Important: our lecture room has been moved to MacLaurin D115!

Date Course Notes
Expected Topics to be Covered
Sept. 4
Outline  [Latex]
Motivation
Background and motivation
Sept. 8
Introduction Introduction
Sept. 11/15/18/22
Queueing theory
Review queueing theory
Ref: 1) M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks (appendix)
2) Leonard Kleinrock, Richard Gail, Queueing Systems: Problems and Solutions

A typo in the previous slides: for the equation of P_0 on page 34, sum_{n-1}^{N-1} should be sum_{n=1}^{N-1}. We have updated the slide and fixed the typo. Thanks to Dale who pointed it out.

Assignment 1  [Latex]
Due on Sept. 29


Choose your topic and let me approve it, on/before Oct. 1.
Sept. 25/29
Channel model
Wireless (packet-level) channel models
Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 2

Thesis by Dr. Ruonan Zhang: Cross-layer protocol design and performance study for wideband wireless networks
http://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8080/handle/1828/2118
 
R. Zhang and L. Cai. ``A Packet-level Model for UWB Channel with People Shadowing Process based on Angular Spectrum Analysis,'' IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun., vol. 8, issue 8, pp. 4048-55, Aug. 2009. [PDF]

Sept. 29 Oct. 2/6/9
Traffic Characterization
Multimedia traffic models
Ref: M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks
Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 3

Assignment 2 [Latex] Due on Oct. 20
Solution
Oct. 16/20
Admission Control

Call admission control
Ref: M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks


Email me a 1-page project proposal in plain text or PDF format, on/before Nov. 2.
Oct. 23/27
Access control
Access control
Ref: M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks

Assignment 3
[Latex]
Due on Nov. 17
[Solution]
Oct. 30
TCP/IP
TCP/IP basics and congestion control
Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 4
Nov. 3
AIMD
TCP/AIMD in wireless Internet
Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 6

Nov. 6
TFRC
TCP-friendly rate control protocol (TFRC) in wireless Internet
Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 7

Nov. 13
Wireless access Wireless multiple access techniques and performance study
Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 8


Assignment 4
[Latex]
Due on Nov. 27
Solution
Nov. 17

Hybrid MAC
Hybrid MAC


Nov. 20

Handoff
Handoff


Nov. 24/27
=> this two lectures move to Nov. 12 (Wed) 9:30-12:30 for presentation, in ECS660
Future Ubiquitious Networks (FUN) Workshop
Poster Preparation
Workshop Schedule:

Session 1: 9:30-10:45am
Hongrui Wang: Next generation cellular
Mnar Alnaghes: Mobile ad hoc networks
Maryam Tanha: Smart Grid
Dawood Sajjadi: Wireless mesh network
M.Ahsan Khan: WiGig
Zhen Liu, and Jahnabi Phukan: RFID
Mnar Alnaghes: Mobile ad hoc network security threats: the black hole attack
Dale Reitsma: FirstNet - An implementation of a future wireless network for the First Responder community
Waseem Ullah: Heterogeneous wireless networks
Rana Moazzam: 5G cellular systems

Break: 10:45am-11:00am

Session 2: 11:00am - 12:15pm
Yue Li: Next generation cellular
Wenjing Wang: Network coding
Olaoluwa Olayokun and Ifeyinwa Asemota: IPTV/VoD
Usama Khan: Internet of the things
Tahir Khan: Wireless sensor network
Noman Khalid: Smart grid
Suhas Prahalada: Tera Hz communications
Dec. 1

Review


Topics of project:



Final Exam: ECS108, Dec. 18, 9am



Submit the completed project report in PDF format, on/before Dec.  14 4pm.