ENGR40C: Engineering Wireless Networks, Spring 2014
Announcements
5/30: Final Exam details have been posted. Exam on Jun 4 (Wed), 4.15PM–5.45.
5/22: Assignment 4 has been uploaded. Due on May 31 (Sat), 5PM.
5/14: Milestone 3 has been assigned. Due on Jun 2 (Mon), 11.59PM.
5/09: Assignment 3 has been uploaded. Due on May 19 (Mon), 5PM.
4/29: Midterm details have been added. Exam on May 5 (Mon), 4.15PM–5.45PM.
4/24: Assignment 2 has been uploaded. Due on May 3 (Sat), 5PM.
4/22: Milestone 2 has been assigned. Due on May 12 (Mon), 11.59PM.
4/16: Submission instructions for assignments have been posted on the Assignments page.
4/10: Milestone 1 has been assigned. Due on Apr 21 (Mon), 11.59PM.
4/07: Assignment 1 has been uploaded. Due on Apr 18 (Fri), 5PM.
3/31: Form teams of TWO for the course project and sign up your team by Apr 7 (Mon), 11.59PM.
3/31: Sign up on Piazza for all discussions and communication related to the course.
Important Dates
All assignments are due at 5PM. All milestones are due at 11.59PM.
Staff and Office Hours
Instructors
Course Assistants
Rakesh Misra, Wed 3.00PM–4.00PM, Packard 106
Raejoon Jung, Thu 5.30PM–6.30PM, Packard 106
Grading Policy
Course Project: 40%
Assignments: 30%
Exams: 30%
Course Description
A hands-on introduction to the design and implementation of modern wireless networks. Via a quarter-long project on programmable radios, students will learn
Fundamentals of wireless channels
Compressing/decompressing and encoding/decoding information
Modeling errors and error-recovery algorithms
Engineering of packet-switched networks
These concepts will be used to illustrate the following general themes in EE and CS.
Role of abstraction and modularity in engineering design
Building reliable systems using imperfect components
Understanding the limits imposed by energy and noise
Choosing effective representations for information
Engineering tradeoffs in complex systems
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