EL 639: Potential Projects
  • A survey of software radio
  • Broadcast HDTV
  • A comparative analysis of 802.11, HomeRF, and Bluetooth
  • DECT vs. Bluetooth
  • Wireless local loop: the state of the art and the future
  • The future of wireless data
  • A comparative analysis of GSM, IS-54, and IS-95

Suggested Reading

General/History

  •  Kucar, A.D., Mobile radio: An overview, IEEE Communications Magazine, 29(11), Nov, 1991, pp. 72-85.
  • Goodman, D.J., Second generation wireless information networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 40(2), May, 1991, pp. 366-374.

    •  Cox, D.C., Wireless personal communications: what is it?, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, 2(2), April, 1995, pp. 20-35.

GSM/IS-54/IS-95

  • Rahnema, M. Overview of the GSM system and protocol architecture. IEEE Communications Magazine, 31(4), April, 1993. pp. 92-100.
  • Jain, Cai; Goodman, D.J. General packet radio service in GSM. IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 35, Issue 10, Oct, 1997. pp. 122-131.
  • Drane, C.; Macnaughtan, M.; Scott, C. Positioning GSM telephones, IEEE Communications Magazine, 36(4), April, 1998. pp. 46-54, 59.
  • Asha Mehrotra, Cellular Radio: Analog and Digital Systems, Mobile Communication Series, Artech House Publishers, 1994. ISBN 0-89006-731-7.
  • Lajos Hanzo, The Pan-European Cellular System, Chapter 25: The Mobile Communications Handbook, CRC press, 1996, ISBN 0-8493-8573-3.
  • Paul Memelstein, The IS-54 Digital Cellular Standard, Chapter 26: The Mobile Communications Handbook, CRC press, 1996, ISBN 0-8493-8573-3.
  • Arthur H. M. Ross and Klein S. Gilhousen, CDMA Technology and the IS-95 North American Standard, Chapter 27: The Mobile Communications Handbook, CRC press, 1996, ISBN 0-8493-8573-3.

Wireless Data

  • Knisely, D.N.; Kumar, S.; Laha, S.; Nanda, S.; Cimini, L.J., Jr.; Chuang, J.C.-I.; Sollenberger, N.R. Evolution of wireless data services: IS-95 to cdma2000. IEEE Communications Magazine, 36(10), Oct, 1998 pp. 150-159.
  • Yi-Bing, Lin, Cellular digital packet data,  IEEE Potentials, 16(3), Aug-Sept, 1997, pp. 11-13.
  •  Frankel, Y.; Herzberg, A.; Karger, P.A.; Krawczyk, H.; Kunzinger, C.A.; Yung, M. Security issues in a CDPD wireless network. IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, 2(4), Aug, 1995. pp. 16-27

Wireless LANs

  • LaMaire, R.O.; Krishna, A.; Bhagwat, P.; Panian, J., Wireless LANs and mobile networking: standards and future directions, IEEE Communications Magazine, 34(8), Aug, 1996, pp. 86-94
  • Bantz, D.F.; Bauchot, F.J. Wireless LAN design alternatives, IEEE Network - Magazine of Global Information Exchange, 8(2), March-April, 1994, pp. 43-53.
  • Kwang-Cheng, Chen, Medium access control of wireless LANs for mobile computing, pp. IEEE Network - Magazine of Global Information Exchange, 8(5), Sept-Oct, 1994. 50-63.
  • Andren, C., IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN: can we use it for multimedia? IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, 5(2), April-June, 1998, pp. 84-89.

Software radio

Mobile IP

  • IETF Mobile IP working group.
  • Mobile IP tutorial.
  • Bhagwat, P.; Perkins, C.; Tripathi, S. Network layer mobility: an architecture and survey, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, 3(3), June, 1996, pp. 54-64.

Standards Activities
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Pravin Bhagwat (pravinb@us.ibm.com)  09/14/1999.