Courses persons responsible
Evgeny Kucheryavy

Lecturers
Evgeny Kucheryavy
Dmitri Moltchanov

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	2 h/week	3 h/week	-	-	-	-
Assignment	6 h/per	6 h/per	-	-	-	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
The aim is to make students familiar with ad hoc networks: technologies, protocols, realizations.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	1. Introduction: Ad-hoc specifics History and applications Propagation models Mobility of users and link breaks
2.	2. Of-the-shelf enabling technologies Enabling LAN: IEEE 802.11 and HIPERLAN Enabling PAN/BAN: Bluetooth and HomeRF
3.	3. Networking Ad-hoc wireless mobile Internet MAC protocols for ad-hoc networks Routing and forwarding Multicasting Transport layer protocols for ad hoc
4.	4. Cross-layer issues Energy conservation Security in ad-hoc networks Capacity of ad-hoc networks Quality of service in ad-hoc networks

Requirements for completing the course
Successfull pass of examination

Evaluation criteria for the course

Prerequisites

Code	Course	Credits	M/R
TLT-2106	TLT-2106 Basic Course on Networking	5	Mandatory
TLT-2306	TLT-2306 Communications Protocols	5	Mandatory

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Additional information about prerequisites
Good knowledge of networking principles and protocols is required, either given by the prerequisite courses mentioned above (or their Finnish equivalents), or equivalent knowledge from previous studies.

Remarks

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	72
Assignments	11
Laboratory assignments	12
Total sum	95

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Last modified	22.04.2006
Modified by	Jarmo Harju