Unit 1 Introduction

4 lecture hours

• History and applications of wireless communications
• Signal Propagation modes: Path loss
• multi-path propagation
• Overview of Multiplexing: Space Division
• Frequency Divison
• Code Division and Time Division
• Overview of Modulation: ASK, FSK, PSK
• Overview of Spread Spectrum: DSSS

Unit 2 Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)

4 lecture hours

• GSM architecture
• GSM entities
• call routing in GSM, PLMN interface
• GSM addresses and identifiers
• network aspects in GSM, GSM frequency allocation
• authentication and security
• Localization and calling

Unit 3 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)

4 lecture hours

• Main Features
• GPRS Architecture: Roles of GGSN
• SGSN, HLR, VLR
• GPRS Mobile Station (MS).GPRS transmission plane
• GPRS signaling plane
• Data transfer between MS and SGSN
• GPRS Protocols
• GPRS Channels
• Medium Access Control and Radio Link Control
• Mobility management
• Location Management
• GPRS Routing
• GPRS QoS
• GPRS Security

Unit 4 Wireless LAN

6 lecture hours

• IEEE 802.11: System Architecture
• Protocol Architecture
• Physical Layer
• MAC Layer
• MAC Management
• Bluetooth: Architecture
• Radio Layer
• Baseband Layer
• Link Manager Protocol

Unit 5 Mobile IP

3 lecture hours

• assumptions and requirements
• Entities and terminology
• IP packet delivery
• Agent Discovery
• Tunneling and encapsulation
• Reverse Tunneling
• IP micro- mobility support

Unit 6 Mobile Ad hoc Networks

• Routing in ad hoc networks : AODV

Unit 7 Mobile Transport Layer

3 lecture hours

• Overview of Traditional TCP and implications of mobility control
• Improvement of TCP: Indirect TCP, Snoop TCP, Mobile TCP, Fast retransmit/fast recovery
• Time-out freezing
• Selective retransmission
• Transaction-oriented TCP

Unit 8 Wireless Application Protocol

3 lecture hours

• Wireless Datagram Protocol
• Wireless Transport Layer Security
• Wireless Transaction Protocol
• Wireless Session Protocol
• Wireless Application Development
• Wireless Markup Language
• WML Scripts
• Wireless Telephony Application
• push architecture
• Push/pull services

Unit 9 Introduction to Android

4 lecture hours

• History of Mobile Software Development
• The Open Handset Alliance
• The Android Platform
• Android SDK, Building a sample Android application

Unit 10 Android Application Design Essentials

10 lecture hours

• Anatomy of an Android applications
• Android terminologies
• Application Context
• Receiving and Broad-casting Intents
• Android Manifest File and its common settings
• Using Intent Filter
• Managing Application resources in a hierarchy
• Working with different types of resources