Wireless Networks

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Radio propogation - how it is helped and hindered by the environment
• How wireless resources can be allocated
• Protocols that allow the through routing of data out of a network of sensors

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Evaluate the operation of existing and next generation wireless networks.
• Design network simulators using Matlab or OMNeT++ software.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Read and understand a technical specification and understand why things are done as they are
• Present work orally and as a written report

• To locate source material, read specifications and present material.
• An introduction to existing and next generation networks.
• Bluetooth/ Bluetooth Low Energy/ Profiles/ security/ Service discovery.
• Wireless sensor networks, Zigbee, time synchronised networks.
• Wireless Resource Allocation.
• Protocols.
• Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Sources will be given on the notes page of the course and as specific directed reading. There is no set text..

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External