| Date | Presenters | Topic | Paper |
| 3/18 | Anila Anitha Sri Darapuneni |
Access methods | Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function, G. Bianchi; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2000, vol. 18, #3. Analysis of IEEE 802.11e for QoS support in wireless LANs, S. Mangold, S. Choi, G.R. Hiertz, O. Klein and B. Walke; IEEE Wireless Communications, 2003. QoS Enhancement in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks, D. Gu and J. Zhang, IEEE Communications Magazine, june 2003. Achieving MAC layer fairness in wireless packet networks; T. Nandagopal, T.-E. Kim, X. Gao and V. Bharghavan; International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM'00, 2000. |
| 3/20 | Walied Hassan Sears Merritt |
Wireless link | Characterizing user behavior and network performance in a public wireless LAN, A. Balachandran and G. M. Voelker, In Proc. ACM Sigmetrics, June 2002. Analysis of a campus-wide wireless network. D. Kotz and K. Essien, In ACM Mobicom, September 2002. Impact of Multipath Fading in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. J. Mullen, H. Hong. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN-05), October 10-13, 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ARP considered harmful: manycast transactions in ad hoc networks Carter, C.; Seung Yi; Kravets, R.; Proc. of Wireless Communications and Networking (WCNC), IEEE, Volume 3, 16-20 March 2003 Page(s):1801 - 1806 vol.3. |
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| 4/1 | Michael Kuss Abishek Chandrasekaran |
Wireless channel |
Exploiting partially overlapped channels in wireless networks: Turning a peril into an advantage, A. Mishra and E. Rozner, In Internet Measurement Conference, November 2005. An Experimental Study on the Capture Effect in 802.11a Networks; J. Lee, W. Kim, S. Lee, D. Jo, J. Ryu, T. Kwon and Y. Choi; Proceedings of the the Second ACM international Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization WinTECH'07; 2007. Theoretical maximum throughput of IEEE 802.11 and its applications; J. Jun, P. Peddabachagari and M. Sichitiu, Network Computing and Applications, NCA. Second IEEE International Symposium on 16-18 April 2003 Page(s):249 - 256 Sniffing out the correct Physical Layer Capture model in 802.11b; A. Kochut, A. Vasan, A. Udaya Shankar, A. Agrawala; Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP’04), 2004. |
| 4/3 | Gokul Rameshkrishnaa Jith Karingada |
Mesh networks | Multi-Channel MAC for Ad Hoc Networks: Handling Multi-Channel Hidden Terminals Using A Single Transceiver; J. So and N. H. Vaidya; ACM MOBIHOC'04. SSCH: Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping for Capacity Improvement in IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks, V. Bahl, R. Chandra and J. Dunagan; ACM MOBICOM'04. Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network J. Bicket, D. Aguayo, S. Biswas and R. Morris Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking pp. 31-42, August 2005. Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network D. Aguayo , J. Bicket , S. Biswas , G. Judd and R. Morris Computer Communication Review 34 (4): 121-131 OCT 2004. |
| 4/8 | Vamshidhar Dantu Marko Bundalo |
Interactions with other layers (TCP…) |
Understanding TCP fairness over wireless LAN S. Pilosof; R. Ramjee; D. Raz, Y. Shavitt and P. Sinha, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2003, v.2, 2003, p 863-872 A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links H. Balakrishnan, V.N. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan and R.H. Katz; Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Volume 5, Issue 6, Dec. 1997 Page(s):756 - 769 Call Admission Control in IEEE 802.11 WLANs using QP-CAT; S. Shina and H. Schulzrinne, Infocom 2008. TCP Fairness for Uplink and Downlink Flows in WLANs, J. Ha and C.-H. Choi, proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 . |
| 4/15 | Manasi Navare Azhar Latif |
802.16 | IEEE Standard 802.16: A Technical Overview of the WirelessMAN Air Interface for
Broadband Wireless Access, Carl Eklund, Roger B. Marks, Kenneth L.
Stanwood, and Stanley Wang. IEEE Communications Magazine, June
2002, pp. 98-107. The Implications of WiMAX for Competition and Regulation Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policies, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2005)4/FINAL March 2, 2006, 60p.(focus on key findings). Technical Challenges and Trends in Broadband Wireless Access at Frequencies between 2 and 11 GHz, Hikmet Sari,Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications,2004 International Conference on 19-23 April 2004 Page(s):LVII - LVII. Broadband Wireless Access Solutions Based on OFDM Access in IEEE 802.16, Israel Koffman, Runcom Technologies Vincentzio Roman, Paradise Consulting IEEE Communications Magazine, Page(s): 96- 103, April 2002. Broadband Wireless Access with WiMax/8O2.16: Current Performance Benchmarks and Future Potential, Arunabha Ghosh, David R. Wolter, Jeffrey G., Andrews, Runhua Chen, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 43 Issue 2, Feb 2005, Page(s):129 - 136. See also: 802.16 tutorials. |
| 4/15 (Mohamed) and 4/17 (Sushanth) | Sushanth Divvela Mohamed Mahmood |
Coexistence |
Interference evaluation of Bluetooth
and IEEE 802-11b systems Golmie, N.; Van Dyck, R.E.; Soltanian, A.;
Tonnerre, A.; Rebala, O. Wireless Networks, v 9, n 3, 2003, p
201-11 Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless protocols: a survey and a comparison E. Ferro and F. Potorti, Wireless Communications, IEEE Volume 12, Issue 1, Feb. 2005 Page(s):12 - 26 Experimental sensitivity analysis of wireless protocols in an office environment; G. Sohal and L. Dowdy, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. WCNC. Volume 3, 21-25 March 2004 Page(s):1353 - 1358 Vol.3 IEEE 802.15.4 low rate - wireless personal area network coexistence issues; Howitt, Performance evaluation of multiple IEEE 802.11b wlan stations in the presence of bluetooth radio interference; J. Jung-Hyuck and N. Jayant, ; Communications, 2003. ICC '03. IEEE International Conference on, Volume: 2, 11-15 May 2003 Page(s): 1163-1168 Bluetooth performance in the presence of 802.11b WLAN; I. Howitt ; Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on, Volume: 51 Issue: 6, Nov. 2002 Page(s): 1640-1651 Coexistence mechanisms for interference mitigation in the 2.4-GHz ISM band; C.F. Chiasserini and R.R. Rao; Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on, Volume: 2 Issue: 5, Sept. 2003 Page(s): 964-975 Bluetooth: technology for short-range wireless apps; P. Bhagwat, Internet Computing, IEEE, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, May-June 2001 Page(s): 96-103. IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs), IEEE, Oct 1, 2003. |
| 4/17 | Ketan Kambli |
Capacity limits of wireless networks | N.B. Be sure to first understand the main conclusions before you dive into the mathematics. The capacity of wireless networks; P. Gupta, and P.R. Kumar; Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on, Volume: 46 Issue: 2, March 2000 Page(s): 388-404. Mobility increases the capacity of ad hoc wireless networks; M. Grossglauser and D.N.C. Tse; Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on, Volume: 10 Issue: 4, Aug. 2002 Page(s): 477-486. An experimental scaling law for ad hoc networks P. Gupta, R. Gray, P.R. Kumar, UIUC Technical Report, May 16, 2001. http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~prkumar/ps_files/exp.pdf The nominal capacity of wireless mesh networks J. Jun and M.L. Sichitiu, Wireless Communications, IEEE Volume 10, Issue 5, Oct 2003 Page(s): 8-14. Traffic Capacity of Multi-Cell WLANs; T. Bonald, A. Ibrahim, J. Roberts; Proc. ACM Sigmetrics, 2008. Scalability of routing methods in ad hoc networks V. Naumov. and Thomas Gross; Performance Evaluation 62 (2005) 193.209. |
| Access methods enhancements | Idle sense: an optimal access method for high throughput and fairness in rate diverse wireless LANs, M. Heusse, F. Rousseau , R. Guillier, and A. Duda; ACM SIGCOMM'05. Runtime Optimization of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs Performance, L. Bononi, M. Conti and E. Gregori, 1004, IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst., vol. 15, #1. Airtime Fairness for IEEE 802.11 Multirate Networks, T. Joshi, A. Mukherjee, Y. Yoo and D.P. Agrawal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, April 2008. Distributed Optimal Contention Window Control for Elastic Traffic in Wireless LANs, Y. Yang, J. Wang and R. Kravets, IEEE INFOCOM'05, 2005. |
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