Wireless Networking
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Course Title: Wireless Networking
Course No: CSC331
Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab
Semester: 5
Full Marks: 60 + 20 + 20
Pass Marks: 24 + 8 + 8
Credit Hours: 3
Course Description
Course Objectives
Course Contents
1. Introduction
4 hrs
1.1. Wireless Communications Fundamentals
- History and challenges of wireless communications
1.2. WLAN Technologies
- Infrared
- UHF narrowband
- Spread spectrum
1.3. Standards
- Wireless communications standards
2.1. Channel Models
- Multipath propagation environment
- LTI channel model
- Channel correlation function
2.2. Path Loss and Fading
- Large scale path loss
- Small scale multipath fading
3.1. Transmission Techniques
- Introduction to bandpass transmission
- Signal space and decision reasons
- Digital modulation
- Power spectral density
3.2. Receiver Techniques
- Introduction to fading dispersive channels
- Channel impairment mitigation techniques
- Diversity
- Channel equalization
3.3. Multiple Access Technologies
- Conflict free multiple access technologies
- Spectral efficiencies
4.1. Cellular Network Design
- Spectrum reuse and re-farming
- Cell cluster concept
4.2. Interference and Resource Management
- Co-channel and adjacent channel interference
- Cell site call blocking and delay
- Channel allocation strategies
5.1. Mobility Management Fundamentals
- Introduction
- Call admission control
5.2. Handoff and Location Management
- Handoff management
- Location management for cellular and PCS networks
- Traffic calculation
6.1. Mobile IP and IPv6
- Mobile IP: IP packet delivery, Agent discovery, tunneling and encapsulation
- IPv6-Network layer in the internet
- Mobile IP session initiation protocol
- Wireless application protocol
6.2. Mobile Routing and TCP
- Mobile routing protocols: DSDV, AODV and DSR
- Classical TCP improvements: Mobile TCP, Time out freezing, Selective retransmission
7.1. 4G Technology
- 4G: Features, Challenges and Applications
- Multicarrier Modulation
- Smart antenna techniques
- Adaptive Modulation
- Cognitive Radio
7.2. Emerging Technologies
- Introduction to 5G and its vision
- Introduction to wireless network virtualization
- Concepts of Wireless Sensor Network & RFID
- Introduction to optical communication: Li-Fi
- Introduction to Software Defined Wireless Networks
- Concepts of Open BTS and Open Cellular Networks
Laboratory Works
- 1.Implement DSSS, Channel coding, line coding in MATLAB or equiv. tool
- 2.Analyze performance of WiMAX/WiFi network using NetSim or equiv. tool
- 3.Develop QPSK detector and understand the relation between BER and SNR
- 4.Implement various pulse shaping filters implemented in wireless communication
- 5.Implement wireless routing protocol: DSDV & AODV
- 6.Create IPv6 based (Ad-hoc & Infrastructure) wireless network environment and evaluate connectivity, delay, latency, throughput etc.
- 7.Understand Contiki OS and implement IoT/WSN
Reference Books
- 1.Vijay Garg, Wireless Communications and networking, First Edition, Elsevier 2007
- 2.John W. Mark and Weisua Zhuang, Wireless communications and Networing, Prentice hall of India Pvt. Ltd., 2005
- 3.Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, Second Edition, Pearson Education 2012
- 4.Simon Haykin, Michael Moher, David Koilpillai, Modern Wireless Communications, First Edition, Pearson Education 2013