Broadband Wireless Networking and Services, Fall Semester 2009

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.

Student Presentations
slides sample.

Selected Topics

• Introduction
• Design issues of wireless applications

Paradigms

• Cloud Computing, examples, Cloud Computing Talk by KF Lee

Applications

• Online behavior
• blogs and peer support
• Mobile Social Services for People with Disabilities
  
• Anomaly detection
  
• Indoor positioning (a survey)
  
• Task prompting
• Wayfinding
  
• Wireless Foresight
• Mobile Services
  

Wireless Networking

• Packet Network
  
• Random Multiple Access
• MAC
• CSMA
  
• TCP in wireless networks

Media Access Control

• 802.15
• 802.11 a/b/g, 802.11n, wireless mesh networks
• WiMAX Technology, WiMAX Technology (slides)
• z-wave

Digital communication

• Spread Spectrum
  
• OFDM, limitations

Cellular

• Evolutions of Cellular Phones
• historical review
  
• 2G, 3G, 4G,
• Technology beyond 3G

Discussion

• Points
• TED.com Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech

Core reading list

• Yao-Jen Chang, Hung Huan Liu, Tsen-Yung Wang, Mobile Social Networks as Quality of Life Technology for People with Severe Mental Illness, IEEE Wireless Communications, June, 2009. (SCI)
• Yao-Jen Chang, Wan Chih Chang,Tsen Yun Wang "Context-Aware Prompting to Transition Autonomously Through Vocational Tasks for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments" ACM Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2009), Pittsburgh, USA. Oct 26~28. (EI)
• Yao-Jen Chang, Yan-Ru Chen, Chia Yu Chang, Tsen-Yung Wang "Video Prompting and Indoor Wayfinding Based on Bluetooth Beacons: a Case Study in Supported Employment for People with Severe Mental Illness," presented in 2009 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, Jan. 2009 (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, Hsin-Yu Hsu, Tsen-Yung Wang "Nonprofit Housing Services using Web 2.0 Mapping Tools" WWW 2008, Beijing China. Apr 21-25. pp. 953-957. (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 Design Approach for 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