1. Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (Fall 2005) Instructor: Instructor:Dr. Damla Turgut Office: Office:450 ENGR 1 Bldg Office Phone: Office Phone:(407) 823-6171 Email: Email:turgut@cs.ucf.eduturgut@cs.ucf.edu Web: Web:http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~turguthttp://www.cs.ucf.edu/~turgut Class Time: Class Time:Wednesday 1:30 PM – 4:20 PM Office Hours: Office Hours:Tuesday 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Wednesday 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM TA: TA:Mr. Majid A. Khan Office: Office:ENGR 265 Office Hours: Office Hours:Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Email: Email: khan@hector.cs.ucf.edukhan@hector.cs.ucf.edu Prerequisites: Prerequisites:EEL 4781 (Computer Networks) and/or instructor consent Textbooks Textbooks:No required textbook!

2. Reference Books: 1.C. S. Raghavendra, Krishna M. Sivalingam and Taieb Znati, Eds., Wireless Sensor Networks, An Edited Book", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 2.Feng Zhao, Leonidas Guibas, Wireless Sensor Networks : An Information Processing Approach, The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking, 2004. 3.Agawam and Zhang, Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Systems, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2003 4.Nicopolitidis, Obaidat, Papadimitriou, and Pomportsis, Wireless Networks, Wiley, 2003 5.Thurwachter, Wireless Networking, Prentice Hall, 2002 6.Stojmenovic, Handbook of Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing, Wiley, 2002 7.C.E. Perkins, Ed., Ad Hoc Networking, Addison-Wesley, 2001. 8.C.-K. Toh, Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks: Protocols and Systems, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002. 9.Selected research papers from journals, conferences and technical reports Course Objectives : The course is designed for advanced level graduate students. The course objectives are to provide the students with an:  understanding of current sensor networks theory and practice  opportunity to work on projects related to applications of sensor networks  experience on reading and writing research papers Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (Fall 2005)

3. Course Description:  Survey of state of the art  Design and development of various research topics Class Project: The class projects require  design and simulation of a chosen research topic  usage of one of the recommended network simulator packages for the simulation of the proposed algorithm and/or protocol  verification of the simulation results with analytical analysis  written report including the research project findings and  Initial and final presentations Grading Scheme:  Individual or group project (max. 2 students) => 70%  Assignments => 25%  Attendance => 5% Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (Fall 2005)

4. Paper Reviews: Written reviews (hard copies) for each paper to be discussed in class for the coming week are due on the previous Friday. The soft copies of the reviews should be sent to instructors email account at the same time For each paper, students should write a review answering each of the following questions: 1. What problems (with prior work or the lack thereof) were addressed or surveyed by the authors? 2. What solutions were proposed or surveyed by the authors? 3. What are the technical strengths and main contributions of the paper's proposed solutions? 4. What are the technical weaknesses of the paper's proposed solutions? 5. What suggestions do you have to improve upon the paper's ideas? Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (Fall 2005)