6950 - Wireless and Mobile Networking I
Professors' official class web page

TA Contact Information:
Shane Eisenman
Email: sbe2001@columbia.edu
Phone: 212-854-2083
Alt. Phone: 212-854-5599 (use if no answer at above number)
Office Location: 8LE5 - 8th Fl. Shapiro Building (CEPSR)
Office Hour: Wednesdays 3-4 pm
Whasil Lee
Email: wl2108@columbia.edu
Phone: TBA
Office Location: 914 - 9th Fl. Shapiro Building (CEPSR)
Office Hour: Thursday 3-4 pm
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** Last week's lecture can always be viewed at http://panda.cvn.columbia.edu/oncampus/ELENE6950. **

Additional reference material from last year's course

Reference texts suggested to date:
1) Wireless Personal Communications Systems (The Addison-Wesley Wireless Communications Series) by David J. Goodman.
* 2) Wireless Communications & Networks by William Stallings.
* 3) Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition) by Theodore S. Rappaport.
* 4) Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison Wesley, 2002.
* 5) Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 2003.
* 6) The IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion by Bob O'Hara & Al Petrick, 1999.
* 7) Mobile IP - The Internet Unplugged by James D. Solomon, Prentice Hall, 1998.
* 8) Mobile IP - Design Principles and Practices by Charles E. Perkins, Addison-Wesley, 1998.

* On reserve in the Engineering Library (4th Floor, Mudd Building).

Reference papers suggested to date:
1) "Wireless Medium Access Control Protocols", Gummalla and Limb, 2000.
2) "IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks", Crow et al, 1997.
3) "An Empirical Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC Layer Handoff Process", Mishra et al.
4) "IEEE 802.11 MAC and PHY Specifications" (~500 pages - do not print. For reference only)
5) Link to Mobile IP IETF Drafts


As a service to you, the friendly TAs of 6950 are providing PDFs of the lecture slides and homeworks.
Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 HW 1 (HW1 Sol in first few Lecture 4 slides)
Lecture 4 Lecture 5 HW 2 HW 2 Sol
Lecture 6 Midterm Midterm Sol
Lecture 7 Lecture 8 Lecture 9 HW 3 HW 3 Sol
Lecture 10 Lecture 11 Lecture 12