Lecture Notes

Introduction to wireless ad hoc networks (Sept. 13)

Review of the TCP/IP protocol suite (Sept. 15)

Review of TCP

Ethernet and CSMA/CD medium access control (Sept. 20)

CSMA/CA medium access control (Sept. 22)
Reference: CSMA/CA performance

Internet routing (Sept. 27)
Reference: Distance vector routing

Routing in MANETs - DSR protocol - AODV protocol (Sept. 27, 29)
References: Caching strategies, Maintaining AODV sequence numbers,
Detailed description of AODV protocol

IP multicast (Oct. 4)

QualNet tutorial (Oct. 6)

TCP in MANETs - Split TCP - Paper (Oct. 18)

Presentation skills

Multi-rate transmissions - RBAR paper (Oct. 20)

ODMRP - slides, animation, paper (Oct. 25)

Test 1 (Oct. 27)

Multi-channel multi-radio WMNs and routing metrics (Nov. 1)

Network security basics

Principles of composition - Writing research papers (Nov. 15)

Medium time metric - MTM paper (Nov. 17, 22)
Reference: Opportunistic Auto Rate (OAR) protocol - slides, paper

Confidence interval computation - In-depth explanation, Student's t-distribution table

Authentication (Nov. 26)

Wireless security (Nov. 26)

Multicast routing in WMNs

Key management (Dec. 3)

Test 2 - Dec. 6

Project presentations - Dec. 8