| Date | Lecture Slides | Topic |
| 9/25 |
Lecture 1 (82 slides) |
Course Details and Outline; Into to Wireless and Mobile Networking, EM Spectrum, Channel Concept, Frequency Band, Simplex and Duplex Communication; Into to Wireless Communication Systems, Cellular Systems, Cordless Systems |
| 10/3 |
Lecture 2 (45 slides) |
Intro to Wireless Communication Systems, Cellular Systems, Wireless Data Systems, Wireless LANs, Mobile Satellite Systems, Paging Systems; History of Wireless. |
| 10/6 |
Lecture 3 (81 slides) |
Challenges of Mobile and Wireless Networking; Intro to General Solution Techniques; Example Systems using General Solution Techniques. |
| 10/16 |
Lecture 4 (95 slides) |
Radio Propagation; Large-scale path loss model; free space propagation; propagation mechanisms: reflection, diffraction, scattering; lond-distance path loss model; log-normal shadowing; percentage of coverage area; outdoor propagation models: okumura and hata model; indoor propagation models; path losses due to partitions, floors; signal penetration into buildings. |
| 10/30 |
Lecture 5 (101 slides) |
Intro to Small-Scale Fading; Doppler Shift; Multipath Concept; Intro to Multipath Impulse Response; Discrete-Time Signals; Discrete-Time Systems (Filters); Time-Invariant Systems; Unit Sample, Unit Impulse; Impulse Response; Convolution and Output Calculation; Multipath Channel Model; Discrete-Time Multipath Channel Impulse Response; Power Signals; Power Delay Profile; Sinusoidal Signals; Exponential/Complex Representation of Sinusoidal Signals. |
| 11/10 |
Lecture 6 (46 slides) |
Baseband Signal Bandwidth and received power relationship, narrowband and wideband baseband signals; time dispersion parameters, power delay profiles, delay spread; coherence bandwidth, coherence time, doppler spread; types of small scale fading, flat/frequency selective fading, slow/fast fading; rayleigh and ricean fading; average fade duartion; gilbert-elliot fading channel model. |
| 11/17 |
Lecture 7 (48 slides) |
Modulation Techniques for Mobile Radio: Analog Modulation: AM Modulation, FM Modulation' Demodulation; Digital Modulation; Power and Bandwidth efficiency concepts; Shannon and Nyquist Bounds; Intro to Fourier Analysis, Power Spectral Density of Signals. |
| 11/22 |
Lecture 8 (86 slides) |
Media Access Control for Wireless Links; Coordinated and Random Schemes; FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA; Cell and System Capacity; Random Schemes: Aloha, CSMA, MACA; Case Studies: Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b MAC Layers. |
| 12/13 |
Lecture 9 (78 slides) |
Mobility support in the Internet; Why mobility is problem in Internet; why DHCP is not enough; Mobile IP: architecture, protocol, functions (agent advertisements, registration, packet transport - tunneling and encapsulation); proxy and gratuitous ARP; link level packet transport between foreign and mobile hosts; Binding Updates and Route Optimization; Smooth Handoffs; Hierarchical Foreign Agents; Multicasting to Mobile Nodes; Problems with Mobile IP; Cellular IP. |
| 12/23 |
Lecture 10 (53 slides) |
BlueSky: An indoor wireless access and mobility solution for palmtop computers; palmtop protocol stack and serial connectivity; wireless modem connectivity; bluesky wireless link; wireless adapter design and implementation; wireless MAC protocol; access point design and implementation; RS-232 communication; what is PPP and why do we need it? mobility support in Bluesky. |
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