Teaching Instructor:

Teaching Materials:

Chapter  0: Syllabus (2-in-one)

Chapter  1: Motivation & applications (2-in-one)

Chapter  2: Single node architecture (2-in-one, 4-in-one, 10/02/2006)

Chapter  3: Network architecture (2-in-one, 10/12/2006)

• Event mobility problem: "Efficient In-Network Moving Object Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No. 8, Aug. 2006, pp. 1044-56.

Chapter  4: Medium access control protocols (2-in-one, 10/18/2006, 2-in-one, 10/29/2006)

• S-MAC protocol:  "An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2002. 

• B-MAC protocol:  "A Bit-Map-Assisted Energy-Efficient MAC Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks", IPSN’04, April 26–27, 2004, Berkeley, California, USA.

• WiseMAC protocol:  "WiseMAC: An Ultra Low Power MAC Protocol for the Downlink of Infrastructure Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE ISCC 2004.

Chapter 5: Introduction of IEEE 802.11 (2-in-one, 10/29/2006)

Chapter 6: Relay-Enabled Medium Access Control Protocol for MANETs (pdf, 11/17/2006)

• "rDCF: A Relay-Enabled Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No.9, pp. 1201-1214, Sep. 2006.

• "A Relay-Aided Media Access (RAMA) Protocol in Multirate Wireless Networks", IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 55, No. 5, Sep. 2006.

Chapter 7: Directional and Smart Antenna (pdf, 11/24/2006)

•  "Using Directional Antennas for Medium Access Control in Ad Hoc Networks", ACM Globecom'02.

• "A Dual Access Mode MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks Using Smart Antennas", IEEE ICC'04.

• "Directional NAV Indicators and Orthogonal Routing for Smart Antenna Based Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE ICDCSW'05.

• "A Cross Layer MAC with Explicit Synchronization through Intelligent Feedback for Multiple Beam Antennas", IEEE Globecom'05.

• Yuh-Shyan Chen, Shih-Jr Jan, and Ming-Chin Chuang, "A Shoelace-Based QoS Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antenna," is  submitted to IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2007), 11 – 15 March 2007, Hong Kong.

Chapter 8: Broadcast I: (pdf, 12/01/2006)

• Jang-Ping Sheu, Yuh-Shyan Chen, Chih-Yung Chang, "Energy Conservation for Broadcast and Multicast Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," a book chapter in Handbook of Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless and Peer-to-Peer Networks, CRC Press, (edited by Prof. Jie Wu), June, 2005.

Chapter 9: Broadcast II: Broadcast Storm (pdf, 12/08/2006)

• Y.-C. Tseng, S.-Y. Ni, Yuh-Shyan Chen, and J.-P. Sheu, "The Broadcast Storm Problem in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network,"  ACM Wireless Networks, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 153-167, March 2002.

Chapter 10: Multicast (pdf, 12/17/2006)

• Yuh-Shyan Chen, Tzung-Shi Chen, and Ching-Jang Huang, "SOM: Spiral-Fat-Tree-Based On-Demand Multicast Protocol in a Wireless Ad-Hoc Network," Computer Communications, Vol. 25, Issue 17, pp. 1684-1695, Nov. 2002. (Best Paper Award of IEEE ICOIN-15, Japan)

Chapter 11: Routing/QoS Routing (pdf, 12/22/2006)

• Yuh-Shyan Chen, Yu-Chee Tseng, Jang-Ping Sheu, and Po-Hsuen Kuo, "An On-Demand, Link-State, Multi-Path QoS Routing in a Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Network," Computer Communications, Vol. 27, Issue 1, pp. 27-40,  Jan. 2004.

Chapter 12: QoS Routing on MIMO MANETs

• Yuh-Shyan Chen, Po-Tsai Hsieh, and Yun-Wei Lin, "A Bow-Based QoS Routing Protocol for MIMO Ad Hoc Networks", is submitted to IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, (ISCC 2007), Aveiro, Portugal, July 1-4, 2007.  

Chapter 13: Mobicast Routing Problem on WSNs (Sink Mobility)  (pdf, 12/25/2006)

• Yuh-Shyan Chen, Shin-Yi Ann, and Yun-Wei Lin, "VE-Mobicast: A Variant-Egg-Based Mobicast Routing Protocol for Sensornets", ACM Wireless Networks, in press.

• "Reliable Mobicast via Face-Aware Routing", IEEE INFOCOM 2004.