Course Summary

Time and Place: Tuesday, Thursday 3:55-5:10 PM, Room: 105B Zach

Instructor: Dr. Radu Stoleru – 509D H.R. Bright Building (office hours: Tuesday, Thursday 5:15-7:00 PM, and by appointment)

Announcements

01/14/08: Welcome back! I hope you have a fruitful semester! Please check this page often, for more announcements.

Course Description

Large scale, mobile and networked sensor and actuator systems present new computing challenges. This course surveys recent advances in mobile/pervasive computing and wireless sensor/actuator networks.

The organization for the course is as follows:

• Mobile Radio Propagation
• Cellular and Satellite Systems
• AdHoc and Sensor Networks
• Medium Access Control
• Mobility/Interference Models
• Design
• Coverage
• Routing
• Delay Tolerant Networks
• Localization
• VANET
• Content/Data Access
• Power Management
• WSN Hardware
• Applications
• Security

Prerequisites

The only prerequisite is graduate standing. Recommended courses: CPSC 619 (Networking), CPSC 662/668 (Distributed Systems)

Textbook

There is no required textbook for this course. The course is based on scholarly work from premier conferences such as Mobicom '07, Mobisys '07, MobiHoc '07, Sensys '07 and IPSN '07. The instructor will use introductory material from "Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Systems", 2nd edition, by D. P. Agrawal and Q.A. Zeng. Other suggested readings: "Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing" by F. Adelstein et al., "Next Generation Mobile Systems" by M. Etoh.

Grading

Paper Critique: 50%, Class Presentation: 20%, Project: 20%, Participation: 10%.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Policy

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Academic Integrity

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Updated: 01/12/2008