Educational guide 2012_13 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
I. Introduction	1. Historical evolution of wireless networks 1.1. Historical evolution since the first transmissions of Marconi, radio, television, cellular telephony revolution and broadband connection 2. Environment characteristics 3. Physical layer 4. Medium access control alternatives
II. Principles of operation of wireless networks	1. Topology 1.1 Cellular topology 2. Planning 3. Mobility 3.1 Localization 3.2 Handoff 3.3 Mobile IP
III. Wireless PAN and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)	1. Bluetooth 2. ZigBee 3. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) 4. Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN)
IV. Wireless LAN	1. Introduction and historical evolution 2. IEEE 802.11 family 2.1. Physical layer 2.2. Medium Access Control 2.3. Security and access control 2.4. Quality of service 3. Network architectures (ad-hoc mode and infrastructure mode) 4. MANETs (Mobile Adhoc Networks) 4.1. Routing Protocols 5. VANETs (Vehicular Adhoc Networks)
V. Wireless WAN: WiMAX	1. Introduction and historical evolution 2. IEEE 802.16 2.1. Physical layer 2.2. Medium Access Control 2.3. Security and access control 2.4. Quality of service 3. IEEE 802.16e mobility
VI. Telephony and data networks	1. Introduction and historical evolution 2. GSM 3. GPRS 4. UMTS (3G) 5. HSDPA (3.5G) 6. 4G and LTE 7. User terminals (HW & SW architectures)
VII. Mid-time evolution	1. Presentations on: - Evolution of networks in wireless communication - Wireless Ubiquitous networks - New services over wireless networks