CS2045 WIRELESS NETWORKS Syllabus


CS2045                                  WIRELESS NETWORKS               L T P C 
                                                                                                              3  0  0 3  

UNIT I    WIRELESS COMMUNICATION                   7
Cellular  systems- Frequency Management and Channel Assignment-  types of handoff
and their characteristics, dropped call rates & their evaluation - MAC – SDMA – FDMA –
TDMA – CDMA – Cellular Wireless Networks

UNIT II    WIRELESS LAN                        9
 IEEE 802.11 Standards – Architecture – Services – Mobile Ad hoc Networks- WiFi and
WiMAX - Wireless Local Loop

UNIT III  MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS                11
GSM-architecture-Location  tracking  and  call  setup-  Mobility  management-  Handover-
Security-GSM SMS –International roaming for GSM- call recording functions-subscriber
and service data mgt –-Mobile Number portability  -VoIP service  for Mobile Networks –
GPRS  –Architecture-GPRS  procedures-attach  and  detach  procedures-PDP  context
procedure-combined RA/LA update procedures-Billing


UNIT IV  MOBILE NETWORK AND TRANSPORT LAYERS              9 
Mobile  IP  –  Dynamic  Host  Configuration  Protocol-Mobile  Ad  Hoc  Routing  Protocols–
Multicast routing-TCP over Wireless Networks – Indirect TCP – Snooping TCP – Mobile
TCP  –  Fast  Retransmit  /  Fast  Recovery  –  Transmission/Timeout  Freezing-Selective
Retransmission – Transaction Oriented TCP- TCP over 2.5 / 3G wireless Networks

UNIT V   APPLICATION LAYER                     9
WAP Model- Mobile Location based  services  -WAP Gateway –WAP protocols – WAP
user agent profile- caching model-wireless bearers for WAP - WML – WMLScripts - WTA
- iMode- SyncML

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Jochen Schiller, “Mobile Communications”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
2. William Stallings, “Wireless Communications and Networks”, Pearson Education,  
    2002.

REFERENCES:
1. Kaveh Pahlavan, Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, “Principles of Wireless Networks”, First    
    Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
2. Uwe Hansmann, Lothar Merk, Martin S. Nicklons and Thomas Stober, “Principles of
    Mobile Computing”, Springer, 2003.
3. C.K.Toh, “AdHoc Mobile Wireless Networks”, First Edition, Pearson Education, 2002.



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