): Network simulation with ns-2
Week 03 (Feb. 4, Lab#1): 6-station simulation with ns-2

Browse web sites: NS by Example from WPI, Marc Greis' NS Tutorial
Reading and download: ns-2 for the impatient
Reading - ns2 manual: Ch. 16 Mobile networking in ns, Ch. 26 Trace and Monitoring support

Week 04 (Feb. 9): 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
Reading (NEW, analyzes Aloha and slotted Aloha): Kleinrock, L., Tabagi, F. A., “Packet Switching in Radio Channels: Part I – Carrier Sense Multiple-Access Models and Their Throughput-Delay Characteristics,” IEEE Tr. Communications, Vol. COM-23, No. 12, Dec. 1975, or this link

Week 04 (Feb. 11, Lab#2): Propagation model and multi-rate control

Files: prop.tcl, rate.tcl, rate2.tcl
Reading: Propagation model embedded in a wireless network simulator ( 1998 )
Reading: ns2 manual: Ch. 18 Radio Propagation Model

Week 05 (Feb. 18, Lab#3): Introduction to USRP/GNU Radio and iPAQ
- Hello World (dial tone) example
- GNU Radio GUI example
Week 06 (Feb. 23): 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 06 (Feb. 25): Midterm exam #1 & Lab
- Reading (for midterm): J. Schiller (Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 7.3), IEEE 802.11 spec(Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7), Ns-2 manual (Ch. 16, Ch. 18, Ch. 26)
- Simple User Manual for Gnuradio 3.1.1
- Python Tutorial
- GNU Radio 3.0svn Documentation
- A simple dictionary of the GNU Radio blocks
Week 07 (Mar. 2): 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 07 (Mar. 4, Lab#4): Two labs in a day
- cwfixed.tcl
- Mobility, traffic generator in ns-2
- mobility.tcl
Week 08 (Mar. 9, Lab#5): Two labs in a day (Revised again on 3/9/09 for Lab #5, Effect of contention window and mobility/traffic)
Week 09 - Spring recess
Week 10 (Mar. 23): IP networking and Mobile IP
- Reading: J. Schiller, "Mobile network layer," Chapter 8.1~8.2
Week 10 (Mar. 25): Project presentation and Lab #6 (Understanding ns-2 implementation)
- Presentation must be based on powerpoint slides (~10 slides)
- Presentation is 13 minutes including 5-min QA and switching overhead
- Order of presentation:
- Report is due 11:59pm, Thursday
- Report is 3-5 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 11 (Mar. 30): IP networking and Mobile IP
Week 11 (Apr. 1): Midterm exam #2
- 802.11 MAC, Mobile IP
- 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.
Week 12 (Apr. 6): MANET routing
- 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.
Week 12 (Apr. 8, Lab): Mobile IP in ns-2

infra.tcl, fil_tcp.awk

Week 13 (Apr. 13): MANET routing
Week 13 (Apr. 15, Lab): MANET in ns-2

(Revised on 4/15/09)

dsdv-test.tcl, run-aodv2.sh, run-dsr2.sh, compare.tcl (Modified on 4/15/09)

Week 14 (Apr. 20): Network reliability (TCP) in Internet
Week 14 (Apr. 22, Lab): TCP in ns-2

tcp_simple.tcl, fil2tcp.awk, fil3tcp.awk

Week 15 (Apr. 27): Network reliability (TCP) in mobile networks
Week 15 (Apr. 29, Lab): TCP in ns-2
Week 16 (May 4): Project presentation
- Presentation must be based on powerpoint slides (~15 slides)
- Presentation is 25 minutes including 5-min QA and switching overhead
- Project demonstration is strongly recommended
- Order of presentation: Seth, Zeyu, Kushal, Gaurav & Sriram
Week 16 (May 6): Project presentation
- Order of presentation: Matthew, Darshana, Avinash.& Priyaraj
- 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

Course home page is now open.
Useful links for linux, vi and tcl

Information on ns-2 from ISI

The Network Simulator - ns-2
Ns-2 documentation
The Network Simulator: Building Ns
Running Ns and Nam Under Windows 9x/2000/XP Using Cygwin
Trace file format in ns-2

Additional links on ns-2

NS by Example from WPI
Marc Greis' NS Tutorial
Network Simulator 2 for Wireless : My Experience
NS2.26 Sources Original Compound Index

IEEE 802.11-1999 standard (NEW: get it from here)
Software defined radio

iPAQ system

Linux iPAQ HowTo
Linux installation on iPAQ (old version iPAQ)
Windows Mobile
Mobile computing courses, VT (some experiments using iPAQs)
Mobile computers, Purdue (some assignments using PDAs)
Mobile Computing Systems Programming
Hands-on experiment using iPAQs and laptops, UIUC

Maintained by Chansu Yu (c.yu91@csuohio.edu)