Wireless Networks

General

• Course Code: 1871
• Semester: 8th
• Course Type: Specialization (SP)
• Course Category: Optional (OP)
• Scientific Field: Communications and Networks (CN)
• Lectures: 4 hours/week
• ECTS units: 6
• Course webpage: http://aetos.it.teithe.gr/~vitsas/page6.htm
• Teching and exams language: Greek
• The course is offered to Erasmus students
• Recommended prerequisite courses: (1701) Computer Networks, (1501) Wireless Communications
• Coordinator: Vitsas Vasilis
• Instructors: Vitsas Vasilis

Educational goals

The purpose of the course is to introduce the student to the basic principles of wireless networks, their regulatory framework, the medium access techniques used, and the modern protocols of wireless local, personal, and metropolitan networks.

• To distinguish the specific characteristics of wireless communications and to identify the differences compared to wired communications."
• To describe and explain the characteristics of the IEEE 802.11 protocol.
• To describe and explain the basic characteristics of wireless metropolitan and personal network technologies.
• To identify and distinguish the technological achievements and developments in the field of wireless communications
• To describe and identify the regulatory framework of wireless communications and networks.
• To describe the basic characteristics of wireless propagation and multiplexing methods at the physical layer in wireless networks

General Skills

• Research, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using the necessary technologies
• Information search on the internet
• Application of knowledge in practice

Course Contents

Regulatory framework, economic and legal issues in Telecommunications: European legislation on competition and telecommunications. National and international regulatory authorities. Licensing and spectrum management. Charging for network data transmission services, congestion pricing, network resource allocation criteria, flow control models, Internet charging. Introduction to wireless communications: Basic characteristics of wireless propagation, types of interference, multiplexing methods, physical layer (PHY), medium access control layer (MAC), medium access techniques (FDMA/TDMA/CDMA/WCDMA), and packet collision avoidance techniques (CSMA/CA, polling). The IEEE 802.11 standard for high-speed wireless local area networks: Architecture, services, physical layer, medium access control layer, current and developing versions of the protocol (e.g., 802.11aa/ac/ad/af/ah). Technologies of wireless metropolitan (IEEE 802.16 WiMAX) and personal networks (UWB, Bluetooth, Zigbee, IrDA).

Teaching Methods - Evaluation

Teaching Method

• Face-to-face theoretical instruction (lecture, discussion, problem-solving).

Use of ICT means

• Use of ICT in Teaching and Communication with students.

Teaching Organization

Students evaluation

Final written examination (100%) in the theoretical part of the course.

Recommended Bibliography

Recommended Bibliography through "Eudoxus"

1. Book [50655989]: Ασύρματες Επικοινωνίες, Δίκτυα και Συστήματα, Stallings W. - Beard C.
2. Book [21391]: ΔΙΚΤΥΑ ΠΡΟΣΒΑΣΗΣ ΝΕΑΣ ΓΕΝΙΑΣ, ΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, ΔΙΑΜΑΝΤΗΣ ΚΩΤΟΥΛΑΣ, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ ΞΕΝΙΚΟΣ, ΠΕΤΡΟΣ ΒΟΥΔΔΑΣ, ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΧΕΛΙΩΤΗΣ, ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΑΓΑΠΙΟΥ, ΤΗΛΕΜΑΧΟΣ ΔΟΥΚΟΓΛΟΥ

Complementary greek bibliography

1. P. Nikopolitidis, M. Obaidat, G. Papadimitriou and A. Pomportsis, "Ασύρματα Δίκτυα", Εκδόσεις Κλειδάριθμος.
2. M. Θεολόγου, “Δίκτυα Κινητών και Προσωπικών Επικοινωνιών”, Εκδόσεις Τζιόλα, 2007.

Complementary international bibliography

1. Matthew S Gast, “802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide”, O'Reilly Media.
2. Andrews Jeffrey, G. Ghosh και Arunabha Muhamed, “Βασικές Αρχές WiMax”, Εκδόσεις Παπασωτηρίου, 2010.
3. Τheodore S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice”, Prentice Hall.

Scientific journals

1. IEEE Communications Magazine
2. IEEE Wireless Communications
3. IEEE Transaction on Communications
4. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials