Welcome to EE206A, a course on Mobile and Wireless Networked Systems in the EE Embedded Computing Systems field.

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This course web site is designed to complement the course lectures. Resources available here include lecture viewgraphs, handouts, solutions, and pointers to relevant resources on the web. Some material may have access restricted to UCLA students.

EE206A is a part of the Embedded Computing Systems graduate major field program in the EE Department.

Course Staff Information

Please visit this web site frequently during the course for various announcements, and to download lecture viewgraphs (placed by the morning of the lecture) and to get information on papers assigned for reading. Also, explore the various links on the button panel to the left of this page for useful information relating to the course.

Time & Place

Prerequisites

Grading

Reader & Textbooks

This being a  course in a rapidly evolving area, the lectures will be substantially based on papers from literature. An evolving web based course reader will provide links to on-line papers, and identify their availability as INSPEC images in Melvyl. There is no paper reader. I will handout those papers that are unavailable on-line . It is your responsibility to print and read the on-line papers before the lectures.

Some of the lecture material will also be drawn from various books, such as:

1. Theodore S. Rappaport. "Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice," Prentice-Hall, 1996.
2. Ellen K. Wesel, "Wireless Multimedia Communications," Addison-Wesley, 1998.
3. D.S. Milojicic, F. Douglis, and R.G. Wheeler. "Mobility: Processes, Computers, and Agents," Addison-Wesley, 1999.

See slides for Lecture #1 for names of other books. There is no particular need to buy these books, although they are good books to have if you are doing research in the area.

On-line submission

In this course I rely on on-line submission of home works, paper reviews, and even the examination. At the same time, I do not want my mailbox to be bombarded my huge mail attachments. So, what you will need to submit is a URL by the deadline. Now, to avoid the problem of you sending me a URL but changing the underlying contents after the deadline, I would run a script that would automatically fetch the files soon after the deadline. For this to work, I need to know the URL in advance.

So, this is how the on-line submission will work.

1. At the beginning of the course, you need to give me a top-level URL for all your course submissions, e.g.  http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~student/ee206a.
2. Your submissions for a specific assignment should be a single zip (preferred) or tgz (tar + gnu zip) file, say hw1.zip or hw1.tgz, inside which can be the multiple files for, say, the different problems. The files inside the zip or tgz archives could be in any of the following formats: html, pdf, ps, word, framemaker, jpeg, GIF.
3. I would specify the prefix name that you should use for the zip/tgz file, e.g. hw1.

Example: I might say that for homework 1, the root name for the submission file is hw1. Moreover, let us say that the top-level URL you have given me is U. Then my script will simply attempt to fetch U/hw1.zip and U/hw1.tgz. I would use the program wget that is available under Unix (Linux). So, in essence, my script would do 'wget U/hw1.zip' and 'wget U/hw1.tgz'.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING SURE THAT YOUR SUBMISSION IS AT THE RIGHT URL.

Late submissions

Unless I give an extension, late submissions for any assignment would carry a 50% (of whatever you score) penalty after the scheduled deadline, and a 100% penalty after 24 hours past the deadline.

Policy on Cheating and Plagiarism