Wireless & Mobile Communications

Prof. Magda El Zarki

Dept. of ICS

UC, Irvine

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Topics/Chapters to be Covered in ICS 243E

Chapter 2: Wireless Transmission

Chapter 3: Medium Access Control

Chapter 4: Telecommunication

Systems

Chapter 7: Wireless

LAN

Chapter 9: Mobile Network Layer

Chapter 10: Mobile Transport Layer

Chapter 11: Support for Mobility

Chapter 1: Introduction

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Class Schedule

Week 1: Ch0, Ch1 Week 2: Ch2 Week 3: Ch3 Week 4: Haining Liu and Xiaoping Week 5: Jasmine Lei and James Marca Week 6: Ch4 Week 7: Ch7 Week 8: Ch9 Week 9: Ch10, Ch11 Week10: Student project presentations - 20mins. per group Final Week: Final closed book, 2 sheets of notes Grading: Final 40%, project 60%

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Classs Projects

Project Assignment 4 different projects under the guidance of a mentor

VOIP on IPAQs (Haining Liu)Adhouc Routing (Xiaoping Wei)Vehicular Communication (James Marca)Mobile IP (Jasmine Lei)

Assigned FCFS 2 groups per project area 4 students per project (or less if class size permits)

Timetable and Requirements Choose a topic by 4/9. Send email to elzarki@uci.edu asap

with a rank ordered list of projects. Last drop date: 4/9 Project Proposal by 4/16 Status reports (2 or 3 dependent on mentor) Final report and class presentation Demo

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Project Resources

Equipment and Tools 8 laptops with 5 Linux partitions

To be used by vehicle comm. project and adhoc routing project, each group gets to use 4 laptops. Vehicle project will use special antennas.

Mobile IP project needs the use of one laptop per group. 2 Racks with Cisco routers and Linux PCs (5 partitions each),

to be used by Mobile IP project in room CS 171 2 base stations mounted on East Peltason for vehicle comm.

project. 2 base stations for checkout. 4 dual boot (Linux and Windows) PCs in room CS 171 8 IPAQs for VOIP project NS simulation package and OPNET installed CS 171 - Graduate Project lab - key pad code: 75736

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Sharing Equipment

Sharing of Equipment: Equipment will be signed out and signed in by lab consultant in lab CS

364. Each group may sign out the equipment for a slot of time. If no one has

signed up for the next slot, the current group may sign up for it, but that may not be done in advance, must be done when signing the equipment back in.

The lab is open from 8am - 12 midnight weekdays (include. Friday)Each slot is 4 hours long starting from 8am.

The lab is open from 10am -10pm weekendsEach slot is 4 hours long starting from 10am.

Note that all equipment must be returned to lap consultant when the slot is over. Groups may check it out again if no other group has laid claim to the next slot time.

IPAQs will be assigned to the students and do not need to be checked in and checked out.

Any reports of equipment hogging with result in a reduction of the grade.

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Simple Reference Model Based on Internet Model

Application

Transport

Network

Data Link

Physical

Wireline Medium

Data Link

Physical

Application

Transport

Network

Data Link

Physical

Data Link

Physical

Network Network

Radio

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Mobile communications and the Reference Model

service location adaptive applications congestion and flow control quality of service addressing, routing,

device location hand-over authentication media access media access control multiplexing encryption modulation interference attenuation frequency

Application layer

Transport layer

Network layer

Data link layer

Physical layer