EEE598 Wireless Networks
Contents
Resources
Information Theory
Statistics
- Area under the curve calculator, normal curve
- Statistics calculators
- Higher order statistics tutorial
Digital Communications
History
- Andrew Viterbi interviewed by David Morton, 29 October 1999, San Diego, CA
- "The Quiet Genius, Andrew J. Viterbi" by Trudy Bell
Project: Presentation on Thursday, 8 November
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.
Acronyms
- 1xEV-DO Single Carrier (1x) Evolution Data Optimized
- 1xRTT Single Carrier (1x) Radio Transmission Technology
- 2G Second Generation
- 3G Third Generation
- 4G Fourth Generation
- 3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
- 3GPP2 Third Generation Partnership Project Two
- AAA Authentication Authorization Accounting
- AAS Adaptive Antenna System
- ACR Access Control Router
- AGW Access Gateway
- AP Access Point
- BF Beamforming
- CCTV Closed Circuit Television
- CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
- CDN Content Delivery Network
- DNS Domain Name System
- DSL Digital Subscriber Line
- ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- EV-DO EVolution Data Optimized
- FDD Frequency Division Duplex
- FTTH Fiber to the Home
- GSM Global System for Mobile communications
- HA Home Agent
- HiperMAN High Performance Radio Metropolitan Area Network
- HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access
- HSS Home Subscriber Server
- HSUPA High Speed Uplink Packet Access
- IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
- IMT International Mobile Telecommunications
- IP Internet Protocol
- IPR Intellectual Property Rights
- IPTV Internet Protocol Television
- ITU International Telecommunication Union
- LAN Local Area Network
- LTE Long Term Evolution
- MIMO Multiple Input, Multiple Output
- MMD MultiMedia Domain
- MP3 MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) Layer 3
- NGN Next Generation Network
- OAM Operations Administration Maintenance
- OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
- OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
- PC Personal Computer
- PCF Packet Control Function
- PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
- PDA Personal Digital Assistant
- PDSN Packet Data Serving Node
- QoS Quality of Service
- SAE System Architecture Evolution
- SIP Session Initiation Protocol
- SISO Single Input, Single Output
- SDM Space Division Multiplexing
- STC Space Time Coding
- TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
