Rutgers University
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wireless System Instructional Design
(16:332:559), Spring 2004

INSTRUCTOR:

Narayan Mandayam can be reached at narayan@winlab.rutgers.edu

Guest Lecturers: Badri Nath, Max Ott, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Ivan Seskar

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will expose graduate students (typically in their second year of study)  in Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) as well as Computer Science (CS) to a design experience that will augment their knowledge base from  existing courses related to wireless communications systems at Rutgers.  This multidisciplinary course is intended to foster understanding and  hands-on design of wireless systems with emphasis on crosslayer issues.  The class structure will revolve around design experiments in an instructional laboratory (funded in part by Intel) that will be augmented by tutorial style lectures on the following topics:

•  RF propagation/measurements for an understanding of spectrum and interference issues
• Simulation, evaluation & implementation of physical (PHY) layer options
• Design and prototyping of medium access control (MAC) and radio link-layer options
• Design and evaluation of mobile network layer protocols including adhoc routing protocols and TCP
• Design of applications for a mobile and resource limited environment

Each student will be expected to participate as a member of a diverse ``interdisciplinary team" in three projects on the following aspects of wireless system design: PHY, MAC, Network and Application Layer Design

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS

• Information sheet and syllabus PDF
• Course Introduction Lecture 1 PPT
• Course Introduction Lecture 2 PPT
• Propagation Lecture 1 PPT
• Propagation Lecture 2 PPT
• Overview of 802.11 PPT
• Overview of 802.11 PHY PPT
• Overview of OFDM PPT
• Lecture on Noise Figures PPT
• Lecture on PHY Simulations PPT
• Overview of SPW PPT
• Lecture on MAC and Crosslayer Design PPT
• 802.11 MAC & PHY Crosslayer overview PDF
• 802.11 and Multihopping Lecture 1 PPT
• 802.11 and Multihopping Lecture 2 PPT
• Bluetooth Overview PDF
• Lecture on Wireless Networking PPT

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

• P1: WiFi Planning using SpectraPlan (Contact: Mandayam, Seskar)
• P2: WiFi  Performance Evaluation using SPW (Contact: Mandayam, Seskar)
• P3-A: MAC Scheduling and Reservations for QoS with UDP (Contact: Raychaudhuri)
• P3-B: MAC Scheduling and Reservations for QoS with TCP (Contact: Raychaudhuri)
• P4-A TCP Performance Analysis with Wireless Channel Awareness (Contact: Badrinath)
• P4-B Multihop TCP Performance with Wireless Channel Awareness (Contact: Badrinath)
• P4-C Location Tracking in a Mote Network (Contact: Badrinath)

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Dr. Pravin Bhagwat, Wibhu Technologies