Reading list for COSC 7397 for Spring 2007

Papers not in boldface are supplementary material.

DATE/ TOPICS	PAPERS
Jan 16	Course intro
Jan 23 General topics	How to give a talk (Jaspal) How to write a critique (Rong) Intro to Wireless Mesh Networks (Cunqing Hua)
Jan 30 Routing	ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, August 2005. (pdf, Vivek) Routing in Multi-radio, Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Network. Proc. of ACM Mobicom 2004. (pdf, Girish) Example Critique A High-Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing. Proc. of ACM Mobicom 2003. (pdf, ppt)
Feb 6 Test/Experience with WLAN	Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network, Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2005. (pdf, Anu) A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks, Mobicom 2006 (pdf, Anup) Example Critique Measurement Driven Deployment of a Two-Tier Urban Mesh Access Network, in Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2006, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006. (pdf, ppt)
Feb 13 Volunteer Computing Systems	BOINC: A System for Public Resource Computing and Storage: Anderson , (pdf) Entropia: Architecture and Performance of an Enterprise Desktop Grid System:  Chien, Calder,  Elbert, and  Bhatia  (pdf, ppt) The Computation and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing: Anderson, Fedak (pdf, Nagarajan) Characterizing and Evaluating Desktop Grids: Kondo, Taufer,  Brooks, Casanova, Chien (pdf, Nagarajan) Douglas Thain, Todd Tannenbaum, and Miron Livny, "Distributed Computing in Practice: The Condor Experience" Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 17, No. 2-4, pages 323-356, February-April, 2005. (pdf, Girish)
Feb 20 MAC/PHY (scheduling)	Efficient Interference-Aware TDMA Link Scheduling for Static Wireless Networks, MOBICOM 2006 (pdf, Soji) Enabling Distributed Throughput Maximization in Wireless Mesh Networks - A Partitioning Approach, MOBICOM 2006 (pdf, Song) Maximizing Throughput in Wireless Networks via Gossiping, Sigmetrics 06 (pdf, ppt)
Feb 27 MAC/PHY (Channel Assignment)	Distributed Channel Management in Uncoordinated Wireless Environments, MOBICOM 2006 (pdf,Anu) Interference-Aware Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks, INFOCOM 2006. (pdf, Vivek) Partially Overlapped Channels Not Considered Harmful (pdf)
March 6 MAC/PHY (rate adaptation)	Self-Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments Proc. of ACM Mobicom 2005. Aug. - Sept. 2005. (pdf, Joseph) Robust rate adaptation for 802.11 wireless networks, Mobicom 2006 (pdf, Tusha)
Mar 20	Mid Project  presentations
Mar 27 System and Algorithmic Support for VC	The LAM/MPI Checkpoint/Restart Framework: System initiated Checkpointing: Sankaran, Squyres, Barrett, Lumsdaine, Duell, Hargrove, Roman (pdf, Nagarajan) MPICH-V: Toward a Scalable Fault Tolerant MPI for Volatile Nodes: Bosilca,  Bouteiller, Cappello, Djailali,  Fedak, Germain, Herault, Lemarinier, Oleg Lodygensky, Frederic Magniette, Vincent Neri, Anton Selikhov (pdf, Girish)
April 3 System and Algorithmic Support for VC	Resource Policing to Support Fine-Grain Cycle Stealing in Networks of Workstations: Ryu, Hollingsworth (pdf, Song) Resource Failure Prediction in Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing Systems, HPDC 2006, Xiaojuan Ren, Seyong Lee, Rudolf Eigenmann, Saurabh Bagchi (pdf, Anup) Executing MPI Programs on Virtual Machines in an Internet Sharing System, IEEE International Parallel Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Zhelong Pan, Xiaojuan Ren, Rudolf Eigenmann and Dongyan Xu,
April 10 Management/Diagnosis	WiFiProfiler: Cooperative Diagnosis in Wireless LANs. In Proc. of ACM MOBISYS, June 2006. (pdf, Soji) Troubleshooting Wireless Mesh Networks. SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Oct. 2006. ( pdf, Tusha) Management and Diagnosis Architecture for a Large-Scale Public WLAN, in Proc. WMMN 2006 (pdf, ppt)
April 17 Management/Diagnosis	Jigsaw: Solving the Puzzle of Enterprise 802.11 Analysis. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, Sept. 2006. (pdf, Vivek) Analyzing the MAC-level Behavior of Wireless Networks, SIGCOMM 2006 (pdf, Anu) On Accurate Measurement of Link Quality in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks, Mobicom 2006 (pdf, ppt) Performance Optimizations for Deploying VoIP Services in Mesh Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC), 2006 (pdf, Joseph)
April 24 Application of WMN	No class
May 1	FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS (5x0.5hr)