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EE532 COMMUNICATION NETWORK ANALYSIS

Course Code:	5670532
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Graduate
Course Coordinator:	Prof.Dr. ELÝF UYSAL
Offered Semester:	Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Mathematics of Internet Architecture. Resource allocation as utility maximization. Statistical multiplexing. Scheduling: switch archtectures, maximal matchings. Network Capacity, Max Weight scheduling. Scheduling in wireless networks: proportional fair scheduling in the downlink, channel-aware scheduling in cellular networks, ad hoc wireless networks, random access mechanisms, slotted aloha and variants, q-csma. Joint optimization of transport, network and MAC layers. Adaptive window flow control. Dijkstra and Bellman-Ford algorithms for link state and distance vector routing, applications in the Internet and wireless networks. Structured and unstructured P2P streaming.