ECE 741 Wireless Networks (3:3:0), Spring 2009

Prerequisites:	ECE 528 and 542, or equivalent
Time:	Monday 7:20 - 10:00 pm
Location:	Engineering Building, Room 3511
Professor:	Bijan Jabbari
Office hours:	Mondays 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Office:	Engineering Building, Room 3232
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.

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

Copies of the manuscript Wireless Networks, B. Jabbari and X. Lagrange will be distributed.
Mischa Schwartz, Mobile Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (ISBN 0-521-84347-2).