This module will look at the following aspects of wireless and mobile computing

- Design a logical wireless LAN (WLAN) architecture for mobile wireless users in compliance with 802.11 IEEE standards.
- Demonstrate knowledge in WLAN applications as they relate to EM spectrum, radio wave propagation, modulation techniques, and frequency and channel usage in wireless technologies.
- Basic multi access radio techniques principles and evolution of FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access), TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access), CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)
- Installation of in-building and building-to-building wireless LANs that meet mobility and throughput specifications including the site survey and documentation.
- Perform hardware setup and software configuration of Cisco Aironet APs and antennas for Ethernet/Radio ports and services.
- Perform hardware setup and software configuration of Cisco Aironet equipment for Ethernet/Radio ports and services specific to the WLAN needs for Access Points, Bridges, Repeater, and Site Survey Client functionality.
- Identify, define features of, and install, directional and omni-directional antennas in both building-to-building and in-building WLANs.
- Design and setup of WLAN security using WEP, WPA, EAP and 802.1x protocols.
- Understand the impact of allowing BYOD within a corporate network
- Troubleshoot WLAN performance issues using event loggings, command line utilities, and diagnostic tools.
- Look at the current mobile standards and leading technologies evolving from the GSM environment.
- Frequency Allocation, Handover and Bandwidth allocation, Internet Access, Internet Security, Internet Telephony, Quality of Service and Performance for Mobile Computing. Wireless Business Applications. Fraud analysis in IP and Mobile Computing.

A portfolio weighted at 100%. (Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4).
This will be a portfolio consisting of a case study (50%), which will look at a real world scenario and the application of practical skills to a more limited lab based scenario (50%) Final component.

This module will be presented via the use of formal lectures and sessions within the tutorials. The lectures are intended to communicate the underlying theory. In the tutorial sessions these will cover the practical aspects of wireless and mobile computing and allow for discussions on the topics cover in the lectures.

There will be 24 hours of lectures and 24 hours of practicals

CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide, 2008, Cisco Press, ISBN-10: 1587202115

Design and Implementation of WLAN Authentication and Security: Building Secure Wireless LAN by EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS and EAP-TTLS protocols, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010, ISBN-10: 3838372263

Mobile Wireless Communications, Schwartz, 2013, Cambridge University Press, ISBN10:1107412714

The tutorials will need to be carried out in the Faculty wireless labs.

The student must have CCNA grade knowledge of network communications