192620010 Mobile & Wireless Networking

M&WN: DACS Geert Heijenk Slides Schedule Contents

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

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.

TopDetailed 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
Guest Lecturer:
Gerrit Hiddink
(ActiveVideo)
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

TopContents

Topic Description Material
Introduction History, Current Wireless Technologies, Trends
  • Schiller: Chapter 1
Wireless Transmission Basic physical layer aspects, e.g., propagation, multiplexing, modulation, spread spectrum, OFDM
  • Schiller: Chapter 2 (excl. 2.8)
  • Reader: Part 1, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
Medium Access Control MAC layer essentials, e.g. hidden terminals, medium access, random access protocols, CDMA, hybrid ARQ
  • Schiller: Chapter 3
  • Reader: Part 2, Hybrid automatic repeat request
Cellular Concepts Basic principles of cellular systems, e.g., cell layout, interference
  • Schiller: Section 2.8
  • Reader: Part 3, Cellular Concepts
Dealing with Mobility Handover, mobility management
  • Reader: Part 4, Handover & Mobility Management
Cellular Systems (UMTS / LTE) Operation of radio access network and core network of cellular systems, mainly UMTS and LTE
  • Schiller: Section 4.4
  • Reader: Part 5, 3G Long-Term Evolution
Other systems Brief overview of other wireless systems such as DECT, TETRA, Satellite, DVB.
  • Optional: Schiller: Section 4.2, 4.3 and Chapter 5, 6.
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)
  • Schiller: Section 7.5
  • Optional: Wikipedia: "Bluetooth"
  • Reader: Part 7, IEEE 802.15.4  (Zigbee)
Mobile IP Mobile IP, Hierarchical Mobile IPv6, Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6
  • Schiller: Section 8.1
Mobile Transport Layer Problems with TCP over Wireless, Improvements: e.g., Indirect TCP, Snoop TCP, Mobile TCP, TCP over 3G
  • Schiller: Chapter 9
Ad-hoc Networks Basics of Ad-hoc networks, Ad-hoc Routing, e.g. DSR, AODV
  • Schiller: Section 8.3
  • Reader: Part 8, Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV)

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