CS294-7 paper summaries

Overview

• The Computer for the 21st Century
• Wireless Personal Communications: What Is It?
• The Challenges of Mobile Computing
• Cellular Packet Communications

Radio Propagation

• Propagation Measurements and Models for Wireless Communications Channels

Media Access

• K.C. Chen, Medium Access Control of Wireless LANs for Mobile Computing. IEEE Network, Sep/Oct 1994.
• Norman Abramson, Multiple Access in Wireless Digital Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE 82(9), Sept 1994.
• David G. Steer, Coexistence and Access Etiquette in the U.S. Unlicensed PCS Band. IEEE Personal Communications, Fourth Quarter 1994.
• David D. Falconer, Fumiyuki Adachi, and Bjorn Gudmundson, Time Division Multiple Access Methods for Wireless Personal Communications. IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1995.
• Ryuji Kohno, Reuven Meidan, and Laurence B. Milstein, Spread Spectrum Access Methods for Wireless Communications. IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1995.

Wireless Systems

• Moe Rahnema, Overview of the GSM System and Protocol Architecture. IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1993.
• Mobeen Kahn and John Kilpatrick, MOBITEX and Mobile Data Standards. IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1995.
• Antonio DeSimone and Sanjiv Nanda, Wireless data: Systems, standards, services. Wireless Networks 1, 1995.
• Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Bill N. Schilit, Michael M. Tso, and Roy Want, An Infrared Network for Mobile Computers. Proceedings of the Usenix Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing, Summer 1993.
• Mario Gerla and Jack Tzu-Chieh Tsai, Multicluster, Mobile, Multimedia Radio Network. ACM Wireless Networks, vol 1, no 3, October 1995.

Wireless LANs

• K. Pahlavan, Wireless Intraoffice Networks. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, July 1988.
• David F. Bant and Frederic J. Bauchot, Wireless LAN Design Alternatives. IEEE Network, March/April 1994, pp 43-53.

Packet Radio Networks

• Robert E. Kahn, Steven A. Gronemeyer, Jerry Burchfiel, and Ronald C. Kunzelman, Advances in Packet Radio Technology. Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 66, no 11, November 1978.
• John Jubin and Janet D. Tornow, The DARPA Packet Radio Network Protocols. Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 75, no 1, January 1987.

Mobile IP

• Andrew Myles, David B. Johnson, and Charles Perkins, A Mobile Host Protocol Supporting Route Optimization and Authentication. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol 13, no 5, June 1995.
• John Ioannidis, Dan Duchamp, and G.Q. Maguire Jr., IP-based Protocols for Mobile Internetworking. SIGCOMM '91 Conference: Communications Architectures and Protocols, pp 235-245, Association for Computing Machinery, September, 1991.

Transport and Network Level Optimizations

• Raj Yavatkar and Namrata Bhagawat, Improving End-to-End Performance of TCP Over Mobile Internetworks. Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, December 1994.
• Ajay Bakre and B.R. Badrinath, I-TCP: Indirect TCP for Mobile Hosts. Proc. 15th Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1995.
• Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, and Randy H. Katz, Improving Reliable Transport and Handoff Performance in Cellular Wireless Networks. ACM Wireless Networks, V 1, N 4,December 1995.

Handoff

• Rohit Ghai and Suresh Singh, An Architecture and Communication Protocol for Picocellular Networks. IEEE Personal Communications, Third Quarter 1994.
• Sirin Tekinay and Bijan Jabbari, Handover and Channel Assignment in Mobile Cellular Networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, November 1991.
• A. Acampora, M. Naghshineh, An Architecture and Methodology for Mobile-Executed Handoff in Cellular ATM Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, V 12, N 8, October 1994, pp 1365-1375.

Security and Privacy

• D. Brown, Techniques for privacy and authentication in Personal Communication Systems. IEEE Personal Communications, August 1995.
• A. Aziz and W. Diffie, Privacy and Authentication for Wireless Local Area Networks. IEEE Personal Communications, First Quarter 1994, pp 25-31.
• Y. Frankel, et al., Security Issues in a CDPD Wireless Network. IEEE Personal Communications, August 1995, pp 16-27.

Satellite and Broadcast

• S. Acharya, R. Alonso, M. Franklin, S. Zdonik. Broadcast Disks: Data management for asymmetric communication environments. Available as Brown Univ. TR CS-94-43 or UMD TR CS-TR-3369. AF