Bilkent University
Department of Computer Engineering
CS 515 - Mobile and Wireless Networking
Fall 2002

Instructor: Ibrahim Korpeoglu
Email: korpe@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
Class Hours: Wednesday  15:40-16:30; Friday 13:40-15:30
Classroom: EA 502
Office Hours: Thursday 10:40-12:00 (You can also come to my office at any time if you need to see me)
Course Webpage: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~korpe/courses/cs515/cs515.html

Recommended Textbooks:
    1) Theodore Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, December 2001.
      2) Yi-Bing Lin, Imrich Chlamtac, Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures, John Wiles & Sohns, 1st edition, 2000.
Reading List: You can access the papers in the reading list from the course web page.

Outline (tentative and subject to change):

Week Start Date   Topic
1 Sep 23 3 Introduction, History, Overview of Wireless Systems
2 Sep 30 3 Wireless Link Characteristics
3 Oct 7 3 Wireless Media Access
4 Oct 14 3 Handoff and Routing
5 Oct 21 3 Transport Protocols over Wireless
6 Oct 28 3 Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks
7 Nov 4 3 Wireless Local Area Networks
8 Nov 11 3 Wireless Wide Area Networks
9 Nov 18 3 Wireless Applications and Protocols
10 Nov 25 3 Quality of Service in Wireless/Mobile Networks
11 Dec 2 0 Holiday
12 Dec 9 3 Service and Device Discovery in Mobile Networks
13 Dec 16 3 Power Management
14 Dec 23 3 Introduction to Peer2Peer Networking
15 Dec 30 2 Wireless and Health, Visions and Wrap-up
      Final Exam

Grading Policy (tentative and subject to change):