CS 598 WSI – Advanced Wireless Networks and the Internet of Things

Lec #1: Introduction and Course Overview

Wed, Aug 28, 2024

• Read: S. Keshav, How to Read a Paper, SIGCOMM CCR 2007.

• Reading Assignment (needs UIUC GApps login)

• Slides

Lec #2: Wireless Basics: Spectrum, Modulation, Wireless Channel

Fri, Aug 30, 2024

• Read: S. Gollakota et al., ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks, SIGCOMM 2008.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Milind Kumar V

Lec #3: Wireless Basics: Rate Adaptation, Medium Access

Wed, Sep 4, 2024

• Read: S. Wong et al., Robust Rate Adaptation for 802.11 Wireless Networks, Mobicom 2006.

• (Optional) Read: M. Vutukuru et al., Cross-Layer Wireless Bit Rate Adaptation, SIGCOMM 2009.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Recording

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Andrew Stepanov

Lec #4: Wireless Basics: OFDM, Packet Decoding

Fri, Sep 6, 2024

• Read: J. K. Tan, (Thesis Chapter 3)

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Recording

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Gerard Matthew

Lec #5: Wireless Basics: OFDM, Packet Decoding

Wed, Sep 11, 2024

• No reading and reading assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Saloni Vaishnav

• Lecture Recording

Lec #6: Wireless Basics: OFDM, FICA

Fri, Sep 13, 2024

• Read: K. Tan, Fine-grained Channel Access in Wireless LAN, SIGCOMM 2010.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture Recording

• Scribe Notes, Yiming Niu

Lec #7: Wireless Basics: MIMO, Interference Management

Wed, Sep 18, 2024

• Read: K. Lin et al., Random Access Heterogeneous MIMO Networks, SIGCOMM 2011.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture Recording

Lec #8: Wireless Sensing: Localization

Fri, Sep 20, 2024

• Read: J. Xiong et al., ArrayTrack: A Fine-Grained Indoor Location System, USENIX NSDI 2013.

• (Optional) Read: M. Kotaru et al., SpotFi: Decimeter Level Localization Using WiFi, ACM SIGCOMM 2015.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture Recording

• Scribe Notes, Jimit Gosar

Lec #9: Wireless Sensing: Localization 2

Wed, Sep 25, 2024

• Read: D. Vasisht et al., Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point, USENIX NSDI 2016.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture recording

• Scribe Notes, Dongheng Li

Lec #10: Wireless Sensing: Device-free Tracking

Fri, Sep 27, 2024

• Read: F. Adib et al., 3D Tracking via Body Radio Reflections, USENIX NSDI 2014.

• (Optional) Read: F. Adib et al., Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate, SIGCHI 2015.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture Slides

• Lecture recording

• Scribe Notes, Zhuojun Cheng

Lec #11: Wireless Sensing: Robotics

Wed, Oct 2, 2024

• Read: E. Sie et al., BatMobility: Towards Flying Without Seeing for Autonomous Drones, ACM Mobicom 2024.

• (Optional) Read: T. Boroushaki et al., RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning, ACM SenSys 2021.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture Recording

• Scribe Notes, Ananya Kommalapati

Lec #12: Wireless Sensing: Privacy

Fri, Oct 4, 2024

• Read: J. Shenoy et al., RF-Protect: Privacy against Device-Free Human Tracking, ACM SIGCOMM 2022.

• (Optional) Read: Y. Zhu et al., Et Tu Alexa? When Commodity WiFi Devices Turn into Adversarial Motion Sensors, NDSS 2020.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture Recording

• Scribe Notes, Nishant Sheikh

Lec #13: IoT: Smart farms and agriculture

Wed, Oct 9, 2024

• Read: D. Vasisht et al., FarmBeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture, USENIX NSDI 2017.

• (Optional) J. Ding et al., Towards Low Cost Soil Sensing Using Wi-Fi, ACM MobiCom 2019.

• Reading assignment

• Lecture recording

• Lecture Slides

• Scribe Notes, Davis Zhang

Lec #14: No class today, project discussions

Fri, Oct 11, 2024

• Sign up for a project discussion slot

Lec #15: IoT: Backscatter Networks

Fri, Oct 16, 2024

• Read A. Abedi et al. WiTAG: Seamless WiFi Backscatter Communications, SIGCOMM 2020

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture recording

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Yanxin Jiang and Jian-Fong Yu

Lec #16: IoT: LoRa WAN

Fri, Oct 18, 2024

• Read: R. Eletreby et al., Empowering Low-Power Wide Area Networks in Urban Settings, SIGCOMM 2017.

• Read: Blogpost: NB-IoT vs LoRA vs SIGFOX, Link Labs.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture recording

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Avery Christian Plote

Lec #17: IoT: Insect IoT

Wed, Oct 23, 2024

• Read: V. Iyer et al., Living IoT: A Flying Wireless Platform on Live Insects, ACM MobiCom 2019.

• This lecture will be on zoom.

• Reading assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture recording

• Scribe Notes, Jiaxi Li

Lec #18: 5G: Basics, Massive MIMO, and Small Cells

Fri, Oct 25, 2024

• Read A. Narayanan et al. A First Look at Commercial 5G Performance on Smartphones, WWW’ 20.

• Reading assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture Recording

• Scribe Notes, Shadman Saqib Eusuf

Lec #19: 5G: Millimeter Wave

Wed, Oct 30, 2024

• Read: H. Hassanieh et al., Fast Millimeter Wave Beam Alignment, SIGCOMM 2018.

• This lecture will be on zoom.

• Lecture Notes

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Recording

• Scribe Notes, Vishakh Suresh Babu

Lec #20: 5G: Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Fri, Nov 1, 2024

• Read: J. Xing et al., Enabling Resilience in Virtualized RANs with Atlas, Mobicom 2024.

• This lecture will be on zoom.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Recording

• Lecture Slides

Lec #21: Advanced Topics: Machine Learning for Tracking, and Imaging

Wed, Nov 6, 2024

• Read: M. Zhao et al., Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals, CVPR 2018.

• Read: J. Guan et al., Through Fog High Resolution Imaging Using Millimeter Wave Radar, CVPR 2020.

• Lecture Slides

• Lecture Recording

Lec #22: Vulnerabilities of ML-based Wireless Systems

Fri, Nov 8, 2024

• Read: Z. Liu et al., Exploring Practical Vulnerabilities of Machine Learning-based Wireless Systems, NSDI 2023.

• Lecture Notes

• Lecture Recording

• Scribe Notes, Aryan Taneja

Lec #23: Advanced Topics: Generative AI for Wireless Networks

Wed, Nov 13, 2024

• Guest lecture, Dr. Manikanta Kotaru

• Read: M. Kotaru, Adapting Foundation Models for Operator Data Analytics, HotNets 2023.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #24: Advanced Topics: Satellite Networks

Fri, Nov 15, 2024

• Read: N. Mohan et al., A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance, WWW, 2024.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #25: Advanced Topics: Satellite Networks 2

Wed, Nov 20, 2024

• Read: D. Vasisht et al., L2D2: Low Latency Distributed Downlink for Low Earth Orbit Satellites, SIGCOMM 2021.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #26: Advanced Topics: In-body Devices

Fri, Nov 22, 2024

• Read: D. Vasisht et al., In-Body Backscatter Communication and Localization, SIGCOMM 2018.

• (Optional) Read: Y. Ma et al., Enabling Deep-Tissue Networking for Miniature Medical Devices, SIGCOMM 2018.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #27: Advanced Topics: Ocean IoT

Wed, Dec 4, 2024

• Read: J. Jang et al., Underwater Backscatter Networking, SIGCOMM 2019.

• (Optional) Read: F. Tonolini et al., Networking across Boundaries: Enabling Wireless Communication through the Water-Air Interface, SIGCOMM 2018.

Lec #28: Final Project Presentation

Fri, Dec 6, 2024

Lec #29: Final Project Presentation

Wed, Dec 8, 2024