M038/GZ06: Calendar

Detailed Class Calendar

Below follows a day-by-day calendar for the class, including reading assignments, one-pager questions, and the schedule for student presentations (filled in after reading week, once students have formed groups and 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.

N.B. that all assigned readings are examinable, including papers presented by students in the final two weeks of class.

Wednesday Friday

13th Jan

No lecture today!

15th Jan

No lecture today!

20th Jan

TBA (SH)

22nd Jan

TBA (SH)

27th Jan

Geographic Routing (in Simulation) (BK)

Pre-Reading: GPSR

Lecture slides A, Reading Critically (pdf)
Lecture Slides B, GPSR (pdf)

29th Jan

Adapting to the Wireless Channel I (KJ)

Pre-Reading: SampleRate
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

3rd Feb

Adapting to the Wireless Channel II (KJ)

Pre-Reading: SampleWidth
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

5th Feb

Wireless Diversity (KJ)

Pre-Reading: MRD
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

10th Feb

Geographic Routing (in Practice) (BK)

Pre-Reading: CLDP
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

12th Feb

Mesh Networks (BK, 2 hours)

Pre-Reading: Roofnet
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

17th Feb

Reading week; no lecture today!

19th Feb

Reading week; no lecture today!

24th Feb

Peer-to-Peer Systems and DHTs (BK)

Pre-Reading: Chord
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

26th Feb

Incentives in Peer-to-Peer Systems: BitTorrent (BK)

Pre-Reading: BitTyrant
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture notes (txt)

3rd Mar

TBA (SH)

Pre-Reading: TBA

5th Mar

TBA (SH)

Pre-Reading: TBA

10th Mar

Exploiting Overhearing (KJ)

Pre-Reading: ExOR
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

12th Mar

Overcoming Interference (KJ)

Pre-Reading: Taking the Sting out of Carrier Sense
Pre-Reading: Interference Alignment and Cancellation
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

17th Mar (2 hours)

Student Presentation Group C (Efstathiades, Eftaxiopoulos, Papageorgakopoulou)
Diagnosing Wireless Packet Losses in 802.11: Separating Collision from Weak Signals pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)

Student Presentation Group F (Arulananthasivalingam, Chai, Dharmasena, Hadjikyriacou)
Cross-Layer Wireless Bit-Rate Adaptation pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)

19th Mar, 10:00

Student Presentation Group B (Argyrou, Karageorgiades, Kyrou)
Learning to Share: Narrowband-Friendly Wideband Networks pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)

24th Mar (2 hours)

Student Presentation Group A (Logiusto, Lopez, Jang, Al-Maarri)
Robust Rate Adaptation in 802.11 Wireless Networks pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)

Student Presentation Group D (Cui, Pankaj, Xue)
Trading Structure for Randomness in Wireless Opportunistic Routing pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)

26th Mar, 10:00

Student Presentation Group E (Iwunze, Jarrett, Kalausis, Paul-Ugochukwu)
Beyond the Bits: Cooperative Packet Recovery using Physical Layer Information pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)