Generally, each meeting will be divided into a morning lecture session, then lunch, then an afternoon lab session. The course is divided into seven topic areas, five deep dives and some shorter intro and outro material.

Slides from lectures are available in a Drive folder.

• Introduction and Networking Basics

  • Course overview

  • Introduction the IoT

  • Introduction to wireless communication

  • Networking Basics

    • OSI layer model

    • IP and routing basics

    • Data link layer

  • Wireless Basics

    • PHY layer

    • How PHY impacts Data impacts Network impacts...

    • Medium Access Control

• Bluetooth

  • Bluetooth/BLE, PHY, MAC

    • BLE Background

    • BLE Layers

      • Physical Layer

      • Link Layer

    • BLE Roles

      • Advertising

      • Scanning

  • BLE, BLE advertisements

    • Communicating with Advertisements

      • Advertisement Use Cases

      • Energy Use

      • Packet Collisions

  • BLE Connections

    • Connection PHY and Link Layer

    • Connections as Networks

    • GATT

    • BLE 5

• 802.15.4, Meshes, and Modern IoT

  • IEEE 802.15.4

    • Overview

    • Physical Layer

    • Link Layer

    • Packet Structure

  • Thread

    • Mesh Refresher

    • Thread

      • Overview

      • Addressing

      • Runtime Behavior

  • Routing

    • WSN Routing

      • Simple Routing

      • Mesh Routing

      • Efficient Flooding (Synchronous Transmissions)

    • Zigbee (Not Presented, but slides available)

      • Overview

      • PHY/MAC

      • Application Layer

      • Interoperability

    • Matter?

• WiFi

  • WiFi PHY

    • WiFi Overview

    • WiFi PHYs

      • 802.11/802.11b

      • 802.11a/802.11g

      • 802.11n/802.11ac

      • “WiFi 6” (ax)

      • “WiFi 7” (be?)

      • Read-World WiFi

  • WiFi MAC

    • 802.11 Access Control

    • 802.11 Frame Format

    • 802.11e Improvements

    • Microcontrollers & WiFi

• Cellular

  • Mobile Networking Origins

    • Fundamentals of cellular technology

    • Relevance of “old” cell technology to today’s IoT

  • Evolution of Cellular

    • 3G, 4G, and 5G...

  • Upcoming Cellular IoT Technologies

    • LTE Cat-M

    • NB-IoT

• LPWANs

  • LPWANs

    • LPWAN Design

    • Unlicensed LPWANs

    • LPWAN Challenges

• Other Communication Technologies

  • Boutique RF

    • Backscatter

    • Wakeup Radios

  • Non-RF

    • VLC

    • IR

    • Ultrasonic

  • (If time/interest): Localization technologies