Mobile Networks

Aim

After the course, the students are expected to be able to:

• Explain, discuss, and analyze the basic types of protocols, communication channels, and network types associated with mobile and wireless networking
• Explain, discuss, and analyze fundamental performance tradeoffs, including showing an understanding of where delays can occur in a network, what different types of delay and packet losses that exist, the impact of packet losses and jitter have on various protocols, and the energy consumption in different devices and architectures
• Apply and analyze of the network architecture and the protocols associated with the different layers; explain how they are implemented, and the conditions under which they are designed and operate
• Explain and analyze the most common architectures used for wireless communication, how the most important protocols work, and the service they provide
• Design and implement their own application-layer protocols and services for the context of mobile and wireless networks

Content

This course offers an in-depth coverage of mobile and wireless networks, and will help build a deep hands-on understanding of techniques and methods that are used for mobile communication. The course focuses on tcp/ip-based networks, with a particular emphasis on the performance aspects associated with applications and upper-layer protocols. The course will consider both the impact underlying protocols, architectures, and techniques have on the performance at the upper layers, as well as the design tradeoffs associated with the protocols and architectures themselves. The course will also discuss sustainability related issues such as battery consumption, power-awareness, as well as more traditional performance tradeoffs and reliability issues. Network simulation and analysis of protocols and architectures. The course content will be adjusted based on current trends and the research frontier.