• Dr. Doan B. Hoang
• Office G23
• Email: doan@cs.usyd.edu.au
• Homepage: www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~doan

• Tue 12 - 2 pm

• Assignment 1 (20%): written report to be handed in on Tuesday of week 4
• Assignment 2 (30%): Programming and report to be handed in on Tuesday of week 10
• Exam (50%): One-hour and thirty minutes written exam at the end of the semester

The course aims to address various aspects of Computer Communications and Networking which are relevant to those who want to have a deeper understanding of Networking and for those who are interested in research in this area. Half of the course will cover protocols and new technologies, and the other half will cover simulation and queueing theory which form the foundation for network performance evaluation.

Weekly,

• One-hour lecture is devoted to Advanced Network Technologies. Lecture slides will be handed out at the lecture.
• One-hour lecture is devoted to probability, stochastic processes, queueing theory, performance evaluation and simulation. Some lecture notes will be handed out, but mostly you have to take notes during the lecture.

Topics covered are as follows, but they may be adjusted

• An introduction to the topic,
• The reasons you are interested in the topic,
• History and problems associated with the topic,
• Technical description of the topic, problem,
• Technical description of the solutions to date,
• Description of any unsolved problems
• Your view or suggested solutions to these unsolved problems,
• Your view on a research direction concerning the topic.

• Why is the current Internet not capable of supporting real-time multimedia applications? What must be done and how can it be done to make the future Internet support applications that demand stringent quality of service?
• Wireless and Mobile Networking: Problems and Solutions
• Describe a framework for Distributed applications
• What would be the most important future network application in your opinion? Describe it based on the current and immediate future networking and distributed application technologies. How can it be achieved?
• Altenatively, suggest your own topics