ECE 537: Communication Networks

Spring 2007

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 (pending) Niveditha Sundaram
nsundara at cae.wisc.edu
Office Hours: Mon and Wed 2-3pm in B555 EH.

Textbook Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Computer Networks, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, Aug 9, 2002, Copyright 2003, ISBN-10: 0-13-066102-3

Website Spring 2007 - Course Website

Homework 5 Assignments - To be assigned during lectures and collected at the beginning of the lecture on the assigned due date.

Projects 1 Project involving programming in C.

Exams Midterm exam - 3/27/2007
Final Exam - 5/16/2007 - 12:25PM

Grading 25% Homework
25% Project
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


Last updated: 1/22/2007