Course Overview and Objectives: This is a graduate level multidisciplinary, project-oriented design course that integrates topics at all layers of wireless and mobile systems, from wireless physical layer constraints through mobile application design.

The course emphasizes "hands-on" learning through experiments, case studies, and design projects. Having successfully completed this course, you will be able to:

Describe the characteristics and operation of contemporary wireless network technologies such as the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network and Bluetooth wireless personal area network;

	Describe the operation of the TCP/IP protocol suite in a mobile environment, including the operation of Mobile IP and a mobile ad hoc routing protocol;
	Describe security issues and current solutions for wireless networks and mobile systems;
	Use application program interfaces (APIs), such as Intel's Personal Internet Client Architecture (PCA), Microsoft's .NET Compact Framework (CF), or Sun's Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), to realize mobile applications;
	Design, implement, and test a prototype mobile application;
	Design, implement, and test a wireless access service;
	Measure and characterize the performance a wireless local area network, mobile routing protocol, and mobile application; and
	Monitor the operation of mobile network protocols and applications using standard tools.

To effectively utilize the lectures, in-class lab sessions, at-home exercises and projects start with the class schedule.