EEE598 Wireless Networks

Resources

Statistics

• Area under the curve calculator, normal curve
• Statistics calculators
• Hiher order statistics tutorial

Digital Communications

• Erlang calculator

History

• Andrew Viterbi interviewed by David Morton, 29 October 1999, San Diego, CA

Project

Project Topic Selection

Choose 3 topics from last 12 lectures for term paper/presentation:

• 10/16/07 Ad-hoc Network 1

From this point onwards, we cover more speculative and research oriented material, for which no commercial system has been deployed. Fundamentals of Ad-hoc network. Network clustering. Mesh networks.

• 10/18/07 Ad-hoc Network 2

Ad-hoc networking routing protocols such as AODV, DSR. Material taken mostly from: Ad Hoc Networking by Charles Perkins for the three lectures on ad-hoc networks.

• 10/23/07 Ad Hoc Network 3

Applications and concerns of ad hoc networks, e.g. sensor networks, power consumption, reliability and security.

• 10/25/07 4G Networks 1

Advances of gigabit wireless transmission: MIMO and OFDM

• 10/30/07 4G Networks 2

Wimax network protocol

• 1/1/07 4G Networks 3

Applications of Wimax. Other emerging 4G technologies.

• 1/6/07 Towards Gigabit LAN and PAN 1

Various sources UWB networks applied to multimedia home networks.

• 1/8/07 Towards Gigabit LAN and PAN 2

60 GHz radio. Propagation properties. Potential applications. Research issues.

• 1/13/07 Towards Gigabit LAN and PAN 3

Applications. Wireless storage networks. Wireless USB. Wireless PCI, etc.

• 1/15/07 Wireless Application I

Mobile management. Mobile IP.

• 1/20/07 Wireless Application 2

Network storage applications. Network coding. Wireless Bit Torrent and Avalanche.

• 1/27/07 Wireless Application 3

Security concerns. Research issues for next generation of wireless Internet.