ECE 537: Communication Networks

Spring 2006

Course Conduct and Outline


Instructor Seapahn Megerian
3423 Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706
http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~megerian
megerian at ece.wisc.edu
Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00-12:15 pm in 2540 Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday after class, Wednesday 3-5 PM, or by appointment. Feel free to drop in!
TA Niveditha Sundaram
nsundara at cae.wisc.edu
Office Hours: Monday 2:00-3:00 pm, Friday 2:00-3:00 pm in EH B555.
Textbook A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures Second Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004, ISBN 0-07-246352-X
Website Spring 2006 - Course Website
Homework 4 Assignments - To be assigned during lectures and collected at the beginning of the lecture on the assigned due date.
Projects 2 Projects involving programming in C.
Exams Midterm exam - date TBD
Final Exam - 2:45 pm Friday May 12, 2006
Grading 25% Homework
25% Projects
25% Midterm
25% Final
Course
Outline
  1. Introduction - Types of networks including telephone, Internet, and cellular
  2. Layered Architectures - The OSI model
  3. Physical layer fundamentals
  4. Data Link layer
  5. Medium Access Control
  6. Local Area Networks - 802.3, 802.5, 802.11
  7. Routing algorithms
  8. IP and IPv6
  9. TCP
  10. Network Architectures
  11. Wireless Networks - Cellular, 802.11, Bluetooth, and Mobile IP
  12. Cryptographic primitives - DES and RSA


Last updated: 1/28/2006