Samir Das

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.

• 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

• Mobile Communications, Jochen Schiller, Addison Wesley, 2000
• Principles of Wireless Networks, Pahlavan and Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, 2002

• 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)

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

CSE370