EE6413: Advanced Topics in Networking Technologies  (Semester A 2007/2008)

　

Office hours: 16:00-17:00, every Wednesday

Contact Info.: Room G6412. Tel: 27887141. lindai@cityu.edu.hk

　

Lecture Time: 18:30-21:20, every Thursday; Venue: CSC Room Neptune

Course Website: http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lindai/teaching.htm

Description: The goal of this course is to introduce principles and protocols of various advanced networking technologies. Special attention will be given to wireless networking.

 

Assessment:

Proposal                                        due on Oct. 11

Presentation (30%)                         during last five weeks

Final report (40%) + Exam (30%)    due on Dec. 1

 

Project Guidelines:

     Projects can be of two types: 1) technical survey; 2) research on open problems

Suggested Topics include (not limited to):

  1. Resource allocation in cooperative networks
  2. Cross-layer optimization in wireless networks
  3. Distributed scheduling algorithms for wireless networks
  4. Stability analysis of random access protocols
  5. random access with multi-packet reception
  6. routing strategies in mobile ad hoc networks
  7. Network coding for wireless networks
  8. Capacity of wireless networks

  

Reference books:

* James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet (3rd Edition), Addison Wesley, May 2004.

* C. Siva Ram Murthy and B. S. Manoj, Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols, Prentice Hall, 2004.

* Dimitri Bertsekas and Robert Gallager, Data Networks (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall, 1992.

* David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

* Jeffrey G. Andrews, Arunabha Ghosh and Rias Muhamed, Fundamentals of WiMAX, Prentice Hall, 2007.

　

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Lectures 1-2: Fundamentals of Data Networking

Lecture 3: Overview of Wireless Networking

Lecture 4: Physical Layer of Wireless Networks

Lectures 5-6: MAC Layer of Infrastructure-based Wireless Networks

Lecture 7: MAC, Routing and Transport Layers of Ad-hoc Wireless Networks

Lecture 8: Case Study: Mesh WLAN and WiMAX

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Sample answers for Bonus Questions:

Bonus Question 1: Do you think current networking protocols are suitable for wireless networks? Provide your reasons (which are NOT mentioned in the lecture).

WANG Jun

Bonus Question 2: Current layered structure and protocols were designed for wire-line systems. To incorporate wireless systems, do you think a new networking architecture (specially for wireless) should be developed, or just fix and enhance the existing protocols but keep the infrastructure unchanged? Provide your reasons.

WANG Jun

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