GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department
Information Sheet
ECE 741
Wireless Networks (3:3:0)
Spring semester
2006
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Prerequisites:
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ECE 528 and 542, or
equivalent
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Time:
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Wednesdays 4:30 - 7:10
pm
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Location:
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Innovation
Hall 131
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Professor:
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Bijan Jabbari
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Phone:
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703.993.1618
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Email:
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Web:
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http://cnl.gmu.edu/bjabbari
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Goal:
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This class will cover
necessary foundation and state of the art application for Wide Area and
Local Area wireless networks. In a nutshell, this course will give you the
basis for understanding the radio and infrastructure aspects of the
wireless networks and Internet.
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Textbooks,
References and Additional Readings:
1. Copies of the
book manuscripts Wireless Networks, B. Jabbari and X. Lagrange will be
distributed.
2. Mischa Schwartz, Mobile Wireless
Communications, Cambridge
University Press, 2005 (ISBN 0-521-84347-2)
Tentative
Course Outline
- Overview of Wireless Communications and Networking; background and review
of fundamentals (1 lecture)
- Characterization of the wireless medium (1 lecture)
- Principles of cellular wireless networks (1 lecture)
- Wireless medium access alternatives (1 lecture)
- Basic traffic and mobility models (2 lecture)
- Handoff strategies and analysis (1 lecture)
- Channel assignment and routing strategies (1 lecture)
- Application of traffic and mobility models in planning and design of
wireless (1 lecture)
- Wireless Local Area Networks: IEEE 802.11/wifi and WiMAX (2 lectures),
- Ad hoc and sensor networks (1 lecture)
- Mobile IP (1 lecture)
- Wireless Internet (1 lecture)
- Packet CDMA and admission policies
- Analysis of traffic performance of multi-tiered cellular networks
