Your project proposal is dues on Feb 1 (tentative). It should explicitly include:
The goal of your project (a precise statement of what is it that you are studying/designing, as well as the deliverable that can be expected from your project).
The methodology you will be adopting (includes both experimental and analysis methodology)
Experimental methodology: how will you conduct experiments, what metrics will you collect, how will you measure/estimate the metrics, what parameters will you vary, etc
Analysis methodology: how will you analyze your data? What specific questions will you answer (and how)?
Your hypothesis: what do you expect your main results to be?
A 2-weekly timeline for your project progress (roughly, Feb 15, Feb 29, Mar 21, Apr 4, Apr 18, May 2).
You have about 10-12 weeks to complete your project + report. Please be wise about your plan, making sure you make sufficient progress in the first few weeks.
I am planning an in-class “mid-project progress presentation” around Mar 21 — your Mar 21 deadline should hope to complete significant portions of the project in preparation for this presentation.
Your proposal need not be any longer than 1 page (2 pages if you’re in a group of 2).
Write a relevant mobile phone app that has a reasonable communications component, and evaluate the component – you can use existing apps to tap into one of the sensors on your mobile phone, and build an app around it.
Studying/characterizing the performance of a wireless network deployment (e.g., a community network, wifi hot-spots around town, wifi access points in a building).
Wireless trace analysis (usage patterns, contention patterns, performance patterns — delays, losses).
Simulation-based experimental evaluation of protocols in the NS-2 simulator (MAC protocols, ad-hoc routing protocols).
Extending the design or formal analysis of a previously-proposed protocol (e.g., from one of the papers selected for in-class discussion).
Modifying wireless device drivers to experimentally evaluate enhancements at the MAC layer.
Here are some specific project topics that were pursued in past course offerings:
Indoor localization using LoRa
Clustering analysis of mobile web traffic
Designing a “wireless mouse” app for a smartphone
Analyzing wireless traces to see if apps can be identified from network traffic
Recreating attacks on wireless transmissions
Enhancing Transport Over Wireless Links with TCP Rapid
Coping With High Bandwidth Demand in Cellular Networks (Survey)
A Study of Channel Capture Effect in 802.11
Designing Auction-based Mechanisms for Wireless Channel Redistribution
Modeling Signal Attenuation and Localization
Efficient Node Placement in an Ad-hoc Network
Wireless Trace Analysis to Study Access Patterns
Simulation-based Evaluation of Ad-hoc Routing Protocols
Analysis of Traces from a Wireless Mesh Network
Characterization of Link Quality in an OpenMesh Network
Sensor Network Dynamic Media Access Control Based on State Uncertainties
Experimental Evaluation of Bandwidth Estimation on Wireless Links