ECE 692 Special Topics: Mobile Network Systems DesignECE 692 Special Topics: Mobile Network Systems DesignNote: Please check this page often for announcements, updates and changes, including all assignments.
Instructor
- Dr. Wei Gao
- Lectures: TR 12:40pm - 1:55pm, 405 Dougherty Engineering Building
- Office hours: TR 2:00pm - 3:00pm, 302 Min Kao
- Email: weigao (at) utk (dot) edu (please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .)
- Phone: 865-974-3984
Course Description
This course aims to provide students with insightful understanding about the current research on the design, modeling, analysis, and implementation of mobile network systems and applications in various domains, including environmental monitoring, social interaction, smart healthcare and wellbeing, cyber-security, E-commerce, and intelligent transportation systems. This course will be driven by student-led paper presentations and dicsussions. Building on knowledge gained in class, students will work on research projects in groups and complete a conference-like paper at the end of the semester. In the course project, students will have the chance to work with realistic mobile devices and software platforms, such as the Android-based smartphones, develop their own system design and implementation skills, and verify their research ideas in practice.
- Course policies
Paper Presentation and Discussion
Research papers spanning all areas of mobile network system design will be assigned to students for in-class presentations and discussions. For each paper, a student will be assigned as the presenter. Each student is required to write 1-page reviews for the paper, to summarize the major topics, ideas, and contributions of this paper (3-4 sentences), and to evaluate the intellectual merit, strengths, and weakness of the paper. Identify each strength and weakness and write a couple of sentences on each. Claims must be accompanied by supporting arguments. For instance, think about adding the following after a claim: "For example, ...".
Mobile System Research Report
Each student is required to pick up one research area or topic related to mobile network system design, and compose a research report on the selected topic. The selected topic may be related to the student's own academic research, and be potential to stimulate student's future research interests in the topic. This report would be similar to a brief research survey on the selected topic, in which the student needs to review the current state of the art of the current research on this topic, classify and summarize existing schemes/techniques/systems, and forecast future directions. Specific examples would be helpful.
Project
TBA
Grading
- Course project: 50%. Proposal: 5%, midterm presentation: 10%, final presentation: 15%, final report 20%
- Paper presentation and discussions: 25%
- Mobile system research report: 15%
- Participation: 10%