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Review of Ethernet and CSMA/CD (Sept. 15)
Wireless LANs and IEEE 802.11 medium access control (Sept. 17, 22)
Reference: CSMA/CA performance
Review of TCP (Sept. 24, 29)
Principles of composition - Exercise: using active voice
Writing exercise: deleting redundant words/phrases
Review of IP protocol (Oct. 1)
Review of Internet routing (Oct. 6)
References:
Dijkstra's algorithm,
Bellman-Ford algorithm,
Distance vector routing,
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
IP multicast (Oct. 8)
MOSPF description
Routing in MANETs:
Overview,
DSR protocol,
AODV protocol (Oct. 13, 15)
References:
Caching strategies,
Detailed description of AODV protocol,
Maintaining AODV sequence numbers
ODMRP - slides, animation, paper (Oct. 20)
Presentation skills (Oct. 20)
TCP in MANETs: Split TCP - paper (Oct. 22)
Test 1 (Oct. 27)
Introduction to wireless mesh networks
Multi-channel multi-radio WMNs and routing metrics
Multi-rate transmissions - RBAR paper
Medium time metric -
MTM paper
Assigned reading: Opportunistic Auto Rate (OAR) protocol -
slides,
paper
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