ELEC 519B: SELECTED TOPICS IN COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
Broadband and Wireless Networks
Overview:
This course focuses on resource management and protocol design for
transporting data and multimedia traffic in broadband and wireless communication
networks. Topics include multimedia traffic modeling, wireless channel
modeling, radio resource management, mobility management, and
end-to-end flow and congestion control. The goal of the course is to
introduce the fundamental concepts, tools and methodologies in broadband and wireless
networks, and how to apply them to solve practical and emerging
problems. Students are encouraged to investigate novel ideas in the
area via course projects.
Prerequisites:
Probability and random process, basic knowledge of computer
communications networks. CENG461/ECE463/ECE514 is recommended but not
necessary.
Office
Hours: TW 10:30-11:30, or by appointment.
Lectures: TWF 9:30-10:30, CLE A225
Textbook (optional): L. Cai, X. Shen, and J. W.
Mark,
Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., June 2009. ISBN: 978-0-470-77065-8
Reference Books:
- M. Schwartz, Broadband
Integrated Networks, Prentice Hall PTR, New Jersey, 1996,
0-13-519240-4.
- Dimitri Bertsekas and Robert
Gallager, Data Networks, Prentice Hall, Second Edition,
1992.
- T. S. Rappaport, Wireless
Communications, Principles and Practice, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall,
2002.
- G. Stuber, Principles of
Mobile Communication, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publisher,
2001.
- J. W. Mark and W. Zhuang,
Wireless Communications and Networking, Prentice Hall, ISBN
0-13-040905-7, 2003.
- A. Leon
Garcia and I. Widjaja,
Communication Networks, McGraw Hill, 2003, Second Edition.
- Leonard Kleinrock, Richard
Gail, Queueing Systems: Problems and Solutions, Wiley, March 1996.
Course Schedule
Course Project
Last Update:
Nov. 2022 by CAI, Lin.