ITCS6167/ITCS8167
Advanced Networking Protocols
Spring 2010, CS Department, UNCC

Instructor:
Dr. Yu Wang
Office: Woodward 430D
Telephone: 704-687-8443
Email: yu.wang@uncc.edu
Office hour: Wednesday 1:30-3:30pm (or by appointments)


Teaching Assistant:
Siyuan Chen
Office: Woodward 402
Email: schen40@uncc.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 2:00-4:00pm (or by appointments)

Time and Location:
Wednesday 3:30pm-6:15pm, Woodward, Room 130

Course Content:
This research-oriented course provides computer science graduate students the recent research on advanced networking concepts and protocols related to the design, implementation, integration, and management of networking and communication systems. In the Spring 2010 semester, it focuses on various research issues in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Topics include: topology control protocols, ad hoc routing protocols, power management protocols, distributed data processing protocols for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.

Prerequisites:
ITCS 6166 or ITCS 6168

Textbook:
There is no official textbook for this course. A nice reference book is Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks by XiangYang Li, Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN:9780521865234. For new research results, a reading list, including electronic copies of the papers, from recent conference proceedings and journals will be posted on the website for this course. Some other books that maybe useful are listed as follows:

(1) Ad Hoc Networking, by Charles E. Perkins (ed.). Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN: 0201309769

(2) Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach, by Feng Zhao and Leonidas Guibas. Morgan Kaufmann; 2004. ISBN: 1558609148

(3) Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks, by Holger Karl and Andreas Willig. John Wiley &Sons, 2005. ISBN: 0470095105

(4) Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, by Paolo Santi, Wiley, 2005. ISBN: 0470094532

(5) Netwroking Wireless Sensors, by Bhaskar Krishnmachari, Cambridge, 2005.ISBN: 0521838479

Course Webpage:
The course website is available through Blackboard. All the course-related handouts, assignments, and announcements will be posted at the course website. It is accessed via 49er Express, in the MyCourses area. Please check the course website regularly for new information.

Download the PDF file of this syllabus

Tentative Course Outline:

The following topics will be covered as time permits:

(1)    Introduction to Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks:

(2)    Routing Protocols

(3)    Topology Design and Control

(4)    Power Assignment and Power Management

(5)    Broadcast and Multicast

(6)    Data Collection and Data Aggregation

(7)    Location and Localization Services

(8)    Mobile Social Networks

(9)    Delay Tolerant Networks

(10)    Privacy and Security

We will mainly cover the topics listed above, but we can not guarantee that all topics will be fully covered because of the time limit. And we will try to cover some other topics if the time is permitted and there are enough students who are interested in those.

Grading:
There will a few written homework, one or two presentation assignments, a research survey assignment, a midterm, and a final exam. They will count toward the grade as follows:

            Midterm             30%
            Final               20%
            Presentation        20%
            Survey/Homework     25%
            Class attendance     5%

However, the instructor reserves the right to make adjustments to these weights based on his a posteriori evaluation of the relative difficulty and fairness of the exams.

Course Policies:
1) There will be no make-up exam. Students who cannot attend an exam with health emergency must show official proofs.
2) If you end up doing poorly in the class, please DO NOT ask for "extra work" to raise your grade. This would not be fair to other students.