ECEN 621-600: Mobile Wireless Networking, Fall 2010

A Course Targeting at State-of-The-Art Knowledge in Advanced Wireless

Communications and Networking Design & Analysis Techniques

INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Xi Zhang, 331 WERC

E-mails: xizhang@ece.tamu.edu
CLASS Time/Room: Monday & Wednesday: 04:10 PM-05:25PM ZACH 223A

COURSE WEB SITE:

http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~xizhang/ECEN621/start.php
Login User Name: ecen621
Login Password: networking_wireless

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This graduate course provides an in-depth study of principles, architectures, protocols, and modeling
techniques for mobile wireless networks. The course aims at equipping graduate students with not only a
solid foundation and the state-of-the-art knowledge in a wide spectrum of wireless communications
techniques and protocols, but also the rigorous analytical capabilities to evaluate the performance of
complex mobile wireless systems and networks. As a research-oriented class, this course will also
introduce students to the emerging and hot topics in mobile wireless networking and mobile computing
research. The course will start with an introduction of the fundamental architectures and principles of
mobile and wireless networks and their relationships with the backbone Internet. The focus will then
move on to the main wireless communication theories and modeling techniques used in mobile wireless
networks. This is followed by the detailed examinations of a number of most recently developed mobile
wireless networking technologies and architectures. Several types of widely employed mobile wireless
networks and research topics are investigated in-depth as the further applications of the newly developed
wireless networking techniques. The course material consists primarily of the classic and recent
technical papers published on major wireless/wired networking journal and conferences and the
referenced (recommended, but not required) text books. The course also aims at introducing new
graduate students to research, as well as exploits potential topics for MS comprehensive projects and
PhD research directions.

PREREQUISITE:
Graduate standing and this is basically a content self-contained class or consent of the instructor. An
introduction-level class on “Computer Networks” and basic C++ programming may help.

TEXTBOOK:
Classic and Recent selected research papers and the referenced (recommended but not required) text
books are as follows:
(1) T. Rappaport: “Wireless Communications Principle & Practice” Prentice Hall, 2004.
(2) Gordon L. Stüber: “Principles of Mobile Communication”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
GRADING (TENTATIVE):
Assignments: 20%; Projects: 40%; Exams: 40%.

COURSE OUTLINE (TENTATIVE):

 Fundamental architectures of mobile and wireless networks
 Mobile networking over Internet through wireless accessing
 TCP/IP protocols over wireless links
 Antennas/propagation and multi-path fading channel modeling
 Spread Spectrum, CDMA, MC-DS-CDMA, OFDM, and MIMO
 Error resilience, channel coding, and LDPC codes
 Cross-layer design and optimization
 Satellite networks and cellular wireless networks
 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and multiple access
 IEEE 802.11 WLANs standards and protocols
 Adapting IEEE 802.11 to multimedia and QoS supported WLANs
 Mobile multicast streamings over WLANs
 Mobile IP and wireless access protocols
 Mobile Ad Hoc networks and wireless sensor networks
 Wireless network security

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