Review of Ethernet and CSMA/CD (Sept. 12)
Wireless LANs and IEEE 802.11 medium access control (Sept. 17)
Reference: CSMA/CA performance
Review of TCP (Sept. 19)
Review of IP protocol (Sept. 24)
Review of Internet routing (Sept. 24)
References:
Dijkstra's algorithm,
Bellman-Ford algorithm,
Distance vector routing,
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Routing in MANETs:
Overview,
DSR protocol,
AODV protocol (Sept. 26, Oct. 1)
References:
Caching strategies,
Detailed description of AODV protocol,
Maintaining AODV sequence numbers
IP multicast
(Oct. 3)
MOSPF description
ODMRP - slides, animation, paper (Oct. 8)
QualNet tutorial (Oct. 4)
Sample code: download the zip file and unzip it to get the source code files.
List of routing protocols supported in QualNet
Introduction to wireless mesh networks (Oct. 10)
Multi-channel multi-radio WMNs and routing metrics (Oct. 10, 15)
Presentation skills (Oct. 18)
TCP in MANETs: Split TCP - paper (Oct. 22)
Multi-rate transmissions - RBAR paper (Oct. 24)
Medium time metric -
MTM paper
Assigned reading: Opportunistic Auto Rate (OAR) protocol -
slides,
paper
Confidence interval computation - In-depth explanation, Student's t-distribution table
Principles of composition - Writing research papers
Introduction to network security
Reading:
Introduction to network security -
Cryptography -
Authentication -
Digital Signatures -
Key Distribution and Certification -
Firewalls -
Secure E-Mail -
SSL -
IPsec
Wireless LAN security
Reading: IEEE 802.11i and wireless security