Introduction to wireless ad hoc networks (Sept. 13)
Review of the TCP/IP protocol suite (Sept. 15)
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)
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)
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)
Key management (Dec. 3)
Test 2 - Dec. 6
Project presentations - Dec. 8