Wireless Networking & Mobile Computing (TM615)

A broad overview of wireless and personal communications. Examine fundamentals of mobile wireless communication, including the tradeoff between capacity and coverage in a cellular system and the role of frequency reuse, cell sectorization, and cell splitting. Explore second-generation radio architecture, together the principal 2G standards (GSM, ANSI-95, and ANSI-136). Study cell capacity of sample mobile wireless systems. Understand the importance of wireless data in the emerging fields of 2.5G and 3G wireless and mobile computing. Become acquainted with the new generation of mobile wireless packet data systems (GPRS/EDGE and cdma2000), their protocols and architectures. Prerequisite: TM610.