Core Lecture Data Networks
Winter term 2008/2009
Dr. Thomas Haenselmann
Important Dates
- Inspect your mid term exam on: Monday, January 5, 2009, 8:30-11:30am, room B426 (E1 3)
- Lecture: every Monday and Wednesday, 14:00-16:00, building E1 3 room HS 003
- Grand exercise: every Monday, 8:30-10:00, starting October 3, 2008, building E1 3 room HS 001
- Office hours: Monday, Wednesday (no appointment required), room 426
Important Dates
- Mid term exam (Rm): Monday, December 15, 14:00-16:00
- End exam (Rf1): Wednesday, February 11, 14:00-16:00
- Final exam (Rf2): Monday, March 23, 14:00-16:00
Grading
- You need to participate only in two exams including the mid-term exam. If you do all of them you may chose the better final exam.
- We will have 3 assignments. For details on how to submit, please see the PDF documents for the assignments below.
- Your final mark will be derived as follows (Ra=Result assignments): 0.2*Ra+0.8*(0.5*Rm+0.5*max{Rf1, Rf2}))
- Find the preliminary results of the *END* exam here.
News
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The time for the exercise lecture has been fixed to Monday, 8:30-10:00 am. Note that it takes place in HS 001.
The results for the mid term exam are public now. See 'Grades' above.
Slides
- Introduction
- Physical Layer / Static channel assignment in sensor networks
- Positioning in wireless networks
- Source coding
- Medium access control
- IEEE 802.x MAC approaches
- Excursus: MAC in sensor networks
- Routing in the Internet
- Routing not based on IDs
- Transport layer (January 30 - >> NEW <<)
- Synchronization
Exercises and sample solutions
- Exercise 1 (Solution)
- Exercise 2 (Solution)
- Exercise 3 (Solution)
- Exercise 4 (Solution)
- Exercise 5 (Solution)
- Exercise 6 (Solution)
- Exercise 7 (Solution)
- Exercise 8 (Solution)
- Exercise 9 (Solution)
- Exercise 10 (Solution)
- Exercise 11 (Solution)
- Exercise 12 (Solution)
Assignments
Source code
Literature
- Tanenbaum, A.S.: Computer Networks. (4th edition), Prentice Hall, 2002
- Kurose, James F., Ross, Keith W.: Computer Networking. (4th edition), Addison Wesley, 2007
- Haenselmann, T.: An FDL'ed Textbook on Sensor Networks
- Mahlmann, P., Schindelhauer, C.: Peer-to-Peer Netzwerke, Springer Verlag, 2007
- Steinmetz, R., Wehrle, K.: Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2005
Primary Literature
- K. Sohrabi, J. Gao, V. Ailawadhi, G.J. Pottie: Protocols for self-organization of a wireless sensor network, IEEE Personal Communications, October 2000, Vol. 7, Issue 5. pp. 16-27
- S. Capkun, M. Hamdi, J. P. Hubaux: GPS-free positioning in mobile ad-hoc networks, Proceedings of 34'th HICSS, Big Island, Hawaii, January 2001