| Class |
Date |
Topic |
| Class 1 |
January 28, 2002 |
Introduction to mobile computing
Characteristics of mobile devices
Issues of mobile computing
|
| Class 2 |
January 30, 2002 |
Radio Frequency issues:
Modulation basics in analog and digital domains -AM, FM, PM, BASK, BFSK, BPSK, and their extensions
Spread Spectrum - direct frequency, frequency hopping
|
| Class 3 |
February 04, 2002 |
Cellular Telephony technologies and basics of MAC, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, GSM
|
| Class 4 |
February 06, 2002 |
MAC prrotocols for wireless networks
Problems in wireless networks: hidden and exposed station problems
CSMA/CD, persistent-CSMA, CSMA/CA, MACA, MACAW
|
| Class 5 |
February 11, 2002 |
IP issues and solutions
IBM LSSR, Columbia (SEN), Sony,
Mobile IP basics
|
| Class 6 |
February 18, 2002 |
Mobile IP (contd) advertisement, solicitation, foreign and home agent bits in messagesregistration and deregistration,
|
| Class 7 |
February 20, 2002 |
Mobile IP (contd) care/of address, security, triangle routing, tunnelling, border routers and firewalls
|
| Class 8 |
February 25, 2002 |
TCP over wireless issues, Split Connection and End--End ideas, link
layer modification, TCP snooping, SACKS/ELNs
Aether Intelligent Middleware (AIM) type protocols
|
| Class 9 |
February 27, 2002 |
TCP (contd) - Freeze TCP
|
| Class 10 |
March 04, 2002 |
MANETs, routing issues
DSR: basic idea, possible improvements: updates, cache, promiscuite listening
|
| Class 11 |
March 06, 2002 |
MANET routing continued, Ad-Hoc On-Dem Dist Vec (AODV), Dest Seq Dist
Vec (DSDV), Cluster Group Routing(CGR), Location Assisted Approach
|
| Class 12 |
March 11, 2002 |
QoS Routing in MANETS -- CEDAR
|
| Class 13 |
March 13, 2002 |
CEDAR (contd)
Basic discussion on Bluetooth, BT Baseband
|
| Class 14 |
March 18, 2002 |
Bluetooth (contd) LMP, L2CAP, SDP, IP over Bluetooth
|
| Class 15 |
March 20, 2002 |
Basics of data management concerns in mobile systems, with web
browsing as an example.
Proxy vs End--End approaches, WAP/WAE
|
| Class 16 |
April 01, 2002 |
Database issues in mobile environments
|
| Class 17 |
April 03, 2002 |
Location dependent data & services, discovery and interoperation, data streams & sensor networks
|
| Class 18 |
April 08, 2002 |
Mid-term
|
| Class 19 - Class 28 |
April 10, 2002 - May 13, 2002 |
Student Paper Presentations
|