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Course Announcements
Important Announcements
(Here, you'll find important and current announcements related
to the course. Please check this section often.)
Thank you for taking the
course. I hope that it was educational and enjoyable.
Have a safe
and fun summer vacation!
Permanent and Old Announcements
You can pick up solutions
of HW#8 from the door of 324 Rhodes Hall.
You can pick up your
graded HW#7 and HW#8 from 314 Rhodes Hall (Daniel's office) during regular
business hours.
The final exam
is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14, 7:00PM-9:30PM in room 101 Phillips Hall.
The final exam will
include all the material covered in the course, but with emphasis on the
material after the midterm exam.
The final exam is closed
books, but you can bring your own one double-sided page
of formulas. Also, please bring a calculator.
There will be a Q&A
session on Friday, May 10, from 2:00pm-3:00pm (or until we are done with all
the questions). The session will be held in room 403
Phillips Hall.
Prof. Haas will hold his
regular office hours (Wednesdays, 2:30pm-4:30pm) until the final exam date.
You can pick up solutions
of HW#8 from the door of 324 Rhodes Hall.
You can pick up your
graded HW#7 from 324 Rhodes Hall during Prof. Haas's office hours or during the
Q&A session on Friday, May 10.
A link to the paper "Channel
Occupancy Time Distribution in a Cellular Radio System"
A link to the paper "Dynamic
Location Area Management and Performance Analysis" by Xie, Tabbane, and Goodman
HW#8 is due on Friday, May
3, at 12:00pm (however, extensions will be granted, if requested).
Reading Assignment
for the week of April 29: Chapter 11 + [Xie, Tabbane, and Goodman, "Dynamic
Location Area Management and Performance Analysis"
Correction of
problem #5 on HW#8: It should
state: "Repeat problem 4" (and not "Repeat problem 3")
A link to G.P. Pollini's article on "Trends
in Handover Design"
Phil Karn's article
on MACA. (See also Phil Karn's web page discussing the MACA
protocol.)
Please note the change in
the due date of HW#7; it is now due on Monday, April 29.
HW#7 is due on Monday,
April 29, at 12:00pm
Reading Assignment
for the week of April 22: Chapter 10
Prof. Haas's office
hours on Wednesday, April 24, will be: 3:00pm-5:00pm.
Reading Assignment
for the week of April 15: Chapter 9
Prof. Haas's office hours on
Wednesday, April 10, will be from 2:00pm-3:50pm.
The makeup class
on Tuesday, April 9, 10:10am-11:25am will be held in room 307 Phillips Hall.
Based on the doddle poll,
the makeup class (for the cancelled class of Tuesday, March 26) is now
scheduled for Tuesday, April 9, 10:10am-11:25am. Please make every effort to
attend.
The average of the midterm
exam was: 81.2 and the standard deviation: 27.4.
Please cast your doddle vote here to
schedule a makeup class (for the cancelled class of Tuesday, March 26). Please mark all the time-slots that you can attend (be
as inclusive as possible). Poll ends on Friday, April 5, 2013.
Announcement
of a seminar by Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu
on Wednesday, April 3 at 12:00noon in room 310 Rhodes Hall.
HW#5 is due on Friday, March
29, at 12:00pm
Have a
safe and enjoyable Spring Break !!!
The final exam
of the course is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 7:00pm-9:30pm.
The midterm exam
is scheduled for Thursday, March 14, in class. The exam is
closed-books. Please bring a calculator.
Download the
first 6
parts of the course's slides.
Note the correction in HW#4 in
question 3.
HW#4 is due Tuesday, March 12,
at 12:00pm
Read additional notes on Reuse
Partitioning
Article on Reuse
Partitioning [S.W.
Halpern, "Reuse Partitioning in cellular Systems"]
Article on
Interference-Adaptation Dynamic Channel Assignment [Haas,
Winters, and Johnson, "Simulation Results of the Capacity of Cellular
Systems"]
Clarification to
problem 5 on HW#3:
Use the "Maximally-Packed
Dynamic Channel Allocation" scheme, as described in the paper by Everitt (distributed in class).
HW#3 was due on Friday, March 1, at 12:00pm.
In HW#2,
you can use the approximate formula for calculating SIR.
Reading Assignment
for the week of February 4: Chapter 3 (again) + [W. Lee's article "Elements
of Cellular Mobile Radio Systems"] (Note that the above link is to the
IEEE Xplore (R), so to obtain the article
free of charge, you need to access it from within the Cornell domain.)
HW#1 is due on Friday, February
8, at 12:00pm.
All assignment should be turned in into the box "ECE4960" next to room 219 Phillips Hall.
To obtain
Course ID (CID), send an e-mail from a Cornell
account to: haas@ece.cornell.edu with "CID
Request" in the subject line and the following information
in the body of the e-mail:
v
Your name
v
Your Student ID
(
v
Your netID
Your CID will
be sent back to you by e-mail to your Cornell
account.
Use ONLY
your CID on any work that you turn in (homework assignments, exams, etc.) If
you use any identifier other than CID, we cannot assure your privacy. If you
use any identifier other than your CID, your implicitly waive your privacy
rights.
Reading Assignment
for the week of January 21: Chapters 1 and 2
Welcome to ECE4960/Spring
2013 - "Wireless
Networks" course
Download the course
information sheet.
Links to Erlang B and Erlang C tables
Turn in your homework sets
into the "ECE 5660" box next to room 219 Phillips
Hall
Read an article on "Creating a Mathematical
Theory of Computer Networks," by Leonard Kleinrock (the
"Father of the Internet")
Read
about the inventor of Spread Spectrum
During World War II, Hedy Lamarr
was a glamorous Hollywood star, "the most beautiful girl in the
world," whose real-life story is arguably more alluring, and certainly
more heroic, than any role she played on the silver screen.
See and play
with an M/M/1
simulator.
To calculate Erlang formulas use: http://www.erlang.com/calculator.
(Note, the number of agents is the number of circuits.)
To calculate Erlang-B formula, you can use the
recursive formula in EE445 (Leon-Garcia and Widjaja, Communication
Networks, page 259).
Course Description
This is an introductory course in mobile and
wireless networks. The course is open to graduate and undergraduate (especially
seniors) students. The course covers fundamental techniques in design and
operation of the second, third, and fourth generations of wireless cellular
networks and wireless LANs. The emphasis is on the traditional design of
cellular mobile systems, including both voice and data services. We will start
by covering topics related to the wireless channel; i.e., the radio propagation
models and the multiple access techniques. Then, we will proceed with studying
the engineering of a cellular system, including detailed explanation of some
standards of the existing common air interfaces for voice and data (e.g., GSM,
GPRS, IS-95, WCDMA, LTE, WiFi, WiMAX). We will learn how signaling is performed in
cellular networks, how a mobile session and a mobile call are controlled, and
how security features are designed in those networks. Introduction to third
generation wideband systems and novel technologies, such as Bluetooth and ad
hoc networks, will be covered too.
The course
is a mixture of theoretical, engineering, and practical topics in contemporary
wireless systems.
Number of Credits:
4
Prerequisites:
ECE 3100 or equivalent (essential, absolutely no exceptions)
Optional
pre-/co-requisites: ECE 4450 and ECE4670
Required Course Text
1.
T.S. Rappaport, "Wireless Communications, Principles & Practice," 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2002
2.
References to articles will be provided during the
course
|
Instructor |
|
Office Hours: Wednesdays,
2:30pm-4:30pm; 324 Rhodes Hall; or by appointment |
|
TA: . . . . Milen Nikolov; mvn22(at)cornell(dot)edu |
|
Office Hours: Thursdays, 2:30pm-4:30pm;
429 Phillips Hall; |
Classes: Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 11:40am - 12:55pm, 403 Phillips Hall
What constitutes a "legitimate reason"?
|
Event |
Grading
component |
The event
occurred |
Required
proof |
|
you are
out of town at a conference or on a job interview |
homework |
any one of the two days before the homework
due date or on the homework due date |
conference registration, airline ticket,
interview invitation letter |
|
-"- |
exam |
the day of the exam |
conference registration, airline ticket,
interview invitation letter |
|
family
emergency |
homework |
any one of the two days before the homework
due date or on the homework due date |
"reasonable proof" confirming that the
emergency has occurred and specifying the emergency dates |
|
-"- |
exam |
any one of the two days before the exam date
or on the exam day |
"reasonable proof" confirming that
the emergency has occurred and specifying the emergency dates |
|
you're sick |
homework |
the
day before the homework due date |
a note from a health professional indicating
that on these days you were unable to function |
|
-"- |
exam |
one of the two days before the exam day or on
the exam day |
a note from a health professional indicating
that on these days you were unable to function |
Excuses will not
be granted in any other cases or without satisfying the above requirements.
To be considered
a legitimate reason, you need to provide Prof. Haas with the required proof as
soon as possible.
(if not specified otherwise, the reading assignments are from the course textbook)
Week of January 21: Chapters 1 and 2
Week of January 28: Chapter 3
Week of February 4: Chapter 3 and [W.
Lee's article "Elements of
Cellular Mobile Radio Systems"]
Week of February 11: Chapter 3 and [Everitt and Macfadyen, "Analysis of Multicellular Mobile
Radiotelephone"]
Week of February 18: Chapter 3 and [Haas,
Winters, and Johnson, "Simulation Results of the Capacity of Cellular
Systems"]
Week of February 25: Chapter 4 and [S.W.
Halpern, "Reuse Partitioning in cellular Systems"]
Week of March 4: Chapter 4
Week of March 11: Chapter 4
Week of March 18: Spring
Break
Week of March 25: Chapter 5
Week of April 1: Chapter 5
Week of April 8: Chapter 5
Week of April 15: Chapter 9
Week of April 22: Chapter 10
Week of April 29: Chapter 11 + [Xie, Tabbane, and Goodman, "Dynamic
Location Area Management and Performance Analysis"
Homework and Other Handouts
There will
be about 8-10 assignments in this course. Each assignment is due in class two
weeks after its distribution. All assignment should be turned in into the box “ECE4960” next to room 219
Phillips Hall.
HW#1 is due: Friday, February
8, at 12:00pm
HW#2 is due: Friday, February
15, at 12:00pm
HW#3 is due: Friday, March
1, at 12:00pm
HW#4 is due: Tuesday, March 12,
at 12:00pm
HW#5 is due: Friday, March 29,
at 12:00pm
HW#6 is due: Friday, April
12, at 12:00pm
HW#7 is due: Friday, April
26, at 12:00pm
HW#8 is due: Friday, May 3,
at 12:00pm
