Date	Course Notes	Expected Topics to be Covered
Jan. 10	Outline  [Latex] Motivation Equity, Diversity and Inclusion	Background and motivation
Jan. 11	Introduction	Introduction
Jan. 13/18/20/24/25	Queueing theory	Review queueing theory Ref: 1) M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks (appendix) 2) Leonard Kleinrock, Richard Gail, Queueing Systems: Problems and Solutions
Jan. 17 and Jan. 27	No lecture	We move these two lectures to Apr. 4 for the FUN workshop.
	Assignment 1  [Latex]	Due on Jan. 31 [Solution]
		Choose your topic and let me approve it, on/before Feb. 14.
Jan. 31/Feb. 1/3	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]
Feb. 7/8/10/14/15/17	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 Feb. 24 Solution
Feb. 21/22/24	Reading Break
Feb. 28/Mar. 1	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 March 7.
Mar. 3/7	Access control	Access control Ref: M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks
	Assignment 3 [Latex]	Due on March 10 [Solution]
Mar. 8/10	TCP/IP	TCP/IP basics and congestion control Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 4
Mar. 14/15	AIMD	TCP/AIMD in wireless Internet Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 6
Mar. 17	TFRC	TCP-friendly rate control protocol (TFRC) in wireless Internet Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 7
Mar. 21/22	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 Mar. 28 Solution
Mar. 24/28	Hybrid MAC Handoff	Hybrid MAC and Handoff
Mar. 30		Review
April 4 poster presentation	Future Ubiquitious Networks (FUN) Workshop Time: April 4, 9:30am - 11:30pm Location: ECS660 Poster Preparation Guidance	Workshop Schedule:
April 5		Quiz
		Submit the completed project report in PDF format, on/before April 15, 4pm.