CSE 370 (Spring 2009)

Wireless and Mobile Networking

Instructor: Samir R. Das (Contact information, including office, phone and email on the web page)

Course Web: http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~samir/cse370/

Lectures: Mon, Fri 12:50-2:10pm. Light Engr Lab 152.

Pre-requisite:

CSE 310, Data Communication and Networks (or an equivalent course). Review materials from CSE 310: CSMA/CD, Ethernet LAN, Routing protocols, IP, TCP.  

Textbook:

• Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications,  Addison-Wesley (required)
• Kurose and Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Addison-Wesley (optional, same text used in CSE 310).
• Principles of Wireless Networks, Pahlavan and Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, 2002 (optional, in CS library reserve).
• Papers from literature and handouts distributed in class, posted in this web page, or kept in library reserve. 

Homeworks: TBA

Tentative Syllabus:

Introductory topics (0.5 week)

• Challenges of wireless and mobile networking
• Essential backgrounds

Characteristics of Wireless Transmissions (2 weeks)

• Signal propagation, path loss and fading
• Multiplexing
• Modulation

Medium Access Control (MAC) (2 weeks)

• Notions of SDMA, FDMA, TDMA
• Pure random access protocols -- Aloha and related protocols
• CSMA-based protocols

Wireless LAN and PAN (2 weeks)

• Infrastructure and ad hoc networks
• IEEE 802.11 standard
• Bluetooth

Mobile Infrastructure-based Networking (2 weeks)

• Location/mobility management
• Mobile IP

Ad Hoc Networking ( 2 weeks)

• Dynamic routing protocols 
• Location-based protocols
• Emerging topics: sensor networking

Mobile Transport Layer (1.5 week)

• TCP over wireless
• Performance issues

Cellular Network Fundamentals (2 weeks)

• Capacity issues
• Channel assignment algorithms

Various Testbed Demonstrations (1 week)

Grading:

Midterm: 20%, Final: 30%, Homeworks: 50% (expect 6-7 problem sets, some will include simulation or testbed experiments).