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[CSIE 5521] Wireless Networking - Fundamentals and Applications
News
- TA section slides is out. Download here. nano2.pdf
- Please come lab424 for your demo at the time slot you registered, thanks.
- There will be no class on Nov. 17 as I am out of town for a conference. Please take the survey to decide on the time for the make-up class here.
- Dr. Kate Ching-Ju Lin (林靖茹) from Academia Sinica will give two guest lectures on rate adaption, OFDM, and MIMO on Nov. 24 and Dec. 1. For more information about her, please see her web site.
- Homework 1 is announced.
- Lab2 sample code update, modify the RX_ADDR and TX_ADDR in Path_Loss_Exponent/rf_tx.c to make it work without any extra modification. Run follow instruction in your lab2 directory to update.
$ svn update
- One week passed, did every team finish the rssi measurement? If you have any question about lab2(how to make, how to use the sample code, bla bla…). Feel free to ask question at [ LAB2 discuss ], or email to wn@csie.ntu.edu.tw.
- ptt2/hsinmu ⇐ the board of our teacher at ptt2
- you can discuss anything about this course there, if you don't like the wiki web interface.
- Or you can discuss at [ DISCUSS SECTION ]
- There are some tips and info at [ Some useful link ]
- Lab2 is announced. Go [ wn_11fall_lab2 ]
Description
Wireless Networks is one of the fastest growing technologies in the past two decades. Today we are surrounded by devices which utilize wireless radio transceivers for communications/networking with each other, such as mobile phones (3G/3.5G/4G cellular networks), laptops (WiFi/Bluetooth), FM/AM radios, satellite TV, cordless phones, etc, and they play a crucial role in our daily life: imagine how disastrous a day would be when you do not have your cell phone/laptop/TV.
Many students with a computer science background always consider the wireless system to be a mysterious blackbox or pipe: it will swallow the input bits from one end and spit out the bits at the other end of the wireless link with a fixed error probability. This is, of course, nowhere close to the reality. In this course, we will demystify the world of wireless networks for you. You will learn about the most bottom layer (in the sense of OSI’s 7 layer architecture), talking about how the information bits are manipulated into signals to be transmitted in the air, or how the signal propagates between the transmitter and the receiver, to the middle layers, about how multiple devices can share the same transmission medium in an orderly fashion, or how the information are routed in a large-scale wireless network, and to the top layer, about how to estimate if the performance of a wireless network is sufficient to support an application you have in mind.
In the course, we will also have several experimental projects for the students to learn about the wireless networks from their first-hand experience. The projects will involve developing and implementing protocols for a radio transceiver.
Course Information
- Instructor: Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai
- Class time: Thursdays 1:20pm-4:10pm
- Classroom: CSIE R104
- Textbook: Andrea F. Moilsch, Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition, Wiley + IEEE, 2011 [amazon].
Teaching Team
| Name | Office hour | Room | |
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| Instructor | Michael Tsai | Mondays 2-3pm | R316 |
| Teaching Assistant | Hau-Min Lin (林浩民) | Monday 3-4pm | R438 |
| Teaching Assistant | Bo-Ruei Chiou (邱柏睿) | Thursday 4:30-5:30pm | R424 |
| Teaching Assistant | Kuang-Shih Huang (黃光世) | Tuesday 3-4pm | R424 |
Please direct send all your questions to wn@csie.ntu.edu.tw and the e-mails will be forwarded to all members of the teaching team.
Please make sure the title of your mail starts with “[WNFA]”. ex. “[WNFA] lab1 question”
Syllabus
See here.
Class Schedule & Lecture Notes
| Week | Date | Events | Lecture Notes |
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| Week1 | 9/15 | First class, Lab0 and HW0 out | |
| Week2 | 9/22 | Lab0 + HW0 due | |
| Week3 | 9/29 | Lab1 announce, divide into groups | |
| Week4 | 10/6 | TA Zigduino + nano-RK info session Lab1 due, Lab2 announce |
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| Week5 | 10/13 |
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| Week6 | 10/20 |
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| Week7 | 10/27 | Lab2 due, HW1 announce | |
| Week8 | 11/3 |
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| Week9 | 11/10 | HW1 due, Lab3 announce |
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| Week10 | 11/17 | No class. Make-up class TBA. | |
| Week11 | 11/24 | Guest lecture by Dr. Kate Lin | |
| Week12 | 12/1 | Lab3 due, HW2 announce, Guest lecture by Dr. Kate Lin | |
| Week13 | 12/8 |
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| Week14 | 12/15 | HW2 due(12/19), Lab4 announce | |
| Week15 | 12/22 | ||
| Week16 | 12/29 | Lab4 design presentation | |
| Week17 | 1/5 |
(Spread Spectrum & Infrastructure-based Network) |
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| Week18 | 1/12 | Lab4 competition |
Experimental projects
The experimental project will be completed by teams of 2 or 3 students. To start working on the lab assignments, you'll need to following the instructions HERE to install the developing environment.
| Lab | Due | Problems | Solutions/Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lab0 | 09/22 1pm | Build/Install tool-chain | |
| Lab1 | 10/06 1pm | Miniature spectrum analyzer | |
| Lab2 | 10/31 1pm | RSSI Localization | |
| Lab3 | 12/1 1pm | Whack-a-mole | |
| Lab4 | TBA | Smart wireless network competition |
Some useful link
| topic | link |
|---|---|
| avr toolchain build/install guild | wn_11fall_zigduino_nanork |
| how to upload your program to Zigduino | wn_11fall_zigduino_program |
| change the font of cygwin/cmd | http://www.jeffhung.net/blog/articles/jeffhung/1114/ |
| nano-RK source code tracing system | http://mvnl.csie.ntu.edu.tw/nano-RK/HTML |
| nano-RK official API document | http://www.nanork.org/wiki/Documentation |
| Tips | wn_11fall_nanork_tip |
| Group List | here |
| Serial terminal | link |
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| Tera Term (MS Windows) | web or download |
| CoolTerm (Mac OS X) | web |
| minicom in cygwin | wn_11fall_minicom_cygwin |
| minicom in ubuntu/debian | apt-get install minicom |
- Make sure the settings of your serial terminal fit follows configuration to work.
- Is the baudrate matched? (ex.115200 in most of our sample program)
- Is the port right? (ex. /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyS8, COM10, /dev/tty.usbserial-0000201AA )
- Disable the hardware/software flow control.
Handwritten homeworks
| HW | Due | Problems | Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|
| HW0 | 9/22 1pm | HW0 | |
| HW1 | 11/10 1pm | HW1 | 2011_fall_wnfa_hw1.pdf |
| HW2 | 12/19 1pm | HW2 | 2011_fall_wnfa_hw2.pdf |
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