15-849: Cognitive Networking - Reading List

The readings for the course will be added throughout the semester. Note that access to some of the papers requires a CMU IP address, i.e. you need to be on campus or use a VPN to campus.

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Overview

• Future Directions in Cognitive Radio Network Research, NSF Workshop Report, focus on pages 1-18.
• Spectrum Management Primer, a bit high level.
• Introduction ot FCC Rules, focus on high level. Also The Rulemaking Process

Lecture 3: Spectrum Policy 1

• Chicago spectrum occupancy measurements & analysis and a long-term studies proposal, Mark McHenry, Peter Tenjula, Dan, McCloskey, Dennis Roberson, and Cinthia Hood, Proceedings of the first international workshop on Technology and policy for accessing spectrum, 2006
• Report of the Spectrum Efficiency Workig Group, November 2002
• Sharing Spectrum Through Spectrum Policy Reform and Cognitive Radio, J. M. Peha, Proceedings of the IEEE, April 2009

Lecture 4: Spectrum Policy 2

• A Survey of Dynamic Spectrum Access, Zhao and Sadler, Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE, May 2007.
• Ultra-Wideband Communications - The Next Generation Wireless Connection, Rafael Kolic, very high level description to get you started.
• Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications systems: an overview, Tsang and El-Gamal, Third International IEEE-NEWCAS Conference, June 2005, more technical discussion.
• A Summary of FCC Rules for Ultra Wideband Communications, Gary Breed, High Frequency Electronics, January 2005. You can also (optionally) look at Ultra-Wideband Tutorial, report for IEEE P802.15 Working Group (slides), March 2002, which has similar contents.
• Assessment of Compatibility between Ultrawideband Devices and Selected Federal Systems, NTIA report, only print and take a quick look at pages 8-14 (executive summary).
• IEEE 802.11h: Technology and Application, Qiao and Choi, IT Professional,vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 43-48, March/April 2006.

Lecture 5: Case Study: TV White Spaces

• NPRM 04-186: Unlicensed Operation in the TV Broadcast Bands, focus on pages 1-14.
• IEEE 802.22: An Introduction to the First Wireless Standard based on Cognitive Radios, Cordeiro, Challapali, Birru, Journal of Communications, Vol 1, No 1, April 2006.
• White space networking with wi-fi like connectivity, Bahl, Chandra, Moscibroda, Murty, and Welsh, SIGCOMM 2009.
• A Hardware Platform for Utilizing TV Bands with a Wi-Fi Radio, Narlanka, Chandra, Bahl, and Ferrell, 15th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 2007: optional reading on the radio used in previous paper.

Lecture 6: Cognitive Radios

• SDR Architectures Slides, courtesy Drik Grunwald. Will be used in lecture.
• The Impact of Software Radio on Wireless Networking, Vanu Bose, Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Volume 3, No. 1, January 1999. An early host-only approach.
• Experiences With a Platform for Frequency-Agile Techniques, Jeff Fifield, Paul Kasemir, Dirk Grunwald and Douglas Sicker, DYSPAN 2007, tradeoffs in mapping functions on SDR computing resources. No need to dig into the physical layer details.
• MultiMAC - An Adaptive MAC Framework for Dynamic Radio Networking, Christian Doerr, Michael Neufeld, Jeff Fifield, Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker, and Dirk Grunwald, DySPAN 2005. Cognitive networking without software-radios.

Lecture 7: Cognitive Radios and MAC

• Enabling MAC Protocol Implementations on Software-defined Radios, George Nychis, Thibaud Hottelier, Zhuochen Yang, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste, Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2009.
• Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors, Kun Tan and Jiansong Zhang, MSR Asia; Ji Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University; He Liu, Yusheng Ye, and Shen Wang, Tsinghua University; Yongguang Zhang, Haitao Wu, and Wei Wang, MSR Asia; Geoffrey M. Voelker, UCSD

Lecture 8: Using SDRs

• PPR: partial packet recovery for wireless networks, Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan, ACM SIGCOMM 2007.
• SAM: Enabling Practical Spatial Multiple Access in Wireless LAN, Kun Tan, He Liu, Ji Fang, Mi Chen, Jiansong Zhang, Wei Wang, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, ACM MobiCom 2009.

Lecture 9: Network Coding

• XORs in the air: practical wireless network coding, S. Katti, H. Rahul, W. Hu, D. Katabi, M. Medard, J. Crowcroft, ACM Sigcomm 2006.
• Embracing Wireless Interference: Analog Network Coding , Sachin Katti, Shyamnath Gollakota, Dina Katabi, ACM SIGCOMM 2007

Lecture 10: Cross Layer Cooperation

• Taking the sting out of carrier sense: interference cancellation for wireless LANs, Daniel Halperin, Tom Anderson, and David Wetherall, MobiCom 2008. This paper should really be switched with the PPR paper in Lecture 8.
• Symbol-Level Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks, Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi, Hari Balakrishnan, Muriel Medard, Sigcomm 2008

Lecture 11: Building Conflict Graphs

• Online estimation of RF interference, N. Ahmed, U. Ismail, S. Keshav, and K. Papagiannaki, ACM CoNext 2008.
• Maximizing Spatial Reuse in Dense Wireless Networks, Xi Liu, Srini Seshan, Peter Steenkiste, draft

Lecture 12: Using Conflict Graphs

• CENTAUR: Realizing the Full Potential of Centralized WLANs through a Hybrid Data Path, Vivek Shrivastava, Nabeel Ahmed, Shravan Rayanchu, Suman Banerjee, Srinivasan Keshav, Konstantina Papagiannaki, and Arunesh Mishra, ACM MobiCom 2009
• DIRC: Increasing Indoor Wireless Capacity Using Directional Antennas, Xi Liu, Anmol Sheth, Michael Kaminsky, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste, ACM Sigcomm 2009.

Lecture 13: Using Channel State

• Design, implementation and evaluation of an efficient opportunistic retransmission protocol, Amy Lu, Peter Steenkiste, Tsuhan Chen, ACM MobiCom 2009.
• Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments, Glenn Judd, Eeyore Wang, Peter Steenkiste, ACM MobiSys 2008.

Lecture 14: MIMO Review

• MIMO tutorial, unpublished.
• From theory to practice: an overview of MIMO space-time coded wireless systems, Gespert, et al, IEEE JSAC, April 2003. A more mathematical approach - Focus on Sections I and II.
• We will revist the SAM paper from Lecture 8.

Lecture 15: Cooperative Communication in Cellular

• Coded Cooperation in Wireless Communications: Space-Time Transmission and Iterative Decoding, Janani, Hedayat, Hunter, Nosratinia, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Feb 2004.
• Interference Cancellation for Cellular Systems: A Contemporary Overview, Andrews, IEEE Wireless Communications, April 2005.

Lecture 16: Diagnostics

• RFDump: An Architecture for Monitoring the Wireless Ether, Kaushik Lakshminarayanan, Samir Sapra, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste, ACM CoNEXT 2009
• MOJO: a distributed physical layer anomaly detection system for 802.11 WLANs, Sheth, Doerr, Grunwald, Han, Sicker, ACM MobiSys 2006.

Lecture 17: Spectrum Sensing

• A survey of spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio applications, Yucek and Arslan, Communication Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE, Q1, 2009.
• In-band spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: energy detection or feature detection?, Kim and Shin, MobiCom 2008.

Lecture 18: Spectrum Coordination

Global Control Plane Architecture for Cognitive Radio Networks, Jing and Raychaudhury, IEEE ICC 2007.
• A spectrum etiquette protocol for efficient coordination of radio devices in unlicensed bands, Raychaudhury and Jing, IEEE, PIMRC 2003.
• MAC Protocol Adaptation in Cognitive Radio Networks: An Experimental Study, Huang, Jing, and Raychaudhuri, ICCCN 2009.

Lecture 19: Spectrum Coordination 2

• Distributed Rule Regulated Spectrum Sharing, Lili Cao and Heather Zheng, IEEE JSAC, January 2008.
• Physical Interference Driven Dynamic Spectrum Management, Lei Yang, Lili Cao and Heather Zheng, IEEE Dyspan, 2008.

Lecture 20: Spectrum Coordination 3

• Demand Responsive Pricing and Competitive Spectrum Allocation via a Spectrum Server, Ileri, Samardzija, and Mandayam, IEEE Dyspan, 2005.
• A General Framework for Wireless Spectrum Auctions, Gandhi, Buragohain, Cao, Zheng, and Suri, IEEE Dyspan, 2007.

Lecture 21: XG Policy Management

• A Policy Engine for Spectrum Sharing, Denker, Elenius, Senanayake, Stehr, and Wilkins, IEEE Dyspan, 2007.
• Policy-based Network Management for NeXt Generation Spectrum Access Control, Perich, IEEE Dyspan, 2007.

Lecture 22: Security

• Potential cognitive radio denial-of-service vulnerabilities and protection countermeasures: a multi-dimensional analysis and assessment, Brown and Sethi, Mobile Networks and Applications, October 2008.
• Radio-telepathy: Extracting a Secret Key from an Unauthenticated Wireless Channel, Mathur, Trappe, Mandayam, Ye, and Reznik, ACM MobiCom 2008.