CSE370

Course CSE370
Title Wireless and Mobile Networking
Credits 3
Course Coordinator Samir Das
Description

The fundamentals of wireless communication. Link, network and transcript layer protocols for wireless and mobile networking. Cellular networks. Wireless LANs. Wireless multihop networks. Mobile applications.
Prerequisite CSE 310 or 346; CSE major
Course Outcomes
  • An understanding of why mobility makes network protocol design complex
  • An understanding of the characteristics of wireless channels
  • Working knowledge of existing related technologies
  • An ability to design and evaluate network protocols
Textbook
  • Mobile Communications, Jochen Schiller, Addison Wesley, 2000
  • Principles of Wireless Networks, Pahlavan and Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, 2002
Major Topics Covered in Course
  • Motivation/need for mobile network access. Fundamental technical issues. (1 week)
  • Radio propagation modeling and physical layer issues (2 weeks)
  • Multiple access protocols - TDMA, FDMA, CDMA. (1 week)
  • Random access protocols - Aloha and CSMA (2 weeks)
  • Wireless LANs (2 weeks)
  • Routing layer protocols. IP mobility. Ad hoc network routing. (2 weeks)
  • TCP on wireless networks (1 week)
  • Cellular networks fundamentals. Channel assignment. (2 weeks)
  • Building mobile applications. Disconnected operations (1 week)
Laboratory

4 week long simulation-based projects evaluating mobile/wireless networking protocols.
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