Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
ECSE 6962 Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - Fall 2007
Wednesday
3:00 - 5:50 J-ROWL 2C22
Instructor...............................................................................................
.Professor Alhussein Abouzeid (
Office hours........................................................................................... Thursday 1:00 - 2:00, or by appointment, JEC 6038, 276-6534
Prerequisites................................................................................................................................................Probability; programming skill
Grading.............................................................................................................................................. 5 assignments (not equal weight) 50%
Term paper 20%
Midterm1 examination 15%
Midterm2 examination 15%
Text.......................................................................................................................................................................................
Non Required
Random Access Mesh Network
Topics
Introduction:
historical development of the area, emerging applications and fundamental
challenges.
Data
transmission on a radio link: antenna, propagation, modulation, fading, coding,
MIMO and capacity.
Random
access: schemes, standards, network capacity and performance evaluation.
Multi
hop forwarding: one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one; state design and
scalability.
Transport
and congestion control.
Special
sensor networks topics: data aggregation, coverage,
Advanced
topic1: distributed MIMO and cooperative communications.
Advanced topic2: cross-layer design and joint
optimization.
Advanced topic3: dynamic spectrum allocation.
Course objective
On completion of the course, students should be sufficiently familiar with the main design choices, theoretical results, tradeoffs and terminologies of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks area, as indicated by their ability to pursue matters of interest in the current technical literature.
Examinations will be open book, but Cheating (copying on examinations or programs) will result
in a grade of F for the course Discussing assignments between students is
encourage, but each student must write a separate solution. Assignments up to
one week late will be given half marks Assignments more than one week late will
not be accepted. Special considerations will, however, be given to special
situations, such as the DQE: they must be negotiated in advance Grades may be
appealed initially to Professor Abouzeid: if the difficulty cannot be resolved,
procedures in the Rensselaer Handbook must be followed.