WIRELESS NETWORKS:
FUNDAMENTAL AND FUTURE REVOLUTIONS
Course Syllabus
- Introduction. Wireless
Comes of Age. The Cellular Revolution. The Global Cellular Network.
Broadband. The Trouble with Wireless. Outline of the Book. Internet and
Web Resources.
- Transmission Fundamentals.
Signals for Conveying Information. Analog and Digital Data Transmission.
Channel Capacity. Transmission Media. Multiplexing.
- Communication Networks. LANs, MANs, and WANs.
Switching Techniques. Circuit-Switching. Packet Switching. Asynchronous
Transfer Mode. Protocols and the TCP/IP Suite. The Need for a
- Protocol Architecture. The
TCP/IP Protocol Architecture. The OSI Protocol Architecture.
Internetworking.
- Antennas an d Propagation. Antennas. Propagation
Modes. Line-of-Sight Transmission. Fading in the Mobile Environment
- S i g n a l E n c o d i n
g Techniques. Signal Encoding Criteria. Digital Data, Analog Signals.
Analog Data, Analog Signals. Analog Data, Digital Signals. Spread
Spectrum. The Concept of Spread
- Spectrum. Frequency
Hopping Spread Spectrum. Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum. Code-Division
Multiple Access. Generation of Spreading Sequences.
- Coding and Error Control.
Error Detection. Block Error Correction Codes. Convolutional Codes.
Automatic Repeat Request.
- WIRELESS NETWORKING.
- S a t e l l i t e
Communications. Satellite Parameters and Configurations. Capacity
Allocation—Frequency Division. Capacity Allocation—Time Division.
- Cellular Wireless
Networks. Principles of Cellular Networks. First Generation Analog. Second
Generation TDMA. Second Generation CDMA. Third Generation Systems.
- Cordless Systems and
Wireless Local Loop. Cordless Systems. Wireless Local Loop. IEEE 802.16
Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Standard.
- M o b i l e I P a n d Wi r
e l e s s A c c e s s Protocol. Mobile IP. Wireless Application Protocol.
- WIRELESS LANS.
- W i r e l e s s L A N
Technology. Overview. Infrared LANs. Spread Spectrum LANs. Narrowband
Microwave LANs
- IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
Standard. IEEE 802 Protocol Architecture. IEEE 802.11 Architecture and
Services. IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control. IEEE 802.11 Physical Layer.
- B l u e t o o t h , W I F
I WiMAX, Mobile-FI Zigbee, Bluetooth, UWB Overview. Radio Specifications.
Baseband Specification. Link Manager Specification. Logical Link Control
and Adaptation Protocol.