94.536
Fall 2002
Instructor: Thomas Kunz
tkunz@sce.carleton.ca
Wireless Communication and Mobile Applications are
recent paradigms in communications and computer science. This course will
provide an introduction and overview of communication alternatives for mobile
data applications, focusing on mobility-related aspects of higher-level
protocols, and examines in depth the infrastructure, available services, and
application paradigms for mobile applications. The course prerequisite is a course in computer
or data networks.
Resources:
There is no single textbook that adequately covers the diverse range of topics
(and buying multiple textbooks is clearly not very appealing financially). One
reasonably complete book is Mobile Communications, by Jochen
Schiller, Addison-Wesley 2000, ISBN 0-201-39836-2 (with the 2nd
edition expected to become available soon). I made copies of my set of
transparencies available as course notes and they are available via the IEEE
student society. The notes have an extensive list of references in the
Appendix. I will post these notes, plus other reference material, on the course
webpage, http://kunz-pc.sce.carleton.ca/sce536/. I
will also post marks, assignments, and sample solutions on this webpage.
Marking
Scheme: There will be a two
assignments worth 10% each, a midterm exam worth 30%, and a course project,
which is worth 50% total (5% will be assigned based on the project proposal,
and 45% will be based on the final report). All documents have to be submitted
as a hardcopy and softcopy, and follow certain formatting guidelines (in
particular length and font size limitations). See below for a discussion of
these requirements..
Due
Dates: The midterm exam will be in class (first hour) on November
1. The project proposal is due in class on October 4. The final project report
is due November 29.
|
|
Due Date |
Weight |
|
Project Proposal |
October 4 |
5 % |
|
Assignment 1 |
October 18 |
10 % |
|
Midterm Exam |
November 1 |
30 % |
|
Assignment 2 |
November 15 |
10 % |
|
Final Project Report |
November 29 |
45 % |
Cheating:
Suspected academic offences (cheating) will be investigated and reported to the
Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, see also General Regulation 14. Cheating
covers a wide range of offences, including submitting another student’s work as
your own solution, or committing an act of plagiarism. A more detailed
description of what constitutes plagiarism is available on the WWW
(http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bpg/plagiarism.htm).
Project:
50% of your mark will be determined by a course project. You have two
options for the project: you can work individually on a literature survey
and research proposal, or actually do a small research
project in a team of up to 2 students. For the research proposal, explore a
technical concept related to the course, present the results in a cohesive
format, and suggest in-depth a research project that would extend the reviewed
state-of-the-art. For the research project, you may want to team up with a
partner of your choice, explore a technical concept related to the course and,
with the use of publicly available software tools, conduct experiments and
analyze the results. These experiments should aim to explore previously unknown
facts/insights. To ensure that students are on the right track, I require a 2-page
proposal by October 4 the latest. This proposal should outline the suggested
topic and why it is relevant to the course, provide the suggested structure of
the final report, and list references to be used in the research. For a
team-effort, only one (joint) proposal is necessary. The final report is
limited to at most 15 pages (counting everything). The following points should
be kept in mind when researching project topics:
·
use publicly
available references, academic journals, conference proceedings (I expect each
final report to be based on at least 5 articles that appeared in traditional
academic venues, plus references derived from the WWW and other sources), the
majority of which were published within the last two years
·
projects
should not “rehash” course content: assume that everything discussed in the
course, as demonstrated by the course notes, is known to a reader of the report
·
reports and
suggested research should focus on technical
issues, not marketing
The submissions have
to use 11pt fonts or larger, printed single-sided with 1in margins all around.
The text may be typeset single-spaced. Some other formatting requirements are:
·
cover page,
table of content, abstract, and reference list are mandatory for the final
report
·
for research
proposal, the proposal itself should be at least 5 pages long, including: what
problem(s) to address, suggested solutions, how to test your idea, expected
outcomes, etc.
·
for research
efforts, the description of the experiments, results, and their analysis
(including a comparison to related work) should at least be 5 pages as well.
Failure to adhere to these requirements will result in
a loss of up to 30% of the project mark.
Outline:
·
Introduction
and History
·
overview of
technologies for wireless communication
·
marketplace
(growth, dominant technologies)
·
Data in
Wireless Cellular Systems
·
Data in
Wireless Local Area Networks
·
Wireless
LANs: WaveLan, IEEE 802.11
·
Personal Area
Networks: Bluetooth
·
High-Speed
Wireless Networks: HiperLan
· Internet
Protocols, Mobile IP
·
Routing in
ad-hoc networks
·
TCP over
Wireless Link
·
Services and
Service Discovery
·
System
Support for
·
Theoretical
Model
·
File Systems
and Databases
·
Wireless WWW
·
WAP (Wireless
Application Protocol)