星期六, 5月 21, 2005

5/28 Class

location management and routing for applications of
ad hoc / infrastructure and low/high mobility

Solutions:
infrastructure, low mobility -> Mobile IP
infrastructure, high mobility -> Cellular, Thin AP
ad hoc, low mobility -> Routing tables
ad hoc, high mobility -> ?

Lessons learned from
1. location management in Skype (Global Index, GI)
2. location management in OceanStore

Requirements of location management mechanism
1. no exhaustive search
2. bounded time to store location information at node(s)
3. bounded time to retrieve location information from node(s)

Reading Assignments:
Chap. 4 for general wireless Internet and
Section 4.3 for Mobile IP

There is a paper about Skype which you can find by scholar.google.com. This paper authored by Columbia University researcher explains their experiments on Skype and the findouts.

New products about Thin AP can be found at www.wi-fiplanet.com.

星期六, 4月 16, 2005

4/16 Homework

Hit the net and go to the library to conduct research regarding the dimensions of wireless futures.
We have scheduled oral
presentations for each of you next time.

1. Compile your study at your own blog. However,
please post your titles of findings and links to your blog of search results
at the class agenda of 4/30.

2. As a backup plan, please keep your presentation materials in a storage media such as USB drive in case the radio signal is too weak to use in the classroom.

4/30 class

Use your blog to present the research you have done regarding the dimensions of wireless futures.

Second time of team meeting to conclude your team analytical reports and prepare for
the oral presentation and defense next week.

星期四, 4月 14, 2005

4/16 Class

2 video clips
NTT DoCoMo Vison 2010
MotoCycle+WiFi=Motoman

class discussion-
DIY futures of wireless worlds and develop a personal
Scenarios in the mobile world in 2015

Form of brainstorming activities

1. Organize a 2-person team

2. Each team work on the defining dimensions sheets handed out in class and go through the 14 dimensions.
In case both of you in a team cannot reach a common ground on any of the dimensions, just average your opinions with equal weights on the disagreed dimensions.

3. Based on your team judgements on each of the dimensions, profile a personal life in a day of the mobile world in 2015. This John or Mary in your story could be you, your family, or a total stranger as you wish.

4. Oral presentation and defense: One member of the team plays the role of analyst and presents orally the opinions in each dimension. The other plays the role of creator and presents the scenario of the imaginary personal story of life in 2015.

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If you ask the right questions, you will come up with the answers you really want.

The difficulty does not lie in thinking out the great answers but in coming up with the good questions.

Analyzing is great but works best with creations.





星期六, 3月 26, 2005

星期六, 3月 12, 2005

3/19 Class Agenda

Syllabus 7. Media Access Control

Treats
Aloha
CSMA/CD & 802.3

3/12 Homework

1. Why is CSMA/CD not applicable in Aloha?
2. Briefly describe functions of Layer 1 to layer 4 of Network Architecture in OSI Reference Model. (Lecture 1 in Ref.)
3. List some of the major milestones of Internet history from 1960 to 2000.

Reading Assignments
Please read the following sections before we meet next time.
1. packet radio with Aloha in Lectures 13 & 14 of MIT Data Communication Networks Course
2. M1.12, M2.1~M2.5

雙網計畫

結合 2G/3G 與 WiFi

星期六, 3月 05, 2005

3/12 Class Agenda

Syllabus 5. OSI Model and TCP/IP Protocol Suite
(Textbook) 1.9 Computer Networks
1.10 Computer Network Software
1.11 OSI Reference Model
1.12 IEEE 802 Standard

packet radio with Aloha in Lectures 13 & 14 of MIT Data Communication Networks Course

3/5 Homework

1. Problem 1.12
2. Problem 1.14
3. Problem 1.15
4. What applications use spread spectrum as moldulation scheme?

Reading Assignments
1. Please read the following sections before we meet next time.
M1.6~ M1.12, M1.12, M3.8, F3.1~F3.3

3/5 Class agenda

Syllabus 3. A Perspective of Wired & Wireless Broadband Networks

LAN
802.3,

Point to Point WAN
ADSL, Cable Modem, T Lines, SONET,

Switched WAN
Frame Relay, ATM, FTTx,

WLAN
802.11 a/b/g, Wireless Mesh,

Syllabus 6. Underlying Technology at Physical Layers


Introduction to Spread Spectrum (J. Meel)
and applications