Take an exciting course being offered this fall!
CSCE 496/896: Wireless Communication Networks, which will be taught by Mehmet Can Vuran, will answer the following questions:
- How do radio waves propagate?
- What is interference?
- What was the iPhone’s death grip antenna issue?
The course will cover the principles of wireless communication, which include FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, wave propagation, and antennas with hands-on experiments on wireless spectrum. It will answer questions about wireless networking and will discuss WiFi networks, cellular networks (3G, 4G, LTE), channel access, congestion, mobility management, and pricing with hands-on experiments on programmable WiFi and 3G devices.
The future of the field will also be explored. Topics include what is next, the reasons for the move from analog to digital TV, how capacity can be increased, what a software-defined radio is, and why google is investing in "Google spectrum database".
The course will also explore some of the next generation wireless solutions: Gigabit Wi-Fi, LTE-Advanced, White-Fi, WRAN… and perform experiments with software-defined radios