Syllabus - Wireless Network (EC 803 (A))

Electronics & Communication Engineering

Wireless Network (EC 803 (A))

VIII-Semester

Unit 1

Review of Cellular Networks

Mobile telephony, GSM, CDMA/CD, Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). Advancement and migrations. WLAN- PHY Layer and MAC Layer-IEEE 802.11 (a, b, g, ac), HIPERLAN, Wireless ATM, WiMAX- PHY Layer and MAC Layer- IEEE 802.16 (fixed and mobile).

Unit 2

LTE systems

Introduction to 3GPP, LTE & LTE-A standards, LTE uplink/downlink, E-UTRAN architecture-Mobility and resource management, services, UTRAN- Architecture , HSDPA, HSUPA, OFDM, OFDMA, SISO system, MIMO system, OFDM-MIMO.

Unit 3

Wireless Sensor Networks

Introduction to wireless sensor network (WSN), WSN-Architecture, Coverage and placement, Topology management in WSN, Applications, Mobile WSN, Technologies for sensor nodes & networks, operating environment, Under water WSN, Security of WSN, MAC, Routing and Transport protocols for WSN

Unit 4

Wireless routing Protocols

Medium access problems in wireless networks, Traditional routing, Mobile network layer- Mobile IP, Introduction to IPv4 and IPv6, Data forwarding procedure in Mobile IP (IPv4 and IPv6), Mobility management, Protocol trade-offs, Congestion window management, Mobile transport layer- Traditional TCP, mobile TCP, Indirect TCP, Reno, New-Reno, Tahoe, Vegas. UDP.

Unit 5

Internet of things (IoT) and GPS systems

IoT architecture, Main design principles and needed capabilities, IoT Devices and gateways, Case studies: Sensor body area network, Control of a smart home, Smart vehicles, Smart manufacturing and smart factory. Emerging IoT standards, IoT-protocols, IoT Local and wide area networking, IEEE 802.15 WPAN, Bluetooth-pico net, scatter net, Protocol stack, Interface between 802.11 and Bluetooth. Geolocation service techniques and standards. Introduction to GPS-aided GEO augmented navigation (GAGAN), E.911, ZigBee, UWB and RFID.

Course Outcome

["Review the concepts of wireless and mobile communication", "Understand LTE and OFDM technologies for mobile telephony", "Understand the basic concepts of wireless sensor network", "Understand mobile networking and compare transport layer protocols for mobile and traditional networks", "Understand the technology and standards of IoT, ZigBee"]

Practicals

Reference Books

  • Kaveh Pahlavan, Prashant Krishnamoorthy – Principle of wireless networks- A united approach- Pearson Education,2002

  • Vijay K. Garg – Wireless communication and networking – Morgan-Kaufmann series in networking- Elsevier publication

  • Feng Zhao and Leonidas Guibas – Wireless Sensor Networks, An information processing approach - Morgan Kaufmann publication

  • Kazem Sohraby, Daniel Minoli and Taieb Znati- Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology, Protocols and Applications - Wiley publication

  • Jan Holler, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Catherine Mulligan, Stefan Avesand, Stamatis Karnouskos, David Boyle, “From Machine-to-Machine to the Internet of Things: Introduction to a New Age of Intelligence”, 1st Edition, Academic Press,2014.

  • Ramji Prasad “OFDM for wireless communication”

  • Steve Rackley “Wireless Networking Technology.