CS/ECE 439: Wireless Networks Fall 2026

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Class - Schedule


All topics scheduled for the future are subject to change

 
Week Wed Topic and Slides Fri Topic and Slides Deliverables
Week 1 Aug 26 Course Intro, Intro to Wireless Aug 28 Wireless Challenges Watch an episode of the Jetsons
and post on slack (for 8/28 - due prior to class)
Week 2 Sep 2

Discussion of arcticles

Sep 4 PHY Layer - Introduction Find, read and summarize an
interesting wireless article (for 9/2 - due prior to class)
Week 3 Sep 9

PHY Layer - Antennas and Propagation
 

Sep 11 PHY Layer - Coding and Modulation Initial Team & Project Topic Areas (due 9/11)
Initial Project Meetings - All Week
Week 4 Sep 16 PHY Layer - Diversity and Errors Sep 18 PHY Layer - Diversity and Errors Inital Project Meetings  - All Week
Week 5 Sep 23

MAC Layer 

Sep 25

MAC Layer (continued)

Project Proposal (due 9/25)
Week  Nov 30 MAC Management
MAC Rate
 
Oct 3 MAC MIMO
MAC Layer  - Wi-Fi 6
 
 
Week 7 Oct 7 MAC Layer  - Wi-Fi 7
MAC Layer - Power
Oct 11 MAC Layer - Bluetooth, BLE
 
 
Week 8 Oct 14 ZigBee/802.15.4 Oct 16 ​Multi-hop Wireless Networks

 

Week 9 Oct 21

How to Give a Talk

Oct 23 Wireless and the Internet Extended Project Proposal (due 10/16)
Week 10 Oct 28 ​Transport Layer - Refresher Oct 30

Transport Layer - TCP over Wireless

 
Week 11 Nov 4

Student Presentations

Nov 6 Student Presentations  
Week 12 Nov 11 Student Presentations Nov 13 Student Presentations

Status Report (due 11/13)

Week 13 Nov 18 Student Presentations Nov 20 Student Presentations  
  Nov 25 Thanksgiving Break Nov 26 Thanksgiving Break  
Week 14 Dec 2 Student Presentations Dec 4 Student Presentations

Final Project (due 12/13)

Week 15 Dec 9 Student Presentations      
  TBA Project Presentations or Poster Session