EE 60554 - Communication Networks
Spring 2020

Syllabus (pdf)

Instructor:	Dr. Martin Haenggi 274 Fitzpatrick 631-6103 / haenggi.1@nd.edu
Class Hours:	TH 09:30 - 10:45am in DeBartolo 208 (no class on Jan 28 - subject to change)
Textbook:	No required text. Course materials will be made available. We will mainly draw on Data Networks (2nd Edition) by Bertsekas/Gallager, Prentice-Hall, 1992 Network Calculus by Le Boudec/Thiran, Springer, 2001
Other suggested reading:	An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking by Keshav, Addison-Wesley, 1997 Computer Networking - a Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet (5th Ed.) by Kurose/Ross, Addison-Wesley, 2010 Computer Networks (5th Ed.) by Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall, 2011
Topics covered:	review of networking fundamentals (OSI layers, TCP/IP) queueing models and theory network calculus (application of min-plus algebra to packet networks)
Project:	Is "Age of Information" something new?
Exams:	Midterm and final exam
Grading:	Homework: 10% Midterms: 25+25% Project: 10% Final (oral): 30%

M. Haenggi, 01-13-20. Last change 01-13-20.