mca Syllabus

Mobile Communications
IT 802D
Contact: 3L
Credit: 3
Allocated Hrs: 39L

Introduction [6L]: A General Overview: History, Transmission Medium, Need, Advantages, Disadvantages and Different Standards. AMPS, GSM, GPRS, 3G.
Wireless LANs [8L]: Characteristics, IEEE 802.11: Architecture, Physical Layer, MAC Layer, MAC Management, 802.11a and 802.11b. HIPERLAN: History, WATM, BRAN and HiperLAN2. Bluetooth: Architecture, Radio Layer, Baseband Layer, Link Management Protocol, L2CAP and Security.

Mobile Transport and Network Layer [12L]: Introduction, Traditional TCP: Congestion Control, Slow Start, Fast Retransmit and Implications of Mobility. Classical TCP Improvements: Indirect TCP, Snooping
TCP, Mobile TCP and Fast Retransmit. Mobile IP: Introduction, IP Packet Delivery, Agent Discovery, Registration, Tunneling and Encapsulation, Optimizations and Reverse Tunneling. Mobile Ad-hoc Networks: Routing, Destination Sequence Distance Vector, Dynamic Source Routing and Alternative Metrics.
Cellular Networks [9L]: Cellular Concept, Frequency Reuse, Channel Allocation Management, Call Setup, Location Management, Cell Handoffs, Interference: Co-channel and Adjacent Interference. System Capacity, Improving Cell Capacity and Coverage: Cell Splitting, Sectoring, Repeaters and Microcell Zone Concept.
Wireless Application Protocol [4L]: Introduction (WAP), Protocol Stack, Connections.

Books:
1. J. Schiller, Mobile Communications, Addison –Wesley, 2003
2. T. S. Rapport, Wireless Communications, Principle and Practices
3. Forouzan, Data Communications and Networking, TMH