COE-541 Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Design and Analysis

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The schedule and material for projects is found here.

Final Exam: Sunday 7:00 pm January 11th, 2004 - Location 22-132

This site has a java applet for simulating Slotted ALOHA - The source code is available from here (Most of the code is used to do the graphical user interface).

Check out this site for a similar course at Boston University - contains many simulation Projects/examples!!

Check out the solution key for assignment

Check out an example where Slotted Aloha is simulated

Check out an example of a polling-based WLAN analysis using a simple queueing model (involves queue evolution equation)

Check the new Matlab code for ON/OFF sources in the Term Projects section

Preliminary Final exam date: January 11th, 2003 - 7:00 PM

Course Syllabus:

Click here for course syllabus.

Lecture Notes:

The main reference for the course is the textbook and the handouts distributed in class. These notes are merely as summary:

• Digital Communication - Background Material
• Review of Basic Probability Theory and Distributions - Background Material
• Review of Markov Processes
• Queuing Models
• Local Area Performance
• Ethernet Technology

Term Projects:

• List of term projects and required information is available here
• To see which are still available, please click here
• Matlab code for ON/OFF sources

Assignments:

• Sept 14th, 2003    - Reading Assignment #1: Chapter 1 and 2 
• Assignment #1: Problems 8.11, 8.13, 8.19, 9.3, 9.15  (from the last handout) - Due date Nov 2nd, 2003 (these will be marked!) - solution key

Quizzes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Sept 23rd, 2003
• Quiz02: October 21st, 2003
• Major: Dec 2nd, 2003
• Final Exam: Sunday January 11th, 2003 -Rm  22-132 @ 7:00 pm

Check Your Status:

• For your marks click here

Announcements:

• Week of Sept 20th, 2003 - Quiz #1

Matlab Tutorial Material:

Basic information:

• University of Utah site - Matlab
• Indiana University - Getting Started with Matlab

More detailed material at:

• University of Florida - Matlab Summary and Tutorial
• Michigan Technological University - A practical Introduction to Matlab

The MathWorks website - The makers of Matlab

Links and Sites of Interest:

These will be in response to some key inquiries and interesting remarks made during the lectures. It would be advantageous to explore these sites and getting yourself familiar with these topics:

Page still under construction - Last updated on 01/14/2004 .