CS/ECE 439: Wireless Networks Fall 2020

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Class - Schedule

All topics scheduled for the future are subject to change

All lectures will be offered synchronously over Zoom. Although attendence is required for this class, all classes will be recorded and accessible on MediaSpace for reference purposes.

Zoom meeting: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/91281173040
If you would like the password for the class, please contact Federico (fc8) by email.
All lectures will be recorded and accessible via class transcribe: https://classtranscribe.illinois.edu/offering/8d0de185-51ed-4490-b8b5-3cc8a3e91576

Week	Wednesdays	Topic and Slides	Fridays	Topic and Slides	Deliverables
Week 1	Aug 26	Course Intro, Intro to Wireless	Aug 28	Wireless Challenges	Watch an episode of the Jetsons (for 8/28)
Week 2	Sep 2	Wireless Challenges	Sep 4	PHY Layer - Introduction	Find and read an interesting wireless article (for 9/2)
Week 3	Sep 9	PHY Layer - Antennas and Transmission	Sep 11	PHY Layer - Diversity and Errors	Initial Team and Project Topic Areas (due 9/7) Initial Project Meetings All Week
Week 4	Sep 16	PHY Layer - Coding and Modulation	Sep 18	MAC Layer	Inital Project Meetings All Week
Week 5	Sep 23	MAC Layer	Sep 25	MAC Layer - Rate Control	Project Proposal Due Spetember 25th
Week 6	Sep 30	MAC Layer - Power	Oct 2	MAC Layer - Power
Week 7	Oct 7	MAC Layer - Bluetooth, BLE	Oct 9	Project Meetings
Week 8	Oct 14	Network Layer - Mobility	Oct 16	How to Give a Talk
Week 9	Oct 21	Network Layer - Ad Hoc Routing	Oct 23	Transport Layer - Refresher	Extended Project Proposal Due October 23th
Week 10	Oct 28	Transport Layer - TCP over Wireless	Oct 30	Transport Layer - TCP over Wireless
Week 11	Nov 4	Visible Light Communication Andrew B Aarya/Yipeng	Nov 6	Visible Light Communication Lamya
Week 12	Nov 11	Infrared Communication Hantao Caleb	Nov 13	Accoustic Communication Garrett BLE and Audio Ke
Week 13	Nov 18	Wireless/BLE/Zigbee Localization Abigail/Berkay Koucheng/Adil	Nov 20	Wireless/BLE/Zigbee Localization Andrew/Simeng	Status Report Due November 20th
	Nov 25	Thanksgiving Break	Nov 27	Thanksgiving Break
Week 14	Dec 2	LoRa Wallace WiFi Vulnerabilities Thomas WiFi Authentication Mihir	Dec 4	Low Power Wireless Eric/Omar	Final Project Due December 15th (draft due Dec 12th)
Week 15	Dec 9	Ad Hoc Networking Calvin TCP and Wireless Ammar/Daniel
	Dec 13	Project Presentations Session 1: 10:00am-1:00pm
	Dec 14	Project Presentations Session 2: 10:00am-1:00pm