Broadband Wireless Networking and Services, Fall Semester 2009

Yao-Jen Chang, email address: yjchang at cycu dot edu dot tw

Objective
1. Students will be exposed to a comprehensive coverage of modern topics of broadband wireless technology and business models.
2. Students will be able to identify important protocols, industrial practices, business models, and trend developments in broadband wireless.

Grading Policy
Participation (Presence, Challenging and Answers, & 3 Oral Presentations) 60%, Homework 40%

Homework
Weekly homework is presented on your own blog. See instructions about how to create blogs. You may take a look at some examples of homework.

Student Presentations
slides sample.

Selected Topics

• Introduction
• Design issues of wireless applications

Paradigms

• Cloud Computing, examples, Cloud Computing Talk by KF Lee

Applications

• Mobile Social Services for People with Disabilities
  
• Anomaly detection
  
• Indoor positioning (a survey)
  
• Task prompting
• Wayfinding
  
• Mobile Services
  

Wireless Networking

• Packet Network
  
• Random Multiple Access
• MAC
• CSMA
  
• TCP in wireless networks

Media Access Control

• 802.15
• 802.11 a/b/g, 802.11n, wireless mesh networks
• WiMAX Technology, WiMAX Technology (slides)
• z-wave

Digital communication

• Spread Spectrum
  
• OFDM, limitations

Cellular

• Evolutions of Cellular Phones
• historical review
  
• 2G, 3G, 4G,
• Technology beyond 3G

Discussion

• Points
• TED.com Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech

Selected Reading on Handheld Interface Design

• Designing a mobile communicator: combining ethnography and object-oriented design

• End user programming and context responsiveness in handheld prompting systems for persons with cognitive disabilities and caregivers
  

Past Homework