Course Syllabus

290 Q - Spring 2016
Understanding and Improving the
Performance of Wireless Networks

INSTRUCTOR : Prof Adam M. Wolisz
Wednesday 2- 4. 30 pm, 531 Cory
(note: first meeting on January 27th!)

Wireless networks dominate the "last hop" over which individual devices are connected. The rapidly growing
wireless traffic has a highly heterogeneous nature, ranging from massive video to highly delay sensitive real- time control data. In order to assure the required "quality of user experience" heterogeneous networks concepts: e.g. cellular, WLANs, sensor networks, delay tolerant networks are increasingly considered not only as alternative solutions but as parts of consistent heterogeneous communication infrastructure.
This seminar will include discussion of methods and models used for performance evaluation of wireless networks but the main focus will be on lessons which can be learned out of the performance studies: trends in networks design, opportunities for improving the efficiency of their operation, possibilities for harmonization of applications and underlying networks.
Students are expected to have some familiarity with computer networks and wireless communication, be active in reading, presenting and discussing papers as well as active within the project work.