TLEN 5520/ECEN 5032 Wireless Data Networks, Spring 2009

Martin Heusse

WF 3:00pm-4:15pm ECCS 1B12

The Course:

This course will study wireless packet data networks. You have already studied data networks in prior courses. This course will explore how the distinctive characteristics of the wireless medium affect not only the physical layer but the entire OSI seven layer model. In this course we will study papers, standards, and federal regulations covering different aspects of wireless data networks. There will be a semester long project.

Prerequisites:

A graduate course in data networking such as: TLEN 5330 Data Communication I, CSCI 5273 Network Systems, or ECEN 5032 Communication Networks. You should be familiar with chapters 1-4 in Stallings (see below).

To Reach Me:

martin.heusse@colorado.edu
phone: (303) 735 6772
office: ECEE 165
e-mail is the most effective way to contact me (you can think about what you want to ask, I can give a thorough response).

The Class List and Web Page:

To get announcements, homeworks, solutions, and commentary, sign up for the class list. To sign up, send the one line message: To: listproc@lists.colorado.edu
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Do this while logged on to the machine you want messages sent. Homeworks, solutions, and other info will be posted on the Web: http://morse.colorado.edu/~tlen5520/

Grading:

(subject to change)
Midterm (25%): Feb 25 3-4pm.
Final (25%): (date to be defined)
Homework (20%)
Research Paper Presentation and Discussion (5%)
Project (25%): Groups of 1-3 students will work on a longer term project over the semester. Team presentations and reports will be due the last two weeks of class.
Homeworks, projects, and papers lose 10% for each business *day* late.

Topics:

Texts

(Some on reserve in the engineering library):

For an overview of wireless protocols:

-Wireless Communications & Networks, 2nd ed, Stallings, ISBN 0131918354

For a detailed technical view of wireless networks:

-Principles of Wireless Networks, A Unified Approach: by Pahlavan & Krishnamurthy, Prentice-Hall 2002. ISBN 0-13-093003-2.
-Fixed broadband wireless communications, Morais, Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-009367-X
-Fixed Broadband Wireless System Design,John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (UK), 2003; Anderson, Harry R., ISBN 9780470844380
Available on-line

For an overview of wireless with a cellular perspective:

-Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed, by Rappaport, Prentice-Hall 2002. ISBN 0-13-042232-0.

For the basic text on antenna design:

-Antenna Theory: analysis and design, 2nd ed., Balanis, Wiley, 1997, ISBN 0-471592684
Available on-line

For books on 802.11 :

-802.11 Wireless Networks: The definitive guide, by Gast, O'Reilly, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00183-5
Available on-line

For a survey of security issues:

-Wireless Security: Models, Threats, and Solutions, by Nichols and Lekkas, McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN 0-07-138038-8

For wireless web application writing:

-Wireless Application Development, by Skelton, Thomson, 2003, ISBN 0-619-15931-6

For an overview of recent developments:

-Emerging technologies in Wireless LANs, by Bing, Cambridge univ. press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-89584-2

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