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    Foundations:
    - Some math you have to know: linear algebra, signals, FFTs, noise, etc.  
    - Foundations of wireless communications (what happens inside a wireless radio -- modulation, coding, synchronization, etc.)
    - Channel models (noise, multipath, fading, etc.)
    - Modern radios and techniques (OFDM)
    - Understanding data rates, power control, and directional antennas (MIMO)
    - Wireless algorithms and protocols at the MAC layer (ALOHA, randomized backoff, hierarchical backoff, gossip)
    - Coding, (successive) interference cancellation, capacity (SIC)

    System Design:
    - Case studies (WiFi, Bluetooth, 4G, LTE, RFID, 60GHz)
    - Error recovery (PPR, ReMAP, ZigZag)
    - Energy efficiency (PSM, SleepWell)
    - Routing over wireless networks (ad hoc networks, mesh networks, sensor networks)
    - TCP over wireless networks (why TCP needs re-design)
    - Wireless security
    - Applications of wireless signals 1 (GPS systems and algorithms)
    - Applications of wireless signals 2 (motion sensing)

    Future Facing:
    - Battery-free wireless communication (back-scatter)
    - Signal decomposition (wireless imaging, interference cancellation, cloud-based diversity combining)
    - Robotic wireless networks (what if wireless base stations were moving on drones or ground robots)

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Course Load (tentative):
(1) 2-3 homeworks
(2) 2 MPs
(3) 1 Mid term
(4) 1 mini project
(5) NO finals.

Grading (tentative): Homeworks (20%), MPs (30%), Mid-term (25%), Mini project (25%)

Prerequisites: Basic mathematical and programming maturity (any one of MATLAB, R, Python, or Java/C). Students without any networking background should be willing to read up on the sides.