GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

ECE 741 Wireless Networks (3:3:0)

Spring semester 2008

Prerequisites:	ECE 528 and 542, or equivalent
Time:	Thursdays 4:30 - 7:10 pm
Location:	S&T I Rm 110
Professor:	Bijan Jabbari
Phone:	703.993.1618
Email:
Web:	http://cnl.gmu.edu/bjabbari
Goal:	This class will cover necessary foundation and the 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 wireless Internet.

Textbooks, References and Additional Readings :

1. Copies of the manuscript 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