ECE 710 Topic 2 - Winter 2018

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 8:30am-11:20am (EIT 3151)

Office Hours

Tuesdays 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Course Website:

https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~n35zhang/ECE710

Course Description

This course is concerned with the resource management and performance issues in transport of multimedia traffic over wireless/wireline communication networks such as Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Smart Grid, and Software Defined Networks. Specifically, this course studies traffic characterization, connection admission, access control, routing, medium access control, quality of service and quality of experience, end-to-end performance analysis, and applications.

Outline

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. Traffic Routing, Access and Call Admission Control
    • Traffic routing;
    • Admission control;
    • Access control.
  5. Network Connection Management
    • Scheduling;
    • Medium Access Control;
    • End-to-end traffic bounds and effective capacity.
  6. CRN/VANET/Smart Grid/SDN
    • Cognitive Radio Networks;
    • Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks;
    • Smart Grid;
    • Software Defined Networks.

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Course Notes

References

  • Recently published research papers in wireless resource management
  • Schwartz, M., Broadband Integrated Networks, Prentice Hall, 1996.
  • Bertsekas, D. and R. Gallager, Data Networks, Prentice Hall, 1992.

Prerequisites

ECE 316, ECE 610, ECE 604 or equivalent.

Homework Assignments

Handed out and “due” on Tuesdays.

Grading

Homework=15%, Project=25% and Final Exam=60%.