ITS 437 A01, Spring '08/'09, Call # 04170
Class Meetings: MTWTh 3:10-4pm, RTVC 027
Final Exam Time: Wednesday, June 10, at 12:20 p.m. (2 hours)
Text Book: Andy Dornan, "The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications" (online)

Dr. Hans Kruse, N292 Lindley Hall

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Announcements

Please secure a calculator for use in this class. Your calculator should be able to handle numbers in scientific notation, and perform logarithms.

Homework Assignments

Due Date	Assignment
4/14	Homework 1
4/20	Homework 2
5/13	Homework 3
5/21	Homework 4: Prepare a one-page table comparing 3G and WLANs based on the discussion in class.
5/21	Term paper Topic and Outline
6/1	Homework 5
6/4	Final version of the Term Paper

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Readings

Unless an assignment has a "Due Date", the material is suggested background reading, but not mandatory.

Due Date	Reading
4/2	Chapters 1 and 2
	Jack Unger, "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks", Chapter 2
4/13	Chapter 3
4/15	Chapter 4
4/20	Chapter 5
4/29	FCC 3G Final Report Executive Summary and pages 1-12.
	Chapter 8
	From "The cdma2000® System for Mobile Communications: 3G Wireless Evolution", by Vieri Vanghi; Aleksandar Damnjanovic; Branimir Vojcic: Sections 2.4, 3.4, and 4.1.
5/9	From Matthew Gast, "802.11 Wireless Networks...": Sections 3.1-3.5, Chapter 4.
5/11	From Matthew Gast, "802.11 Wireless Networks...": Sections 12.1, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4.1, 13.5
5/14	From Matthew Gast, "802.11 Wireless Networks...": Sections 14.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.3.1, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.3.1, 7.3.2.1
5/21	Chapter 11
	From Jeffrey Andrews, Arunabha Gosh, and Rias Muhamed, Fundamentals of WiMAX: Understanding Broadband Wireless Networking: Sections 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
5/28	Textbook, Chapter 12
6/1	Chris Halsall, "A GPS Introduction" Andrew Jagoe, "Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide" Section on GPS

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