Base station subsystem; routing; media access control; power and error control; handoff policies; channel allocation; wireless LAN; mobile computing; applications; future directions in mobile networks.

1. IEEE Transactions on Communications
2. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
3. IEEE Transactions on Computers
4. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
5. Mobil Networks & Applications, Balzer Science Publishers
6. Computer Communication Review
7. IEEE Communications Magazine
8. Mobile Computing and Communications Review, ACM SIGMOBILE
9. Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference
10. Proceedings of the MOBICOM
11. Proceedings of the INFOCOM
12. Proceedings of the GLOBECOM
13. Proceedings of the SUPERCOMM
14. Other related ACM and IEEE Publications

20-CS-597, Wireless Mobile Networking

1. Routing in Base station Subsystem : Directory look up, mail box, routing data to
mobile, routing table update, permanent and temporary address schemes, home domain directory, location directory.
2. Routing ; TCP/IP and other protocols. Ad hoc networking protocols, Mobile IP
3. Power and error control : up down link power requirements, different policies, tradeoffs between coding complexity and error control
4. Hand-off policies : impact of cell size and overlap areas, soft hand over, overlapped cell design.
5. Channel allocation : basic strategies, congestion control, static and dynamic routing, concept of channel borrowing.
6. Wireless ATM : Channel borrowing.
7. Mobile computing : database requirements, computing within a building, within a
city and outside city.
8. Proxy servers and applications : wireless Internet, remote data access, global positioning, document tracing, health care, warehouse, automated vending.
9. Future directions in mobile networks : a survey of recent work from publications.

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