Below follows a day-by-day calendar for the class, including reading assignments, one-pager questions, and the schedule for student presentations (filled in once students have selected papers to present). Lecture notes will be posted immediately after each lecture.
Class meetings consist largely of discussions of research papers. They are designed under the assumption that students have already read the assigned papers (which also will have been necessary to answer the one-pager assigned with each paper). If you do not read the papers that appear on a day of the calendar before that day's lecture, you are likely to have difficulty following the lecture and discussion.
Each day on the calendar includes a link to a question about a reading assigned for that day. Students must write a short 200- to 500-word answer to the question, and must turn in this one-pager at the start of the lecture on the day the question appears on the calendar.
Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
7th Jan |
9th Jan Class Introduction (KJ) Lecture slides (pdf) |
11th Jan Mesh Networks (BK) Pre-Reading: Roofnet Lecture slides (pdf) |
14th Jan |
16th Jan Adapting to the Wireless Channel (KJ) Pre-Reading: SampleRate |
18th Jan Indoor WiFi Localization (KJ) |
21st Jan |
23rd Jan Geographic Routing (in Simulation) (BK) Pre-Reading: GPSR Lecture slides (pdf) |
25th Jan Geographic Routing (in Practice) (BK) Pre-Reading: CLDP Lecture slides (pdf) |
28th Jan, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Midterm exam 1 |
30th Jan Wireless Diversity (KJ) Pre-Reading: MRD Lecture slides (pdf) |
1st Feb Parallelism in the Cloud: MapReduce (KJ) |
4th Feb |
6th Feb Consistent Hashing: DHTs (BK) Pre-Reading: Chord Lecture slides (pdf) |
8th Feb Cloud Storage: Dynamo (BK) Pre-Reading:
Dynamo Lecture slides: (pdf) |
11th Feb Reading week |
13th Feb Reading week |
15th Feb Reading week |
18th Feb |
20th Feb Sensor Hints for Wireless (BK) Pre-Reading: Sensor Hints Lecture notes (txt) |
22nd Feb Overcoming Interference I: Interference Cancellation (KJ) Pre-Reading: Taking
the Sting out of Carrier Sense Lecture slides (pdf) One-pager assignment (pdf) |
25th Feb, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Midterm exam 2 |
27th Feb Hybrid Mobile-Cloud Applications (BK) Pre-Reading: MAUI Lecture slides (pdf) |
1st Mar Overcoming Interference II: Multi-Antenna Interference Nulling and Alignment (KJ) Pre-Reading: MIMO for Dummies Lecture slides (pdf) |
4th Mar |
6th Mar Rateless Codes (KJ) Pre-Reading: Spinal
Codes |
8th Mar, 9 AM - 11 AM Student Presentations Barlow-Bignell, Gjengset: Fraguela: One-pager assignment (pdf) |
11th Mar |
13th Mar, 11 AM - 1 PM Student Presentations Silva, Vasani: Yerbolat, Mizutani: One-pager assignment (pdf) |
15th Mar, 9 AM - 11 AM Student Presentations T. Huang, Xu: Nie, X. Huang: |
18th Mar |
20th Mar, 11 AM - 1 PM Student Presentations Tazhkenov, Vaghela: Oliha, Zheng: One-pager assignment (pdf) |
22nd Mar Midterm exam 3 |