Wireless and Mobile Networks

COEN 331 | Summer 2016
Class meeting time and location: Monday & Thursday 7:10PM - 9:00PM  Bannan Engineering 325

Instructor: Behnam Dezfouli
Email: bdezfouli [AT] scu [DOT] edu
Office: Guadalupe Hall, Level 3, Room# 326

Main Text Book: Wireless Communication Networks and Systems, by Cory Beard (Author), William Stallings (Author)
Find the book: Amazon | Pearsons

Supplementary Sources:
▪ Fundamentals of LTE, by Arunabha Ghosh, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Rias Muhamed, and Zhang Junmai
▪ Computer Networks, 5th Edition - By Andrew S. Tanenbaum, David J. Wetherall
▪ Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud, by William Stallings (Author)
▪ IP Design for Mobile Networks, By Mark Grayson, Kevin Shatzkamer, Scott Wainner, Published by Cisco Press.
▪ Journals/Conferences: IEEE Wireless Communications | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | IEEE Computer Society | IEEE Network Magazine | Ad Hoc Networks – Elsevier | Computer Networks – Elsevier | Computer Communications – Elsevier | Journal of Network and Computer Applications – Elsevier | Wireless Networks – Springer | IEEE INFOCOM | IEEE ICC | IEEE WCNC | ACM MobiSys | ACM SenSys


Student Evaluation:
• 10% Class Attendance
• 10% Class Discussion and Presentation
• 40% Project
• 20% Midterm Exam (Date: July 21st)
• 30% Final Exam (Date: August 29)

*Grades will be based on absolute scores, and there will be no curve.

Exams:
• Midterm: The midterm will be a closed-book exam covering all material up to that point in the course.
• Final: The final exam will be a closed-book exam, covering material from the whole quarter, with emphasis on the second half of the course.
 
Class Discussion: Learning the underlying problems, basic ideas, and concepts of wireless and mobile networks requires critical thinking and interaction between the instructor and students. Students are highly encouraged to challenge existing ideas and present their own solutions. Up to 10 extra points is assigned to those students that regularly participate in class discussions.
 
Project: Students are required to form groups of x members, where 2 <= x <= 4, and conduct a research on the area of their interest related to the course topic and approved by the instructor. The project should be submitted at least one week before the final exam date.


The outline of this course is as follows:
 
BACKGROUND
▪ Transmission Fundamentals
▪ Communication Networks
▪ Protocols and the TCP/IP Suite
 
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
▪ Overview of Wireless Communications
▪ Wireless Channel
▪ Signal Encoding Techniques
▪ Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
▪ Spread Spectrum, FHSS, DSSS
▪ Coding and Error Control
 
WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
▪ Wireless LAN Technology
▪ IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Standard

PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS
▪ Bluetooth
▪ IEEE 802.15.4
 
WIRELESS MOBILE NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS
▪ Cellular Wireless Networks (1G, 2G and 3G)
▪ Fourth Generation Systems and Long Term Evolution (LTE, LTE-A)
▪ Mobile Applications and Mobile IP


Schedule and Objectives of Lectures:
(schedule is subject to change based on the level of interaction between instructor and students)
 
Week 1:
• Development of wireless communications
• The purposes of various generations of cellular technology (1G - 4G)
• The revolution of devices
• Future trends
• Digital and analog information sources
• Representation of audio, data, image, and video by electromagnetic signals
• Characteristics of analog and digital waveforms
• Frequency components of a signal (time and frequency analysis)
• Identify the factors that affect channel capacity (Nyquist and Shannon formulas)
• Various forms of wireless transmission
 
Week 2:
• The role and scope of WANs, MANs, and LANs.
• Circuit switching (CS) networks
• Packet switching (PS) networks
• Comparison of CS and PS
• The importance and objectives of a layered protocol architecture
• The process of encapsulation
• The TCP/IP architecture
• Internetworking
 
Week 3 & 4:
• The importance of unlicensed frequencies (ISM bands)
• Computation of path loss for free space and real-world environments
• Multipath effect and Doppler spreading characteristics of channels
• Approaches used to correct channel impairments (MIMO, CDMA, etc.)
• Encoding digital data into analog signal (FSK, ASK, PSK, QAM, etc.)
• Performance of modulation schemes (BER analysis)
• Error detection, retransmission (ARQ), error correction (FEC)
• Coding rate, Hamming distance, and coding gain
• OFDM, OFDMA, and SC-FDMA
• Orthogonal carriers (comparison against FDM)
• Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
 
Week 5:
• IEEE 802.11 architecture and services
• MAC layer operation of IEEE 802.11
• Throughput enhancement mechanisms of IEEE 802.11n, 802.11ac, and 802.11ad
• IEEE 802.11i WLAN security procedures
 
 
Week 6:
• Vision and purpose for the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Bluetooth protocol stack and core protocols
• Bluetooth 3.0 and 4.0 (Bluetooth Smart)
• IEEE 802.15.3 and IEEE 802.15.4
• Architecture of ZigBee and its relation with IEEE 802.15.4
 
Week 7:
• Frequency reuse in cellular systems
• Network densification and small cells
• Handoff process
• Analyze traffic demand and capacity requirements
• First generation systems
• Second generation systems
• Third generation systems
 
Week 8:
• The purpose of 4G
• Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Evolved-UTRAN (LTE)
• The operation of EPC
• Bearers and resource blocks in LTE resource allocation
• Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) and Time Division Duplexing (TDD)
• LTE power on procedure
• LTE-Advanced
 
 
Week 9:
• Key characteristics of mobile application platforms
• Android system architecture
• The reasons for needing Mobile IP
• Roles of devices within Mobile IP
• The operation of Mobile IP


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