ELEC 438: Wireless Networking for Under-Resourced Urban Communities
ELEC 438
Wireless Networking for Under-Resourced Urban Communities
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The Rice Networks Group
and the non-profit organization
Technology For All
have recently deployed a
state-of-the-art multi-hop wireless network
in one of Houston's most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
The objective of this network is to empower under-resourced communities
with access to technology and educational, work-at-home, and health-care tools.
In this course, project teams will perform measurement studies both in
the Rice Networks Lab and in the East End neighborhood to
- characterize the system capacity and performance
- evaluate client performance and identify performance factors
- study the effects of traffic and channel characteristics
on system-wide performance
- analyze and improve the routing protocols
- analyze and improve fault tolerence protocols
- analyze and improve traffic management protocols
- study client usage patterns
- study client mobility capabilities
- evaluate the network's ability to serve multi-media traffic
- study security and DoS vulnerabilities and resilience mechanisms
Prerequisites
This course will draw on diverse fields including networking,
communications, measurement, experimental methods,
programming and statistics. Project teams will be formed to
balance team members' expertise and prior course work. The course is
open to ECE and CS majors with junior standing or higher, or by
consent of instructor.
ELEC 438 is a systems specialization course.
Instructor
Teaching Assistants
TFA Network Advisors
Grading
- Initial training assignments
- Project topic tutorial
- Project progress reports and presentations
- Project accomplishments
- Project final presentation and report
- Class and group participation
Time/Place
Mondays 3-5, Keck Hall 105