| Course |
CSE370 |
| Title |
Wireless and Mobile Networking |
| Credits |
3 |
| Course Coordinator |
Samir Das
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| 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.
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| 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
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| Textbook |
- Mobile Communications, Jochen Schiller, Addison Wesley, 2000
- Principles of Wireless Networks, Pahlavan and Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, 2002
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| 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)
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| Laboratory Projects |
4 week long simulation-based projects evaluating mobile/wireless networking protocols.
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| Course Webpage |
CSE370
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