General and
Historic Course Information
Academic Honesty Policies
Required Text: None
Syllabus Updated: 19 Oct 07
Class List
This course will be conducted in 'seminar style'.
Except for background material, the course consists of readings and discussion of technical papers
taken from the current computer networks literature.
Seminar style implies
that the students participate in both the presentations and in the
discussion. This participation is a significant component of your grade.
Normally, we will cover two papers per week.
Students are required to complete and turn in a
Paper Evaluation Form(pdf) (doc) for each paper
covered at the beginning of every class.
Late forms will not be graded.
The course includes a Course Project, and
a Final Exam. See the set of Preliminary Questions
for Fall 2007 and the actual Fall 2006 Final Exam.
Each student is required to submit hardcopies of two research papers by September 18 to help form the course material.
| Course Objectives | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 26 August 2007 |
| TCP Sliding Windows | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 27 August 2007 |
| General Congestion Control and Queuing | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 27 August 2007 |
| Hobb's Internet History | |||
| TCP Congestion Control | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 3 December 2007 |
| Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 18 September 2007 |
| Tuning RED for Web Traffic | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 25 September 2007 |
| Bonus Paper Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet |
(pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 25 September 2007 |
| Core Stateless Fair Queueing | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 24 September 2007 |
| The War between Mice and Elephants | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 2 October 2007 |
| On Designing Improved Controllers for AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 2 October 2007 |
| Emulating AQM from End Hosts | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 9 October 2007 |
| A Wireless Network Primer | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 9 October 2007 |
| Enhancing TCP Fairness in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Neighborhood RED | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 9 October 2007 |
| A Routing Primer | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 16 October 2007 |
| A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 18 October 2007 |
| Improving TCP Performance over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Exploiting Cross-Layer Information Awareness | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 16 October 2007 |
| Characterization and Analysis of Multi-Hop Wireless MIMO Network Throughput | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 23 October 2007 |
| XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 23 October 2007 |
| Solutions to Performance Problems in VoIP over a 802.11 Wireless LAN | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 30 October 2007 |
| 802.11 User Fingerprinting | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 30 October 2007 |
| On the Performance Characteristics of WLANs: Revisited | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 6 November 2007 |
| Robust Rate Adaptation for 802.11 Wireless Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 6 November 2007 |
| CARA: Collision-Aware Rate Adaptation for IEEE 802.11 WLANs | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 6 November 2007 |
| Defending against Flooding-Based Distributed Denial-of-Service
Attacks:
A Tutorial |
(pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 13 November 2007 |
| Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 13 November 2007 |
| A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Primer | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: |
| An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 27 November 2007 |
| WiseMAC: An Ultra Low Power MAC Protocol for the Downlink of
Infrastructure Wireless Sensor Networks |
(pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 27 November 2007 |
| Ultra-Low Duty Cycle MAC with Scheduled Channel Polling | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 4 December 2007 |
| Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 4 December 2007 |
Last Modified 4 December 2007
Bob Kinicki
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