TCOM 510: Wireless Networking

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TCOM 510 Wireless Networking Magda El
Zarki Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The Moore
School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia,
PA 19104, USA www. seas. upenn. edu/
magda magda_at_ ee. upenn. edu
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• Outline
• Ch 1 Introduction
• What is a wireless Network?
• History and background - Wireless Voice and Data
• History and background - Satellite Systems
• Ch 2 Digital Cellular Systems, Traffic
  Engineering and Capacity
• The cellular concept (based on first generation
  systems)
• Digital Access Technologies
• IS- 136 - North American TDMA
• GSM - European TDMA

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• Ch 3 Personal Communication Systems (PCS)
• Definition of PCS what is it?
• Requirements of PCS
• Evolution of current digital systems to PCS
• Ch 4 Wireless LANs
• Topologies and Media Access Schemes
• IEEE 802.11
• Ch 5 Wireless Broadband ISDN
• Introduction to ATM
• Wireless ATM

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• Reference Texts
• Wireless Personal Comm. Systems, D. J. Goodman,
  Addison Wesley
• Wireless Comm. Principles and Practice, T. S.
  Rappaport, Prentice Hall
• Wireless and Personal Comm. Systems, V. K. Garg
  and J. E. Wilkes, Prentice Hall
• Mobile and Wireless Networks, Uyless Black,
  Prentice Hall
• Wireless Information Networks, K. Pahlavan and
  A. H. Levesque, John Wiley Interscience
• Mobile IP, Charles Perkins, Addison Wesley