Lectures and Papers

The class schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Lec #1: Introduction and Course Overview

Mon, Sep 12, 2022

• Required: S. Keshav, How to Read a Paper, SIGCOMM CCR 2007.

• Lecture slides [PDF]

Lec #2: Fundamentals of Sensing & Localization

Mon, Sep 19, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Intro to Localization, ArrayTrack

• Optional: Cricket, RADAR, GPS, SpotFi, Chronos

Lec #3: Seeing Through Walls, Gesture Recognition, & Vital Sign Monitring

Mon, Sep 26, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: WiTrack, Contactless Vital Sign Sensing

• Optional: RFCapture, EQ-Radio, WiStress, WiVi, RF-Pose, RF-Pose3D, Parkinsos, WiSee, SleepStaging

Lec #4: Fundamentals of Wireless Communications

Mon, Oct 3, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: The Wireless Channel, Underwater-to-Air Communications

• Optional: 802.11n+; ZigZag Decoding; Practical, Real-time, Full Duplex Wireless

Mon, Oct 10, 2022: No Class (Indigenous Peoples’ Day)

Lec #5: Energy Harvesting & Backscatter

Mon, Oct 17, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: WISP, RFind

• Optional: Ambient backscatter, Wi-Fi Backscatter, Battery-Free Game Boy

Lec #6: Hacking Sensors

Mon, Oct 24, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Hacking Inertial Sensors, Inaudible Commands

• Optional: They can hear your heartbeats, Light Commands, Inaudible Voice Commands

Lec #7: Ocean IoT

Mon, Oct 31, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Underwater Backscatter, Battery-Free Underwater Camera

Lec #8: Millimeter Waves

Mon, Nov 7, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Automotive Radar, Millimetro

• Optional: 5G backscatter, HawkEye, Null Steering, Listeer, Single-shot link discovery for terahertz wireless networks

Lec #9: Low-Power Wide-Area Networks

Mon, Nov 14, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Choir, NetScatter

Lec #10: Smart Surfaces & Metamaterials

Mon, Nov 21, 2022

• Lecture slides [PDF]

• Required: Reconfigurable Surfaces, Metamaterials for Satellites

• Optional: Large Inexpensive Arrays, Rfocus, Metasurface IoT, Metamaterial Cloak

Lec #11: Sensor Fusion with Machine Learning: Robotics, AR, Mobile

Mon, Nov 28, 2022

• Required: RF-Grasp, RFusion

• Optional: FuseBot, X-Ray, RF-Annotate

Lec #12: In-Body IoT

Mon, Dec 5, 2022

• Required: ReMix, umedic

Lec #13: Project Presentations & Demos

Mon, Dec 12, 2022