Mobile and Wireless Networks

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Threads / ECE Electives

Course Coordinator: Karthikeyan Sundaresan

Prerequisites: ECE 3600 [min D, with concurrency]

Catalog Description

Basics of mobile and wireless networking. Architectures and communication protocols for wireless sensor networks, wireless local area networks, ad-hoc networks, cellular systems, WiMAX, and Wireless Mesh Networks.

Textbook(s)

Course Outcomes

Analyze the fundamentals of wireless networking and communications  

Design medium access control protocols for Wireless Local Area Networks 

Design and analyze routing algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. 

Perform the operations of basics of Bluetooth architectures and protocol functionalities 

Demonstrate many use cases for the architectural framework of Internet of Things

Analyze the performance the architectural evolution of cellular systems.

Write algorithms for the mobility management (location registration, paging, handovers) algorithms in all generations of cellular systems 

Analyze the different access schemes such as TDMA, CDMA, OFDMA, for different generations of cellular systems. 

Design future wireless communication systems

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

N/A

Topic List

  1. Introduction
  2. Basics of Wireless Communications (Revisited)
  3. Wireless Local Area Networks (WiFi)
  4. Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)
  5. Bluetooth
  6. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
  7. Internet of Things
  8. Fundamentals of Personal Communication (Cellular) Systems
  9. 2G Cellular Systems: GSM, IS-54, IS-95
  10. 3G (IMT 2000) Cellular Systems
  11. 4G (LTE and LTE-A) Systems
  12. 5G Systems
  13. 6G Wireless Systems