EETS 8318 – Wireless Internet

Fall 2006

Course Information

  • Class Time : Saturday  9:00am-11:50am
  • Class Location : Caruth 129
  • Recommended Textbooks:

1.      “The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem”, 2nd edition, by Camarillo and Garcia-Martin, Wiley, ISBN 470018186

2.      "Bluetooth 1.1" by Bray and Sturman, Prentice Hall, 2001, Second Edition, ISBN 0-13-066106-6

3.      "Wireless Internet & Mobile Business – How to Program" by Deitel, Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 0-13-009288-6

  • Supplemental reading material from magazines, journals and conferences will be distributed in class.
  • Instructor: Dinesh Rajan, rajand@engr.smu.edu, Junkins 346, ext: 8-1259.
  • Office hours: TBD

Grading

  • Course Projects (60%).
    1. state of art wireless networks (25%)
    2. WAP using WML (35%)
  • Home works (25%)+class participation(5%) for  in class students
  • Home works (30%) for distance students
  • Midterm Exam (10%)

Topics

  • A comprehensive course in providing broad knowledge on IP Based Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Bluetooth, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and IEEE 802.1x wireless standards, technologies, protocols, and applications. Bluetooth is a wireless technology for small devices such as PDAs, cell phones, and computers to communicate seamlessly without cables or wires. IMS is envisioned to be the Next Generation Network technology to integrate wirleine and wireless data services and allows seamless mobility between WLAN and 3G wireless networks. The goal of WAP is to bring Internet content and advanced services to wireless handsets and other wireless terminals and to create a global wireless protocol specification to work across differing wireless network technologies. WML serves as the markup language for browser display on wireless devices This unique class is to baseline the current Bluetooth and WAP/WML standard effort and to define the parameters of the technical wireless communications environment. It explains the contributing technologies of the Bluetooth and WAP/WML in details, outlining new directions and products already emerging, and surveying the imminent technologies which create an brand of new telecommunications environment. Students will acquire hand-on experience in writing WAP/WML software applications as a term project.

Homeworks

 

The total points for all home works will be scaled to 25% for inclass and 30% for distance students.

 

Homework 1   (10 points)

1.  Read the following two papers and prepare a presentation outlining the main points.  Focus and comment on your interpretation and whether you agree/disagree with the ideas in the papers.  Justify your comments.  Feel free to use other references to strengthen your arguments about what you liked and disliked in the papers.

“Rethinking the design of the Internet – the end-to-end argument versus the brave new world”   

“Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow’s internet”

Home work is due September 2nd before class for inclass students – due Sept 16th for distance students.

You are allowed to work in groups of 2 for this homework.

 

 

* Disability Accommodations: Students needing academic accommodations for a disability must first contact Ms. Rebecca Marin, Coordinator, Services for Students with Disabilities (214-768-4557) to verify the disability and establish eligibility for accommodations. They should then schedule an appointment with the professor to make appropriate arrangements. (See University Policy No. 2.4.)
* Religious Observance: Religiously observant students wishing to be absent on holidays that require missing class should notify their professors in writing at the beginning of the semester, and should discuss with them, in advance, acceptable ways of making up any work missed because of the absence. (See University Policy No. 1.9.)
* Excused Absences for University Extracurricular Activities: Students participating in an officially sanctioned, scheduled University extracurricular activity will be given the opportunity to make up class assignments or other graded assignments missed as a result of their participation. It is the responsibility of the student to make arrangements with the instructor prior to any missed scheduled examination or other missed assignment for making up the work. (University Undergraduate Catalogue)

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