CS G250: Wireless Networks

Spring 2007  

Acknowledgments

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

Week of
Topic Handouts
Slides
Lecture Notes
Reading






Jan 8
Administrivia;Transmission Fundamentals: Analog & digital transmission channel capacity PS1 out
Introduction Fundamentals 1, 2.1-2.4
Jan 15 Transmission Fundamentals: Antennas and propagation modes, fading and signal encoding techniques

Antennas &
Propagation

Antennas
SignalEncoding
5, 6
Jan 22
Spread spectrum: Frequency hopping, Direct sequence, and CDMA PS1 due 1/23
PS2 out
SA1 out
Spread
Spectrum
SpreadSpectrum 7
Jan 29 Coding and error control: Error detection, error correction codes, convolution codes, and ARQ PS2 due 2/2
SS1
Coding


8
Feb 5
Medium access control and Wireless LANs: IEEE 802.11 SA1 due 2/9

WirelessLANs
14
Feb 12
Wireless LANs: Bluetooth; Mobile IP PS3 out
SA2 out
BluetoothMobileIP
15, 12
Feb 19 Cellular wireless networks; TCP for wireless SS2
PS3 due
SampleMidterm
CellularNetworks
10
Feb 26
Midterm on Feb 27;
Wireless network standards
: WiMAX
SensorNetworkProject
Term Project
TCPForWireless
WiMAX

11.3
Mar 5
Spring Break



Mar 12
Multihop ad hoc networks: Introduction, proactive & reactive routing protocols
SA2 due 3/13
MidtermSolutions
AdHocNetworkRouting

Mar 19 Multihop ad hoc networks: Link reversal & geometric routing protocols

AdHocNetworkRouting

Mar 26 Multihop ad hoc networks: Topology and power control SensorNetworkProject due 3/27 AdHocNetworkRouting

Apr 2
Sensor networks: MAC and routing protocols
SensorNetworks

Apr 9
Sensor networks: synchronization protocols; algorithms for query processing
Multihop ad hoc networks: Fundamental limits on capacity




Apr 16
Student presentations



Apr 23
Student presentations





References

Mobile Communications, J. Schiller

Ad-hoc Networking, edited by Charles Perkins, Addison Wesley 2001

Two tutorials that I have given on ad-hoc wireless networks
A bibliography of work in ad hoc networks research

Delay Tolerant Networking