Instructor: Katia Obraczka Office:BE-329   TA: Kumar Viswanath Office:BE-399 Office hrs: Tue & Wed 10.00am- 11.00am

Location: Basking Engineering 156 Time: Thu 10:00am - 1:00pm

Objective This course will take an interdisciplinary approach in covering various topics relevant to wireless communication and mobile computing. The main emphasis is on higher-layer protocol (MAC and above) issues. The course will require extensive reading (especially research literature), in-class presentations and discussions, and a research project on a relevant topic of the student's choice.   PreRequisites CMPE 252 / Instructors consent   Class Format This is a seminar-style class based on research papers covering various topics related to wireless networking and mobile computing. Each student will be responsible for presenting one or more topics that will be covered in the course. Topic assignment will be done on the first day of class.   Grading 1. In-class presentations (30%) 2. Paper reports (10%) 3. Term project (60%) Note. All Projects are Individual projects.     Notes 1. We have provided an initial set of papers and the student assigned to the topic should find other relevant papers. 2. Students must submit their reading list to instructor for approval a week in advance. The final reading list for each topic will posted on the Web page at least one week in advance. 3. Students that are not presenting a specific topic will need to submit a one-page report on the papers to be read for each class. 4. Students will also make their lecture notes available to be posted on the class Web page. 5. Students are responsible for keeping up with updates to the class Web page in terms of the reading list, schedule changes, etc. 6. Project proposals are due by April 5th. The proposals will include the student's project of choice and an initial description of the methodology, deliverables and timeline for completing the projects. By May 3, students should submit a status report on their progress towards completing the projects. 7. Project submission: There will be a poster session on the day of the final (June 6 from 4-5:30). This poster seesion will mimic a real conference poster session. Each student will have 4-5 paper slides summarizing their project and will run demos to session participants. This session will be advertised to the School of Engineering.Before the poster session, students will have a dry-run of their demo to the instructor and the TA. They will also present their slides for the poster session. These dry-runs will be scheduled later into the course.