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CS653 Mobile Computing: Spring 2014 Spring 2014

CS653 Mobile Computing is a spring 2014 PG elective course open to PG and UG students that covers topics in wireless communications and mobile systems. The course consists of lectures, a 30% group project analyzing wireless experiments and simulations, 20% in-class quizzes, a 20% midterm exam, and a 30% final exam. Course content includes overviews of wireless technologies and challenges, physical layer design, medium access, routing protocols, transport issues, mobility, security, and future directions such as dynamic spectrum access.

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CS653 Mobile Computing: Spring 2014 Spring 2014

CS653 Mobile Computing is a spring 2014 PG elective course open to PG and UG students that covers topics in wireless communications and mobile systems. The course consists of lectures, a 30% group project analyzing wireless experiments and simulations, 20% in-class quizzes, a 20% midterm exam, and a 30% final exam. Course content includes overviews of wireless technologies and challenges, physical layer design, medium access, routing protocols, transport issues, mobility, security, and future directions such as dynamic spectrum access.

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CS653 Mobile Computing

Spring 2014
Course Overview
 PG elective course, open to PG and UG students.
 Prerequisites: a previous course in networking (CS348 or
CS641 or equivalent)
 Topics in wireless communications and mobile systems
(wireless LANs, cellular systems, sensor networks etc.)
Grading
 Course project – 30%
 Will involve analyzing traces from wireless experiments, and
running wireless simulations using network simulators
 Will learn how to analyze and understand wireless systems
 Requires basic scripting and coding skills
 Teams of 3 students each
 Monthly reviews with instructor to monitor progress
 Final report, presentations, individual viva
Grading
 Course project – 30%
 Short in-class quizzes – 20%
 2 quizzes during the semester in class
 Dates will be announced in the previous lecture
 Mid-semester exam – 20%
 End-semester exam – 30%
Course Content (1)
 Overview of wireless and mobile systems (wireless LANs,
cellular systems, sensor networks, etc.) and the challenges
therein.
 The radio channel and wireless physical layer design.
 Medium access, multiplexing, link adaptation.
 Multicast, opportunistic routing, flooding, and other techniques
exploiting wireless broadcast and receiver diversity.
 Multihop routing protocols, routing metrics.
 TCP behavior over wireless, other transport layer issues.
Course Content (2)
 Solutions to handle mobility at various layers of the
networking stack, handling disconnected operations in
applications.
 Energy efficiency in mobile systems.
 Mobile security.
 Localization and service discovery techniques.
 Smartphone-based mobile computation and applications.
 Future directions: dynamic spectrum access, heterogenuous
networks, internet of things.
Readings
 Slides from lectures will be available on the course web page.
 Reference text book: Mobile Communications (2nd ed.).
Jochen Schiller.
 Research papers will also serve as references.

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