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 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

10th Jan

12th Jan

Introduction (BK)

Lecture slides (pdf)

14th Jan

Mesh Networks (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

17th Jan

19th Jan

Geographic Routing (in Simulation) (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

21st Jan

Geographic Routing (in Practice) (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

24th Jan

26th Jan

Peer-to-Peer Systems and DHTs (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

28th Jan

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

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

Lecture notes (txt)

31st Jan, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Midterm exam 1
Location: Cruciform LT2

2nd Feb

Adapting to the Wireless Channel I (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

4th Feb

Adapting to the Wireless Channel II (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

7th Feb

9th Feb

Wireless Diversity (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

11th Feb

Sensor Hints for Wireless (BK)

Pre-Reading: Sensor Hints
One-pager assignment (pdf)
no written submission required!

Lecture notes (txt)

14th Feb

Reading week

16th Feb

Reading week

18th Feb

Reading week

21st Feb

23rd Feb

Exploiting Overhearing (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

25th Feb

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)

28th Feb, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Midterm exam 2
Location: Cruciform LT 2

2nd Mar

Tracking Mobile Devices (KJ)

Pre-Reading: StarTrack
Pre-Reading: StarTrack Next Generation (OSDI slides)

One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

Lecture notes (txt)

4th Mar

Vehicle Tracking with the Viterbi Algorithm (KJ)

Pre-Reading: The Viterbi Algorithm (Sections I-III incl.)
Pre-Reading: VTrack

One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

7th Mar

9th Mar

Privacy in Mobile Applications (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)
Lecture notes (txt)

11th Mar

Student paper presentations:

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Group B (Gvozdiev, Mihaila)
Xen and the Art of Virtualization pdf

One-pager assignment (pdf)

Presentation slides (pdf)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM AM Group C (Petridou, Heracleous)
Sensing Meets Mobile Social Networks: The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of the CenceMe Application pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)

14th Mar

16th Mar

Student paper presentations:

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Ronchi)
SurroundSense: Mobile Phone Localization via Ambience Fingerprinting pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Group D (Sato, Cai)
ParkNet: Drive-by Sensing of Road-Side Parking Statistics pdf

One-pager assignment (pdf)

Presentation slides (pdf)

18th Mar

Student paper presentations:

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Group E (Llewelyn, Olesiejuk)
Leveraging Smart Phones to Reduce Mobility Footprints pdf

One-pager assignment (pdf)

Presentation slides (pdf)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Group F (Borés, Dayan)
Blue-Fi: Enhancing Wi-Fi Performance Using Bluetooth Signals pdf

Presentation slides (pdf)

21st Mar

23rd Mar

Student paper presentations:

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Group G (Harrison, Xia)
SourceSync: A Distributed Wireless Architecture for Exploiting Sender Diversity pdf

One-pager assignment (pdf)

Presentation slides (pdf)

25th Mar (2 hours)

Midterm exam 3 (in class)