Instructor: Professor Joseph Camp
Email: "camp" AT "lyle.smu.edu"
Phone: 214-768-8541 Fax: 214-768-3573
Office location: 340 Junkins Building, SMU campus
Office hours: MW, 9am-10:30am

Time/Place (in-lab lecture): 11am-12:20pm Tuesday and Thursday, Junkins 215
Additional Lab Time in Junkins 215:
Mondays: 8:30-11am
Tuesdays: 6-9pm
Wednesdays: 10-12:30pm
Thursdays: 8:30-11am AND 7-9:30pm

Course Description: A project-based course in which students implement a family of wireless protocols on embedded microprocessors. Topics range from wireless networking protocols including Aloha, CSMA, and 802.11, embedded programming in C, interrupt-driven operation, and FPGA-based design.

Background: Proficiency in object-oriented programming is required for projects and labs.

Lectures, Labs, and Project Deadlines

Grading

50% Lab Assignments
40% Project Reports (Proposal 5%, Progress Report 15%, Final Report 20%)
10% Project Presentations (Progress and Final Reports)

You may discuss lab assignments with classmates but all solutions must be original and individually prepared. Late lab assignments will be penalized at 15% of its full credit per day up to a maximum of 4 days, after which no late work will be accepted.

The SMU Honor Code will be strictly enforced.

Required Textbook: None. Suggested textbook for Design on FPGAs for reference with lectures (especially Week 2) and projects: Introduction to Embedded System Design Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Rahul Dubey.

The FPGA-based hardware platform, Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP), repository can be found here.

Topics

Medium access in wireless networks including IEEE 802.11
Modulation Rate Adaptation
Routing
Embedded Programming
Interrupt-Driven Operation
Programming FPGAs and Microprocessors (PowerPC)