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

More resources for the project - Mainly from the OpNet 2003 conference - see below.

Oct 31st - Midterm date - during class time

Oct26th - first deliverable for project

Please note the IEEE802.11 standard in the Project section - a needed reference for your project.

The project deadlines and deliverables are outlined below.

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

    Reference on generation of random variables: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vazquez/SimSpiders/GenerRV/index.html

• Queuing Models

            Check the following Queueing Java applet at: http://www.win.tue.nl/cow/Q2/

• Local/Metropolitan Area Network Performance
• Ethernet Technology

Assignments:

• Sept 11th, 2004    - Reading Assignment #1: Chapter 1 and 2 of textbook 
• Assignment #2: Sept 23rd, 2004 - Due date Oct 5th, 2004 - in class - solution.
• Assignment#3: Tuesday 12th, 2004 - Due date Nov 2nd, 2004 - in class. - solution.

Quizzes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Sept 28th, 2004
• Quiz02: Oct 10th, 2004 - take home quiz
• Quiz03: Oct 17th, 2004
• Midterm: Oct 31st, 2004
• Quiz04: Dec 5th, 2005
• Quiz-5: Dec 21st, 2005

Check Your Status:

• Click here for your marks

Course Project:

You are required to reproduce the simulation results presented in the following paper:

Changle Li; Jiandong Li; Xuelian Cai;"Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to Support Voice Services, "Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2004. AINA 2004. 18th International Conference on , Volume: 2 , 2004.

and possibly extend the study by considering other types of traffic and/or enhancements to the access mechanism. An introductory study into PCF characterization can be found in:

Xiyan Ma; Yi Wu; Zhisheng Niu; Saito, T.; "Performance analysis of the packetized voice transmission with PCF in an IEEE 802.11 infrastructure wireless LAN," 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, 2003. APCC 2003. Volume: 2 , 21-24 Sept. 2003, Pages:571 - 575 Vol.2
 

References:

IEEE802.11 standard (size ~ 6 MB)- Please pay special attention to chapter 9 - MAC sublayer functional description. This contains specification for both DCF and PCF functions.

Presentation by Al-Mutairi and Mesmar - from previous COE 541 classes.

Papers using opnet WLAN models:

- Jiaqing Song and Ljiljana Trajkovic, "Enhancements and Performance Evaluation of Wireless Local Area Networks,"

 - Rusty O. Baldwin, Nathaniel J. Davis IV, Scott F. Midkiff, "Implementation of an IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Model using OPNET™,"
 

- WLAN opnet model guide

- Presentations and papers from opnetwork 2003: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8

Project Deadlines and Milestones

• Click here for the timetable and deliverables.

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