Syllabus and Schedule

Lecture

Date

Topic

Slides

Discussion Leader

1

Jan 09

Introduction

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Yingshu Li

2

Jan 16

A Secure Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, X. Du, Y. Xiao, S. Guizani, and H. H. Chen, IEEE GLOBECOM 2006.

Slides

Chinh

3

Jan 23

Localized fault-tolerant topology control in wireless ad hoc networks, N. Li and J. C. Hou, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 17(4):307-320, 2006.  

Slides Yiwei

4

Jan 30

Approximate Data Collection in Sensor Networks using Probabilistic Models, D. Chu, A. Deshpande, J. M. Hellerstein, and W. Hong, ICDE 2006.  

Slides

Chunyu

5

Feb 06

Constraint Chaining: On Energy­Efficient Continuous Monitoring in Sensor Networks,  Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard, and Jun Yang, SIGMOD 2006.

Slides Wiwek

6

Feb 13

Sensor Density for Complete Information Coverage in WSNs, Bang Wang, Kee Chaing Chua, Vikram Srinivasan, and Wei Wang, EWSN 2006.

Slides

Shan

7

Feb 20

Interference-Aware Fair Rate Control in Wireless Sensor Networks, S. Rangwala, R. Gummadi, R. Govindan, and K. Psounis, SIGCOMM 2006.

-

Sandeep

8

Feb 27

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Larry

8

Mar 06

Spring Break

9

Mar 13

Composite Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks, C. T. Vu, R. Beyah, and Y. Li, IPCCC 2007.

- Chinh

10

Mar 20

Connected Dominating Sets in Wireless Networks with Different Transmission Ranges, M. Thai, F. Wang, D. Liu, and D.-Z. Du, TMC.

Slides

Yiwei

11

Mar 27

Top-k Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks, M. Wu, J. Xu, X. Tang, and W.-C. Lee, TKDE, 19(6), 2007.

Slides Chunyu
12

Apr 03

Energy Efficient Monitoring of Extreme Values in Sensor Networks, A. Silberstein, K. Munagala, and J. Yang, ACM SIGMOD-PODS'2006. 

Slides

Wiwek

13

Apr 10

Distributed Protocols for Ensuring Both Coverage and Connectivity of a Wireless Sensor Network,  C.-F. Huang, Y.-C. Tseng, and H.-L. Wu, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks (to appear).

Slides

Shan

14

Apr 17

t-Kernel: Providing Reliable OS Support to Wireless Sensor Networks, L. Gu and J. A. Stankovic, SenSys 2006. 

Slides

Sandeep

15

Apr 24

Wireless Mesh Networks

Slides Yeonkwon

NOTE:
This syllabus represents a general plan and it is subject to change.