CSE 370 Back to CSE Courses

Course CSE370
Title Wireless and Mobile Networking
Credits 3
Course Coordinator Samir Das
Current Catalog Description

Wireless communication fundamentals. Link, network and transport layer protocols for wireless and mobile networking. Cellular networks. Wireless LANs. Wireless multihop networks. Mobile applications.

Prerequisite

CSE 310 or CSE 346

Course Goals
  • Understand why mobility makes network protocol design complex
  • Understand the characteristics of wireless channels
  • Learn existing related technologies
  • Be able to design and evaluate network protocols
Textbook
  • Mobile Communications, Jochen Schiller, Addison Wesley, 2000
  • Principles of Wireless Networks, Pahlavan and Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, 2002
Major Topics Covered in Course
  • Motivation/need for mobile network access. Fundamental technical issues. (1 week)
  • Radio propagation modeling and physical layer issues (2 weeks)
  • Multiple access protocols - TDMA, FDMA, CDMA. (1 week)
  • Random access protocols - Aloha and CSMA (2 weeks)
  • Wireless LANs (2 weeks)
  • Routing layer protocols. IP mobility. Ad hoc network routing. (2 weeks)
  • TCP on wireless networks (1 week)
  • Cellular networks fundamentals. Channel assignment. (2 weeks)
  • Building mobile applications. Disconnected operations (1 week)
Laboratory Projects
  • 4 week long simulation-based projects evaluating mobile/wireless networking protocols.
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Department of Computer Science • Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400 • 631-632-8470 or 631-632-8471