COE-543 Mobile and Wireless Networks

Semester 042

Course Syllabus:

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Exam Dates:

Exam dates are:

• Major 1:                        
• Final exam is scheduled by registrar

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. - Traffic Engineering / Erlang C and B models

• 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
• 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)

11) Quality of Service (QoS) for mobile networks

Course Project:

You are required to reproduce the simulation results presented in the following paper:

Changle Li; Jiandong Li; Xuelian Cai;"Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to Support Voice Services, "Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2004. AINA 2004. 18th International Conference on , Volume: 2 , 2004.

and possibly extend the study by considering other types of traffic and/or enhancements to the access mechanism. An introductory study into PCF characterization can be found in:

Xiyan Ma; Yi Wu; Zhisheng Niu; Saito, T.; "Performance analysis of the packetized voice transmission with PCF in an IEEE 802.11 infrastructure wireless LAN," 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, 2003. APCC 2003. Volume: 2 , 21-24 Sept. 2003, Pages:571 - 575 Vol.2
 

References:

IEEE802.11 standard (size ~ 6 MB)- Please pay special attention to chapter 9 - MAC sublayer functional description. This contains specification for both DCF and PCF functions.

Presentation by Al-Mutairi and Mesmar - from previous COE 541 classes.

Papers using opnet WLAN models:

- Jiaqing Song and Ljiljana Trajkovic, "Enhancements and Performance Evaluation of Wireless Local Area Networks,"

 - Rusty O. Baldwin, Nathaniel J. Davis IV, Scott F. Midkiff, "Implementation of an IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Model using OPNET™,"
 

- WLAN opnet model guide

- Presentations and papers from opnetwork 2003: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8

Project Deadlines and Milestones

• TBD.

Handouts:

Assignments:

•  Assignment #1 - due date Feb 26th, 2005 - class time.

Quizes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Monday Feb 28th, 2005.

Check Your Status:

Announcements:

Links and Sites of Interest:

Complementary Code Keying (CCK) Modulation:

1. 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
2. 802.11b CCK Modulation

Papers and references regarding mobile data services:

1. 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.
2. 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/)
3. M. Khan, J. Kilpatrick, "MOBITEX and Mobile Data Standards," IEEE Communications Magazine, (March 1995), pp. 96-101.
4. A.K. Salkintzis, C. Chamzas, "Mobile Packet Data Technology: An Insight into MOBITEX Archtecture," IEEE Personal Communications, 1997, pp. 10-18.
5. Slotted Aloha (Jave applet) simulation
6. Wireless/Mobile example projects with source code!!

    

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