ECE 710 Topic 2 - Winter 2015

ECE 710 Topic 2 - Wireless Communication Networks

Instructor

Professor Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, EIT 4155, extension 32691, email, website

Lecture

Tuesdays 11:30am-2:20pm (EIT 3151)

Office Hour

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

  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 and Congestion Control
    • Scheduling;
    • Medium Access Control;
    • User location and mobility estimation;
    • Congestion control.
  6. Wireless BAN/Vehicular Networks/Smart Grid
    • Wireless Body Area Networks;
    • Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks;
    • Smart Grid.
  7. End-to-End Traffic Bounds and Effective Capacity
    • Deterministic bounds;
    • Stochastic bounds and effective capacity.

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Course Notes

References

Recently published research papers in wireless/wired interworking
Schwartz, M., Broadband Integrated Networks, Prentice Hall, 1996. (Call No. - TK5103.75.S38)
Bertsekas, D. and R. Gallager, Data Networks, Prentice Hall, 1992. (Call No.- TK5105.B478)

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%.