Covers principles
of wireless communications and describes the
current and emerging technologies and services for mobile networking.
Coverage includes mobile network applications, network security
strategies, 802.11 (WiFi), 802.16 (WiMax), Bluetooth, cellular system
operation, examination of GSM and CDMA systems, 3G cellular
systems, mobile Internet, and progress toward
4G cellular and mobile broadband. Includes
characteristics, capabilities, and performance models of
the technologies, and examples of services and applications.
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- Introduction - History
of wireless communications. Overview of current and
emerging applications. Challenges of wireless.
- Data, Signals, and
Information
Transmission - Binary and m-ary data.
Analog and digital
signals, frequency and wavelength, spectrum and
bandwidth, data
rates, impairments. Encoding information. Capacity formulas: Nyquist
and Shannon.
- Wireless Propagation, Antennas,
and Modulation - Electromagnetic waves.
Basics of antennas. Modes of wireless
propagation and multipath. Modulation and carriers.
- Multiple-Access Strategies -
Strategies for creating multiple channels: frequency (FDMA), time
(TDMA) and code (CDMA). Statistical TDMA and packet switching.
- Shared-Channel Access Strategies -
shared-channel medium access control (MAC) strategies: Aloha,
CSMA, CSMA/CD and CSMA/CA.
- 802.11 (WiFi) - Architecture
and strategies for 802.11
(WiFi). Physical layer versions 802.11a, b, g and 802.11n. MAC
strategies. Operation and management of WiFi networks.
- Bluetooth and WiMax -
Architecture, contrasting the physical and MAC layers with WiFi.
- Wireless Network Security -
principles of public and private key encryption, stream ciphers,
authentication, signature and hashing. Security in WiFi, Bluetooth, and
WiMax. Security applications including Kerberos, Radius, Secure Socket
Layer (SSL), IPsec, and virtual private networking (VPN).
- Digital
Voice and Multimedia - PCM and principles of digital
coding. Coder/decoders (codecs) for digital voice and video.
- Introduction
to Cellular Systems - frequency reuse and cell design.
Architecture and operation of the GSM and CDMA systems.
- 3G
Cellular Systems and Data Services - from 2G to 3G
cellular, UMTS and CDMA2000. HSPA for high-speed packet data services.
- Mobile Internet - mobile IP, TCP
issues, HTTP and mobile Web.
- Emerging
4G Cellular Services - Goals for 4G. Mobile 802.16 and LTE.
- Other
Wireless Services - For example, GPS, RFID and cordless
phone.
- Report -
Students are expected to prepare
and present a paper describing an application or technology for
wireless or mobile systems.
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Jochen Schiller, Mobile
Communications,
2nd Edition, Addison Wesley; 2003. ISBN-10:
0321123816
Class notes, including materials from H. Blum, Introduction
to Data Communications and Networking,
2010.
Reference:
Martin Sauter, From GSM to LTE: An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broadband, Wiley;
2011. ISBN: 978-0470667118
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