CMPSCI 496A Independent Study in Wireless Networking Professor Jim Kurose & Dr. Mike Zink Fall 2005

This is the homepage for our Independet study class. We'll post various items of interest here throughout the semester.

Technical information (hardware, software, protocol)

• Equipment list
• HyperLink Technologies, Hypergain HG2424G (small parabolic directional antenna, 8 degree beamwidth, 24 dBi gain), info and data sheet
• HyperLink technologies, HG2415Y Yagi atenna, 30 degree beamwidth, 14.5 dBi gain, info and data sheet
• Source code: email from adam about the source kernel tree (where to find it)
• 802.11 ACKing behavior (from Irene)
• Long distance 802.11 links (from MADWIFI site)
• tims' email on link power loss budget analysis, and neat calculator for lower loss budget analysis
• link budget analysis (tim and brian d.)
  
• what is a db?

In-the-field information

• Equipment Checklist (so you remember what to bring into the field)
• Setup Instructions (configuration, etc): combined and updated version
  • group 1
  • group 2
  • group 3
• Topographical map (thanks to Chris for pointer)
• Hubbard Hill Rd Google map

Classes

• Powerpoint slides for Class 2
• jMANIC (video, audio, ppt) from classes 2(intro to equipment) and 3 (assembling) (from Byron Wallace)
• Ad hoc routing class slides (static routing, DSR (courtesty of Nitin Vaidya UIUC), AODV)

Measurements, etc

• initial documentation, field tests over short distances: groups 1 and 2
• initial documentation, field tests over short distances: group 3
• 11/6 measurements (channel measurements, iperf tcp/udp throughput, tcpdumps)

Pictures (click here to go to pictures page)

Papers:

• "Turning 802.11 Inside-Out'', Pravin Bhagwat, Bhaskaran Raman, and Dheeraj Sanghi, Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-II), 20-21 Nov 2003, Cambridge, MA, USA. (class 2)
• Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket, Sanjit Biswas, Glenn Judd, Robert Morris, Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network, SIGCOMM 2004, Aug 2004 (class 3)