Università Roma Tre

Lectures
1. Course Introduction
- What are networks?
- Small worlds
- Social and Telecommunications networks
2. Network performance
- Delay, Packet loss, Throughput, Jitter
3. Transport layer
- Basics on TCP, Timers, Flow and Congestion Control
4. Data information sources
- Average rate and peak rate, Burstiness, traffic sources in NS2
5. Network Applications
- Network Application Architectures (Client-Server and P2P), Peer-to-Peer applications (BitTorrent and Skype), HTTP and FTP, DNS
6. VANETs
- Introduction to Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks, main aspects and differences with MANETs, Safety and comfort applications, communication protocols
7. Search Engines
- Link structure and TF-IDF, Page Ranking techniques (HITS, PageRank)
8. Optical wireless communications
- Visible light communications

- J.F. Kurose, and K.W. Ross, "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach", 6th Edition, Addison Wesley.
- A.S. Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", 4th Edition, Prentice Hall 2002.
- D. Easley, and J. Kelinberg, "Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World", Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Z. Ghassemlooy, W. Popoola, and S. Rajbhandari, "Optical wireless communications, System and Channel modeling with MATLAB", CRC Press
- Lecture notes by the Professor