CSCI780 Pervasive computing and wireless networks

Course Description

Pervasive computing captures the vision that computing and communication will be embedded almost everywhere surrounding us, from clothing to tools to appliances to cars to homes to the human body to your coffee mug. An important building block for pervasive computing system is wireless network, which connects the embedded devices together. While we believe the future computing systems will be pervasive and wireless, it is very challenging to build pervasive computing systems and wireless network infrastructure. This course aims at addressing various challenges in pervasive computing and wireless communication systems, including scalability, mobility, security and privacy, data storage and retrieval, sensor networks, and so on.

We will survey the current research on pervasive computing and wireless networks, and discuss the future directions in related areas. Students are expected to gain the basic knowledge about pervasive computing systems and wireless networks and do in-depth exploration in one of the related topics.

The main part of this class will be paper reading and class discussion. Students are expected to read all the papers assigned and write a review for each one. Tentatively, each student will also do a presentation. In groups, students will work for a related project. I expect the final projects will be publishable. There will be no exam.

More generally, students are also expected to learn how to read papers critically and how to do research.

Prerequisites: This is a graduate course. Basic knowledge about networking and programming is required.

Grading: 5% Class Participation, 20% Presentations, 25% Paper review, 50% Term Project

Schedule and Homeworks

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