Department of Computer Science
Wireless and Mobile Communication Networks
CS 6/75203
Fall 2008
Syllabus

Lecture Notes
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Lecture Title Date Slides Notes References/Reading List
1. Course Overview and Organization Aug. 25 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw  
2. Evolution of Wireless Networks Aug. 25, 27, Sep 1 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   Agrawal Ch 1, Schwartz Ch 2
3. Wireless Transmission and Propagation Phenomena Sep 8, 10, 17 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   Agrawal Ch 3
4. Cellular Concepts Sep 17, 22 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   See citations
5. Channel Coding and Modulation Sep 17, 22 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   See citations
6. Error Correction Oct 6,8 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   See citations
7A. Medium Access Control, Part A: A Taxonomy Oct 13, 15 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   See citations
7B. Medium Access Control, Part B: 802.11 Oct 15, 20, 22 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   See citations
7C. Medium Access Control, Part C: Wireless Oct 27, 29 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   See citations
8. Channel Allocation Nov 3,5,10,12 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   See citations
9. Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Wireless Mesh Networks Nov 12, 19 1/1 2/1 4/1 bw   See citations
Appendix A. Review of Probability and Statistics   1/1 2/1 4/1 bw See citations

Homework/Exams
Homework 1 Sep. 15 2008 Sol
Homework 2 Oct. 6 2008 Sol
Midterm Oct. 22 2008 Sol
Homework 3 Nov 12, 2008 Sol
Final December 12 2008 Sol

Research Project Presentation Schedule
Date Time Student Title Slides Technical Report
12/1 12:30-12:50 - - - -
12/1 12:55-2:20 Najla Alam Testing and Debugging Wireless Sensor Networks pdf pdf
12/1 1:25-1:45 Rizwan Malik Issues in Providing QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks pdf pdf
12/3 12:30-12:50 Zakia Tamimi Introduction to WiMax ppt pdf
12/3 12:55-2:20 Venkata Marella Channel Assignment Scheme for Cellular Systems .pdf .doc
12/3 12:25-2:45 Moinul Zaber Issues On the interactions between physical layer and upper layers in wireless network .ppt .pdf


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Reference articles:

  1. David Benson and Michael Gold, Survey of Selected 802.xx Wireless Standards.
  2. Ajay Chandra, V. Gummalla, and John O. Limb. Wireless medium access control protocols. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Second Quarter:2–15, 2000.
  3. Raja Jurdak, Cristina Videira Lopes, and Pierre Baldi. A survey, classification and comparative analysis of medium access control protocols for ad hoc networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 6(1):2–16, 2004.
  4. Nikolaos A. Pantaziz and Dimitrios D. Vergados. A survey on power control issues in wireless sensor networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 9(4):86–107, 2007.
  5. Sahibzada Ali Mahmud, Shahbaz Khan, Hamed Al-Raweshidy, and Kumarendra Sivarajah. Meshed high data rate personal area networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 10(1):58–69, 2008.
  6. V. Loscrı. MAC protocols over wireless mesh networks: problems and perspective. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 68(3):387–397, 2008.
  7. Michael J. Neely and Rahul Urgaonkar. Cross-layer adaptive control for wireless mesh networks. Ad Hoc Networks, 5(6):719–743, 2007.
  8. Lajos Hanzo II and Rahim Tafazolli. A survey of QoS routing solutions for mobile ad hoc networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 9(2):50–70, April 2007.
  9. WiMesh-05. First IEEE Workshop on wireless mesh networks. Wireless Mesh Networks, 2005.
  10. Ian F. Akyildiz, XudongWang, an dWeilin Wang. Wireless mesh networks: a survey. Computer Networks, 47(4):445– 487, 2005.
  11. YongWang, Garhan Attebury, and Byrav Ramamurthy. A survey of security issues in wireless sensor networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 8(2):2–23, April 2006.
  12. Todd R. Andel and Alec Yasinsac. Surveying security analysis techniques in MANET routing protocols. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 9(4):70–84, 2007.
  13. Jos´e R. Gallardo, Pa´ulMedina, and Weihua Zhuang. QoS mechanisms for the MAC protocol of IEEE 802.11WLANs. Wireless Networks, 13(3):335–349, 2007.
  14. Yan Zhang, Jijun Luo, Honglin Hu, Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards CRC Press, 2006.
  15. Gilbert Held, Wireless Mesh Networks CRC Press, 2005.
Some Research Topics and References (pdf)
H. Peyravi, Spring 2008
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