How to write a paragraph - Example - Exercises - More tips
Principles of composition - Exercise: using active voice
Review of Ethernet and CSMA/CD (Sept. 11)
Wireless LANs and IEEE 802.11 medium access control (Sept. 16, 18)
Reference: CSMA/CA performance
IP multicast (Sept. 23, 25)
MOSPF description
Writing exercise: deleting redundant words/phrases
Review of TCP (Sept. 30)
Review of Internet routing
References:
Dijkstra's algorithm,
Bellman-Ford algorithm,
Distance vector routing,
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Routing in MANETs:
Overview,
DSR protocol,
AODV protocol
References:
Caching strategies,
Detailed description of AODV protocol,
Maintaining AODV sequence numbers
ODMRP - slides, animation, paper
Introduction to wireless mesh networks
Multi-channel multi-radio WMNs and routing metrics
TCP in MANETs: Split TCP - paper
Multi-rate transmissions - RBAR paper
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
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