- Introduction to data networks: layered architectures, TCP/IP protocol architecture, OSI model, main functions of different layers, relationship between layers, etc.
- Structure of wireless and mobile networks, including cellular networks, wireless local area networks, ad-hoc networks, and wireless sensor networks
- Wireless multiple-access techniques, including randomised medium access (ALOHA and CSMA), FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, SDMA;
- Wireless routing: routing optimisation and routing protocols.
- Queueing theory, delay modelling, queuing models and their analysis, etc.
- Error-control with the emphasis on the various Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ) protocols
- Cellular wireless networks: architecture, frequency reuse, multiplexing, multiple-access, broadcast, power-control, handover, interference, examples of TDMA-, CDMA- and LTE-based cellular networks, traffic engineering, etc.
- Wireless resource-allocation: general principle, power-allocation algorithms, subcarrier allocation algorithms.
- Wireless LANs: techniques, IEEE 802.11/IEEE 802.16 physical layer, MAC sublayer protocol and frame structure, etc.
