NET 221: Wireless Networking
Course Description
Provides students with a comprehensive hands-on overview of wireless networking. Includes radio frequencies, wireless infrastructure, hardware, wireless standards, wireless LAN security, site surveys, and troubleshooting. Recommended preparation: NET 121 or equivalent experience.
Course Outline
- Introduction to Wireless Communications
- How Wireless Works
- Understanding Radio Frequency Communications
- How Antennas Work (NEW)
- WPAN-Wireless Personal Area Networks
- WLAN -Wireless Local Area Networks
- WMAN–Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
- WWAN–Wireless Wide Area Networks
- Satellite Fixed Broadband Wireless
- RFID–Radio Frequency Identification
- Wireless Communications in Business
Required Materials
- Wireless# Guide to Wireless Communications – Course Technology – ISBN: 1-4188-3699-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-4188-3699-3
- Internet access and a Harper Blackboard account.
- A Linksys WRT54G wireless router or similar device. Harper lab I 205 has computers, wireless equipment, and software that may be configured as necessary for this course.
Faculty Contact
For questions about this course contact the department coordinator:
Dave Braunschweig
dbraunsc@harpercollege.edu
847.925.6817