COE-543 Mobile and Wireless
Networks
Final Exam Marks and GRADES are now
included in the "Check Your Status"
Section below
Final Exam: Monday
June 9th @ 7:00-10:00 PM - place: 24-114
Course Syllabus:
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for course syllabus.
COE-543 Projects:
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obtain the schedule, evaluation form, and the presentation material
Announcement:
- Exam date has been
decided - see below
- Assignment 3 is now
posted below
- Check your quiz and
homework marks - Warning grades as well
- At the request of some
students - here is a sample matlab
simulation code for cdma2000 (1xRTT) that you can use a demo. The code is
copy right protected and is provided as a demo only. Expand the zipfile in a
local directory and call the routine "input2" from the matlab prompt to
execute the demo code. (note the code is available only on the intranet)
- You can check your
quiz marks, homework marks, and exam marks
here.
For grades click here.
- Matlab
code to aid for some simulation
projects - Produced by the authors of "Wireless Communications and
Networking", Jon W. Mark, University of Waterloo and Weihua Zhuang, University
of Waterloo.
Term Projects:
The topics and policy is explained the following
power-point package. Please try to finalize
the team/project selection by Tuesday March 11th, 2003 (Note the date change). Note that the term project
now carries 25%. The final project assignment is shown in this
excel sheet
Notes for Term Project:
The material presented as a term project should be obtained/authored/analyzed
this term (Feb-June 03) and for this course COE543
You can not use this term project for other courses you are taking this
semester, especially for COE560 or visa versa.
Exam Dates:
Exam dates are:
- Major 1: Sunday April 27th, 2003 - 5:00 - 6:30 pm - Rm 22-119
- Final exam is scheduled tentatively: June 9th, 2003:
7:00 - 9:00 pm (24-114).
Lecture Notes
Students are responsible for the material in the references and that in the
papers/handouts, if any. The class notes and slides are just "notes"; they may
not cover all required material. The instructor will point out the required
chapters in the reference books and papers.
As the semester progresses, I will be depositing electronic copies of
my class notes as they become
available on this page. My notes are based on the references. Please be advised
that online notes are subject to change as courses develops.
1) Introduction to Mobile and Wireless
Networks: An overview of 1G, 2G, mobile data services, and WLANs. In
addition to an introduction into 3G and beyond 3G networks. A must read
references are:
- Kaveh Pahlavan, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Principles of Wireless Networks –
A unified Approach, Prentice Hall, 2002 –Chapter 1
- Donald Cox, “Wireless
Personal Communications: What Is It?,” IEEE Personal Communications
Magazine, April 1995, pp. 20-35
- T. Ojanpera, R. Prasad, “An
Overview of Third-Generation Wireless Personal Communications: A European
Perspective,” IEEE Personal Communications, December 1998, pp. 56-65
- M. Zeng, A. Annamalai, Vijay K. Bhargava, “Harmonization
of Global Third-Generation Mobile Systems,” IEEE Communication Magazine,
December 2000, pp. 95-104
- Robert Berezdivin, Robert Breinig, and Randy Topp, Raytheon, “Next-Generation
Wireless Communications Concepts and Technologies,” IEEE Communications
Magazine, March 2002, pp. 108-116
- Q. Bi, G. I. Zysman, and H. Menkes, “Wireless
Mobile Communications at the Start of the 21st Century,” IEEE Commun. Mag.,
Jan. 2001, pp. 110–16
2) RF Propagation - The main sources
for this subject are:
- Chapter 2: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy
- Chapter 4: “Wireless sand Personal Communications Systems,” Vijay Garg and
Joseph Wilkes
- Chapters 3 and 4 “Probability and Random Processes for Electrical
Engineering,” Alberto Leon-Garcia Addison Wesley, 1989 (TK153.L425 1989)
- This is a must reading/understanding for this course.
3) The Cellular Concept: cellular
network fundamentals - capacity expansion techniques.
- Chapter 5: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy
- Chapter 5: “Wireless sand Personal Communications Systems,” Vijay Garg and
Joseph Wilkes
4) Multiple Access Schemes: FDMA,
TDMA, CDMA, and Contention-based schemes
- Chapter 4: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy
- Chapter 3: “Wireless sand Personal Communications Systems,” Vijay Garg and
Joseph Wilkes
- Chapter 9: "Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice," T.S.
Rappaport, 2nd Edition.
5) Example of a TDMA network - GSM
- Chapter 7: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy
- Chapter 11 “Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice,” T.S.
Rappaport
6) Example of a CDMA network - IS-95 and
cdma2000
- Chapter 8: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy
- Chapter 11 “Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice,” T.S.
Rappaport
- "Applications of CDMA In Wireless / Personal Communications," V.K. Garg,
K.Smolik, and J. Wilkes
7) Review material for midterm exam
8) Wireless Local Area Networks - IEEE802.11
9) Mobile IP:
- Charles E. Perkins, “Mobile
IP,” IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1997, pp. 84-99.
- Notes for Prof. İbrahim Körpeoğlu of
Bilkent University - Bilkent / ANKARA
- Notes for Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen
Schiller,
http://www.jochenschiller.de/ MC SS02 – Chapter 8 material
- Charles E.
Perkins, “Mobile IP – Design Principles and Practices,” Addison-Wesley, 1997
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Slides that I compiled using the second and third references listed above.
10) Privacy and Security for Wireless Networks -
Notes
- Section 6.4: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy
- J. Wilkes, “Privacy and
Authentication Needs for PCS,” IEEE Personal Communications, August 1995,
pp. 11-15
-
J. Williams, “The
IEEE802.11b Security Problem, Part 1,” IT Professional, November-December
2001, pp. 91-95
- Chapter 10: "Wireless and Personal Communications Systems," V.K. Garg,
K.Smolik, and J. Wilkes
-
http://www.sans.org/rr/wireless/80211.php (very interesting -
comprehensive and excellent explanation)
Handouts:
Assignments:
Assignment 1: Tuesday Feb 25, 2003 - Due date
Tuesday March 11, 2003
Summarize, using your own words and in not more than one page
for each, the following two papers:
- G. H. Forman, J. Zahorjan, "The
Challenges of Mobile Computing," IEEE Computer, V 27, N 4, (April 1994),
pp. 38-47
- D.J. Goodman, “The
Wireless Internet: Promises and Challenges”, Computer, Vol. 33, No. 7,
pp.36-41, July 2000.
Assignment 2a: Sunday March 16th, 2003 - Due date Sunday March
23rd, 2003 - solution
Chapter 2: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy - Problems: 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, and 2.11
Hints (based on the questions I receive):
- For 2.5 - the breakpoint distance formula given in slides gives the
distance in kilometers.
Assignment 2b: Reading Chapter 3 from Pahlavan's book
-"Physical Layer Alternatives for Wireless Networks," - An introductory
tutorials for digital communication is found at:
http://www.educatorscorner.com/tools/lectures/appnotes/discipline/pdf/5965-7160E.pdf
and
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~radionet/2001_school/lectures/fitton/digital_mod.pdf
(I tested this second link on my machine - it works fine!!)
There is no deliverable for Assignment 2b - However there is a quiz on the
subject - refer to Quizes and Major Exams section.
Assignment 3: Tuesday April 1st, 2003 - Due date
Tuesday April 8th, 2003 -
solution
Chapter 2: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy - Problems: 5.2, 5.4, and 5.5
Hints (based on the questions I receive):
- For problem 5.5 part c, you will need the CDMA capacity equation in
Chapter 4 of Pahlavan's book
Assignment 4: Sunday May 4th, 2003 - Due date
Sunday 25th, 2003
Chapter 2: “Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach,” Kaveh
Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy
- Problems: 7.1, 7.2, 8.5, 11.4 -
solution
Quizes and Major Exams:
- : Sunday
March 9th, 2003 (Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Networks)
- Quiz2: Tuesday March 18th, 2003
(RF Propagation Issues)
- Quiz3: Sunday March 30th, 2003
(Digital Modulation/Communication)
- Quiz4: Tuesday April 16th, 2003 (Chapter 4 - Access Methods)
- Midterm: Sunday April 27th,
2003 - See partial review material
- Quiz5: Sunday April 11th, 2003
(Mobile IP)
- Final Exam: Monday June 9th, 2003: 7:00 - 9:00 pm (24-114).
Check Your Status:
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Check your status
(Warning grades) here.
- To check all your quizzes, homework marks, and exam marks click
here. Please report any
discrepancy.
- To check your grade click
here.
Note: Compare your answers
with the key solution posted above. The exam is made exceptional simple; in
addition I have been
exceptionally generous in marking it - If you got a mark below 40 (i.e. less
than 50%), I think you should reconsider your situation and please come to talk
to me.
Links and Sites of Interest:
Complementary Code Keying (CCK) Modulation:
- Carl Andren and Mark Webster, "CCK
Modulation Delivers 11Mbps for High Rate IEEE 802.11 Extension," Wireless
Symposium/Portable By Design Conference - Spring 1999, and
- 802.11b CCK
Modulation
Papers and references regarding mobile data services:
- R.R. Quick and K. Balachandran, “Overview of the Cellular Digital Packet
Data (CDPD) System,” Proceedings of the PIMRC’93, Yokohama, Janapan (1993),
pp. 338-343.
- A. DeSimone, S. Nanda, "Wireless Data: Systems, Standards, Services," ACM
Wireless Networks, V. 1, N. 3, (October 1995), pp. 241-253. (see
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~adj/cs294-1.s98/wireless_data/)
- M. Khan, J. Kilpatrick, "MOBITEX
and Mobile Data Standards," IEEE Communications Magazine, (March 1995),
pp. 96-101.
- A.K. Salkintzis, C. Chamzas, "Mobile
Packet Data Technology: An Insight into MOBITEX Archtecture," IEEE
Personal Communications, 1997, pp. 10-18.
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