Unit of
Study Outline
Semester 1, March 2008
Instructor: Dr Abbas Jamalipour, Room 732,
Bldg. J03, Email: abbas at ee dot usyd dot edu dot au
Tutor: Mr. Kumudu
S. Munasinghe, Room 730, Email: kumudu at ee dot usyd dot edu dot au
Classes: Lectures: Wednesdays
11am 1 pm, Lecture Theatre 450, Bldg. J03 (EEB)
Tutorials: Mondays
Supporting Web Page for updated
announcements:
http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~abbas/courses/E5509/
* Please make sure to check this page (and
the notice board on the right side) regularly for any last minute update.
Text and Course Materials:
Text: A. Jamalipour,
The Wireless
John Wiley
& Sons Publishers,
For a
one-to-one mapping between lecture notes and the text, click here.
To help
with understanding the contents, Review
Questions are also prepared.
Lecture
Notes are available here.
Assumed Knowledge:
Basically, students need to know the
concepts of data communications and mobile communications, which could be
gained in one the following units of study:
UoS Aims and Objectives:
This unit of
study serves as an introduction to research on mobile networks and mobile
Internet. The unit relies on a good understanding of the data communications
and mobile networks. The unit introduces some of the currently most debated
research topics in mobile networking and presents an overview of different
technical solutions. The students are expected to critically evaluate these
solutions in their context and produce an objective analysis of
advantages/disadvantages of the different research proposals. Areas covered
will be wireless Internet, mobility management, quality of service in mobile and
IP networks, ad hoc networks, cellular network architectures, voice over IP,
and related topics.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of semester, students will be able to critically examine the new developments in the field of mobile communications and mobile Internet; and will get sufficient knowledge in the existing technologies for mobile Internet and will become ready for designing new elements for the next generation networks.
Graduate Attributes:
Through lectures, tutorials, and
seminars students will become able to:
1. Develop knowledge in advanced
and modern mobile communications systems
2. Apply this knowledge to real
situations and understand the merits and limitations of specific communication
systems
3. Have the ability to use
appropriate technology to develop communication systems addressing specific
needs
4. Develop and present their
ideas to others
Teaching and Learning Approach:
The unit consists of lectures which
provide theoretical background for advanced communication networks and mobile
Internet and, tutorials which provide the opportunity for students to get more
specific knowledge on a particular technology. The students will be asked also
to do some research and present their ideas in order to find a good practice
environment for research opportunities in the future and to learn how to
present their ideas to other people.
Workload requirements:
1. Contact Hours: 2 hours lecture and
2-hour tutorial per week
2. Students
are expected to spend at least 4 hours/wk besides tutorials and lectures
Consultation Times:
§
Wednesdays
Your Instructor and Tutor will be available at all times to answer your
enquiries, particular question on the topics, your comment and feedback on how
to improve any component of the unit. You can come directly to our office or
send us an email. Your comments will be
seriously considered and your constructive feedback to improve the learning and
teaching is greatly appreciated.
Student Feedback:
We would like to improve the teaching and learning methods of this unit
as early as there is any shortcoming. So please help us by providing comments
and suggestions at any time, by email or in person. Dont wait for the student
evaluation questionnaire at the end of semester.
Assessments and Examinations:
1.
Report
on weekly assignments, which is 10% of the overall semester mark. The guideline
for this assignment is available here.
Complete list of Review Questions is available here.
The 10% mark consists of tutorial attendance too. This is to encourage you to attend
the tutorial and to participate in the discussions.
2.
During
semester students will need to do some literature survey and summarize their
finding in the form of written reports and PowerPoint presentation. This will
be count as 15% of the overall semester mark. The guideline for this assignment
is available here.
3. A two-hour exam at the end of
semester will be count as 75% of the semester mark.
Syllabus (subject to change/modification*):
* This course is designed to be as flexible as possible to respond to the
new research and development activities in the field and to respond to the
feedback from students. We want to keep its contents as up-to-date as possible
thus being the most useful for all students.
1. Introduction
to wireless and mobile Internet
2. Wireless
cellular data networks
3. Cellular
mobile networks (GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS, cdma2000)
4.
5. Quality
of service in a mobile environment
6. Voice
over IP (VoIP)
·
An
overview of VoIP technology
·
Advantages
and disadvantages of VoIP technology
·
Overview
and comparison of voice compression schemes such as: PCM (a-law and mu-law),
ADPCM, CELP, ACELP, CS-ACELP
·
Voice
activity detection (VAD)
·
VoIP
signaling protocols SIP and H.323
·
VoIP
QoS protocols RSVP, Diffserv,
·
Overview
of VoIP soft-phones Skype and Linux platform based soft-phones
·
Customer
Premises Equipment (
·
Network
components Media Gateway, Media Server and switches
·
e911 - Current developments
7. Wireless
Internet security
8. Transport
protocols for mobile networks
9. Traffic
modeling and management for wireless Internet
10. Network
protocols for mobile networks
11. Mobile
IPv6