Wireless and Mobile Networks

• Wireless Link Characteristics
• Mobile vs Wireless
• Wireless Networking Challenges
• Peer-to-Peer or Base Stations?
• Characteristics of Selected Wireless Link Standards
• Wireless Network Taxonomy
• Hidden Node Problem
• Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum CDMA
• DS Spectrum
• Two Sender CDMA Example
• Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
• Spectrum
• Review: Wireless Link Characteristics
• Wireless LANs and PANs
• IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN PHYs
• 802.11: Passive/Active Scanning
• 4-Way Handshake
• IEEE 802.11 MAC
• IEEE 802.11 Architecture
• Transmission Example
• Frame Format
• MAC Frame Fields
• 802.11 Frame Address Fields
• Beacon Frame Format
• Lab 7
• 802.11 Rate Adaptation
• Power Management
• Bluetooth
• IEEE 802.15.4
• IEEE 802.15.4 MAC
• Review: Wireless LANs and PANs
• Cellular Networks
• Cellular Telephony Generations
• GSM Cellular Architecture
• Evolved Packet System (EPS)
• Review: Cellular Networks
• Mobility Management
• Mobility: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Mobile IP: Mechanisms
• GSM: Routing to Mobile
• GSM: Handoff with Common MSC
• GSM: Handoff between MSCs
• Review: Mobility Management
• Impact on Higher Layer Protocols

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