Content (tentative)

• Introduction and Overview
  • History of Wireless, 
  • Overview Wireless Technologies
• Wireless Link Characteristics: Propagation, fading, interference, etc.
• Wireless Media Access
  • MAC in Wide-area cellular systems: TDMA, FDMA, CDMA
  • MAC in Wireless Local Area Networks
  • MAC in Wireless Personal Area Networks
• Mobile Handoff and Routing
  • Increasing Handoff Permormance: reducing delay and packet loss rate
  • Vertical Handoffs
  • Routing for Mobile Hosts: Mobile IP, Cellular IP
  • Early Mobile Routing Proposals: Columbia Mobile IP, VIP
• Ad Hoc Mobile Networks
  • What is it?
  • Routing in Ad hoc Mobile Networks
  • Multicast Routing in Ad-hoc Mobile Networks
• Transport Protocols for Wireless Networks
  • Increasing the Performance of TCP over Wireless Links
• Wireless and Mobile Network Technologies
  • Cellular Mobile Telephony Systems: GSM, GPRS, CDMA, CSDMA2000, UMTS.
  • Personal Communications Systems
  • Wireless LANs: 802.11, HiperLAN
  • Wireless PANs and Home Networking: Bluetooth, HomeRF.
  • Experimental Systems: Xerox' ParcTab, IBM's BlueSky
• Mobile/Wireless Applications
  • Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
  • Wireless Markup Language (WML)
• Quality of Service in Mobile/Wireless Networks
• Power Management and Control for Wireless Links
• Service and Resource Discovery
• Sensor Networks
• Impact of Wireless Systems on Human Health
• Future Technologies and Vision