CIS5930-0011: Selected Topics in Computer Science (Spring 2021)
Internet of Things

Instructor: Xiaonan Zhang

Syllabus | Schedule | Paper List


Course Schedule

Week Date Topic Notes
Week 1 1/6 Introduction to IoT: IoT definition, Use-cases, and Business Opportunities
 
  1/8  
Week 2 1/11 IoT Architecture:  Objects Layer, Object Abstraction Layer, Service Management Layer, Application Layer,  Business Layer  
  1/13  
  1/15  
Week 3 1/18 No Class  
  1/20 IoT Elements: Identification, Sensing, Communication, Computation, Services, Semantics  
  1/22 Survey 1 due: IoT applications
Week 4 1/25  
  1/27  
  1/29

Paper Presentation
Sensing Finger Input Using an RFID Transmission Line
T2Pair: Secure and Usable Pairing for Heterogeneous IoT Devices

 
Week 5 2/1 IoT Common Standards  
  2/3  
  2/5

Paper Presentation
RF-Net: A Unified Meta-Learning Framework for RF-enabled One-Shot Human Activity Recognition
Harnessing the Ambient Radio Frequency Noise for Wearable Device Pairing

Project 1 due
Week 6 2/8 IoT Common Standards (Continue)  
  2/10  
  2/12

Paper Presentation
Deaf-Aid: Mobile IoT Communication Exploiting Stealthy Speaker-to-Gyroscope Channel
Patronus: Preventing Unauthorized Speech Recordings with Support for Selective Un-scrambline

 
Week 7 2/15 IoT Common Standards  (Continue)  
  2/17  
  2/19

Paper Presentation
RTSense: Passive RFID based Temperature Sensing. SpiroSonic: Monitoring Human Lung Function via Acoustic Sensing on Commodity Smartphones 

 
Week 8 2/22 IoT Common Standards  (Continue)  
  2/24  
  2/26 Mid-term Exam  
Week 9 3/1 IoT Common Standards  (Continue)  
  3/3  
  3/5

Paper Presentation
Ember: Energy Management of Batteryless Event Detection Sensors with Deep Reinforcement Learning
AcuTe: Acoustic Thermometer Empowered by a Single Smartphone

 
Week 10 3/8 IoT Common Standards: Bluetooth  
  3/10  
  3/12

Paper Presentation
PDLens: Smartphone Knows Drug Efectiveness among Parkinson’s via Daily-Life Activity Fusion
Aloba: Rethinking ON-OFF Keying Modulation for Ambient LoRa Backscatter

Survey 2 due: Machine learning/Deep learning in IoT
Week 11 3/15 IoT Common Standards: WiFi  
  3/17  
  3/19

Paper Presentation
Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring Using Po-larized Light
“Alexa, Stop Spying on Me!”: Speech Priva-cy Protection Against Voice Assistants

 
Week 12 3/22 IoT Common Standards: 6LoWPAN and RPL, IEEE 802.11ah, LoRaWAN, and Sig-fox  
  3/24  
  3/26

Quiz for IoT Common Standards

Paper Presentation
Resilient Image Compression for AIoT Cameras
FM-Track: Pushing the Limits of Contactless Multi target Tracking using Acoustic Signals

Project 2 due
Week 13 3/29 Support to the IoT: Big Data Analytics, Cloud computing, and Fog computing  
  3/31  
  4/2

Paper Presentation
Wi-Fi See It All: Generative Adversarial Network-augmented Versatile Wi-Fi Imaging
DroneScale: Drone Load Estimation Via Re-mote Passive RF Sensing

Survey 3 due: IoT Device Security
Week 14 4/5 Security and Privacy in IoT: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Privacy  
  4/7  
  4/9

Paper Presentation
RFWash: A Weakly Supervised Tracking of Hand Hygiene Technique
ThermoWave: A New Paradigm of Wireless Passive Temperature Monitoring via mmWave Sensing

Project 3 due
Week 15 4/12 Security and Privacy in IoT (Continue)  
  4/14

Paper Presentation
ePerceptive—Energy Reactive Embedded Intelligence for Batteryless Sensors
BatComm: Enabling Inaudible Acoustic Communication with High throughput for Mobile Devices

 
  4/16

Paper Presentation
LiTag: Localization and Posture Estimation with Passive Visible Light Tags
UWHear: Through-wall Extraction and Separation of Audio Vibrations Using Wireless Signal

 
Final Exam 4/22 10:00AM – 12:00PM