Broadband Wireless Networking and Services, Fall Semester 2008

Yao-Jen Chang, email address: yjchang at cycu dot edu dot tw

Objective
1. Students will be exposed to a comprehensive coverage of modern topics of broadband wireless technology and business models.
2. Students will be able to identify important protocols, industrial practices, business models, and trend developments in broadband wireless.

Grading Policy
Participation (Presence, Challenging and Answers, & 3 Oral Presentations) 60%, Homework 40%

Homework
Weekly homework is presented on your own blog. See instructions about how to create blogs. You may take a look at some examples of homework.

Selected Topics

• Introduction
• Evolutions of Cellular Phones
• Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Talk by KF Lee
• Wireless Foresight
  
• Packet Network
  
• Random Multiple Access
• OFDM
• 802.15
• 802.11 a/b/g, 802.11n, wireless mesh networks, Story EarthLink Ends Philly Wi-Fi
• WiMAX Technology, WiMAX Technology (slides)
• z-wave
• 2G, 3G, 4G,
  
• Ontologies and RDF Schema, Ontologies of mobile user context

Weekly Schedule (2007)

Oct 11, Oct 18 no class meetings.

Core reading list

• Yao-Jen Chang, Hung-Huan Liu, Tseng-Yun Wang, "Potential of Mobile Social Networks as Assistive Technology: a Case Study in Supported Employment for People with Severe Mental Illness" ACM ASSETS 2008, Halifax, Canada. Oct. 13~15, 2008. (EI)
• Yao-Jen Chang, Shih-Kai Tsai, Tseng-Yun Wang, “ A Context Aware Handheld Wayfinding System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments” ACM ASSETS 2008, Halifax, Canada. Oct. 13~15, 2008. (EI)
• Yao-Jen Chang, Shan-Yao Wu Intersection Location Service for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Cars in Manhattan Style Movement Patterns, to be presented in UIC-08, Oslo, Norway and included in LCNS. (EI)
  

• Yao-Jen Chang, Chien-Nien Chen, Li-Der Chou, Tsen-Yung Wang, A Novel Wayfinding Systems Based on Passive RFID for Individuals with Cognitive Impairment, Proc. Pervasive Health 2008, Tempere. Jan. 31~ Feb. 2 (EI) [Presentation in PDF]

Selected Reading on Handheld Interface Design

• Designing a mobile communicator: combining ethnography and object-oriented design

• End user programming and context responsiveness in handheld prompting systems for persons with cognitive disabilities and caregivers
  

Selected Reading on Assistive Technology

• Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones
• Observing Sara: a case study of a blind person's interactions with technology
• Understanding mobile phone requirements for young adults with cognitive disabilities

Past Homework