Lecture Notes

Introduction to wireless ad hoc networks (Sept. 9)

Review of the TCP/IP protocol suite (Sept. 14)

Review of TCP

Ethernet and CSMA/CD medium access control (Sept. 16)

CSMA/CA medium access control

Routing on the Internet (Sept. 25)

Routing in MANETs

Introduction to multi-channel multi-radio wireless networks (Oct. 2)

Routing metrics in multi-channel multi-radio wireless networks

LQSR protocol

Review of CSMA/CA medium access control
Presentation and writing skills

IP multicast (Oct. 9)

ODMRP (animation) (Oct. 23)

Multi-rate transmission

Test 1 (Oct. 30)
QualNet tutorial 1

Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (Zahidur's presentation) (Nov. 6)
QualNet tutorial 2

An IEEE 802.11-based Multi-Channel WMN (Dusan's presentation) (Nov. 13)
TCP in MANETs

Presentations of project designs - Dusan (Nov. 20)
Security issues

Presentations of project designs - Zahidur (Nov. 27)
Key management
Authentication

Test 2 (Dec. 4)
IEEE 802.11 wireless security

Presentations of final projects (Dec. 7 or later)