The seminar will cover a variety of topics related to analysis and characterization of traffic patterns in modern heterogeneous wireless networks as well as potential for the improvement of their utilization. Depending on interests of the participants a variety of usage scenarios (residential areas, mobile usage, industrial environments, community networks, developing countries coverage) will be considered.
Within the course participants will individually elaborate selected topics using both recommended literature as well as results of their further literature research. At the end of the course, students are expected to give a technical talk resuming the research in the selected area, as well as document this in a short technical report.
HFT/FT 340, 15.00 Uhr s.t.
Goal of this course is the development of protocol programming skills. A platform for programming embedded systems - a BeagleBone Black from Texas Instruments - will be provided to control a low power high performance wireless RF transceiver operating in the licence free 800 MHz band. In a first step a programming environment setup must be created that consists of installing a Linux operating system and needed tools (e.g. compiler, linker) and also configuring and testing the operating system to be able to control the RF transceiver via the "Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)", a very often used interface in embedded system applications. After that, an API will be designed and implemented that enables access to the RF transceiver to control wireless channel parameters such as transmission power, frequency, modulation, bit-rate, etc. with the aim to transmit and receive protocol frames, which in turn enables the testing of the design of one of protocols.