Data Communication

Term: Fall, 2008

Instructor:  Ling-Jyh Chen (cclljj@iis.sinica.edu.tw)

TA:  Sheniun Hsieh (raymond1983@gmail.com)

Time: Thursday 2-5pm

Room: S504

Textbook:

• Required:
  • Data Networks, 2^nd edition, Dimitri Bertsekas and Robert Gallager, Prentice Hall, 1992.
• Recommended:
  • An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, S. Keshav, Addision-Wesley.
  • Computer Networks, 4th edition, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall.

Grading:

• In-Class Participation: 5%
• Homework: 30%
• Midterm (closed book): 30%
• Final (open book): 35%

Schedule:

Week		Topic		References	HW
1	9/18	Course admin
2	9/25	Point-to-point protocols and links		Chap 1, 2
3	10/2	Delay models (1)		Chap 3	HW1: Questions 2.19, 3.4, 3.14
4	10/9	Delay models (2)		Chap 3
5	10/16	Delay models (3)		Chap 3	HW2: Questions 3.21, 3.22, 3.43, 3.57
6	10/23	Midterm review			Midterm'05 , Midterm'06 , Midterm'07
7	10/30	Midterm
8	11/6	Multiaccess communication (1)		Chap 4
9	11/13	Multiaccess communication (2)		Chap 4
10	11/20	IEEE 802.11		Handout
11	11/27	IEEE 802.15.1 (a.k.a. Bluetooth)		Handout
12	12/4	IEEE 802.15.4, WPAN		Handout	HW3: Questions 4.2, 4.3, 4.7 (Due on 12/25)
13	12/11	Canceled (WI'08 Conference)
14	12/18	Routing		Keshav Chap 11
15	12/25	Flow control, TCP		Keshav Chap 13	HW4
16	1/1	Holiday
17	1/8	Final review			Final'05 , Final'06 , Final'07
18	1/15	Final

 

Additional Materials:

• Week 2: Point-to-point protocols and links (optional)
  • Ling-Jyh Chen, Rohit Kapoor, M. Y. Sanadidi, and Mario Gerla. Enhancing Bluetooth TCP Throughput via Link Layer Packet Adaptation. The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, France, 2004.
  • Ling-Jyh Chen, Rohit Kapoor, Kevin Lee, M. Y. Sanadidi, and Mario Gerla. Audio Streaming over Bluetooth: An Adaptive ARQ Timeout Approach. The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (MNSA 2004, in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS'04), Tokyo, Japan, 2004.
• Week 3-5: Delay Models (optional)
  • Queueing Course, from Finland. Complete lecture notes, by J. Virtamo. 2004.
    http://www.netlab.hut.fi/opetus/s38143/luennot/english.shtml
  • Introduction to Probability, by Charles Grinstead and J. Laurie Snell.
    http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.pdf
• Week 10: IEEE 802.11 (optional)
  1. General Introduction of the standard (Vic Hayes, Lucent Technologies)
  2. Architecture (Greg Ennis)
  3. MAC entity (Phil Belanger, Aironet and Wim Diepstraten, Lucent Technologies)
  4. Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum PHY (Naftali Chayat, BreezeCom)
  5. Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum PHY (Jan Boer, Lucent Technologies)
• Week 11: IEEE 802.15.1 (optional)
  • J.C. Haartsen. The Bluetooth Radio System. IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, Feb. 2000.
  • P. Johansson, M. Kazantzidis, R. Kapoor, M. Gerla. Bluetooth: an enabler for personal area networking. IEEE Network, Sept.-Oct. 2001.
• Week 12: IEEE 802.15.3/4 (optional)
  • Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, and Mario Gerla. Modeling Channel Conflict Probabilities between IEEE 802.15 based Wireless Personal Area Networks. The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, Turkey, 2006.