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Computer Networking - 2012/2013, Semester 1

The course descriptors (Level 10)(INFR10011) (Level 11)(INFR11049) outline the syllabus, activities and course prerequisites.

Lecturer: D K Arvind

Lectures are on
Mondays at 10.00-10.50 in D.02 Forrest Hill
Thursdays at 10.00-10.50 in D.02 Forrest Hill

There are no tutorials for CN. 

Teaching Assistant: Valentin Radu (Office hours: By appointment).

Secretary (for course administration matters): Kate Weston

Mailing Lists: cn-students@inf.ed.ac.uk

Announcements: Computer Networking Assignment 1 will be available after marking for collection from the ITO on Thursday 8 November 2012 after 12 noon.

Coursework Assignment 1: The deadline for submission of the printed version of the report at ITO is 4.00 pm, 18 October 2012. A postscript (PDF) version of the electronic copy of the report should also be emailed to dka@inf.ed.ac.uk with "CN-1 Assignment" in the subject line of the email. Assignment 2: Issued on 18 October 2012. Submission: The deadline for submission of the printed version of the report to the ITO is 4pm, 15th November, 2012. A postscript (pdf) version of the electronic copy of the report should also be emailed to dka@inf.ed.ac.uk with "CN-2 Assignment" in the subject line of the email. Paper Set-1 "MAC Protocols" [1] Rhee I, Warrier A, Aia M, Min J, and Sichitiu M "Z-MAC - A Hybrid MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks", in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 3, June 2008. [2] Ye W, Silva F, and Heidemann J "Ultra-low Duty Cycle MAC with Scheduled Channel Polling", In SenSys?06 Proceedings of the 4th Int. Conf. on Networked Sensor Systems, pp 321-34, ACM Press. [3] Wong K J and Arvind DK "SpeckMAC: low-power decentralised MAC protocols for low data rate transmissions in specknets" in Proceedings of the 2nd International workshop on Multihop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality, pp 71-78, ACM Press, 2006. Paper Set-2 "Routing Algorithms" [4] Perkins CE and Royer EM Ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing In Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1999. Proceedings. WMCSA '99. Second IEEE Workshop on, pp 90-100, IEEE Press. [5] Johnson DB, Maltz DA and Broch J "DSR: The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks" Ad Hoc Networking, Chapter 5: pages 139 - 172. Addison-Wesley, 2001. [6] Gnawali O, Fonseca R, Jamieson K, Moss D and Levis P "Collection Tree Protocol" SenSys '09 Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems Pages 1-14, ACM Press.

Schedule Weeks Lecture Topic 1  Introduction and Overview 2  Layered Network Architectures 3  Transport Layer Protocols TCP/UDP Automatic Repeat Request 4  The Network Layer: Forwarding, Routing, IP and Internet Routing Protocols 5  Traffic Management and Congestion Control 6  Personal Area Networks - Bluetooth, ZigBee, UWB 7 Introduction to Wireless Networks 8 Tutorial on Wireless Communications 9 802.11 Wireless Networks 10 RFID 11 Cellular Networks

Reading material

Recent past examination papers and sample solutions can be found in the School archive.

D K Arvind, dkaAT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk, Room 2.18, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, ext. 505176

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