CS G250: Wireless Networks

Spring 2005

Instructor:  Rajmohan Rajaraman

240 WVH                                                                               Work: 617-373-2075
College of Computer Science                                                 Email: rraj AT ccs DOT neu DOT edu
Northeastern University                                                          Fax:    617-373-5121

Class meeting times/location:     W 6:00-9:00 PM, 108 WVH

Office Hours:    M 5:00-6:00 PM, Th 4:15-5:15 PM

Teaching Assistant:  Xin Liu (liux AT ccs), WVH 208, 617-373-5878
                                    Office hours: 11:00am~1:00pm

Course Description

Textbook

Prerequisites

Grading

Academic Honesty and Integrity

Tentative Course Calendar (will include all handouts)

Term Project

Acknowledgments

Course Description

This course covers both the theory and practice of wireless networking.   We will begin by studying the fundamentals of wireless communications (roughly a third of the course).   We will then study widely-used wireless local area network standards and TCP/IP extensions for mobile and wireless networking (another third).  The final third of the course will be devoted to the active research areas of multihop ad hoc networks and sensor networks.  Topics covered will include

Recommended Textbook

W. Stallings, Wireless Communications and Networks, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2005

This textbook will be closely followed for almost the two third of the course.  The material on multihop and sensor networks will be taken from surveys, research papers, and other collections, for which references will be provided later. 

Prerequisites

CS G151 (Principles of Internetworking).  If you have not taken CS G151 (or an equivalent), then you should not take CS G250.  Please consult the instructor for any clarifications.

Grading

The tentative distribution for the course grade is: problem sets (20%), programming assignments/projects (30%), a midterm (20%), and a final exam (30%).  Problem sets are due at the beginning of class. No late homework will be accepted!


Acknowledgments

The lecture slides for the first 8 lectures are largely based on those prepared by William Stallings and material provided by Prof. Guevara Noubir. The slides on ad hoc network routing are largely based on a tutorial by Prof. Nitin Vaidya.  The sensor networks part of the course was partially supported by NSF IIS-0330201 "SENSORS: Data driven sensor networks".