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

Lec #1: Introduction and Course Overview

Wed, Aug 23, 2023

• This lecture will be on zoom.

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

• Reading Assignment (needs UIUC GApps login)

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

Fri, Aug 25, 2023

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

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Saif Ur Rahman

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

Wed, Aug 30, 2023

• 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 Notes

• Scribe Notes, Seoyul Oh

Lec #4: Wireless Basics: OFDM, Packet Decoding

Fri, Sep 1, 2023

• Read: J. K. Tan, (Thesis Chapter 3)

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Gabriella Xue

Lec #5: Wireless Basics: OFDM, Packet Decoding

Wed, Sep 6, 2023

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

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Angquan Yu

• This lecture will be on zoom. Zoom info is on homepage.

Lec #6: Wireless Basics: OFDM, FICA

Fri, Sep 8, 2023

• No readings

• Lecture Notes

Lec #7: Wireless Basics: MIMO, Interference Management

Wed, Sep 13, 2023

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

• Reading Assignment

• Scribe Notes, Sujit Varadhan

• Lecture Notes

Lec #8: Wireless Sensing: Localization

Fri, Sep 15, 2023

• 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

• Scribe Notes, Beitong Tian

Lec #9: Wireless Sensing: Localization 2

Wed, Sep 20, 2023

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

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

Lec #10: Wireless Sensing: Device-free Tracking

Fri, Sep 22, 2023

• 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

• Slides

• Scribe Notes, Mingyue Tang

Lec #11: Wireless Sensing: Robotics

Wed, Sep 27, 2023

• Read: E. Sie et al., BatMobility: Towards Flying Without Seeing for Autonomous Drones, ACM Mobicom 2023.

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

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

Lec #12: Wireless Sensing: Privacy

Fri, Sep 29, 2023

• 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

Lec #13: No lecture

Wed, Oct 4, 2023

• Learn more about 6G

Lec #14: IoT: Smart farms and agriculture

Fri, Oct 6, 2023

• This lecture will be on zoom.

• 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 Notes

• Scribe Notes, Shulin Pan

Lec #15: Project Proposal Due, No Class

Wed, Oct 11, 2023

Lec #16: IoT: LoRa WAN

Fri, Oct 13, 2023

• 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 Notes

Lec #17: IoT: Machine Learning Primitives for IoT

Wed, Oct 18, 2023

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

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

Lec #18: IoT: Smart City Networks

Fri, Oct 20, 2023

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

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

Lec #19: 5G: Basics, Massive MIMO, and Small Cells

Wed, Oct 25, 2023

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

• (Optional) Read C. Shepard et al. Argos: Practical Many-Antenna Base Stations, Mobicom 2012.

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

• Scribe Notes, Lingzhi Zhao

Lec #20: 5G: Millimeter Wave

Fri, Oct 27, 2023

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

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

Lec #21: 5G: Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Wed, Nov 1, 2023

• Guest lecture by Dr. Anuj Kalia, Microsoft

• Read: J. Xing et al., Enabling Resilience in Virtualized RANs with Atlas, Mobicom 2023.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #22: Advanced Topics: Machine Learning for Tracking, and Imaging

Fri, Nov 3, 2023

• 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

• Scribe Notes, Andre Zeromski

Lec #23: Project Day – Midterm Project Proposal Discussion

Wed, Nov 8, 2023

Lec #24: Advanced Topics: Satellite Networks

Fri, Nov 10, 2023

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

• No reading assignment.

• Scribe Notes, Luke Jacobs

• Slides

Lec #25: Advanced Topics: Insect IoT

Wed, Nov 15, 2023

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

• Reading Assignment

• Lecture Notes

Lec #26: Advanced Topics: In-body Devices

Fri, Nov 17, 2023

• 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

• Scribe Notes, Christina Youn

• Lecture Notes

Lec #27: Advanced Topics: Ocean IoT

Wed, Nov 29, 2023

• 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.

• Reading Assignment

Lec #28: Final Project Presentation

Fri, Dec 1, 2023

Lec #29: Final Project Presentation

Wed, Dec 6, 2023