CS294-7 paper summaries

These summaries were authored by Steve Gribble and Armando Fox. Some papers are from Randy Katz's CS294 seminar on wireless communications, others are from Daedalus/BARWAN reading groups.

Overview

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

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