Instructor

Soma Chaudhuri
230 Atanasoff
Phone 294-8547
e-mail chaudhur@cs.iastate.edu

Office Hours : by appointment

Lecture : TR 12:40 - 2:00 pm, 1160 Sweeney

General Information

• Syllabus
• Schedule of Topics
• Reading List
• Assignments
• Lecture Notes

• Mar. 29, 2007
  Please check the Schedule of Topics page to check on your assigned time and topic for your presentation. If you have not spoken to me about your presentation, please do so.
• Mar. 28, 2007
  Homework 7, which was verbally stated earlier, has been posted now. Also, I have posted Homework 8, which will be your last assignment. Both are on the topic of Link Revrsal Algorithms.

• Mar. 28, 2007
  The preliminary version of Lecture Notes 18 is available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Mar. 27, 2007
  The reading materials for Applications: Data Aggregation is available now. Please check the Reading List.

• Mar. 20, 2007
  I am not feeling well today so I will have to cancel class. We will still have Jose's presentation on Location-Free Routing on Thursday. I will cover Link Reversal Algorithms next Tuesday, with Bibudh's presentation on Location Services the following Thursday.

• Mar. 7, 2007
  The final version of Lecture Notes 8 part A is available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Mar. 5, 2007
  Looks like Friday seems to work best for most people, so we'll hold our extra class this week on Friday from 9:30 to 11 in 217 Atanasoff. The schedule will be as follows:
  I will cover Network Broadcast on Tuesday.
  David Lastine will cover Routing ALgorithms on Thursday.
  Danyu Liu will cover Routing Algorithms on Friday.

• Mar. 2, 2007
  I am trying to schedule a make-up for yesterday's class. We will still plan on having the two student talks on Routing. In addition, I will try to find another time that will be convenient to all to complete my lecture on Network Broadcast.

• Mar. 2, 2007
  The final version of Lecture Notes 8 part B is available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Mar. 1, 2007
  The errata regarding the paper "Bar-Yehuda, R., Goldreich, O., and Itai, A., On the Time-Complexity of Broadcast in Multi-Hop Radio Networks: An Exponential Gap Between Determinism and Randomization. Journal of Computer and system Sciences, Vol. 45, 1992." under Network Broadcast topic is available, please check here.

• Mar. 1, 2007
  I just saw on the ISU website that classes have been canceled starting at 1 pm today. I will go ahead and cancel 611 too. Get home safely!

• Feb. 27, 2007
  The preliminary version of Lecture Notes 8 part B is available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Feb. 27, 2007
  Assignment 6 has been posted. You are asked to write a short summary about the three papers on Network Broadcast that we will be covering this week.

• Feb. 26, 2007
  The reading materials for Middleware Services , Virtual Nodes and Applications: Implementing Atomic Memory are available now. Please check the Reading List. Also, go through the schedule of topics to decide what you would like to do for your next presentations.

• Feb. 23, 2007
  The final version of Lecture Notes 5 part A, Lecture Notes 9 and preliminary version of Lecture Notes 8 part A, Lecture Notes 10 part B are available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Feb. 22, 2007
  The reading materials for Global Infrastructure is available now. Please check the Reading List.

• Feb. 21, 2007
  The reading materials for Location-Based Services and Location-Based Routing are available now. Please check the Reading List.

• Feb. 21, 2007
  The final version of Lecture Notes 5 part c and Lecture Notes 7 part b are available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Feb. 16, 2007
  The final version of Lecture Notes 3 is available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Feb. 14, 2007
  The latex template file are updated. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Feb. 14, 2007
  The preliminary version of Lecture Notes 3 and Lecture Notes 5 part A, C are available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.

• Feb. 13, 2007
  Nalin Subramanian and Bibudh Lahiri will be presenting the papers on Topology Control in class on Thursday, February 15. Please go over the papers before class.

• Feb. 13, 2007
  The assignment 4 and 5 are available now. The due date for assignment 4 is Feb. 22, for assignment 5 is Feb. 27. Please check the Assignments.

• Feb. 13, 2007
  The final version of Lecture Notes 5 part b is available now. Please check the Lecture Notes.