Instructor: Professor Anh T. Pham, pham,
Office hours: by appointment @306C
TA: Hoang Le (PhD student of CCL), hoangbkset@gmail.com
Office hours: Wed 6/7 (14:10 to 16:00)
Prerequisites: L11.
Lecture meeting: Mon-5/6, Thu-5/6 (except holidays)
Lecture room: M7
Web Pages: http://web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp/labs/ce-cc/teaching/wn/
Course's Gdrive: for handouts and assignments (Chrome is highly recommended)
This course helps to develop an understanding of the
various aspects of wireless and mobile networks. Following the first course on
computer networking (L11: Introduction to Computer Networking) which covers
basic concepts the Internet, including applications, transport, network and a
part of data-link layers, the N04 course provides a solid conceptual
understanding of the fundamentals of the most popular transmission media today:
the wireless transmission. The course covers fundamentals of design and
architecture of wireless networks.
After taking this course, students
will be able to understand (1) basic concepts of wireless communications and
networks, layer architecture, (2) wireless signal transmission, (3) wireless
access mechanism, and (4) problems and specific design of wireless network,
including the popular wifi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee protocols.
Lecture 1: Introduction to Wireless Networks
Lecture 2: Signal Concepts
Lecture 3: Transmission Media and Channel Capacity
Lecture 4: Wireless Signal Propagation, Signal Fading
Lecture 5: Signal Encoding and Modulation (Chapter 7)
Lecture 6: Multiplexing and CDMA
Lecture 7: OFDM
Mid-term examination
Lecture 8: WLAN Technologies
Lecture 9: Media Access Control 802.11
Lecture 10: PHY layer in 802.11
Lecture 11: Security in 802.11 & Recent developments
Lecture 12: Bluetooth
Lecture 13: Zigbee and 802.15
HW will be assigned every week, and due in one week, basically
HW submission: paper submission, to be collected at the classroom by TA.
Print double-sided using A4 paper.
Required: Wireless Communications Networks & Systems, by William Stallings (Kindle version is also available) ・any edition is OK
Purchase Kindle version here (about 4,700 Yen)
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by J.F. Kurose and K.W. Ross, any Edition is OK (this is the textbook of L11)
Check the couse syllabus in the course Gdrive.
Anh T. Pham, 2018-2019