Wirless Networking

·   Lecture 01 [01 Aug 2005, Mon]: Introduction, course outline, evaluation plan
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·   Lecture 02 [02 Aug 2005, Tue]: Basics of RF propagation, antenna gain, radiation pattern
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Lecture notes by Rishabh Halakandi [pdf]

·   Lecture 03 [04 Aug 2005, Thu]: More on antenna radiationpattern, Frii's free-space path loss, link budgeting
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Lecture notes by Rocky Gupta [html]
Lecture notes by Prateek Bhansali[html,pdf]

·   Lecture 04 [09 Aug 2005, Tue:] Seminar by Ashok Aggarwal
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·   Lecture 05 [11 Aug 2005, Thu]: Fading (short-term, long-term), Multipath, Channel Impulse Response, Power delay profile, mean excess delay, root mean square delay spread, Inter-symbol interference, Digital modulation, Analog modulation
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Lecture notes by Vivek Kumar[pdf]
Lecture notes by Pulkit Jain[html]
References:

·   Mobile Communications by Jochen Schiller, Second Edition, Pearson Education [Chap 2]

·   Wireless and Mobile Systems by Dharma Prakash, Agrawal and Qing-An zeng, Thomson Brooks/Cole, VikasPublishing House [Chap 3,7]

·   Lecture 06 [12 Aug 2005, Fri]: Amplitude shift keying, Frequency shift keying, Phase shift keying, BPSK, QPSK, BER vs. SNR
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Lecture notes by Siddharth Kirtikar[html]
lecture notes by Mayank Mishra[html]

·   Lecture 07 [16 Aug 2005, Tue]: 802.11: What does it specify, BSS, ESS, Basics of CSMA/CA, Backoff procedure
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Lecture notes by Nihit Purwar and Ayush Ghai[pdf]

·   Lecture 08 [18 Aug 2005, Thu]:CSMA/CA+ACK, DCF timing relations
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Lecture notes by Zahir Siraj Koradia[pdf]
Lecture notes by Vinay Gupta[html]

·   Lecture 09 [19 Aug 2005, Fri]: Project discussion,Importance of propagation time
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Lecture notes by Gaurav Singh[pdf]
Lecture notes by Deepak Jorwal[html]

·   Lecture 10 [23 Aug 2005, Tue]: PCF mode of operation, IFS relations, Hidden node and exposed node problems
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Lecture notes by Vivek Misra [pdf]
Lecture notes by Shvetank Jain [pdf]

·   Lecture 11 [25 Aug 2005, Thu]: Hidden node problem, Exposed terminal problem, NAV & RTS/CTS to solve the Hidden node problem, 802.11 frame format
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Lecture notes by Mohit Mundhra and Mohit Mangal[pdf]

·   Lecture 12 [26 Aug 2005, Thu]:Throughput estimation in 802.11, Wireless and mobile computing overview, Performance measurement of an 802.11b community network
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Lecture notes by Jagdhesh Sanapala[html]
Lecture notes by Amar Kamat[html]

·   Lecture 13 [27 Aug 2005, Fri]: 2P MAC Protocol Lecture Slides and some links:
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/braman/pubs.html
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/braman/pres/2p-mobicom-short.pdf
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/braman/pres/2p-pres.pdf
Lecture notes by Rahul Srivastava[Not Available Yet]

·   Lecture 14 [09 Sep 2005, Fri]:Project rediscussion, Mid-sem1 discussion, Routing in wireless mesh networks
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Lecture notes by Nipun Rastogi[html, pdf]
Lecture notes by Jagan[pdf]
Lecture notes by Anurag Saxena[Not Available Yet]

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·   Lecture 15 [14 Sep 2005, Wed]:Wireless mesh network routing metrics, Wireless sensor networks (intro)
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Lecture notes by SuryaPrabha[pdf]
Lecture notes by Sumit Mundhra[pdf]

·   Lecture 16 [16 Sep 2005, Fri]:TinyOS, Habitat monitoring application prototype
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Lecture notes by Lenin T [html]
Lecture notes by Praveen Singhania [pdf]

·   Lecture 17 [20 Sep 2005, Tue]:Habitat monitoring application, Energy budgets, Intro to 802.15.4 and ZigBee
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Lecture notes by Anoop Kumar[pdf]

·   Lecture 18 [22 Sep 2005, Thu]:802.15.4 beaconed and non-beaconed PANs, superframe structure, slotted and unslotted CSMA, differences with 802.11 CSMA
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Lecture notes by Pavan[pdf]

·   Lecture 19 [23 Sep 2005, Fri]:TCP performance on multi-hop mesh networks
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Lecture notes by Dhiraj Golcha[html]
Lecture notes by Jugash Chandrapati[pdf]
Lecture notes by Renjith Verma[pdf]

·   Lecture 20 [24 Sep 2005, Sat]:Power efficient query processing in sensor networks
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Lecture notes by Jagan[Not Available Yet]
Lecture notes by Ketan Rajawat[pdf]

·   Lecture 21 [24 Sep 2005, Sat]:Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs)
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Lecture notes by Ajay Kumar Sarda[Not Available Yet]
Lecture notes by Renjith Kumar[Not Available Yet]

·   Lecture 22 [27 Sep 2005, Tue]:Data transfer modes in 802.15.4
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Lecture notes by Arkaprava Basu[pdf]
Lecture notes by Kiritee Konark Mishra[pdf]

·   Lecture 23 [29 Sep 2005, Thu]:Zigbee routing (AODV), cluster-tree formation
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Lecture notes by Giridhar[html]
Lecture notes by Subba Rao[pdf]

·   Lecture 24 [30 Sep 2005, Fri]:Introduction to GSM, GSM architecture, Traffic channels
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Lecture notes by Kiran[html]
Lecture notes by Vinay Kumar[html]

·   Lecture 25 [04 Oct 2005, Tue]:GSM control channels, call setup, speech coding, interleaving
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Lecture notes by Akhilesh[pdf]
Lecture notes by Abhinav Pathak[html]

·   Lecture 26 [25 Oct 2005, Tue]:Privacy and Authentication: An Introduction to Cryptography
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Lecture notes by Hari Natarajan[pdf]
Lecture notes by Arun[pdf]

·   Lecture 27 [26 Oct 2005, Wed]:Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11
Reference:

·   Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, David Wagner, "InterceptingMobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11",
Mobicom 2001.http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/wep-mob01.pdf

Lecture notes by Dungaram Chowdhary and Prashant Kumar[pdf]
Lecture notes by Uttam Kumar Tripathi[html]

·   Lecture 28 [28 Oct 2005, Fri]:TCP basics, functionality, ACK clocking, slow-start, fast retransmit, fast recovery
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Lecture notes by Anjaneya[pdf]
Lecture notes by Ravi Ande[html]

·   Lecture 29 [07 Nov 2005, Mon]:TCP over wireless problems and solutions, Design alternatives, The SNOOP protocol
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Reference:

·   Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Elan Amir, Randy H. Katz, Improving TCP/IP Performance over Wireless Networks, ACM Mobicom, Nov 1995.
http://daedalus.cs.berkeley.edu/publications/mobicom95.ps.gz

Lecture notes by Deepthi[pdf]
Lecture notes by Suryaprabha[pdf]

·   Lecture 30 [08 Nov 2005, Tue]:Link layer retransmission, TCP problems with asymmetric wireless links, solutions
Lecture slides[No Slides Available]
Reference:

·   Hari Balakrishnan, Venkat N. Padmanabhan, Randy H. Katz, "The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance", Mobicom 1997.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/balakrishnan97effects.html

Lecture notes by Mrityunjay Gautam[pdf]
Lecture notes by Ashish[pdf]

·   Lecture 31 [10 Nov 2005, Thu]: Mobile IP
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Lecture notes by Saeed[pdf]
Lecture notes by Abhishek[pdf]

·   Lecture 32 [11 Nov 2005, Fri]:RFID systems, tag singulation protocols, privacy mechanisms
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Lecture notes by Arindam Biswas[pdf]
Lecture notes by Note Taker2[Not yet available]

·   Lecture 33 [24 Nov 2005, Thu]:Summary of wireless networking topics, Things to remember, Take-aways from the course
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Lecture notes by Chandhan Saurabh[pdf]
Lecture notes by Rakesh Pratap[doc]