EE8121 Wireless Networks

Calendar Description

This course is a moderately advanced level course on wireless networks. In particular, this course focuses on four major areas of wireless networks: (1) cellular and multi-hop networks, (2) medium access control including advanced design concepts for smart beamforming antennas and cognitive networks, (3) routing for ad hoc networks, sensor networks and power efficiency, (4) TCP design for wireless and mobility, and (5) Caching in 5G networks and other applications. This course requires background in computer networks.1 Credit.

Topics

• Introduction
• Wireless Transmission
• Cellular Networks (Frequency Reuse, Mobility Management and Handover, GSM+GPRS, UMTS, and LTE)
• Multi-hop Networks
• Medium Access Control (contention-based, sechduling and polling macs, power efficient mac, mac for sensor networks, directional mac)
• Routing (routing for manet, sensor networks, interference-aware)
• Transport
• Advanced Topics (5G, caching in 5G, 5G applications -- IoT, VANET)

Recommended Text

• J. Schiller, Mobile Communications, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003. 
• Reading list of papers posted in D2L 
• Lecture notes

Reference Texts

• T. Rappaport, Wireless Communications – Principles and Practice, Second Edition, Prentice Hall. 
• William Stallings, Wireless Communications and Networks, Prentice Hall. 
• K. Pahlavan and P. Krishnamurthy, Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach, Prentice Hall. 
• S. Haykin and M. Moher, Modern Wireless Communications, Prentice Hall, 2005.Reading List of paper 

• Assignments  10%
• Paper reviews  10%
• Project  35%
• Quizzes  20%
• Final exam  25%