322 261: Wireless and Mobile Communication Networks (Fall 2010)


Course Description:
Introduction to wireless and mobile communication networks, mobile radio propagation, wireless frequency, modulation and coding, multiplexing, wireless networking technology standard, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Cellular Networks, Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)-Sensor Networks, Basic wireless network security.

Prerequisite: JAVA programming (322 122 or 322 162 or 322 111)

Instructor: Chakchai So-In, Ph.D., chakso AT kku.ac.th
Office: SC 6706
Office Hours: Wednesday 08.00am to 11.00am (or email me for appointment)
Class homepage: http://web.kku.ac.th/chakso/322261_Fall10/
CNAP CCNA Wireless material: Cisco Network Academy CCNA Wireless
Teaching Assistant:
  • พงษ์ศธร จันทร์ยอย (แมน) 081-9547703 silapin_bannok@hotmail.com เวลา 04.00pm to 06.00pm ห้อง โปรเจคส์ ชั้น 2
  • อนุชิต ชนม์ (ต้อม) 087-7721956 lumcheemoon_anc@hotmail.com
    • Location:
    Lecture (Tuesday): - the class meets at room SC5101 from 01.00pm to 03.00pm for section I+II, and for section IV+V from 03.00pm to 05.00pm
    Labs : (Wednesday) - the class meets at room SC6601B from 01.00pm to 03.00pm for section I, and for section II from 05.00pm to 07.00pm
    Labs : (Monday) - the class meets at room SC8512 from 12.30pm to 02.30pm for section IV, and for section V from 02.30pm to 04.30pm
    Project Website : https://sites.google.com/site/322261/?pageDeleted=%2Fwebboard
    Class Group (Webboard) : http://groups.google.com/group/322261cskku?hl=th; Email : 322261cskku AT googlegroups.com
    Textbook
    The main textbook is Introduction to Wirless and Mobile Systems by Dharma Prakash
    However, most of the material is based on the lecture slide; a few easy-reading THAI books are
    1. ออกแบบและติดตั้งระบบ Wireless LAN 2nd Edition โดย สำนักพิมพ์ อินโฟร์เพรส (2553) = Chapter 1-10 and 14
    2. แลนไร้สาย โดย ผศ. ดร. อนันต์ ผลเพิ่ม สำนักพิมพ์ ซีเอ็ด (2550)
    3. ระบบโทรศัพท์เคลื่อนที่ โดย พงษ์ศักดิ์ สุสัมพันธ์ไพบูล สำนักพิมพ์ดวงกมล (2548)
    4. Guide & Practice Network Administration Till chapter 7 (only introduction to computer networks) โดย สำนักพิมพ์ infopress (ขอยืมจากรุ่นพี่เอาก็ได้)
    (Optional) Detailed Computer Networks
    1.การสื่อสารข้อมูลและเครือข่ายคอมพิวเตอร์ (Data Communication Networking) แปลโดย จักกริช พฤษการ
    2. Computer Networks : เครือข่ายคอมพิวเตอร์ แปลโดย สัลยุทธ์ สว่างวรรณ
    3. สถาปัตยกรรมและ โปรโตคอลทีซีพี โดย สุรศักดิ์ สงวนพงษ์
    4. Master in Security โดย จตุชัย แพงจันทร์
    Other good books are
    1. Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols, C. Siva Ram Murthy and B. S. Manoj (2004)
    2. Wireless Communications and Networks, by William Stallings (2005)
    3. Data and Computer Communications by William Stallings (2010)
    4. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross (2009)
    Slides from Raj Jain, CSE574S: Mobile and Wireless Networking
    Most importantly, please READ all Data Communication Wiki and Wireless Networking Wiki related topics.
    Note that some of the important Thai books are on 3 hours-reserved at ComSci LIB.
    Network Programming (Bee)
    UNIX Tutorial for BeginnersTutorial@virginia.edu
    Project I: Android APP
    News
    Tentative Schedule (Subject to Change)
    ClassDayDateTopic
    1Tuesday10/26/2010Course Overview: Cellular Networks #1 and #2
    2Tuesday11/02/2010(Cont.)
    3Tuesday11/09/2010Mobile Radio Propagation
    4Tuesday11/16/2010Multiple Access Control
    5Tuesday11/23/2010Introduction to Network Protocol: IP, IPv6, TCP
    6Tuesday11/30/2010Channel Allocation and Encoragement
    7Tuesday12/07/2010Project Presentation (cont.) + Dhamma #1
    8Tuesday12/14/2010No class (Tentative = make-up class on Thursday 12/16/2010)
    9Tuesday12/24/2010Mid-Term Exam (week 12/20-24)
    10Tuesday12/28/2010No class
    11Tuesday01/04/2011Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)
    12Tuesday01/11/2011Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) + Sensor Networks
    13Tuesday01/18/2011Ad hoc Network
    14Tuesday01/25/2011Mobile IP + Wireless Cellular Networks: 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, and 4G
    15Tuesday02/01/2011Cellular (cont.) + Introduction to Wireless Network Security
    16Tuesday02/08/2011Wireless Network Security (cont.) + Review for Final
    17Tuesday02/23/2011Final Exam (week 02/14-03/05)
    Assignments (Fall 2010 schedule) (Subject to Change)
    Four or six homeworks will be assigned throughout the course. All assignment MUST be turned in as a HARDCOPY (during class or in my mail box). All submission MUST be turned in 7 mins before class. For all reasons, late penalty will be applied. Late homework will be assessed a 30% penalty. No homework will be accepted more than one day late. For EMERGENCY cases, you allow to email me to cs322261@gmail.com including title prefix = "322261_Fall2010_XX:HWY" such that XX is your section number and Y is your homework number.

    Homework

    Description

    		Out DateDue Date
    #1Introduction to Cellular Networks11/09/201011/23/2010
    #2Wireless PHY11/23/201012/07/2010
    #3IP + WLANs + WPANs01/11/201101/25/2011
    #4Ad hoc Network + Mobile IP 01/25/201102/07/2011
    Academic Integrity
    Students at Khon Khan University are engaged in the first step for their professional career with the highest standards. Please follow the academic integrity guideline at Cheating and Plagiarism [@CMU]. All these rules are enforced for the entire course.
    Project/Lab Link to 322 261 Project Website
    This semester, we will focus on Android Applicaiton; Android Emulator will be our main tool (require JAVA skill - eclispe)
    Links here are useful for Android programming: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html, http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.
    Some of Android application (group of 2-3 students): http://www.android.com/market/#app=com.wsl.CardioTrainer; http://androidapplications.com/
    However, we do not limit to Android platform. Iphone OS application AND WII-based applicaiton are also possible.

    Project Milestone

    Description

    Completion Date

    #1Project Topic Selection+5mins Presentation (what is it)11/10/2010 : 11/15/2010
    #2Outline Due+20 mins Presentation (story board - theory/objective/limitation/use case/activity diagram/..etc.) Click here for detail (page 33 BUT at least 15 pages - Check also Senior Project Guideline here page 18-19) Download Project Presentation Review Form here 12/01/2010 : 12/06/2010
    #3First Draft Submission (>90% completion)01/26/2010 : 01/31/2010
    #4Final Submission Click here for detail (page 36)+30 mins Presentation/Demo02/02/2010 : 02/07/2010

    The quality of the project is to submit for NSC contest.
    Project Ideas Example (Look at Mobile Application section - please also update the projects passing into the final round)
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    • Grading:
    Mid-Term Exam25%
    Final Exam25%
    Class participation5%+5%
    Homework + Quiz20%
    Term Project20%+5%
    Note that the final exam material will be after the mid-term; however, all related contents will be also covered.
    The exam includes 1. True/False (+1, -1, and 0), 2. Numerical and Analysis, and 3. Fill in the blank.
    The final grade will be curved based on the overall performance of the whole class (probablistic clear cut-off point).

    Other related wireless networking research links
    1. WiMAX research, WiMAX-NS2 Module, Chang Gung University (Prof. Jenhui Chen), http://ndsl.csie.cgu.edu.tw/wimax_ns2.php
    2. Wireless Communication Technologies Group, NIST, http://w3.antd.nist.gov/wctg/
    3. Wireless Communications Research, MIT (Prof. Moe Win), http://wgroup.lids.mit.edu/
    4. The Wireless Systems Lab (WSL), Stanford, (Prof. Andrea Goldsmith), http://systems.stanford.edu/
    5. Wireless Communications Research Group, Stanford (Prof. Donald C. Cox), http://wireless.stanford.edu/
    6. Network Research Lab, UCLA (Prof. Mario Gerla and M.Yahya Sanadidi), http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/
    7. UCLA Wireless Research and Development, UCLA (Dr. Michael Fitz), http://www.unwired.ee.ucla.edu/index.html
    8. Center for Wireless Communications (CWC), UCSD (Prof. Anthony S. Acampora), http://www-cwc.ucsd.edu/
    9. Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, (Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz) http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/bwn/
    10. The Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Berkeley, http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/
    11. Wireless Networking & Communications Group (WNCG), Utexas (Prof. Jeff Andrews, Ted Rappaport, Lili Qiu, and Sanjay Shakkottai), http://wncg.ece.utexas.edu/
    12. Wireless Communications Laboratory (WCL), TAMU (Prof. Costas N. Georghiades), http://wclb.tamu.edu/
    13. Wireless Systems Research Laboratory, Univeristy of Cincinnati (Dr. James Caffery Jr), http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~wsrl/main_page.htm
    14. Wireless Communications Research Laboratory, WISC (Prof. Akbar Sayeed), http://dune.ece.wisc.edu/
    15. WINLAB, Rutger (Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri), http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/
    16. Wireless Networking and Security Laboratory, WPI (Prof. Wenjing Lou), http://ece.wpi.edu/~wjlou/htmls/research.html
    17. Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, WPI (Prof. Kaveh Pahlavan), http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/
    18. Multimedia Networks Laboratory, UMass (Prof. Aura Ganz), http://dvd1.ecs.umass.edu/wireless/
    19. Computer Networks Research Group, UMass (Prof. Jim Kurose and Don Towsley), http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/
    20. The Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL), Cornell (Prof. Zygmunt J. Haas), http://people.ece.cornell.edu/haas/wnl/
    21. Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA), Purdue (Prof. Mark Bell), http://cwsaweb.ecn.purdue.edu/index.php
    22. Center for Research in Wireless Communications, Clemson (Prof. Michael B. Pursley), http://www.clemson.edu/crwc/index.htm
    23. Advanced Networking Laboratory, NJIT (Prof. Nirwan Ansari), http://web.njit.edu/anl/index.htm
    24. Broadband Communications Research, University of Waterloo (Dr. X. Sherman Shen and Weihua Zhuang), http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/
    25. Wireless Information Networking Group (WING), University of Florida (Dr. Yuguang Fang and Janise McNair), http://wireless.ece.ufl.edu/
    26. Radio Systems Group, Lund University (Prof. Andreas Molisch), http://www.es.lth.se/radiocom/
    27. Wireless Communications and Networking Group, Rochester (Prof. Wendi Heinzelman), http://www.ece.rochester.edu/research/wcng/
    28. Wireless Communications Research, UTK (Prof. Mostofa K. Howlader), http://wcrg.ece.utk.edu/

    Other Wireless Classes
    1. Wireless Classes at Stanford and other Wireless Classes Links, Stanford (Prof. Andrea Goldsmith), http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee359/
    2. Wireless Broadband Networks Class, RPI (Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman), http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/
    3. Short course on Fundamental to Wireless (Prof. David Tse), http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=550
    4. Wireless Classes, Berkeley (Prof. David Tse), http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee224b/sp06
    5. Wireless Communication, UTexas (Prof. Ted Rappaport), http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~wireless/classes.php
    6. Wireless Classes, Washington University (Prof. Raj Jain), http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/
    7. Protocol and Systems Design for Wireless Mobile Networks, UCLA (Prof. Songwu Lu), http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/fall03/cs211/
    8. Other resource of William Stallings text book, http://williamstallings.com/Wireless1e.htmL
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