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Telcom 2700/INFSCI 1071
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Text and Grading
• Text: Mobile Communications 2
nd
edition, Jochen Schiller,
Addison Wesley
also recommend
• Principles of Wireless Networks A Unified Approach, K.
Pahlavan and P. Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, 2002.
• Overview of wireless network architectures
– Will post many links to papers to fill in on newer developments
• Grading
– Homework + Labs (2 or 3 labs) 25%
– Midterm 25%
– Final Exam 30%
– Term Project 20%
– Group or individual project that involves a wireless network
technology
• Past Projects include
– Evaluation of battlefield WLAN implementation
– WiMAX QoS planning techniques
– Comparative evaluation of smart antenna techniques
– Ad hoc extensions of cellular networks for disaster/fault recovery
– Paper on Regulatory issues for software/cognitive radios
– Paper on Health issues of wireless technology
Telcom 2700/INFSCI 1071
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Course Outline
• Introduction (Ch 1)
– Overview or wireless networks, applications and issues
• Wireless communication fundamentals (Ch 2 -3)
– Frequencies, Propagation, Modulation and Antennas, (Ch 2, +
Notes)
– Mitigation Techniques and Multiple Access (Slides + Ch 3)
• Wireless Wide Area Networks
– Cellular Networks: (Slides + Ch 4)
• Voice oriented cellular (frequency reuse, traffic engineering, etc.
• GSM, cdmaone
• Data oriented cellular
– 2.5 G (GPRS) and 3G UMTS, cdma2000
– Satellite Networks (Ch 5)
– Location Technology
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