The specific objectives of the course are to help the students:

Understand the architecture and applications of current and next generation wireless networks: Cellular, WLANs, sensor networks, mobile ad-hoc networks and intermittently connected mobile networks.
Get a basic introduction to the key concepts and techniques underlying modern physical layer wireless and mobile communications: radio propagation modeling;performance of digital modulation schemes and coding techniques in fading environments; CDMA and OFDM; diversity and MIMO. (These topics are all explored in much greater detail in EE535, the goal here is to provide a sufficient survey of this topics so that the higher layer protocols are well-grounded and motivated.)
Learn how to design and analyze various medium access and resource allocation techniques such as power control for fixed-rate and rate-adaptive systems, Al oha and CSMA- based randomized medium access, scheduling for TDMA/FDMA/CDMA-based wireless networks.
Learn how to design and analyze network layer routing protocols, along with key component mechanisms, such as link metric estimation and neighborhood table management for proactive and reactive routing protocols, opportunistic routing, backpressure routing,network coding, cooperative routing, routing with mobility and intermittent contacts.
Learn to design and analyze transport layer protocols, with an emphasis on congestion control, including TCP over wireless, congestion sharing mechanisms, explicit and precise rate control, utility optimization-based approaches, and backpressure-based utility optimization.
Learn how to evaluate MAC and network protocols using network simulation software tools such as NS-2 or Qualnet.

Grading:

1.Grading will be based on the weighted average of scores on assignments, simulation projects, quizzes, and exams with the distribution as follows.

2.Assignments: there will be five assignments. These will together count for 25% of the grade.

3.Projects: There will also be 3 simulation projects. These will together count for 15% of the grade. These projects are to be worked on and submitted by pairs of students working together.

4.Midterm Exam: this exam will count for 30% of the grade.

5.Final Exam: this exam will count for 30% of the grade.
Grades will be based on absolute scores, not the relative distribution of scores (i.e., there will be no “curve”). A raw score of 90 or above is guaranteed an A. A raw score of 80 or above is guaranteed at least a B. A raw score of 70 or above is guaranteed at least a C.