1. EEL 6591: Wireless Networks
Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)
EEL 6591: Wireless Networks
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida

2. Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)
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If the beasts were all gone, man would die of a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man, all things are connected.
---Chief Seattle, 1854 (On the wall in Florida Museum of Natural History, 2000)

3. Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)
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Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?
Paul Halmos, I Want to Be a Mathematician (Washington 1985)

4. Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)
Instructor
Professor Yuguang “Michael”Fang Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Florida New Engineering Building (352) (tel), (352) (fax)
Office Hours: 3:30-4:30am, T&Th or by appointment

5. Teaching Assistant TA: TBA Office: 444 NEB
Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)
Teaching Assistant
TA: TBA
Office: 444 NEB

6. Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)
Course Website
CANVAS

7. Textbook and References
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Textbook and References
Textbook: Wireless Communications: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, T. Rappaport, Prentice-Hall PTR, (used mostly homework problems)
References:
Broadband Wireless Multimedia Networks， Benny Bing, John Wiley, 2013.
Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture, Y.-B. Lin and I. Chlamtac, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
Technical papers

8. Prerequisites EEL 5718: Computer Communications What we really need:
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Prerequisites
EEL 5718: Computer Communications
What we really need:
Communications fundamentals (EEL4514)
Computer network fundamentals (EEL5718 or undergraduate computer networks or computer communications)
Probability and random processes (prerequisite for all EE graduate program)

9. Why Do I Care about This Course?
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Why Do I Care about This Course?
“God Must Be Crazy” (a movie), what is it?
“Mom, thank you for the cellular phone!” (“Mom, I do not where I am because I do not have GPS!”)
“Houston, we have a problem!”
Wireless, mobile, anywhere anytime, m-commerce, Wi-Fi, WPANs, UWB, wireless mesh networks, iPhones, iPads, cyber-physical systems (CPS), mHealth/smart health, IoT, …smart * things! What are they?
“Will work for food!” wireless/mobile, where the job was and still in! (“wireless devices collect data, big data!”
Make your resume look better 
“I need this darn course to complete my breadth sequence in Computer track and Communications track!”

10. What Do I Expect from This Course?
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What Do I Expect from This Course?
Learn those “cool stuffs” (at least get familiar with those stuffs)
Understand the inside and out on how wireless systems build and how they work
Gain knowledge of the past, the current and the future of wireless systems
Grasp the design philosophy of wireless networks

11. Syllabus Overview of communications systems
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Syllabus
Overview of communications systems
Overview of wireless networks
Cellular concept and design requirements
Wireless physical layer fundamentals
Data link control (DLC) protocols
Hybrid ARQ
Medium Access Control (MAC)
Wireless networking: routing and rerouting, signaling, call processing, etc.

12. Syllabus (cont) Mobility management Resource management
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Syllabus (cont)
Mobility management
Handoff management
Location management: location update and paging
Resource management
Call admission control (CAC)
Resource/power management
Wireless Internet: TCP problems and solutions, mobile IP, Cellular IP, Hawaii, TeleMIP, …

13. Syllabus (cont) Wireless systems and standards
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Syllabus (cont)
Wireless systems and standards
IS-41/GSM MAP
IS-54/136, GSM, IS-95 3G
4G (LTE and/or WiMax)
LTE-Advanced/5G/LTE-U/mmwave
Wireless ad hoc networks
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)
Wireless sensor networks
Wireless Mesh Networks
Vehicular networks
IoT (Internet of Things)

14. Grading policy Homework: 10% Two exams: 75% (35+40) Project: 15%
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Grading policy
Homework: 10%
Two exams: 75% (35+40)
Project: 15%
Grading: use statistical curve

15. Project Project counts 15% Four types of project
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Project
Project counts 15%
Four types of project
Survey on a specific topic
Research oriented topics
Innovative simulators or testbed
Own project (must be approved by instructor)
Must have a team at least two but no more than four students
Must have a written project plan approved before midterm
Due date: before the last day of the class

16. Project Grading Project is graded according to Presentation: 10%
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Project Grading
Project is graded according to
Presentation: 10%
Technical contribution: 80%
Originality
Novelty
Correctness
Effort
Completeness of the report: 10%
Timeline
Each member’s effort
References (list of papers)
Copies of major references used

17. Academic Honesty Statement
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Academic Honesty Statement
All students admitted to the University of Florida have signed a statement of academic honesty committing themselves to be honest in all academic work and understanding that failure to comply with this commitment will result in disciplinary action. This statement is a reminder to uphold your obligation as a student at the University of Florida and to be honest in all work submitted and exams taken in this class and all others.

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Questions?