The purpose of this course is to expose students to recent advances in wireless networks, focusing on novel protocol designs, and architectural concepts. Various topics will be covered (see attached list) through representative papers from top-tier conferences (e.g., MobiCom, MobiHoc, Sigcomm, INFOCOM, etc.), IEEE and ACM journals, magazines, and regulatory documents and standards (including FCC specifications). The class will emphasize discussion and debate, with the goal of strengthening students' critical and analytical thinking.
Slides covering various lectures will be emailed to students and/or posted on the D2L class page (https://d2l.arizona.edu). To access the D2L page, you need to log in using your UA NetID and password. The list of assigned papers for each lecture is given below. Papers themselves can be downloaded from the UA digital library.
For each seminar, all students must read the the assigned "required papers" before coming to class. The presentation will last for one hour, including discussion, questions, etc. The presenter(s) is required to send his/her slides to the instructor at least 2 days before the presentation. Depending on the complexity and value of the discussed paper, the discussion of a given paper may sometimes extend over two lectures (including the quiz).
Quizzes | 50% | ||
Class Participation | 20% | ||
Presentations | 30% |
- Class 1 (Thursday, Jan. 10): Course Introduction
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Class 2 (Tuesday, Jan. 15): Channel Access in IEEE 802.11 WLANs and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks - Lecture 1
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading: B. P. Crow, I. Widjaja, J.G. Kim, and P.T. Sakai, "IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, Sep. 1997.
- Class 3 (Thursday, Jan. 17): Channel Access in IEEE 802.11 WLANs and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks - Lecture 2
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading: H. Aboubakr Omar, K. Abboud, N. Cheng, K. R. Malekshan, A. T. Gamage, and W. Zhuang, "A survey on high efficiency wireless local area networks: Next generation WiFi," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 18, no. 4, 4th Quarter, 2016.
- Class 4 (Tuesday, Jan. 22): Power-controlled MAC Protocols for MANETs - Lecture 1
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading: Marwan Krunz, Alaa Muqattash, and S.J. Lee, "Transmission power control in wireless ad hoc networks: Challenges, solutions, and open issues," IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 8-14, Sep. 2004.
- Class 5 (Thursday, Jan. 24): POWMAC - Example of a Power-controlled MAC Protocol for MANETs
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Optional Reading: Alaa Muqattash and Marwan Krunz, "POWMAC: A single-channel power-control protocol for throughput enhancement in wireless ad hoc networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)--Special Issue on Advances in Military Wireless Communications, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 1067-1084, May 2005.
- Class 6 (Tuesday, Jan. 29): Channel Access in Directional Wireless Networks
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading: R. R. Choudhury, X. Yang, R. Ramanathan, and N. Vaidya, "On designing MAC protocols for wireless networks using directional antennas," IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing, vol. 5, no. 5, May 2006.
- Class 7 (Thursday, Jan. 31): Power-saving Mode in 802.11-based WLANs
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading: Y.-C. Tseng, C.-S. Hsu, and T.-Y. Hsieh, "Power-saving protocols for IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop ad hoc networks," Computer Networks Journal, Vol. 43, pp. 317-337, 2003.
- Class 8 (Tuesday, Feb. 5): Overview of 5G Cellular Systems
- Presenter: Mohammed Hirzallah
- Required Reading: M. Shafi et al., "5G: A tutorial overview of standards, trials, challenges, deployment, and practice," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1201-1221, June 2017.
- Optional Reading:
- S. Parkvall, E. Dahlman, A. Furuskar and M. Frenne, "NR: The new 5G radio access technology," IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 24-30, Dec. 2017.
- Xingqin Lin et al. "5G New Radio: Unveiling the essentials of the next generation wireless access technology," arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.06898(2018).
- Class 9 (Thursday, Feb. 7): Overview of Wireless Sensor Networks
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading:
- C.-Y. Chong and S.P. Kumar, "Sensor networks: Evolution, opportunities, and challenges," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, no. 8, pp. 1247-1256, August 2003.
- I. F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, and E. Cayirci, "A survey on sensor networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 102–114, August 2002.
- Class 10 (Tuesday, Feb. 12): Overview of Dynamic Spectrum Access and Cognitive Radios
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading: I. F. Akyildiz, W.-Y. Lee, M. C. Vuran, and S. Mohanty, "NeXt generation/dynamic spectrum access/cognitive radio wireless networks: A survey," Computer Networks Journal, vol. 50, issue 13, pp. 2127-2159, Sep. 2006.
- Optional Reading:
- Qing Zhao and Brian M. Sadler, "A survey of dynamic spectrum access - Signal processing, networking, and regulatory policy," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp. 79-89, May 2007.
- M. Nekovee, T. Irnich, and J. Karlsson, "Worldwide trends in regulation of secondary access to white spaces using cognitive radio," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 32-40, August 2012.
- Class 11 (Thursday, Feb. 14): Mobility Modeling and Routing Protocols for Multi-hop Networks
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading:
- T. Camp, J. Boleng, and V. Davies, "A survey of mobility models for ad hoc network research," Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (WCMC), 2000.
- Mehran Abolhasan, Tadeusz Wysocki, and Eryk Dutkiewicz, "A review of routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks," Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 1-22, Jan. 2004.
- Optional Reading: C. E. Perkins and E. M. Royer, "Ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing," Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, New Orleans, LA, pp. 90-100, February 1999.
- Class 12 (Tuesday, Feb. 19): Initial Access and Device Discovery for mmW Systems
- Presenter: Irmak Aykin
- Required Reading:
- Sundeep Rangan, Theodore S. Rappaport, and Elza Erkip, "Millimeter-wave cellular wireless networks: Potentials and challenges," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 102, no. 3, pp. 366–385, March 2014.
- Marco Giordani, Marco Mezzavilla, and Michele Zorzi, "Initial access in 5G mmWave cellular networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 40-47, Nov. 2016.
- Optional Reading: Jin Liu et al., "Initial access, mobility, and user-centric multi-beam operation in 5G New Radio," IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 35-41, March 2018.
- Class 13 (Thursday, Feb. 21): MIMO-based Wireless Communications
- Presenter: Peyman Siyari
- Required Reading: Arogyaswami J. Paulraj, Dhananjay A. Gore, Rohit U. Nabar, and Helmut Bölcskei, "An overview of MIMO communications - A key to gigabit wireless," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 198-218, 2004.
- Class 14 (Tuesday, Feb. 26): MAC Protocols for DSA/CR Systems
- Presenter: Ashiq Rahman
- Required Reading: Haythem Bany Salameh, Marwan Krunz, and Ossama Younis, "Cooperative adaptive spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1181–1194, Aug. 2010.
- Optional Reading: Haythem Bany Salameh and Marwan Krunz, "Channel access protocols for multi-hop opportunistic networks: Challenges and recent developments," IEEE Network – Special Issue on Networking over Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks, vol. 23, issue 4, pp. 14–19, July-August 2009.
- Class 15 (Thursday, Feb. 28): Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Presenter: Alex McDowell
- Required Reading: O. Younis and S. Fahmy, "HEED: a hybrid, energy-efficient, distributed clustering approach for ad hoc sensor networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 3, issue 4, pp. 366-379, Oct.-Dec. 2004.
- Optional Reading: Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, "Node clustering in wireless sensor networks: Recent developments and deployment challenges," IEEE Network - Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networking, vol. 20, issue 3, pp. 20-25, May 2006.
Spring Break: March 2-10.
- Class 16 (Tuesday, March 12): Localization in WSNs
- Presenter: Zhiwu Guo
- Required Reading : T. He, C. Huang, B. M. Blum, J. A. Stankovic, and T. F. Abdelzaher, "Range-free localization and its impact on large scale sensor networks," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), vol. 4, issue 4, pp. 877-906, Nov. 2005.
- Class 17 (Thursday, March 14): Multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) Channel Access Protocols
- Presenter: Ahmed Ziane
- Required Reading: Ruizhi Liao, Boris Bellalta, Miquel Oliver, and Zhisheng Niu, "MU-MIMO MAC protocols for wireless local area networks: A survey," IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 162-183, 1st Quarter, 2016.
- Optional Reading: Hang Yu, Oscar Bejarano, and Lin Zhong, "Combating inter-cell interference in 802.11ac-based multi-user MIMO networks," Proceedings of the ACM MobiCom 2014 Conference, Sep. 2014.
- Class 18 (Tuesday, March 19): Cooperative and Virtual MIMO Protocols
- Presenter: Amir Hossein Yazdani
- Required Reading: Diep Nguyen and Marwan Krunz, "A cooperative MIMO framework for wireless sensor networks, " ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 10, issue 3 (Article 43; 28 pages), April 2014.
- Optional Reading: Diep Nguyen and Marwan Krunz, "Cooperative MIMO in wireless networks: Recent developments and challenges, " IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 27, issue 4, pp. 48-54, July/August 2013.
- Class 19 (Thursday March 21): Rate Adaptation Protocols
- Presenter: Alex Berian
- Required Reading: Mythili Vutukuru, Hari Balakrishnan, Kyle Jamieson, "Cross-layer wireless bit rate adaptation," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2009.
- Class 20 (Tuesday, March 26): TCP over Wireless Networks
- Presenter: Tianchi Zhao
- Required Reading: O. Gurewitz, V. Mancuso, J. Shi, and E. Knightly, "Measurement and modeling of the origins of starvation of congestion controlled flows in wireless mesh networks, " IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 17(6):1832-1845, December 2009.
- Optional Reading: G. Holland and N.H. Vaidya, "Analysis of TCP performance over mobile ad hoc networks ," Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Mobicom 1999 Conference, Seattle, WA, pp. 219-230, Aug. 1999.
- Class 21 (Thursday, March 28): Overview of Physical-layer Wireless Security
- Presenter: Berk Akgun
- Required Reading:
- Y.-S. Shiu, S. Y. Chang, H.-C. Wu, S.-H. Huang, and H.-H. Chen, "Physical layer security in wireless networks: A tutorial," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 66–74, April 2011.
- H. Rahbari and M. Krunz, "Secrecy beyond encryption: Obfuscating transmission signatures in wireless communications," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 54-60, December 2015.
- Class 22 (Tuesday, April 2): Selective Jamming and Dropping Attacks in Wireless Systems
- Presenter: Zhengguang Zhang
- Required Reading:
- Loukas Lazos and Marwan Krunz, "Selective jamming/dropping insider attacks in wireless mesh networks," IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 25, issue 1, pp. 30-34, Jan. 2011.
- Hanif Rahbari, Marwan Krunz, and Loukas Lazos, "Swift jamming attack on frequency offset estimation: The Achilles' heel of OFDM systems," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 15, issue 5, pp. 1264-1278, May 2016.
- Class 23 (Thursday, April 4): Fog and Mobile-edge Computing
- Presenter: Wenhan Zhang
- Required Reading: Nasir Abbas, Yan Zhang, and Amir Taherkordi, "Mobile edge computing: A survey," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 450-465, Feb. 2018.
- Optional Reading:
- Yu-Jen Ku, Dian-Yu Lin, Chia-Fu Lee, Ping-Jung Hsieh, Hung-Yu Wei, Chun-Ting Chou, and Ai-Chun Pang, "5G radio access network design with the fog paradigm: Confluence of communications and computing," IEEE Comm. Magazine, April 2017.
- Mung Chiang, Sangtae Ha, Chih-lin I, Fulvio Risso, and Tao Zhang, "Clarifying Fog computing and networking: 10 questions and answers," IEEE Comm. Magazine, April 2017.
- Class 24 (Tuesday, April 9): In-band Full-duplex Communications
- Presenter: Dr. Marwan Krunz
- Required Reading: D. Bharadia, E. McMilin, and S. Katti, "Full duplex radios," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM’13 Conf., Hong Kong, China, Aug. 2013, pp. 375–386.
- Optional Reading: Ashutosh Sabharwal, Philip Schniter, Dongning Guo, Daniel W. Bliss, Sampath Rangarajan, and Risto Wichman, "In-band full-duplex wireless: Challenges and opportunities," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 1637-1652, Sep. 2014.
- Class 25 (Thursday, April 11): Heterogeneous Horizontal Coexistence - LTE-Unlicensed and Wi-Fi
- Presenter: Mohammed Hirzallah
- Required Reading:
- Ran Zhang, Miao Wang, Lin X. Cai, Zhongming Zheng, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, and Liang-Liang Xie, "LTE-Unlicensed: The future of spectrum aggregation for cellular networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, pp. 150-159, June 2015.
- Cristina Cano, David Lopez-Perez, Holger Claussen, and Douglas J. Leith, "Using LTE in unlicensed bands: Potential benefits and co-existence issues," Manuscript will be provided.
- Class 26 (Tuesday, April 16): Backscatter Communications
- Presenter: Group presentation (Amir Hossein Yazdani and Alex McDowell)
- Required Reading: Vincent Liu, Aaron Parks, Vamsi Talla, Shyamnath Gollakota, David Wetherall, and Joshua R. Smith, "Ambient backscatter: Wireless communication out of thin air," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM’13 Conference, 2013 (received best paper award).
- Class 27 (Thursday, April 18): ZigZag Decoding
- Presenter: Group presentation (Zhiwu Guo and Zhengguang Zhang)
- Required Reading: S. Gollakota and D. Katabi, "ZigZag decoding: Combating hidden terminals in wireless networks," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, pp.159-170, 2008.
- Class 28 (Tuesday, April 23): Communication Protocols and Spectrum Allocation for IoT Systems
- Presenter: Group presentation (Ahmed Ziane and Alex Berian)
- Required Reading:
- A. Al-Fuqaha, M. Guizani, M. Mohammadi, M. Aledhari and M. Ayyash, "Internet of Things: A survey on enabling technologies, protocols, and applications," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2347-2376, 4th Quarter, 2015.
- U. Raza, P. Kulkarni and M. Sooriyabandara, "Low power wide area networks: An overview," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 855-873, 2nd Qrt., 2017.
- Optional Reading: Y. P. E. Wang et al., "A Primer on 3GPP narrowband Internet of Things," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 117-123, March 2017.
- Class 29 (Thursday, April 25): Visible Light Communications (VLC)
- Presenter: Group presentation (Wenhan Zhang and Tianchi Zhao)
- Required Reading: P. H. Pathak, X. Feng, P. Hu, and P. Mohapatra, "Visible light communication, networking, and sensing: A survey, potential and challenges," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, pp. 2047-2077, Issue 4, Dec. 2015.
- Class 30 (Tuesday, April 30): Energy Harvesting for Wireless Networks
- Presenter: Dr. Mingjie Feng
- Required Reading: S. Ulukus, A. Yener, E. Erkip, O. Simeone, M. Zorzi, P. Grover, and K. Huang, "Energy harvesting wireless communications: A review of recent advances," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 360-381, Mar. 2015.
- Optional Reading: C. Wang, J. Li, Y. Yang, and F. Ye, "Combining solar energy harvesting with wireless charging for hybrid wireless sensor networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 560-576, Mar. 2018.
Note: May 1 will be the last day of classes.