Lecture Notes

Review of the TCP/IP protocol suite (Sept. 10)

How to write a paragraph - Example - Exercises - More tips

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

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