News
2/4/2012
Follow-up course: M&WN2:
The follow-up course to M&WN, Mobile & Wireless Networking 2,
focuses on ad-hoc networks. More information on this course can be
found in due time at this location: http://www.ewi.utwente.nl/~heijenk/mwn2/ (currently this url still refers to last year's website).
24/2/2012
Second guest lecturer confirmed:
Gerrit Hiddink (Active Video) will give a guest lecture on Thursday,
March 15. He has been active in LTE and WiMax development and
standardization.
24/2/2012
Reader Available: The (printed) reader is not available from the Union Shop.
14/2/2012
Reader Part 2: Since the reader is currently being reprinted, part 2 of the reader is available here.
09/2/2012
First guest lecturer confirmed: Gert-Jan van Lieshout (Samsung Research) will give a guest lecture on Monday, March 12. He is active in 3GPP standardisation (of UMTS and LTE) and has been chairing one of the working groups in 3GPP.
12/1/2012
Welcome: Welcome to the website of Mobile & Wireless Networking. The first lecture will be given on February 6, 2012.
2012 Overview
Lecturer
- Geert Heijenk( geert.heijenk [at] utwente.nl)
Schedule
Period 2A: 06/02/2012 to 22/04/2012
Monday, 13:45 - 15:30, CR 3E
Thursday, 13.45 - 15.30, CR 3E (Week 6, 8, 11, 13)
Start date: February 6, 2012
Slides
Slides used during the lectures can be found here.
Examination
Thursday 12 April, 2012
13:45-17:15
Closed Book
You may take the lecture slides and 2 double sided sheets of notes
(made by you, any
font size/density!) with you.
Old examinations can be found here: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
Textbook
"Mobile Communications" by Jochen H. Schiller, 2nd edition,
492 pages,
Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-321-12381-6.
The course covers selected chapters of the book (see contents).
Reader
Extra material consists of selected sections of other books
and articles. These are made available in a reader. The articles in the
reader for 2012 are identical to the ones for 2010 and 2011.
Background reading
Below (see contents) some articles are indicated as recommended reading. They are not compulsary material for the examination. Further, the following texts can help to increase your understanding of the course material, and provide more details on the topics discussed in the course.
- "Wireless Communications and Networking" by Vijay K. Garg, Morgan Kaufmann, 2007, ISBN 978-0-12-373580-5.
- "WCDMA for UMTS - Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications" by Harri Holma and Antti Toskala (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, 2001, ISBN 0-471-48687-6.
Detailed
schedule
| Lecture | Week | Day | Date | Time | Location | Topic | Remarks | Slides | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
Mon | Feb 6 |
6/7 | CR 3E |
Introduction & Wireless Transmission |
lecture 1 |
||
| 2 | 6 |
Thu | Feb 9 |
6/7 | CR 3E | Wireless Transmission | lecture 2 |
||
| 3 | 7 |
Mon | Feb 13 | 6/7 | CR 3E | Medium Access Control | lecture 3 |
||
| 4 | 8 |
Mon | Feb 20 |
6/7 | CR 3E | Cellular concepts & Dealing with Mobility |
lecture 4 |
||
| 5 | 8 |
Thu | Feb 23 | 6/7 | CR 3E | Cellular Systems (UMTS / LTE) | lecture 5 |
||
| 6 | 10 |
Mon | Mar 3 | 6/7 | CR 3E | Cellular Systems (UMTS / LTE)
& Other Systems |
|
lecture 6 |
|
| 7 | 11 |
Mon |
Mar 12 |
6/7 | CR 3E | UMTS/LTE core and radio access networks | Guest Lecturer: Gert-Jan van Lieshout (Samsung Research) |
lecture 7 |
|
| 8 | 11 | Thu | Mar 15 | 6/7 | CR 3E | WiMAX and LTE radio interface protocols |
|
lecture 8 |
|
| 9 | 12 | Mon | Mar 19 | 6/7 | CR 3E | Wireless LAN | lecture 9 |
||
| 10 | 13 | Mon | Mar 26 | 6/7 | CR 3E | Bluetooth & Zigbee | lecture 10 |
||
| 11 | 13 | Thu | Mar 29 | 6/7 | CR 3E | Mobile IP | lecture 11 |
||
| 12 | 14 | Mon |
Apr 2 |
6/7 | CR 3E | Mobile Transport
Layer & Ad-hoc Networks |
lecture 12 |
||
| Exam | 15 | Thu | Apr 12 |
pm | |||||
| Re-exam | Wed | June 27 | pm |
Contents
| Topic | Description | Material |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | History, Current Wireless Technologies, Trends |
|
| Wireless Transmission | Basic physical layer aspects, e.g., propagation, multiplexing, modulation, spread spectrum, OFDM |
|
| Medium Access Control | MAC layer essentials, e.g. hidden terminals, medium access, random access protocols, CDMA, hybrid ARQ |
|
| Cellular Concepts | Basic principles of cellular systems, e.g., cell layout, interference |
|
| Dealing with Mobility | Handover, mobility management |
|
| Cellular Systems (UMTS / LTE) | Operation of radio access network and core network of cellular systems, mainly UMTS and LTE |
|
| Other systems | Brief overview of other wireless systems such as DECT, TETRA, Satellite, DVB. |
|
| Wireless LAN | Operation of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN, incl. CSMA/CA, RTS/CTS, power management, 802.11a/b/g, 802.11e |
|
| Bluetooth & Zigbee | Overview of operation of low-power wireless systems based on IEEE 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) and IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee) |
|
| Mobile IP | Mobile IP, Hierarchical Mobile IPv6, Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 |
|
| Mobile Transport Layer | Problems with TCP over Wireless, Improvements: e.g., Indirect TCP, Snoop TCP, Mobile TCP, TCP over 3G |
|
| Ad-hoc Networks | Basics of Ad-hoc networks, Ad-hoc Routing, e.g. DSR, AODV |
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