WIRELESS NETWORKING AND MOBILE COMPUTING
COMP 5304 (CSI 5169)
Fall 2014

1. CONTACTS: Office hrs
   Explanations for Lectures: NC = Not Covered, (*-*) = page range covered in class
   
   

   Week/Date	Lecture	Announcements	Information/Resources MSDNAA
   Wk 01 Sep 10	Evacuation Introduction	Project	PToT: Useful Probability
   Wk 02 Sep 17	Communication SINR/Protocol Media (1-44)	Assignment A Posted Sep 15	Scholarship Applications NSERC OGS
   Wk 03 Sep 24	Delay Capacity (1-52)		Little's Law Gupta et al Yi et al
   Wk 04 Oct 01	Dir Antennae	Guest Lecturer Fraser MacQuarrie	Peraki et al
   Wk 05 Oct 08	MAC1	Suggestions for Projects Assignment A Due: Oct 09: 12 noon Email pdf	Alonso et al Salonidis et al
   Wk 06 Oct 15	MAC2	Proj abstract (Part A) due Email pdf	Katzela et al: Survey
   Wk 07 Oct 22	Bluetooth Cellular		Compass Routing... Routing with Guaranteed... UDG Heuristics... Li, Calinescu, Wan, Distributed Construction...
   Wk Oct 27-31	Fall Break	Assignment B Posted Oct 25 Approved Projects
   Wk 08 Nov 05	ChannAllocation Geo Locality		KKM Routing Review
   Wk 09 Nov 12	Locality Localization		Wu, Li, On Calculating Connected Dominating...
   Wk 10 Nov 19	Route Discovery (1-60) Heuristics	Sample Questions 1 Sample Questions 2	Jardosh, Belding-Royer, Almeroth, Suri, Towards Realistic...
   Wk 11 Nov 26	Local Spanners (1-28) Local to Global RUDGs
   Wk 12 Dec 03	Test (in class) Project Talks	Giving presentations
   Wk 13 Dec 10		Project (Part C) due: 6 pm What/How to Submit

2. CONTENTS OF LECTURES: A significant amount of the course will be based on recent papers published only in journals and/or conference proceedings. You can download lecture notes in pdf format. Links are activated only when the lectures are ready.
3. BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION:
   Computational aspects and applications of design and analysis of mobile and wireless networking. Topics include Physical, Link Layer, Media Access Control, Wireless, Mobile LANs, Ad-Hoc, Sensor Networks, Power Consumption Optimization, Routing, Searching, Service Discovery, Clustering, Multicasting, Localization, Mobile IP/TCP, File Systems, Mobility Models, Wireless Applications.
   Prerequisites: COMP 3804, COMP 3203 or equivalent
4. WHAT TO STUDY FOR THE TESTS:
   1. Test: Read everything covered in class. Make sure you understand concepts and methodologies.
5. STUDENTS' REQUIREMENTS SCHEDULE
   
   1. Homework.
      Assignments that will contribute 10% of the final grade.
   2. Active Class Participation.
      This will contribute 5% of the final grade.
      1. Active class participation means: participating during the lecture by making improvements, presenting a short program, presenting a short proof of something presented in the lecture, elaborating on something new you discovered.
   3. Project Paper.
      This will contribute 25% of the final grade
      1. Prior to submitting the final project students must submit to instructor a one-page paper abstract of the proposed project/paper.
      2. The project should follow (guidelines for project/paper abstract preparation).
      3. Students must make an in-class presentation (during last week of class) and submit to instructor
         1. a one-page paper copy of the final project abstract (due 4th week of class),
         2. the presentation in electronic form (due prior to the presentation),
         3. the final project in paper form (due last day of class).
   4. In-class exam.
      This will contribute 60% of the final grade. Duration of exam will be 120 min and you will be examined on the material of the entire semester.
6. CONDITIONS FOR THE PROJECT/PAPER
   
   1. The topic of the project/paper may be suggested by the student (subject to approval of instructor), must be relevant to the material covered in the course.
   2. The written presentation of the project/paper must have the quality of a journal publication. (See guidelines for project/paper preparation).
   3. In addition, students must make an oral presentation of their selected project/paper (this is not the same as written project/paper) in-class (usually in powerpoint).
7. USEFUL TEXTBOOKS (Not Required):
   • M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Principles of Ad Hoc Networking, Wiley, xx + 254 pages, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-470-03290-0, Hardcover, 2007.
     Table of Contents and Companion Web Site
   • D. P. Agrawal, Q.-A. Zeng, Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Systems, 2nd ed., Thompson, 2005. ISBN: 0-534-49303-3
   • F. Zhao, L, Guibas, Wireless Sensor Networks An Information Processing Approach. The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking, 2004.
8. Other Useful References