Textbooks
There are no official texts for the course. As background, we suggest several texts:
- Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, by David Tse and Pramod Viswanath (available online).
- Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, third edition, by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie. Covers background networking material that we assume students will already be familiar with.
- Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 3rd edition, by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Covers similar material to Peterson and Davie.
Schedule
Also available as an ical file that you can subscribe to. “U” = undergraduate; “G” = graduate. “CT” = Chalk Talk. This schedule is preliminary and subject to change.
| Date | Topics | Readings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 02/06 | Spring Term Begins | ||
| Tue 02/07 | Class Introduction [pdf] | No readings today! Read papers for 2/9 class meeting. | |
| Part 1: Introduction to Wireless | |||
| Thu 02/09 | Medium Access Control [pdf] | Macaw, Trickle | Review Macaw. |
| Tue 02/14 | Introduction to Bit Rate Adaptation; Wireless Mesh Networking [L3: pdf] [samplerate: pdf, html, md] [roofnet: pdf, html, md] | SampleRate, Roofnet04, Roofnet05 | Review Roofnet05. Roofnet04 is optional. |
| Thu 02/16 | Transport over Wireless | BalakrishnanToN, Sprout, Remy | Review BalakrishnanToN. Remy is optional. |
| Fri 02/17 | Registrar’s deadline to add/drop courses w/o fee (U) Signup for Chalk Talk |
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| Part 2: Wireless Network Performance | |||
| Mon 02/20 | Enterprise Wireless Performance Diagnosis | Jigsaw06, Jigsaw07, Wit | Review Jigsaw06. Non-standard time: 11:00-12:30 PM, but standard room (CS 301). Wit is optional. |
| Tue 02/21 | Handoff, Aggregation, Packet Switching | DenseAP, FatVAP | CT: FatVAP (Zhenyu S.) Review DenseAP. |
| Tue 02/28 | |||
| Thu 03/02 | Approaches to Opportunistic Network Connectivity | Cabernet, MPTCPWiFi | CT: Cabernet (Themis M.) Review MPTCPWiFi. |
| Fri 03/03 | Project Checkpoint #1 | ||
| Tue 03/07 | Error Estimation. Partially-Correct Packet Recovery [pdf] | ErrorEstimatingCodes, Maranello | Review ErrorEstimatingCodes. |
| Part 3: An Introduction to the Wireless Physical Layer | |||
| Thu 03/09 | PHY I—Introduction to Radio, Multiplexing [pdf] | No papers today | |
| Tue 03/14 | Class cancelled due to weather. | π Day. | |
| Thu 03/16 | PHY II—Antennas, the Wireless Channel. Wireless Channel Prediction [pdf] | EffectiveSNR | Review EffectiveSNR. |
| Tue 03/21 | Spring Break week | ||
| Thu 03/23 | Spring Break week | ||
| Tue 03/28 | PHY III—Diversity | CSpy, R2F2 | CT: R2F2 (Neel K.) Review R2F2. |
| Part 4: Taming Wireless Interference | |||
| Thu 03/30 | PHY IV—Coding and Modulation. Rateless Codes [L12-codes: pdf] [mimo-intro: pdf] | SoftRate, Spinal | Review Spinal Codes. |
| Tue 04/04 | Interference Mitigation I—Wi-Fi Interference | Dot11n+, COPA | CT: COPA (Jeffrey H.) Review 802.11n+. |
| Thu 04/06 | Interference Mitigation II—non-Wi-Fi Interference | TIMO, WiFiNet | Review TIMO. |
| Tue 04/11 | Full-Duplex Wireless | AntennaCancellation, FullDuplex | Review Antenna Cancellation. |
| Part 5: Radio-Based Localization and Sensing Indoors | |||
| Thu 04/13 | Radio Map-Based Localization Systems [pdf] | RADAR, Zee | Review RADAR. |
| Fri 04/14 | Registrar’s deadline to drop courses (U) | ||
| Tue 04/18 | Decimeter-Level Localization | ArrayTrack, SpotFi | CT: SpotFi (Longfei S.) Review ArrayTrack. |
| Thu 04/20 | Enabling and Preventing Sensing using Radio Backscatter | WiTrack2, PhyCloak | Review PhyCloak. |
| Part 6: Demo Day | |||
| Tue 04/25 | Project Demo Day | Project Checkpoint #2 | |
| Part 7: Backscatter Communications | |||
| Thu 04/27 | RFID and Energy Harvesting | QuarkNet, Caraoke | Review Caraoke. |
| Tue 05/02 | Passive Radio | PassiveWiFi, Braidio | CT: Passive Wi-Fi (Chenshu W.) Review Passive Wi-Fi. |
| Part 8: Physical Hacks | |||
| Thu 05/04 | Communicating with Physical Vibrations | Ripple, Ripple2 | Review Ripple. |
| Fri 05/05 | Spring Semester ends, Registrar’s deadline for course changes (G) | ||
| Wed 05/17 | Dean’s Date—Demo and project writeups due | ||