Date	Course Notes	Expected Topics to be Covered
Jan. 4	Outline  [Latex] Motivation	Background and motivation
Jan. 7	Introduction	Introduction
Jan. 11/14/18/21	Queueing theory	Review queueing theory Ref: 1) M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks (appendix) 2) Leonard Kleinrock, Richard Gail, Queueing Systems: Problems and Solutions
	Assignment 1  [Latex]	Due on Jan. 28 [Solution]
		Choose your topic and let me approve it, on/before Feb. 1.
Jan. 25/28	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]
Jan. 28, Feb. 1/4/15	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. 18 Solution
Feb. 18/22	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 1.
Feb. 25/29	Access control	Access control Ref: M. Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks
	Assignment 3 [Latex]	Due on March 17 [Solution]
March 3	TCP/IP	TCP/IP basics and congestion control Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 4
March 7	AIMD	TCP/AIMD in wireless Internet Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 6
March 10	TFRC	TCP-friendly rate control protocol (TFRC) in wireless Internet Ref: Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis, chapter 7
March 14	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 March 31 Solution
March 17/21	Hybrid MAC Handoff	Hybrid MAC and Handoff
March 24/31 => these two lectures for presentation,	Future Ubiquitious Networks (FUN) Workshop Time: March 31, 2:30pm Location: ECS660 Poster Preparation Guidance	Workshop Schedule: Session 1: 2:30 - 3:40pm 1) Doug Maclean, ECOsat-III cube-sat communications systems 2) Risham Guram, Shubreet Brar, End to end communication for smart grids 3) Khamis Elnawaa, Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 a,b,n MAC protocol 4) Jingjing Lin, Yiming Li, Cloud computing performance study 5) Zhuo Chen, Linlin Zhang, Body area networks performance analysis 6) Akanksha, Tushar Mehra, TCP performance analysis 7) Nelly Udoka, Internet of Things for Smart Cities 8) Sami Abughar, Integration between Wi-Fi and cellular networks 9) Shuai Hao, Vivek Ratan, Amir Andaliby Joghataie, Analysis of Redundancy Protocols using GNS3 10) Mohammad Ghasemiahmadi, Location based grouping schemes for 802.11ah MAC protocol Session 2: 4:00 pm - 5:20pm 11) Jiayi Chen, Safety Message Dissemination in VANET 12) Ali Alzahrani, Kamel Alrashedy, Fawaz Alharbi, Toward software defined networking 13) Nishant Khanna, Saad Malik, Harneet Kaur, Network Management with SDN 14) Salahuddin Jokhio, Shahbaz Ali, Kasem Shwiegi, Artificial intelligence techniques for networking: Making networks learn and decide 15) Adnan, Bit Error Rate (BER) Analysis of Raleigh fading channel for MIMO 16) Harpreet Singh Brar, Navjot Singh, Routing Algorithms for Delay-insensitive and Delay-sensitive Applications in Underwater Sensor Networks 17) Victor Basu, Simar Arora, Content Delivery Network 18) Jigar Patel, Nefsal M, Li-Fi technology - Implementation and performance analysis 19) Syed Abid Ali Shah, MPLS Traffic Engineering 20) Anusha, Network Management and Security in Wireless Nanosensor Networks Congratulations to Salahuddin Jokhio, Shahbaz Ali, Kasem Shwiegi, for receiving the Best Poster Award of Spring 2016 FUN Workshop. Their presentation has been nominated by most number of fellow students.
April 4		Quiz
		Submit the completed project report in PDF format, on/before April 15, 4pm.