ECE 564 - Fall 2007
Advanced Topics in Computer Networks

Time and Place

Instructor

Syllabus

Class Material

• Classnotes: Can be purchased in batches them the EES Copy Center, Rm. 137, Harvill Bldg.
• Assigned papers, Internet RFCs, and IEEE standards
• Selected chapters from various books (copies can be purchased from the Copy Center)

Homework Assignments and Handouts

[TO BE PROVIDED IN CLASS]

Assigned Reading (Unless indicated otherwise, students are responsible for all assigned reading material)

• Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)

  • Henning Schulzrinne and Jonathan Rosenberg, “Internet telephony: Architecture and protocols, an IETF perspective,” Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 237-255, February 1999.

• RSVP and Integrated Services (IntServ) 
  • Paul White, "RSVP and integrated services in the Internet: A tutorial," IEEE Comm. Magazine, May 1997.

  • RFC 2205, "Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) - Version 1 Functional Specification (Standards Track)," http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2205.txt (up to section 3.8).

• Teletraffic Modeling and Analysis

  • Marwan Krunz, "Statistical multiplexing," Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, (Ed. John Webster), Vol. 20, pp. 479-492, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., April 1999

• Flow Control

  • “RFC 2581: TCP congestion control” (standards track, April 1999), http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2581.txt.

• Routing
  • S. Keshav. An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, Chapter 11. Addison Wesley.
    
• Wireless LANs and MANETs
  • B. P. Crow, I. Widjaja, J. G. Kim, and P. T. Sakai, “IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 35,  Issue 9,  pp. 116-126, Sept. 1997.
  • A. Goldsmith and S. B. Wicker, “Design challenges for energy-constrained ad hoc wireless networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Volume 9,  Issue 4,  pp. 8-27, Aug. 2002.

  • A. Ephremides, “Energy concerns in wireless networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Volume 9,  Issue 4,  pp. 48-59, Aug. 2002.

• Power Control in MANETs
  • Marwan Krunz, Alaa Muqattash, and S.J. Lee, "Transmission power control in wireless ad hoc networks: Challenges, solutions, and open issues," IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 8-14, Sep. 2004. [pdf]

  • Alaa Muqattash and Marwan Krunz, "A distributed transmission power control protocol for mobile ad hoc networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 113-128, April/June 2004. [pdf] 

• Topology Control

  • R. Ramanathan and R. Rosales-Hain, "Topology control of multihop wireless networks using transmit power adjustment," Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM Conference, volume 2, pages 404–413, 2000.

• Power Control and MAC Design for MANETs with Directional Antennas

  • Aman Arora and Marwan Krunz, "Power-controlled medium access for ad hoc networks with directional antennas," Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 145-161, March 2007.

• Routing in MANETs

  • Mehran Abolhasan, Tadeusz Wysocki, and Eryk Dutkiewicz, "A review of routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks", Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 1-22, Jan. 2004.

    
    

Prerequistes

• ECE 478/578 or an equivalent introductory course in computer networks
• ECE 503 or an equivalent course in probability theory and random processes

Course Objectives

In recent years, computer networks have been undergoing significant changes in their design principles, architectures, protocols, and application scenarios. Emerging networks are expected to carry diverse traffic types (e.g., video, audio, images, and text), some of which have stringent delay and packet-loss transport requirements. Quality-of-service (QoS) support became a fundamental block in the design of intelligent networks. The exponential growth of the web has made it critical to deploy web caching mechanisms at end-systems (clients and servers) as well as within the network. Network services have been extended to the wireless domain (e.g., via WiFi and Bluetooth), allowing for seamless wired/wireless connectivity based on cellular as well as “ad hoc” architectures. Sensor networking is emerging as an enabling technology for many exciting sensor-based application domains, including environment monitoring, seismic-structure response, marine microorganisms, etc.

Topics (tentative):

Grading:

Homework Assignments (3 - 5, mostly programming projects)			25%
Quizzes (3 - 5 mini-exams)			25%
Midterm Exam (on Thursday Nov. 1)			25%
Final Exam (Tuesday Dec. 11, 2 - 4pm)			25%

Remark:  Your homework assignments will require you to perform numerical computations or run discrete-event simulations. For assignments that require numerical computations, you will need to write your own code using either C or Matlab. For assignments that involve discrete-event simulations, you are REQUIRED to use the Csim software. Csim is a C-based programming environment for discrete-event simulation developed by Mesquite Software. I will spend 1-2 weeks reviewing Csim, but that will not be enough to cover all of its aspects. Therefore, you should start reading the CSIM documentation on your own as soon as possible, and before I cover it in class. Csim's User's Guide is available online at http://www.mesquite.com/ (under `Documentation').