ECE 710 Topic 2 - Wireless Communication Networks
Instructor
Professor Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, EIT 4155, extension 32691, email, website
For more course details please see the course website.
Lecture
Tuesdays 11:30am-2:20pm (EIT 3141)
Office Hours
Tuesdays 09:30 am - 11:00 am
Course Description
This course is concerned with the resource management and performance issues in transport of multimedia traffic over wireless/wireline communication networks. Specifically, this course studies traffic characterization, connection admission, access and congestion control, routing, medium access control, quality of service and quality of experience, end-to-end performance analysis.
Outline
-
Introduction
to
Communication
Networks
- What are communication networks?
- Why should we learn about communication networks?
- The way communication networks work;
- Difference between wireless and wired networks;
- Problems associated with multimedia services in a wireless environment.
-
Review
of
Queueing
Theory
- M/M/1 queues: Poisson arrivals, exponential service times;
- M/M/N queues: multiservers;
- M/D/1 queues: uniform service time distribution;
- M/G/1 queues: general service time distribution.
-
Traffic
Characterization
- Types of traffic;
- Packet Voice Modeling;
- Fluid source modeling of packet voice;
- Fluid source modeling of video traffic;
- Bursty traffic model;
- Quality of service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE).
-
Traffic
Routing,
Access
and
Call
Admission
Control
- Traffic routing;
- Admission control;
- Access control.
-
Network
Connection
Management
and
Congestion
Control
- Scheduling;
- Medium Access Control;
- Congestion control;
- End-to-end traffic bounds and effective capacity.
-
CRN/VANET/Smart
Grid/SDN/Social
Networks
- Cognitive Radio Networks;
- Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks;
- Smart Grid;
- Software Defined Networks;
- Social Networks.
Text
Course Notes
References
- Recently published research papers in wireless/wired interworking
- Schwartz, M., Broadband Integrated Networks, Prentice Hall, 1996.
- Bertsekas, D. and R. Gallager, Data Networks, Prentice Hall, 1992.
Prerequisites
ECE 316, ECE 418, ECE 604 or equivalent.
Homework Assignments
Handed out and “due” on Mondays.
Grading
Homework=15%, Project=25% and Final Exam=60%.