ECE639 Spring 2009
Principles of Broadband Networks
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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| Nirwan Ansari Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Newark College of Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Grading |
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Grading: Mid-term 35%; Final 40%; Assignments/Quizzes & Projects 25%. No make-up. |
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Course Outline |
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Lecture 1 |
Introduction: highlights on broadband, existing telecommunication infrastructure, Internet evolution, network evolution and architecture, virtual private network, and emerging technologies |
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Lecture 2 |
Switching Techniques, T1, X.25, ISDN, SONET |
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Lecture 3 |
ATM Basics | |
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Lecture 4 |
Congestion Control for Available Bit Rate Services in ATM Networks |
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| Lecture 5 | Congestion Control in Heterogeneous Networks | |
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Lecture 6 |
Traffic Modeling of Broadband Services |
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Lecture 7 |
Admission Control |
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Lecture 8 |
Switching Principles and Architectures |
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Lecture 9 |
Traffic Scheduling |
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Lecture 10 |
IP/ATM Convergence |
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Lecture 11 |
Optical Networks |
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| Lecture 12 |
Recent Advances in High Speed Networks |
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Text and References |
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A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communications Networks, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004---selected chapters. Journal Articles |
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