COE-543 Mobile and Wireless Networks

Semester 111

• Office hours SM 11:00-13:00 or by appointment.
• See announcements for quiz1 and assignment1 below.

Course Syllabus:

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Exam Dates:

Exam dates are:

• Major 1:   Thursday Nov 17th, 2011 - 1:00-3:00 pm (Rm 22-119).                      
• Final exam is scheduled by registrar - 7:00 PM 07-Jan-12 Saturday

Lecture Notes

Students are responsible for the material discussed in class and that in the references (papers/handouts).

My notes are based on the references and on Pahlavan's textbook. 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

• Wireless Tutorial by Brough Turner of NMS Communications

• What is 4G systems?

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 recommended 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.
• Fractional Frequency Reuse for IEEE802.16m and LTE - and the cited paper therein by Xiang and others.
• N. Himayat, et al., "Interference Management for 4G Cellular Standards," IEEE Communications Magazine, August 2010, pp. 86-92.

5) Multiple Access Schemes: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, and Contention-based schemes

• Chapter 4 and Chapter 6 from “Fundamentals of WiMAX - Understanding Broadband Wireless Networking,” by Jeffrey G. Andrews, Arunabha Ghosh, and Rias Muhamed, Printice Hall, 2007. Instructor slides on OFDM and OFDMA.
• 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) Wireless Local Area Networks - IEEE802.11

8) 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.

9) 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)

10) 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:

• Check the statements for the projects document.
• Project statements provided by Dr. Sheltami.

Assignments:

• Reading assignment - Chapter 1 of Pahlavan's textbook. 
• Assignment #1 - Sat Sept 24th, 2011 - Due Oct 8th, 2011 - class time. Solution key.
• Assignment #2 - Tues Oct 25th, 2011 - Due Mon Nov 14th, 2011 - class time. Solution key.
• Assignment #3 - Dec 6th, 2011 - Due Dec 26th, 2011 - class time. Solution key.

Quizes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Wed Sept 21st, 2011 - Due Sat Oct 1st, 2011 - class time. Solution key.
• Quiz02: Tues Oct 25th, 2011 - Due Mon Oct 31st, 2011 - class time - Solution key.
• Midterm: Thurs Nov 17th, 2011 - Solution key.
• Quiz03: Dec 6th, 2011 - Due Sat Dec 10th, 2011 - class time - Solution key.

Check Your Status:

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

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