EEE620 Wireless Mobile Networks L T P C

3 0 2 4
Version No: 1.01
Prerequisite: Modulation Theory

Objectives:
To know about the various spectrum allocation standards and BW allocation, to initiate into the
world of Mobile Communication System and to keep abreast of the future of mobile
communication.
Expected Outcome: Will train the students on various generation of Wireless networks.
Unit I
Wireless transmission: Introduction to Wireless mobile networks and its applications;
Frequencies for radio transmission-Signals-Antennas-Signal propagation-multiplexing-
Modulation-Spread spectrum-Cellular systems.

Unit II
Medium access control: Motivation for a specialized MAC-SDMA-FDMA-TDMA-CDMA-
Comparison of S/T/F/CDMA IS-95, CDMA2000 1X/3X-WCDMA (3G).

Unit III
Telecommunications systems: GSM-Mobile services-system architecture, radio interface,
protocols, localization and calling, Handover, Security, New data services- GPRS,EDGE
(2.5G),UMTS and IMT-2000 (3G).

Unit IV
Mobile Network layer: Mobile IP-Goals and requirements, entities and terminology, IP packet
delivery, Agent discovery, Registration, Tunneling and encapsulation, optimizations, IPV6 343,
IP micro-mobility support; Dynamic host configuration protocol; Mobile ad-hoc networks.

Unit V
Mobile Transport layer: Traditional TCP- Congestion control, Slow start, Fast retransmit/fast
recovery, Implications of mobility; Classical TCP improvements-Indirect TCP 375, Snooping
TCP 378, Mobile TCP 380, Fast retransmit/fast recovery 382, Transmission/time-out freezing
383, selective retransmission 383, Transaction-oriented TCP 384, TCP over 2.5/3G wireless
networks, Performance enhancing proxies.

Textbook
1. Mobile Communication, Jochen Schiller, Second Edition, PEARSON Education, 2003.
Reference Books
1. Wireless Communications principles and practice, Theodore S. Rappaport, second edition,
Prentice Hall of India, 2006.
2. Wireless Information Networks, K. Pahlavan and A. Levesque, John Wiley and Sons, second
edition, 2005.
Mode of Evaluation: CAT- I & II, Assignments/ Quiz, Term End Examination/Projects.


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Wireless Mobile Networks Lab

List of Experiments
1. Simulation and analysis of TDMA,FDMA,SDMA,CDMA
2. Analysis of handover in mobile communication

Simulation using opnet:
1. To design and analysis WLAN based on Throughput and Delay for various packet size.
2. To design the impact of the RTS/CTS mechanism on Throughput and Delay with
respect to varying packet size in a WLAN network.
3. Determine impact of legacy 11b nodes on an 11g WLAN network.
a. Study ways to alleviate the degradation in performance caused by 11b nodes in
b. an 11g WLAN network. Use the Wireless Deployment Wizard to deploy a
c. wireless network
4. Assess the network ability of heavily loaded high-quality voice application together with
HTTP application on an 11g infrastructure Wireless LAN BSS operating at 6 Mbps with
deployment of QoS functionalities of 802.11e.
a. Improve the performance of the network further by adjusting 802.11e
b. parameters based on application load and topology conditions in the network.
5. To design, implement and test an idea of to enhance the efficiency of WLAN medium
access algorithm.
6. Design of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) for (3G)
7. Wireless protocol .
8. To construct an M/M/1 queue model and observe the performance of the queuing
9. System as the packet arrival rates, packet sizes, and service capacities change.
10. Two classes of statistics will be measured, Queue Delay and Queue Size. This
a. laboratory also introduces the use of:
Node Model
Probe Model

Simulation using NS2:
11. Simulation of Simple network topology using NS2
12. Performance analysis of Various protocols AODV, DSDV, DSR
13. Performance comparison of FTP over TCP based on Throughput.






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