Instructor: Benyuan Liu
Location: Olsen 404
Time: Tuesday 5:30-8:00pm
Office Hours: Monday 10-11:30am, Thursday 2-3:30pm, and by appointment.
e-mail: bliu@cs.uml.edu

Content: This course provides an introduction to the advanced topics in computer networking, and principles and practices in wireless communications and networks. Topics to be covered include: multimedia networking, peer-to-peer networks, security, wireless transmission, wireless cellular networks, wireless LANs, wireless ad hoc networks.

Teaching assistants: TBA.

Prerequisites: 91.413 Data Communications I.

Text: Course materials will also be widely drawn from the following references and the Internet. The main sources are listed here. All of the required and recommended paper readings in the course are linked from this page.

Refereces:

1. Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 4th Edition, J.F. Kurose and K.W. Ross, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-321-49770-8.
2. Mobile Communications, Second Edition, Jochen Schiller, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0-321-12381-6.
3. Wireless Communications and Networks, Second Edition, William Stallings, Pearson/Prentice Hall, ISBN:0-13-191835-4.
4. Mastering Networks: An Internet Lab Manual , Addison Wesley, ISBN:0-201-78134-4.

Class Notes: Class notes will be posted on the class WWW site (see "On-line materials" below).

On-line materials. A WWW site is maintained for the course.
Everything that is handed out in class is posted on this WWW site.

Coursework:

Programming Assignment 1 posted.