7CS2 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION & NETWORKS (Comp. Engg.)
  Units    Contents of the subjects
I
Introduction to Wireless CommuniIntroduction Communication Systems: Evolution of mobile Radio Communications, Applications of mobile communication, Mobile Radio Systems Around the World, Example of Wireless Communication Systems, Second Generation(2G) Cellular Networks, Third Generation(3G) Wireless Networks, Frequency Reuse, Channel Assignment Strategies, Handoff Strategies, Interference and System Capacity, Improving Coverage and Capacity in Cellular Systems [3].Frequencies for radio transmission & regulations [1]. Introduction to signals, analog & digital data transmission, transmission impairments, effect of multipath propagation, type of fading & error compensation [2].
II
Medium access control: need for specialized MAC, hidden and exposed terminal, near and far terminals, MAC schemes: Fixed TDMA, Aloha, CSMA, DAMA, PRMA, reservation TDMA, MACA, polling, ISMA, CDMA- SAMA, comparisons [1]. Telecommunication systems: GSM: mobile services, system architecture, radio interface, protocols, localization and calling, handover, security, new data services-HSCSD, introduction to GPRS [1,3].
III
Wireless LAN: advantages, disadvantages and design goals, infra red v/s radio transmission, infrastructure and ad-hoc network, IEEE 802.11: System architecture, protocol architecture, physical layer, medium access control layer, MAC management and functions, brief idea of - 802.11b, 802.11a, newer developments [1]. HIPERLAN: HIPERLAN 1, Bluetooth: user scenarios, architecture, radio layer, base band layer, link manager protocol, L2CAP, security, SDP, profiles, IEEE 802.15 [1].
IV
Mobile network layer: mobile IP - Goals, assumptions and requirements, entities and terminology, IP packets delivery, agent discovery, registration, tunneling and encapsulation, optimizations, reverse tunneling, DHCP. Mobile Ad hoc network – usage & routing- global state routing (GSR), Destination sequenced distance vector routing (DSDV), Dynamic source routing (DSR), Ad Hoc on demand distance vector routing (AODV), Temporary ordered routing algorithm (TORA) [1]. Mobile transport layer: Implications of mobility in Traditional TCP, classical TCP improvements:
indirect TCP, snooping TCP, mobile TCP, fast retransmit/fast recovery, transmission/time-out freezing, selective retransmission, transaction-oriented TCP [1].
V
Support for mobility: File systems - Introduction to coda, little work, Ficus, MIo-NFS, rover. World wide web - hypertext transfer protocol, hypertext language, system architecture. Wireless Application Protocol - architecture, wireless datagram protocol, wireless transport layer security, wireless transaction protocol, wireless session protocol, wireless application environment, wireless markup language, WML Script, wireless telephony application, push architecture, push/pull services, example stacks with WAP1.x [1].

 

Text/References:
1. Mobile Communications, Schiller, 2nd Ed., Pearson.
2. Wireless Communications, Theodore S. Rappaport, 2nd Ed., PHI.
3. Wireless Communications, William Stallings, Prentice Hall
4. WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKING, Vijay Garg, The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking