ECE789

Spring 2003

ECE789 Advanced Topics in Broadband Networks
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Nirwan Ansari
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Newark College of Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Office	343 ECEC
E-mail	nirwan.ansari@njit.edu
Phone	(973) 596-3670
Fax	(973) 596-5680
Office Hours	Wed:5-6pm; Thu: 4-5pm. Others by appointments.

Grading

Grading: Examinations 50%; Assignments & Projects 50%.

WEEKS	TOPICS
1	Overview
2-4	Optical Networks Optical Burst Switching Opitcal Packet Switching Queuing Models of Optical Networks Survivability: Protection and Restoration
5-6	Recently Proposed Switching Architectures and Traffic Scheduling VOQ switching Cell-switching with the grouping architecture Core-stateless scheduling
7-8	Multiple Protocol Label Switching MPLS Overview Implementation and Deployment Virtual Private Networks (IP, MPLS and Optical VPNs) GMPLS
9-10	QoS routing
11-12	IP Traceback
13-14	Sensor Networks

Texts

Lecture notes and journal articles.