The advanced topics course examines topical issues in networking with focus on wireless networking technologies, protection and the next generation networking. Topics include wireless networking services and technologies, requirements and challenges for wireless data network design, access technologies, developments in wireless networks such as WiFi (IEEE 802.11), bluetooth, wireless USB, Ultra wideband, sensor networks such as zigbee, wide area networks such as WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) and 3G/4G cellular networks, mobility management, handoff, protocol adaptations for wireless networking including mobile IP, WAP, mobile TCP, wireless resources management, including packet scheduling power management and ad-hoc routing, issues of mobile data network security, emerging mobile data architectures and services, quality of service, issues of mobile data application, wireless cache invalidation, multimedia transport over wireless, and location dependent services.