CSE 5520/4520 Wireless Networks

Monday 10-12noon and Wednesday 10-11am (or by appointment)

• 5% -- Homework 1 (due 9/16/2009) + Quizes 1 (9/16/2009)
• 5% -- Homework 2 (due 10/14/2009) + Quizes 2 (10/07/2009)
• 5% -- Homework 3 (due 11/23/2009)+ Quize 3
• 5% -- Homework 4 + Quizes 4
• 10% -- Project 1 (due 10/07/2009)
• 10% -- Test1 (10/14/2009)
• 10% -- Project 2 (11/4/2009)  
• 15% -- Project 3 (12/6/2009)
• 10% -- Seminar
• 10% -- Test2 (12/02/2009)
• 10% -- Class Participation

Enkh-Amgalan Baatarjav (euntexas@gmail.com), , Office Hours (TR: 2-4pm), Room: F238

From cellular voice telephony to wireless access to the Internet and wireless home networking, wireless networks have profoundly impacted our lifestyle. After a decade of exponential growth, today's wireless industry is one of the largest industries in the world. From computer science point of view, the design and analysis of wireless networks are very different from wired networks. Software plays major role in controlling and managing these networks. The network elements are Base Stations, Base Station Controllers, Mobility Switch Controllers, Access Points, WiFi Switches and wireless feature servers. In this course we study about data link layer, network layer, transport layer, and call processing layer in wireless networks. Next, we study various wireless protocols and technologies in interconnecting these elements. In particular we shall study 2G and 3G protocols of cellular networks based on CDMA and UMTS technology. Finally we shall study protocols and services related to WLAN networks. Throughout the course we emphasize on real life examples and case studies. Lecture notes will be posted on the website.

Prerequisites: CSCI 3600 and CSCI 3400 (good system programming background such as inter-process communications,  timers,  C language using Linux OS are required) 

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Lecture Schedule

Topic	Date	Comments
Overview of Wireless Network Operation		courseOverview,  Cost_Calculation, IPRAN.pdf
Overview of different technologies and protocols, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, GSM, CDMA, SS7 transport protocols		IS_95_Interface  3GTehnology
MS-BTS/BSC interfaces and protocol layers (A1-A12 interfaces)		Call Processing
Connection Management		handoffManagement
BSC-BSC interface and Radio Resource Mgmt		handout
MSC-MSC interfaces and protocols		handout
Data over wireless networks		cdma_data, call_flows, mobile_ip, tcp_perform
WiFi Protocol		handout, Protocol,  QoS
WiMAX
Seminars

References

1.  K. Pahlavan and P. Krishnamurthy, Principles of Wireless Networks, Prentice Hall, 2002, (ISBN: 0130930032).

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