MET TC 765

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS

Summer 1 2001

Course Overview

This course is a survey of the design and implementation of this course provides in-depth coverage of wireless and mobile communication systems. Discussion of PCS (Personal Communication Systems) technologies, including digital radio systems, cellular radio, digital cellular, wireless LANs, wireless data WANs, and Internetworking. Overview of PCN (Personal Communication Networks), GSM, 2.5G, and 3G.

Course Prerequisites

Prereq: MET CS 535 and TC 650, or consent of instructor. We assume that students have a basic level of knowledge of computer networks and communication systems thus we will spend only a small fraction of lecture time reviewing introductory material.

Group Requirement:

All student groups must develop and implement a home page by the middle of the second week.

Group Project:

The group project will develop a max 15 page case study on a recent novel topic, with a related PowerPoint Presentation. This material will be posted on the WWW. The specific software services (if any) will be installed and demonstrated on the private LAN in our TelecomLab.

Course Format and Grading Policy

New material will be presented in lecture format. Presentations, exercises and assignment solutions will take place in discussion. Participation in the discussions, although not mandatory, is strongly recommended and may result in extra credit.

Four homework assignments/quizzes, one project, a midterm and a final examination will provide the basis for the grade. Late submission will not be accepted unless permission by the instructor was given prior to the due date.

No predetermined scale will be used. The final grade will be assigned based on the following weighting

Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated. They will result in no credit for the assignment or examination. This should not be understood as a discouragement for discussing the material or your particular approach to a problem with other students in the class. On the contrary - I urge you to share your thoughts, questions and solutions, for example over e-mail. Naturally, if you choose to work in a group, I will be expecting more than one and highly original solutions rather than the same mistakes.

Text

Required Texts:

 D. J. Goodman, Wireless Personal Communication Systems, Addison Wesley,1997 ISBN: 0-201-63470-8

  Tanenbaum, A. S. Computer Networks (Third Edition), Prentice Hall, 1996 (tc535 Textbook)

 Relevant Internet RFCs

Readings (These texts are available for review from the instructor):

  1. Tero Ojanpera, Ramjee Prasad, et al., WCDMA: Towards IP Mobility and Mobile Internet, Artech House Pub.,2000
  2. Ramjee Prasad, et al., Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems, Artech House Pub.,2000
  3. Harri Holma, Antti Toskala, WCDMA for UMTS, ," John Wiley, 2000
  4. Vijay K. Garg, Joseph E. Wilkers, Principles & Applications of GSM, Prentice-Hall:Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999
  5. Vijay K. Garg, Joseph E. Wilkers, Wireless and Personal Communications Systems, Prentice-Hall:Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996
  6. Jennifer Bray, Charles F. Sturman, BLUETOOTH: Connect Without Cables, Prentice-Hall:Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001
  7. Zoran Zvonar, Peter Jung, Karl Kammerlander, GSM: Evolution Towards 3rd Generation Systems, Kluwer, 1999
  8. William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, Firewalls and Internet Security, Addison-Wesley Pub., 1994
  9. C. Huitema, "IPv6: The New Internet Protocol," Prentice-Hall:Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998
  10. John J. Amoss, John J. Amos, "IP Applications With ATM," McGraw Hill, 1998
  11. G. Held, "High-Speed Networking with LAN Switches," Wiley, 1997
  12. F. Kuo, et al, (eds) "Multimedia Communications Protocols and Applications," Prentice Hall, 1998
  13. R. Steinmetz, K. Nohrstedt, "Multimedia: Computing, Communications & Applications," Prentice-Hall:Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995
  14. D. Minoli and E. Minoli, "Delivering Voice over IP Networks," John Wiley, 1998
  15. R. A. Dayem, "Mobile Data & Wireless LAN Technologies," Prentice-Hall, 1997

Course Information

Course Calendar (Tues., Thurs., 6-9:30 p.m.)

Solutions

Assignments and Project

Group Web Pages

Notes to the Lectures

FAQ

Interactive Classroom

Sign up for the interactive classroom to view your scores, submit homework, or simply chat about topics discussed in class. All you need is request an account by accessing the Interactive Classroom and clicking at the 'Request an Account' button under the 'Student' heading.

IPv6 Sites

ATM Sites

Networked Multimedia Sites

Mobile and Wireless Computing Sites

Networked Security

·        Cryptography and Security

·        Wack, John and Carnahan, Lisa. National Institute for Information Science and Technology. "Keeping Your Site Comfortably Secure: An Introduction to Internet Firewalls." http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/nistpubs/800-10/main.html

 

Interested Materials and Tutorials

 

Telecom Useful Resources

Organizations

·         Technical Committee on Computer Communication (TCCC)

Page prepared by Rumen Stainov
Boston University, MET Computer Science Department, 808 Commonwealth Ave., room 259, Boston, MA 02215, phone: 617-358-0005, fax: 617-353-2367, e-mail:rstainov@bu.edu
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