This course provides a comprehensive overview of the techniques used to implement wireless mobile networks, from the physical layers to the upper layers. We will focus on both telecommunication networks, that were initially aimed at carrying voice but are now evolving towards multimedia in the next generations, and computer networks, like wireless local area networks.

• Wireless transmission techniques and MAC layer;
• Telecommunication cellular networks;
• Wireless local area networks;
• Sensor networks;
• Mobile IP.

Networks course.

Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications. Addison-Wesley, 2000.
Wireless Communications – Principles and Practice, Second Edition. Theodore S. Rappaport. Prentice Hall.

Written exam.

N1=E1
N2=E2