Wireless NetworksCS 442

Department of Computer ScienceDr. Yaser Khamayseh

Goals of the Course

• Learn about the unique challenges in wireless networking

• Gain an understanding of wireless technologies at the physical, MAC, and higher layers

» Focus is on the wireless protocol layer• Get experience in working with wireless networks

» Implementing protocols algorithms, protocols, …

» Measurements of wireless networks• Get a broad view of the ongoing research in thewireless domain» Focus on the protocol level

Course Contents

• Lectures: unique features of wireless• Surveys of advanced research topics• Project: team-based, hands-on

Grading

• First Exam 20%• Second Exam 20%• Final Exam 40%• Homeworks 10%• Project 10%

Projects Topics

• Technologies• Standards• Wireless Products• Applications• Security

Contact Information

• Office Hours– Sunday to Thursday: 10:15 – 11:15PH3 – CS Departmentyaser@just.edu.jo

Histroy

• Wireless telegraph invented by Guglielmo Marconi in 1896

• Tesla credited with first radio communication in 1893

• First telegraphic signal traveled across the Atlantic ocean in 1901

• Used analog signals to transmit alphanumeric characters