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High Speed Packet Access (HSDPA/HSUPA)
 
1. Introduction (the transition from 2G to 3G)
    - 3GPP HSDPA and HSUPA standardization
    - HSDPA Protocol Architecture  
    - HSDPA User Equipment (UE) categories
2. Physical Layer 
    - The new physical, transport and logical channels for HSDPA
    - Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC), Channel Quality Indicator (CQI)
3. MAC-hs layer
    - Scheduling 
    - Stop-and-wait hybrid-ARQ
4. HSUPA
    - Channels (E-DCH and physical channel) 
    - MAC-e layer
    - Soft handover
5. Engineering and deployment strategy
 

3GPP Long Term Evolution: LTE, SAE, All-IP and IMS
 
1. 3GPP LTE standardization
2. Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA)
    - Radio Interface: OFDMA, SC-FDMA
    - Layer Model for the Radio Link
    - IP and the new protocols in radio access network (E-NodeB, X2-interface)
3. Architecture (System Architecture Evolution - SAE)
    - Core Network: Functions and interfaces
    - IMS and LTE networks
 
 
 Mobile Wimax Standard - 802.16e
 
1. IEEE standardiszation
 2. Physical Layer :
    - OFDM, OFDMA, SOFDMA
    - TDD Frame
    - Canalization and Subcarrier permutation
    - Avanced techniques (beamforming, MIMO)
3. MAC layer :
    - MAC Frames
    - ARQ and hybrid ARQ 
    - Scheduling and Quality of service
    - The beacon
4. Engineering and deployment strategy
 
Next Generation Network (NGN): 3GPP R4
 
1. Introduction 
    - Circuit switched mobile network
    - What is NGN and how it applies in Mobile Networks?
    - GSM Migration strategies towards R4
2.  Architecture R4
    - Media Gateway: Trunking and Access Gateways
    - MSC Server
    - Le Signaling Gateway 
    - IP network with QoS
3. R4 protocoles 
    - Access Protocols :   BSSAP, RANAP and ISUP  
    - Control and Signalisation Protocols: MEGACO/H.248 and BICC
    - Service Protocoles: INAP, CAP, SIP 
    - Transport Protocoles : RTP/RTCP, AAL2/ATM
4.  Mobile NGN (R4) call scenarios
5. Brief introduction to IMS architecture (R5)
 
 
Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET)
 
1. Principales
    - The main characteristics
    - Positioning and OSPF, Mobile IP and NEMO 
    - Different types of Routing (Distance Vector, Link State, unicast, multicast)
    - Different types of MANET (proactive, reactive)
2. The MANET routing protocols
    - Reactive routing (DSR, AODV) 
    - Proactive routing (OLSR, TBRPF) 
    - Multicast routing (MOLSR, MAODV, SMP) 
    - Comparison of routing
3. Radio networks for MANET 
    - Radio characteristics (frequency, channel, modulation, access and band sharing...)
    - Types of radio technologies (WiFi, Bluetooth, 802.15, UWB, WiMax, 802.20)
4. QoS and MANET 
    - The QoS and MANET 
    - Principle of "Cross Layering" 
    - Performance of TCP
5. Security and MANET 
    - Specific problems 
    - Basic solutions
6. The applications of MANET 
    - Emergency networks
    - Public and military networks
    - Sensors networks, surveillance, ...
 
 
Ultra Wide Band radiocommunications (UWB)
 

1. Introduction, modulation and UWB channel 
    - Context and background 
    - The basic principles and benefits of the Ultra Wide Band
    - The impulse and the multiband approaches, the "standards" associated 
    - High data rate/ low data rate application
2. Models and algorithms 
    - UWB channel models 
    - Modulation 
    - Multiple Access 
    - Channel Estimation
3. Architecture 
    - Overview of RF architectures for UWB
    - Analysis of performance and costs 
    - Analysis of an RF architecture for an application Low Data Rate / High Data Rate
4. Radiation and applications
    - Antennas 
    - The alternatives for broadband 
    - Compared performance, analysis