M038/GZ06: Readings

Assigned Research Papers

Bicket, J. Bitrate Selection in Wireless Networks. MIT MS Thesis, 2005. pdf

Bicket, J., Aguayo, D., Biswas, S., and Morris, R. Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network. In ACM MobiCom, Koeln, Germany, 2005. pdf

Biswas, S., Morris, R. Opportunistic Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM, Philadelphia, PA, 2005. pdf

Chandra, R., Mahajan, R., Moscibroda, T., Raghavendra, R, and Bahl, V. A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM, Seattle, WA, 2007. pdf

Halperin, D., Anderson, T., and Wetherall, D. Taking the Sting out of Carrier Sense: Interference Cancellation for Wireless LANs. In ACM MobiCom, San Francisco, CA, 2008. pdf

Gollakota, S., Perli, S., Katabi, D. Interference Alignment and Cancellation. In ACM SIGCOMM, Barcelona, Spain, 2009. pdf

Karp, B. and Kung, H.T., GPSR: Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks. In ACM MobiCom, Boston, MA, 2000. pdf

Kim, Y.-J., Govindan, R., Karp, B., and Shenker, S., Geographic Routing Made Practical. In USENIX NSDI, Boston, MA 2005. pdf

Miu, A., Balakrishnan, H., and Koksal, C. E. Improving Loss Resilience wih Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks. In ACM MobiCom, Cologne, Germany, 2005. pdf

Piatek, M., Isdal, T., Anderson, T., Krishnamurthy, A., and Venkataramani, A. Do Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent? In USENIX NSDI, Cambridge, MA, 2007. pdf

Stoica, I., Morris, R., Karger, D., Kaashoek, M.F., and Balakrishnan, H. Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications. In ACM SIGCOMM, San Diego, CA, 2001. pdf

Paper notes and errata

Presentation Research Papers

Exploiting overhearing using network coding techniques:
Chachulski, S., Jennings, M., Katti, S., and Katabi, D. Trading Structure for Randonmess in Wireless Opportunistic Routing, in ACM SIGCOMM 2007.
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A clever variation on interference cancellation that solves the hidden terminal problem:
Gollakota, S., and Katabi, D. ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks, in ACM SIGCOMM 2008. pdf

Allowing wideband networks to coexist with narrowband (802.11, Zigbee) devices:
Rahul, H., Kushman, N., Katabi, D., Sodini, C., and Edalat, F., Learning to Share: Narrowband-Friendly Wideband Networks, in ACM SIGCOMM 2008. pdf (reserved)

The design of a software-defined radio built using commodity multi-core PCs:
Tan, K., Zhang, J., Fang, J., Liu, H., Ye, Y., Wang, S., Zhang, Y., Wu, H., Wang, W., Voelker, G. Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors, in USENIX NSDI 2008. pdf

Boosting the capacity of wireless LANs by using spatial division techniques to share the wireless channel:
Tan, K., Liu, H., Fang, J., Wang, W., Zhang, J., Chen, M., Voelker, G. SAM: Enabling Practical Spatial Multiple Access in Wireless LAN, in ACM MobiCom. pdf

A follow-on to SampleRate rate adaptation and related work:
Wong, S. H. Y., Yang, H., Lu, S., Bharghavan, V., Robust Rate Adaptation in 802.11 Wireless Networks, in ACM MobiCom 2006. pdf (reserved)

Distinguishing collisions from weak signals:
Rayanchu, S., Mishra, A., Agrawal, D., Saha, S., Banerjee, S. Diagnosing Wireless Packet Losses in 802.11: Separating Collision from Weak Signals, in IEEE INFOCOM 2008. pdf (reserved)

Using PHY-layer information to improve rate adaptation:
Vutukuru, M., Balakrishnan, H., Jamieson, K. Cross-Layer Wireless Bit Rate Adaptation, in ACM SIGCOMM 2009. pdf (reserved)

Synopsis Diffusion: how to forward sensor readings over multiple paths to a base station for robustness, without duplicating sensed values (!):
Nath, S., Gibbons, P., Seshan, S., and Anderson, Z. Synopsis Diffusion for Robust Aggregation in Sensor Networks, in ACM SenSys 2004. pdf

Going beyond MRD to use soft information to combine multiple packets at multiple APs:
Woo, G., Kheradpour, P., Shen, D., Katabi, D. Beyond the Bits: Cooperative Packet Recovery using Physical Layer Information, in ACM MobiCom 2007. pdf (reserved)