Course Description:
Wireless and mobile systems have become ubiquitous; playing a significant role in our everyday life. However, the increasing demand for wireless connectivity and the emergence of new areas such as the Internet of Things present new research challenges. This course introduces advanced research topics in wireless networks and mobile communication systems. In each lecture, we will discuss recent research papers that introduce new wireless designs, algorithms, protocols and applications. The papers are systems oriented and focus on practical challenges and solutions for building wireless and mobile systems. Student will also learn how to design and build wireless systems through a research project.
Lecture Time & Location: Tuesday & Thursday 3:00pm - 4:20pm in ECEB 3013
Instructor: Haitham Hassanieh (haitham@illinois.edu)
Office Hours: Thursday 4:20pm - 5:00pm in CSL 463 or by appointment.
Topics:
► Cross Layer Networking
Rateless Codes & Soft Information
Interference Management
Interference Alignment & Nulling
Virtual MIMO
Opportunistic Routing
Network Coding
Wireless Multipath TCP
► Internet of Things
Ultra-low Power Networking
Ambient Backscatter
Smart Cities and Environments
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► Wireless Sensing
Localization & Tracking
Wireless Gesture Recognition
Wireless Imaging
Contactless Bio-Sensing
► Security
Analog Cybersecurity
Medical Devices Security
RFIDs and Low Power Devices
Physical Layer Security
Wireless Vibrometry
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► Emerging Technologies
Millimeter Wave Systems
Full Duplex Radios
Software Defined Radios
Cloud RAN
5G Cellular Systems
Dynamic Spectrum Access
Wireless Charging
Robotics and Drones
Visible Light Communication
Physical Vibration Communication
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Grading:
- 30% Assignments: Students are asked to read one or two research papers marked as assigned reading on the class schedule. The students will submit a short review of each paper at the beginning of each class. The review should be a conference style review with a one paragraph paper summary, paper strength, paper weaknesses and comments.
- 65% Project: Students will carry out research projects in groups. The details of the project can be found in the course project tab above.
- 5% Scribe: Each student will scribe the notes for at least one lecture.
Project:
One of the major goals of this class is to understand how wireless systems
research is done. To this end, the project is the most important component of
ECE 598HH, since that's where you draw upon your knowledge and experience from
the course readings and elsewhere to actually do research. The description
below is intended to ease the process of figuring out what to work on and
writing a short proposal explaining what you want to work on.
The entire project will constitute 65% of your total grade (divided between proposal, progress report, presentation, and final paper). Please start early!
1. Teams:
As far as possible, you should work in teams of teams of two or three. Working
with others is a lot more fun, is often a lot more productive, and the
resulting work a lot sounder than if you were working in isolation. The nature
of the wireless field is one that fosters collaboration and often makes it
essential for high impact work, and you should develop the ability to
collaborate on projects. You need to work at least with one other person from
the class, so please start looking out for team mates as soon as possible!
2. Proposal:
The proposal should be one or two pages. It is due on Monday Oct. 17, 2016.
We will read the proposals carefully and have a project meeting with each team on Thursday Oct. 20, 2016
to discuss your proposal and understand better exactly what you are doing, perhaps because it isn't
focused enough or because you're trying to accomplish too much.
It is important that you read related background material before turning in the proposal.
A crisp one-page write-up for the proposal should contain the following items.
- Project title (a detailed title is better than a vague one; you can always change it later if you don't like it!)
and names of investigators with email addresses.
- A clear statement of the research problem: a one-sentence summary followed by a one-paragraph explanation
(the paragraph shouldn't be more than 10-12 lines long). This should identify clearly the research question you're addressing.
- A clear statement of your research methods. i.e., how are you going to solve the problems you've raised and motivated in the previous paragraph?
- A statement of plan and schedule, to convince us (and yourself!) that you can complete the project by the end of the term.
- A list of resources you need to accomplish your work, with special emphasis on important pieces you don't yet have access to.
Be as clear as you can in your requirements and we will work towards getting what you need as quickly as possible.
If your request can't be accommodated for any reason, we will try to get back to you about it as soon as we find out.
- Any other questions you have or clarifications you need from us.
3. Background:
In a one-semester class,
one can only cover a fraction of wireless topics,
and there are sure to be projects where the background material
won't be covered in too much detail. And even for topics that we do cover,
there will almost certainly be other relevant related work that you
should be familiar with. Part of doing something new is figuring out what's
already been done or is known, so you should search the related literature and
Web pages as extensively as you can. Keep an eye out for useful software or
research methods or tools that you can leverage; this will save you tremendous
amounts of time later in the term. You might find some of these useful links actually useful.
4. Expectations:
Aim high in a focused way, and do the best you can!
The best projects are usually publishable with a bit more additional
work in top ACM/USENIX/IEEE conferences in the area, such as SIGCOMM, MOBICOM, INFOCOM, and NSDI, or appear
as articles in places like SIGCOMM's Computer Communications Review (CCR).
The main goal, however, is to try something innovative; a failure to obtain good research results is quite acceptable,
but a failure to try isn't!
5. Suggestions:
Where do you get a project?
We will provide you with a list of suggestions a couple of weeks before the proposal deadline.
Please feel free to come up with your own ideas,
or modify our suggestions in any way you want. Our suggestions are simply that;
and they're usually incomplete. They are usually not complete specifications of projects.
Please send all questions about the project to the staff mailing list.
6. Project Progress Report
The progress report is due on Monday Nov. 14, 2016. It should explain your approach,
related/prior work, any preliminary results you might have obtained, and
why you believe you are on the right track. It may also include material from the proposal
after you had the chance to update it based on our feedback.
7. Final Report
The final report is due on Thursday Dec. 8, 2016. The report is
a conference-style paper describing the project and its key contributions/findings.
8. Presentation
The presentations will be held during the last class Tuesday Dec.6, 2017.
The presentation should be a conference-style presentation.