CS 598 WSI – Wireless Systems for the Internet of Things

Lec #1: Introduction and Course Overview

Tue, Jan 26, 2021

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

• Reading Assignment (Needs UIUC Google Apps Login)

Lec #2: Communication Primitives for the Internet of Things

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

• Read: J. Wang et al., Efficient and Reliable Low-Power Backscatter Networks, SIGCOMM 2012.

• Reading Assignment (Needs UIUC Google Apps Login)

Lec #3: City Scale Internet-of-Things

Tue, Feb 2, 2021

• Read: O. Abari et al., Caraoke: An E-Toll Transponder Network for Smart Cities, SIGCOMM 2015.

• Reading Assignment

• (Optional): Z. Song et al., Wi-Fi Goes to Town: Rapid Picocell Switching for Wireless Transit Networks, SIGCOMM 2017.

Lec #4: Long Range Connectivity

Thu, Feb 4, 2021

• 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

Lec #5: Finding Things: Localization

Tue, Feb 9, 2021

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

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

• Reading Assignment

Lec #6: Finding Things 2: Localization

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

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

• Reading Assignment

Lec #7: Sensing using Radio Signals

Tue, Feb 16, 2021

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

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

• Reading Assignment

Lec #8: Acoustic IoT

Thu, Feb 18, 2021

• Read: S. Shen et al., MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation, SIGCOMM 2018.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #9: Project Proposal Discussion

Tue, Feb 23, 2021

Lec #10: Project Proposal Discussion

Thu, Feb 25, 2021

Lec #11: Security in the IoT Era

Tue, Mar 2, 2021

• Read: N. Roy et al., Inaudible Voice Commands: The Long-Range Attack and Defense, USENIX NSDI 2018.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #12: Privacy Implications of Wireless Sensing

Thu, Mar 4, 2021

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

Lec #13: Satellite Networking

Tue, Mar 9, 2021

• Read: K. Devaraj et al., Planet High Speed Radio: Crossing Gbps from a 3U Cubesat

• Read: K. Colton et al., Merging Diverse Architectures for Multi-Mission Support

• Read: I. Portillo et al., A Technical Comparison of Three Low Earth Orbit Satellite Constellation Systems to Provide Global Broadband (Sign in with UIUC Credentials)

• Reading Assignment

Lec #14: Satellite Networking 2

Thu, Mar 11, 2021

• Read: M. Handley, Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space, HotNets 2018

• Read: M. Handley, Using Ground Relays for Low-latency Wide-area Routing in Megaconstellations, HotNets 2019

• Reading Assignment

Lec #15: Insect-scale IoT

Tue, Mar 16, 2021

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

• Reading Assignment

Lec #16: Contact Tracing for COVID-19

Thu, Mar 18, 2021

• Read: A. Trivedi et al., Digital Contact Tracing: Technologies, Shortcomings, and the Path Forward, SIGCOMM CCR 2020.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #17: Application: Agriculture IoT

Tue, Mar 23, 2021

• 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

Lec #18: Application: Drones and UAVs

Thu, Mar 25, 2021

• Read: P. Nguyen et al., DroneScale: Drone Load Estimation Via Remote Passive RF Sensing, ACM SenSys 2020.

Lec #19: Midterm Project Review

Tue, Mar 30, 2021

Lec #20: Midterm Project Review

Thu, Apr 1, 2021

Lec #21: Machine Learning Primitives for IoT

Tue, Apr 6, 2021

• Read: A. Kumar et al., Resource-efficient Machine Learning in 2 KB RAM for the Internet of Things, ICML 2017.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #22: Machine Learning Applications in IoT

Thu, Apr 8, 2021

• 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.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #23: No Class Day

Tue, Apr 13, 2021

Lec #24: Project Day

Thu, Apr 15, 2021

• Work on projects and use class time to discuss bottlenecks

Lec #25: Application: In-body Networks

Tue, Apr 20, 2021

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

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

• Reading Assignment

Lec #26: Application: Ocean IoT

Thu, Apr 22, 2021

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

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

• Reading Assignment

Lec #27: TBD

Tue, Apr 27, 2021

Lec #28: Final Project Presentation

Thu, Apr 29, 2021

Lec #29: Final Project Presentation

Tue, May 4, 2021