92846 CSCI-6965-01

Special Topics on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Course syllabus: sy_92846.pdf

Lecture 1 reading materials

• http://w3.antd.nist.gov/wahn_home.shtml.
• J. Wu and H. Li, "On Calculating Connected Dominating Set for Efficient Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," Proc. of the Third International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications, Aug. 1999, 7-14.
• N. Li, J. Hou, and L. Sha, "Design and analysis of an MST-based topology control algorithm," Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2003. About the cencept of minimum spanning tree, you can look into the algorithm textbook, or here.
• Classnote: Lec1

Lecture 2 reading materials

• J. Blum, M Ding, A. Thaeler, and X. Cheng, "Connected Dominating Set in Sensor Networks and MANETs," Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization, D.-Z. Du and P. Pardalos (Eds.) pp.329-369, 2004.
• J. Wu and H. Li, "On Calculating Connected Dominating Set for Efficient Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," Proc. of the Third International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications, Aug. 1999, 7-14.
• J. Wu and F. Dai, "Broadcasting in Ad Hoc Networks Based on Self-Pruning," Proc. of the 22nd Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 2003)}, vol.3, pg.2240-2250. Mar./Apr. 2003.
• Classnote: Lec2

Lecture 3 reading materials

• J. Wu, M. Cardei, F. Dai, and S. Yang, "Extended Dominating Set and Its Applications in Ad Hoc Networks Using Cooperative Communication," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol 17, No. 8, August 2006.
• Classnote: Lec3

Lecture 4 reading materials

• S. Yang, F. Dai, M. Cardei, and J. Wu, "On Multiple Point Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Nov. 2005.
• Classnote: Lec4

Lecture 5 reading materials

• S. Yang, J. Wu and F. Dai, "Efficient Backbone Construction Methods in MANETs using Directional Antennas," Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, 2007.
• Classnote: Lec5

Lecture 6 reading materials

• J. Wu, S. Yang, and Mihaela Cardei, "On Maintaining Sensor-Actor Connectivity in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2008.
• Classnote: Lec6

Lecture 7: Technical paper writing

• Classnote: Lec7

Lecture 8: Simulation in wireless networks

• NS2
• GloMoSim
• Customized simulators
• ...
• Classnote: Lec8

Lecture 9 - 14: Reading and presentation

• J. Wu, S. Yang, and Mihaela Cardei, "On Maintaining Sensor-Actor Connectivity in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks,"
• S. Yang, J. Wu, and Mihaela Cardei, "Efficient Broadcast in MANETs Using Network Coding and Directional Antennas,"
• X. Wang, W. Yu, Xinwen Fu, D. Xuan and W. Zhao, "iLOC: An invisible LOCalization Attack to Internet Threat Monitoring Systems," In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Phoenix, AZ, April 13-18, 2008.
• Go to: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/tech_prog.html#7739 to have a look. Google using the chosed paper title. If not posted online somewhere yet, email one of the authors to ask for it.
• http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2008/2008_advance_program.html
• http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/icdcs/program.html