September 29: Tips on Doing Graduate Research

• David Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia.
• Nitin Vaidya, How to Read, Write, and Present Papers.
• Craig Patridge, How to Increase the Chances Your Paper is Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM.
• Roy Levin and David D. Redell, An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions, or, How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper.

October 1: Internet Design Guidelines (I)

• D. Clark, Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols  (pdf)  Proceedings of  SIGCOMM'88, 1988.
• D. Clark, End-to-end Arguments in System Design  (pdf)  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1984.

 

• D. Clark, Rethinking the Design of the Internet: End-to-End Arguments versus the Brave New World   (pdf)  TPRC 2000, 2000.
• D. Clark, J. Wroclawski, K. Sollins and R. Braden, Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow?s Internet SIGCOMM 2002,
• Pablo Molinero-Fernadez, Nick McKeown, Hui Zhang , Is IP Going to Take Over the World (of Communications)? Hot Net 2002.

 

October 6: Internet Design Guidelines (II)

• D. Clark and D. Tennenhouse, Architectural Considerations for a New Generation of Protocols   (pdf) ACM SIGCOMM'90, 1990.

 

• D. Clark, Craig Partridge, J. Christopher Ramming, John T. Wroclawski. A Knowledge Plane for the Internet     SIGCOMM, 2003.
• Tom Anderson, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, David Wetherall, Design Guidelines for Robust Internet Protocols Hot Net 2002.

 

October 8: Reality Check: Mobility and Wireless Network Usage

• M. Balazinska and P. Castro, Characterizing Mobility and Network Usage in a Corporate Wireless Local-Area Network , MobiSys 2003.

• D. Kotz and K. Essien, Analysis of a Campus-wide Wireless Network , Mobicom 2002.
• Diane Tang and Mary Baker, Analysis of a Metropolitan-Area Wireless Network, Mobicom 1999.

October 13: Wireless Media Access Control Protocol

• V. Bharghavan, A. Demers, S. Shenker, L. Zhang,   MACAW: A Medium Access Protocol for Wireless LANs (postscript) Proceedings of SIGCOMM'94, 1994.

• Bahareh Sadeghi, Vikram Kanodia, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Edward W. Knightly. Opportunistic Media Access for Multirate Ad Hoc Networks Proceedings of Mobicom'02, 2002.
• L. Fullmer and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves,  Solutions to Hidden Terminal Problems in Wireless Networks (postscript) Proceedings of SIGCOMM'97, September 1997.

October 15: IEEE 802.11 Standard

• IEEE 802.11 Tutorial (Note: the standard may not be printable due to copyright issue).

• IEEE 802.11 Specification.

October 20: Wireless Packet Scheduling

• T. Nandagopal, S. Lu and V. Bharghavan,  A Unified Architecture for the Design and Evaluation of Wireless Fair Scheduling Algorithms (postscript) Proceedings of MOBICOM'99, August 1999.

• Nitin Vaidya, Paramvir Bahl, Seema Gupta. Distributed Fair Scheduling in a Wireless LANMOBICOM 2000.
• H. Luo, S. Lu and V. Bharghavan, "A New Scheduling Model for Multihop Wireless Networks," MOBICOM'00.

October 22: Mobile IP

•  Network Layer Mobility: An Architecture and Survey.

Mobile IP (text), RFC2002.

 Mobility Support in IPv6 .

October 27: Ad Hoc Routing Protocol

J. Broch, D. Maltz, D. Johnson, Y. Hu and J. Jetcheva,   A Performance  Comparison of Multi-hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols (postscript) Proceedings of MOBICOM'98, 1998.

Dragos Niculescu and Badri Nath. Trajectory Based Forwarding and Its Applications, , MOBICOM 2003.

Brad Karp and H.T. Kung, GPSR: Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks MOBICOM 2000.

October 29: Wireless TCP

• H. Balakrishnan, V. N. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, R. H. Katz,  A Comparison of Mechanisms  for Improving TCP Performance Over Wireless Links (postscript), IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, December 1997.

• P. Sinha, N. Venkitaraman, R. Sivakumar, and V. Bharghavan, WTCP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Wireless Wide-Area Networks (postscript) Proceedings of  MOBICOM'99,  August 1999.

November 3: Wireless Middleware

• A. Fox, S. Gribble, Y. Chawathe, E. Brewer, and P. Gauthier, Cluster-based Scalable Network Services, SOSP'97, 1997.

• R. Han, P. Bhagwat, "Dynamic Adaptation In an Image Transcoding Proxy For  Mobile Web Browsing", IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, Dec. 1998.
• A. Fox, S. Gribble, E. Brewer, and E. Amir, Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation.

November 5: File System

• L. Mummert, M. Ebling and M. Satyanarayanan, "Exploit ing weak connectivity for mobile file access." Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on operating systems principles, December 3-6, 1995, Copper Mountain, Colorado. Pages 143-155.

• M. Satyanarayanan, J. Kistler, P. Kumar, M. Okasaki, E. Siegel and D. Steere, "Coda: A Highly Available File System for a Distributed Workstation Environment," IEEE Trans. Computers, April 1990.

November 10: OS Issues

• Wanghong Yuan, Klara Nahrstedt, Energy-Efficient Soft Real-Time CPU Scheduling for Mobile Multimedia Systems, ACM SOSP 2003.

• J. Hill, R. Szewczyk, A. Woo, S. Hollar, D. Culler and K. Pister, "System Architecture Directions for Networked Sensors. ASPLOS-IX, 2000
• P. Pillai and K. Shin, "Real-time Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Low-power Embedded Operating Systems," SOSP 2001.

November 12: In-Class Midterm Exam.

November 17: Services for Mobile Computing Environments

• Todd D. Hodes, Randy H. Katz,  Composable Ad hoc Location-based Services for Heterogeneous Mobile Clients, MOBICOM'97.

• A. Joseph, A. Delespinasse, J. Taubert, D. Gifford, and F. Kaashoek, "Rover: A Toolkit for Mobile Information Access," SOSP'95.

November 19: Wireless Network Security

• # M. D. Corner and B. D. Noble, " Zero-interaction authentication, " Mobicom 2002.

• N. Borisov, I. Goldberg, and D. Wagner, "Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11" Mobicom 2001.
• Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. " Ariadne: A Secure On-Demand Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks, ACM MOBICOM 2002.
• Laurent Eschenauer and Virgil D. Gligor. "A Key Management Scheme for Distributed Sensor Networks. ACM CCS 2002, Nov. 2002.

November 24: Wireless Sensor Networks

• C. Intagagonwiwat, R. Govindan, D. Estrin,  Directed Diffusion:  A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks, Mobicom'2000.

• DIMENSIONS: Why do we need a new Data Handling architecture for Sensor Networks? Deepak Ganesan, Deborah Estrin and John Heidemann To appear in Proceedings of the First Workshop on Hot Topics In Networks (HotNets-I), Princeton, New Jersey. October 28-29 2002.

November 26: Quality of Service and Energy-Efficiency Design

• J. Flinn J., M. Satyanarayanan, "Energy-aware adaptation for mobile applications," SOSP'99.

• M. Stemm and R. Katz, "Measuring and Reducing Energy Consumption of Networking Interfaces in Hand-held Devices."

December 1: New Wireless Networking Architecture

• Haiyun Luo, Ramachandran Ramjee, Prasun Sinha, Li Li and Songwu Lu, "UCAN: A Unified Cellular and Ad-Hoc Network Architecture, " Mobicom 2003.

• R. Karrer, A. Sabharwal, and E. Knightly, ``Enabling Large-scale Wireless Broadband: The Case for TAPs," HotNet'03.

December 3: New Communication Technologies

December 8-13: Project Presentation