CS 441

MOBILE AND WIRELESS COMPUTING

LECTURE NOTES & SLIDES

 

  Week

Tentative Topics

Assignment/Exam

1

Wireless Network Challenges   (pdf)
Networking Basics, Protocol Layering (pdf)

 

2

Summary of Link Layer Concepts (pdf)
Summary of Network Layer Concepts (pdf)
Summary of Physical Layer Concepts
(pdf)

Networking Assignment

3

Radio Basics, Antennas, Spread Spectrum (pdf)

Project Assignment

4

Wireless Networks Types (pdf)
MAC Protocols for Wireless Networks (pdf)
MACAW (pdf) IEEE 802.11 (pdf) Bluetooth (pdf)

Paper Reading Assignment

5

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Applications (pdf)
WSN Hardware (pdf)

Midterm Exam

6

MAC Protocols for WSNs (Energy awareness, S-MAC) (pdf) IEEE 802.15.4 (pdf)

Paper Reading Assignment

7

Lab-1: TinyOs Installation - Motes Hardware, Sample Application - Blink

Group Work

8

Mobile IP-1 (pdf), Mobile IP-2 (pdf)

 

9

Routing Protocols for MANETs-DSR (pdf), AODV (pdf),

 

10

DSDV-ZRP (pdf), QoS and Multicast Routing (pdf)

 

11

Routing Protocols for WSNs-I (Data Centric Routing) (pdf)

Paper Reading Assignment

12

Routing Protocols for WSNs-II (Hierarchical & Location-based) (pdf)
Lab-2: Radio Testing and Routing Application

Group Work

13

Zigbee Standard (pdf), Data Aggregation, Misc.

 

14

Student Presentations