Helsinki University of Technology Department for Electrical and Communications Engineering Networking Laboratory

S-38.3155 Challenged Networks (Postgraduate Seminar)

Overview

This seminar addresses communications in networking environments with unusual characteristics, i.e. properties that traditional design of communication protocols has not taken into account. Such "challenged networks" may exhibit, e.g., long communication delays, unpredictable link availability, and may not even provide an end-to-end path at all. These characteristics are partly inherent to certain link layer technologies (e.g. transmission error rate in wireless networks), but mostly stem from specific communication settings and system architectures (e.g. sensor networks connecting underwater equipment or planetary orbits). We will analyze numerous challenged networking environments and their communication characteristics. We will look at novel networking architectures dealing with such specific environments and investigate routing, service, and application aspects of delay-tolerant networking.

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Requirements and Grading

The seminar is suitable for postgraduate studies. We will be using papers from well-known conferences, mostly 2005 and 2006. Each topic will require studying, understanding, and synthesizing three papers to present an overview of this topic area and discuss the alternative, competing, and/or complementary views on and approaches to this subject area and compare them.

The requirements for passing the course are:

The language for the seminar is English.

The course will be 3 ECTS points. The grade will be determined based upon the handout and the presentation (50% weight each). The rough grading criteria are

Time Table

The course will be held in two or three blocks in the afternoon to also enable participation from people not spending all of their day at TKK. The number blocks and the number of presentations per block will be adjusted depending on the participation. All course sessions will be held in the lab meeting room (D302).

23.1.2008 16-18 Introduction and Topic Signup
20.2.2008 16-19 Presentation slot I
27.2.2008 16-19 Presentation slot II

Topic Presenter Opponent
Performance Analysis Jarno Matti
Security (Frag Auth) Kari Shengye
Mobility Modeling I Varun Jarno
Content Distribution Shengye Varun
Storage and Retrieval Matti Kari

Topics & Material

An initial set of literature for all subjects will be provided (tentatively as shown below). Further background and supporting material (if needed at all) is up to you. Note that many of the links below will only work from the TKK network.

Background Reading

  1. Routing I
  2. Routing II
  3. Routing III
  4. Performance Analysis
  5. Security
  6. Vehicular Networks
  7. Mobility Modelling I
  8. Mobility Modelling II
  9. Content Distribution
  10. Storage and Retrieval

The handouts and the presentation slides will be made available on the web prior to the seminar sessions.

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