COE-543 Mobile and Wireless Networks

Semester 072

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Course Syllabus:

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Exam Dates:

Exam dates are:

• Major 1:  April 5th, 2008 - To be discussed in class.                      
• 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

• What is 4G systems?

• Introduction to WiMAX standards - Talk from 1st workshop on WiMAX..

• The Nortel Technical Journal - July 2005 Issue (the articles therein).

      More references supporting the textbook:

• 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
• B. Sklar, “Rayleigh fading channels in mobile digital communication systems .I. Characterization,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 35, Issue 7, pp. 90-100, 1997.
• B. Sklar, “Rayleigh fading channels in mobile digital communication systems .II. Mitigation,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 35, Issue 7, pp. 102-109, 1997.
• 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) Physical Layer Issues for Wireless Networks - Summary of Chapter three in Pahlavan's book.

4) 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
• W. Lee, "Smaller Cells for Greater Performance," IEEE Communications Magazine, Nov 1991, pp.:19-23.

5) 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.

6) 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

7) 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

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 - Notes/Slides from Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by Kurose and Ross (3rd Edition).

Course Project:

Please pick the projects statement and milestones from here.

References:

 Follow the hyperlinks found the in project statement.

Handouts:

Assignments:

•  Assignment #1 - due date March 23rd, 2008 - class time. Solution Key.
• Assignment #2 - due date May 18th, 2008 - class time. Solution Key.

Quizes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Tuesday March 4th, 2008.
• Quiz02: Tuesday March 11th, 2008.
• Midterm: Saturday April 5th, 2008.
• Quiz03: Tuesday April 22nd, 2008.
• Quiz04: Tuesday May 27th, 2008.

Check Your Status:

• You can check your marks here.
• Projects Evaluation - here.

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