EE 525: Communication Protocol Design

Senior Design Course:

To design and evaluate collision free Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON).

Last Updated: Saturday, April 26, 2003

Announcements:

• Course Description
• Course Organization
• Project Report Format

Class Hours:

Thursday: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

References:

• Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• Fundamentals of Telecommunication Network by Saadawi, Allar and El Hakeem
• EE I8300

Tentative Schedule:

Month                Thursday                    Topic
January         30             Introduction, OPNET Tutorial
February         6             Design Specification, Intro to OPNET Modeling
                13             Traffic generation using OPNET
                20             IEEE 802.3ah
                27             Introduction to Linux
March            6             Linux workstations setup, Simulation results due
                13             Notes on Linux and Protocol Development I
                20             Notes on Linux and Protocol Development II
                27             Notes on Linux and Protocol Development III
April            3             Protocol Development
                10             Protocol Development
              17             Spring Recess
               24             Spring Recess
May              1             Testing
                 8             Testing
                15             Final report due