Data Communication

Term: Fall, 2011

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

TA: Wei-Xian Lee  (walker1202@gmail.com)

Time: Tuesday 14-17

Room: S203

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% 20%
• 2nd Midterm (closed book): 15%
  
• Final (open book): 35% 30%
  

Schedule:

Week		Topic	References	HW
1	9/13	Course admin
2	9/20	Point-to-point protocols and links	Chap 1, 2	HW1: 2.9, 2.18 Due on 9/27 HW1 Solution:
3	9/27	Delay models (1)	Chap 3
4	10/4	Delay models (2)	Chap 3	HW2: Due on 10/11 HW2 Solution:
5	10/11	Delay models (3)	Chap 3	HW3: Due on 10/18 HW3 Solution:
6	10/18	Multiaccess communication (1)	Chap 4
7	10/25	Midterm review (Chap 1,2,3)		[2007] [2008] [2009] [2010]
8	11/1	Midterm
9	11/8	Multiaccess communication (2)	Chap 4
10	11/15	IEEE 802.11	Handout
11	11/22	2nd Midterm
12	11/29	IEEE 802.15.4, WPAN	Handout
13	12/6	IEEE 802.15.1 (a.k.a. Bluetooth)	Handout
14	12/13	Routing	Keshav Chap 11
15	12/20	Routing
16	12/27	Flow control, TCP	Keshav Chap 13
17	1/3	Final review
18	1/10	Final

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Additional Materials:

• Week 2: Point-to-point protocols and links
  • G. Gairhurst and L. Wood. Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ), RFC 3366, IETF, 2002.
  • Wikipedia: Automatic repeat request
  • (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.
  • (optional) 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.
  • David Gascón. 802.15.4 vs ZigBee. Wireless Sensor Networks Research Group, November 17, 2008.