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EC-803 (A) · Wireless Network/Official Syllabus

Wireless Network (EC-803 (A)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Review of Cellular Networks

  • Mobile telephony, GSM, CDMA/CD, Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS)
  • Advancement and migrations
  • WLAN- PHY Layer and MAC Layer-IEEE 802.11 (a, b, g, ac), HIPERLAN, Wireless ATM
  • WiMAX- PHY Layer and MAC Layer- IEEE 802.16 (fixed and mobile)
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Unit 2

LTE systems

  • Introduction to 3GPP, LTE & LTE-A standards, LTE uplink/downlink
  • E-UTRAN architecture-Mobility and resource management, services, UTRAN- Architecture
  • HSDPA, HSUPA
  • OFDM, OFDMA, SISO system, MIMO system, OFDM-MIMO
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Unit 3

Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Introduction to wireless sensor network (WSN), WSN-Architecture
  • Coverage and placement, Topology management in WSN, Applications, Mobile WSN
  • Technologies for sensor nodes & networks, operating environment, Under water WSN
  • Security of WSN, MAC, Routing and Transport protocols for WSN
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Unit 4

Wireless routing Protocols

  • Medium access problems in wireless networks, Traditional routing
  • Mobile network layer- Mobile IP, Introduction to IPv4 and IPv6, Data forwarding procedure in Mobile IP (IPv4 and IPv6), Mobility management, Protocol trade-offs
  • Congestion window management
  • Mobile transport layer- Traditional TCP, mobile TCP, Indirect TCP, Reno, New-Reno, Tahoe, Vegas
  • UDP
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Unit 5

Internet of things (IoT) and GPS systems

  • IoT architecture, Main design principles and needed capabilities, IoT Devices and gateways
  • Case studies: Sensor body area network, Control of a smart home, Smart vehicles, Smart manufacturing and smart factory
  • Emerging IoT standards, IoT-protocols, IoT Local and wide area networking, IEEE 802.15 WPAN
  • Bluetooth-pico net, scatter net, Protocol stack, Interface between 802.11 and Bluetooth
  • Geolocation service techniques and standards. Introduction to GPS-aided GEO augmented navigation (GAGAN), E.911
  • ZigBee, UWB and RFID

Reference Books

  • Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology, Protocols and Applications
  • From Machine-to-Machine to the Internet of Things: Introduction to a New Age of Intelligence
  • OFDM for wireless communication
  • Wireless Networking Technology
  • Principle of wireless networks- A united approach
  • Wireless communication and networking
  • Wireless Sensor Networks, An information processing approach
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