EE E6951,
Spring 2002
Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Homeworks
Typically we will review one technical paper each week. The
first week there are three short non technical papers, which
is an exception to our weekly routine.
Reviews should be brief and to the point. Email your plain
text reviews to [email protected]
by the listed
due date.
Include your opinions:
- What is the essence of the paper;
- What is missing;
- Where is the vision and how does it relate to technology today;
- An other insights and thoughts? BE OPINIONATED!
MANTORY: List a couple of questions you would like discussed
next week concerning these papers so as to get a better
understanding or to argue against premises there. BE OPINIONATED!
Jan. 24, 2002
Assignment 1
The Computer for
the 21st Century, Mark Weiser
Some Computer
Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing, Mark Weiser
Will 3G
really be the next big wireless technology?, Garber, L
Due Date: Thursday, Jan 31, 5pm
Jan. 31, 2002
Assignment 2
The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols, David D. Clark, Proceeding SIGCOMM '88, Stanford, CA, August 1988, Vol. 8, No. 4
End-to-End
Arguments in System Design, Saltzer, Reed, Clark
Due Date: Thursday,
Feb 7, 5pm
Feb. 7, 2002
Assignment 3
Homework #3 Radio Channel Modeling Solution
MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LANs , Bharghavan, Demers,Shenker, Zhang
MACA - A New Channel Access Method for Packet Radio, Phil Karn
Due Date: Sunday, Feb 17, 5pm
Feb. 14, 2002
Assignment 4
Measured Performance of 5Hz IEEE 802.11a Wireless LAN, Technical Report by Atheros Inc.
Due Date: Thursday, Feb 21, 5pm (extended to Feb27 Wed)
Feb. 21, 2002
Assignment 5
A New Paradigm for IP-Based Cellular Networks
M.Scott Corson, Rajiv Laroia, Alan OˇŻNeill, Vincent Park, and George Tsirtsis
Due Date: Wednesday, Feb 27, 5pm
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Assignment 6
An End-to-End Approach to Host Mobility
Alex C. Snoeren and Hari Balakrishnan Proc.6th ACM MOBICOM, Boston, MA, August 2000.
Due Date: Wednesday, March 6, 5pm
Assignment 7
Fast and Scalable Handoffs for Wireless Internetworks
Ramon Caceres and Venkata N. Padmanabhan Proc.2th ACM MOBICOM, White Plains, NY, 1996.
Due Date: Wednesday, March 13, 5pm
Assignment 8
Due Date: Thursday, March 14, 10AM
Assignment 9
A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols
Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson, Yih-Chun Hu, and Jorjeta Jetcheva, ", Proc.4th ACM MOBICOM Dallas, TX, October 1998.
Due Date: Wednesday, April 3, 5pm
Assignment 10
Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks
Chalermek Intanagonwiwat,Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin
Due Date: Wednesday, April 10, 5pm
Assignment 11
Composable Ad-hoc Mobile Services for Universal Interaction
Todd D. Hodes, Randy H. Katz, Edouard Servan-Schreiber, Lawrence Rowe
Due Date: Wednesday, April 17, 5pm
Assignment 12
Mike Ritter, Robert J. Friday, Rodrigo Garces, Weill San Filippo,Cuong-Thinh Nguyen
Due Date: Wednesday, April 24, 5pm
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Assignment 13
The 3GPP and 3GPP2 Movements Toward an All-IP Mobile Network
Girish Patel, and Steven Dennett
Due Date: Wednesday, May
1, 5pm
Assignment 14
"Improving
TCP/IP Performance over Wireless Networld"
Hari
Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Elan Amir and Randy H. Katz
Due Date: Wednesday, May 8, 5pm
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