Lecture Notes

Introduction to wireless ad-hoc networks (Jan. 4)

Review of the TCP/IP protocol suite (Jan. 4, 9)

Review of Ethernet and CSMA/CD (Jan. 9, 11)

Wireless LANs and IEEE 802.11 medium access control (Jan. 11, 16)
Reference: CSMA/CA performance

Review of Internet protocols (Jan. 18)

Review of Internet routing (Jan. 23)
References:
Dijkstra's algorithm
Bellman-Ford algorithm
Distance vector routing
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

Multicasting (Jan. 23, 30)

Review of TCP (Jan. 30, Feb. 1)

Presentation skills (Feb. 1)

Routing in MANETs:
Overview (Feb. 1)
DSR protocol (Feb. 6)
AODV protocol (Feb. 6)
References:
Caching strategies
Detailed description of AODV protocol
Maintaining AODV sequence numbers

On-demand multicast routing protocol (ODMRP) slides, animation, paper - (Feb. 8)

Multi-rate transmissions - RBAR paper (Feb. 15)

Medium time metric - MTM paper (Feb. 21)
Assigned reading: Opportunistic Auto Rate (OAR) protocol slides, paper

TCP in MANETs: Split TCP - paper (Feb. 21)

Feb. 27: Test 1 (material up to Feb. 15 lecture)

Multi-channel multi-radio WMNs and routing metrics (March 2)

Principles of composition - Writing research papers (March 5)

Multicast routing in MCMR wireless mesh networks (March 7)

Network security basics (March 16)

Authentication (March 16)

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

Key management (March 23)

Wireless security (March 30)