Wireless networks play an increasingly important role in the world of communications.
This course provides an introduction to various current and next generation wireless networking technologies, and undertakes a detailed exploration of fundamental architectural and design principles used at all layers. Related protocols and their performance are studied using formal analytical tools and realistic simulations. 

This course covers both the theory and practice of wireless networking. We will begin by studying the fundamentals of wireless communications (roughly a third of the course). We will then study widely-used wireless local area network standards and TCP/IP extensions for mobile and wireless networking (another third). The final third of the course will be devoted to
selected topics, including mobile application platforms, wireless network security, and research problems in multihop ad hoc networks and sensor networks.