COE-543 Mobile and Wireless Networks

Semester 092

• Final Exam June 10th, 2010 - 7:00 pm Rm 24-106.
• Office hours: SM 12:15-13:15, 16:00-17:00, or by appointment.

Course Syllabus:

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Exam Dates:

Exam dates are:

• Major 1:   To be discussed in class.                      
• Final exam is scheduled by registrar - June 10th - 7:00 pm Rm 24-106.

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?

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

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

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.

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) 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:

• Project 1: CDMA Systems and Cell Site Downlink Power Modeling
  • Project Task 1: Due Sat March 20th, 2010.
  • Project Task 2: Due Sat March 27th, 2010.
  • Project Task 3: Due April 26th, 2010.
    • Resources (1): A. Mahmoud, "Downlink Traffic Power Characterization for Multi-Rate Wireless CDMA Data Networks," VTC Fall 2007.
    • Resources (2): A. Mahmoud, "Cell Site Power Characterization for Multi-rate Wireless CDMA Data Networks Using Lognormal Approximation," Journal of Communications, Vol. 3, No. 5, Oct 2008.
    • The graphs required as part of Task 3 exist in the second extended paper!

Assignments:

•  Assignment #1 - Due date March 27th, 2010 - class time. solution key.
• Assignment #2 - April 5th, 2010 - Due April 26th, 2010 - class time. solution key.

Quizes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Mon March 8th, 2010 - Due Wed Mar 10th, 2010 (noon time) - solution.
• Quiz02: Sun March 21st, 2010 - Due Sat Mar 27th, 2010 (class time) - solution.
• Quiz03: Tuesday April 6th, 2010 - Due Mon April 12th, 2010 (class time) - solution. Also the solution by Mohammad Khalaf.
• Quiz04:
• Major: Wed May 12th, 2010 - Solution key. Exam Marks (scaled).

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

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