Announcements
Main class web page

• (04/27/03) Lab 7 is now online. Starting from Monday (April 28, '03).
• (04/23/03) Group 1 presentation slides are online
• (04/23/03) Group 3 presentation slides are online.
• (04/22/03) Group 6 presentation slides are online.
• (04/12/03) Lab 6 is now online. Starting from Monday (April 14, '03).
• (03/31/03) Change of office hour for today. Today's office hour is 1-2PM. Also after class as today have only one presentation.
• (03/31/03) NS workshop presentation files are now online.
• (03/29/03) Lab 5 is now online. Starting from Monday (March 31, '03).
• (03/26/03) ZRP in NS presentation.
• (03/20/03) NS workshop is part of the class. You need to send email to Karim Seada only if you are interested to present or help to prepare presentation. Here are some useful link about NS:
  NS site: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/
  Tutorial: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/index.html
  ISI workshop: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-tutorial/tutorial-02/index.html
• (03/19/03) NS workshop on Monday (March 24, 2003) during the class time (2-4:50PM) and in the classroom (VKC 205). If you interested to participate or present please contact with Karim Seada by email (seada@usc.edu) ASAP.
• (03/07/03) Lab 3 note is updated. Please check the lab note again.
• (02/26/03) News group for EE599. Group name: usc.classes.ee599
• (02/23/03) Network Seminer. Speaker: Konstantinos Psounis (Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University),
                       Date, Time and Location: Monday February 24, 2003,  10:30 am, HNB 100.
• (02/21/03) New Lab note is posted in the lab page.
• (02/21/03) Presentation of Group 5 is now online. Please check presentation page.
• (02/17/03) Schedule/List of topics and projects has been posted under the projects section. Please check it and let the Prof. know if there are any mistakes or clarifications.
• (02/17/2003) Project proposals are due tomorrow (Tuesday Feb. 18th). Please send email with your proposal. Also, print the proposal and bring it with you to EEB 232 (Prof.s office). I will meet all the group from 2-3pm. Each group will be given 10 mins to explain the proposal, the order of groups is the same as group number (e.g., group 2 has a slot from 2:10 until 2:20, so on) [send email if you cannot make your time slot].
• (2/17) Presentations will start next week (Feb 24th). I will post the schedule on the web soon. The 2 groups that requested the Feb 24th slot should start preparing their list of readings and send it to me within the next 3 days. There will be no lecture this week.
• (02/03/2003) Lecture 3 is posted on-line and covers ACQUIRE, mobile agents, mobility modeling (the IMPORTANT framework), IP mobility, multicast-based mobility.
• (01/28/2003) Lecture 2 is posted on-line under the Lectures section. Please check the list of the projects at the end of the lecture and attempt to identify topics for presenatations and for projects. If you are set on a topic please sign up for a presentation slot by contacting the Prof. Also note the extra slide at the end for references.
• (01/24/2003) Lab 1 and Lab 4 will start from Monday (Jan 27, 2003). Please check lab page. Each day two groups will do Lab1, one group will do Lab 4. Since all students didnot respond about labtime and group info, so present on Monday, those who are able, then form group. Similarly for Thursday and Friday. Please check links given for each lab to understand the purpose and options of the tools. Remember, Lab1's "OS component" section is required for all to understand some differences in commands and interface names between FreeBSD and Linux.
• (01/18/2003) Lab session times are online. Please check lab webpage.
• (01/16/2003) Interesting talk on sensor wireless networks. Speaker: Dr. Richard Brooks (Penn State University),
                       Date, Time and Location: Tuesday, January 21, 2003,  3:00-4:30 PM, GER Auditorium.
• (01/12/2003)
  This course consists of three major parts:
  1. Project: with four milestones
     • (a) initial project proposal,
     • (b) refined project proposal,
     • (c) initial project report, and
     • (d) final project report and demo.
  2. Presentations and discussions: including
     • (a) topic presentation,
     • (b) project presentation, and
     • (c) paper readings, reviews and discussions.
  3. Lab experiments and assignments: including ~7 experiments covering
     • (a) basic machine configuration, routing, queuing, measurement of traffic and TCP,
     • (b) wireless networking: including TCP over wireless, physical and MAC layer and power strength measurements, IP mobility, Ad hoc routing and GPS (network of handhelds and laptops), and sensor networks (network of wireless motes).
• (01/12/2003) The work is to be carried out in groups. In general the target is to have 8 projects for the whole class. Although the work will be in groups, the final evaluation will be individual, especially in the case where the load on different members of the group varies widely.
  The main emphasis of the course is on protocols and architectures for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks.
  The material discussed will be mainly based on carefully selected research papers. In addition, there is a required book "Ad Hoc Networking" by Charles E. Perkins. This is an edited book that includes a good collection of research papers.
  The Prof. will present the first few lectures then the students will present their topics.
  In general, much of this course is seminar-like and is heavily student-driven.
• (01/12/2003) Note on material:
  What is included in the "Ad Hoc Networking" book? Edited chapters by the original authors on: Unicast routing for ad hoc networks (DSDV, DSR, AODV/MAODV, TORA), cluster-based routing, zone routing (ZRP), efficient link-state/broadcast.
  What is not included in the book but may be covered in class? Multicast routing for ad hoc networks, geographic (location-based) routing, mobility modeling, resource discovery. Other topics (that are not specific to ad hoc networks) include: small worlds, peer-to-peer networks, IP mobility, and STRESS.