Wireless Local Area Networks

Course Information

Teacher : Dr. Rong-Hong Jan        TA: Mu-Ying Lu , Chi-Yu Li   

 

 

Date
Announcement

2006.01.20

The grades contain Experiment 6 and Final exam.
2006.01.13
Check your grade from here.
Important!!!
Final Examination: 1/13 (五) 10:10 a.m.

2006.01.11

The demo schedule has a little adjustment.
2006.01.06

The previous final exam paper (download)
Slide of Mesh survey (download)
Updated slide of CH10 (download)

2006.1.3

The demo schedule of final project

2005.12.27

Course slide of Wireless Mesh Network has been released.
2005.12.13
12/16(Fri): suspend class!!!
2005.12.13
Course slide of IAPP has been released.
2005.12.05
Experiment 6 has been released. Please download files in the "Experiment" area.

2005.12.02

Course slide of 802.11s has been released.
2005.11.18
Documents of Experiment 5 has been modified, please re-download files in the "Experiment" area.
2005.11.18
Experiment 5 has been released. Please download files in the "Experiment" area.

2005.11.15

There is an error in Lab4. The DHCP packets you have to capture are broadcasted by the associated station, not by AP.

2005.11.14

The link of downloading tftp server disappeared. Please download tftp server from ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/tftp-server-0.32-4.i386.rpm

2005.11.10

The previous final exam paper (download) (some contents are contained in this midterm exam)

2005.11.04

Course slide of Ch9 has been modified, please re-download the slides in the "Course Slides" area.

2005.11.03

The previous midterm exam paper (download)
2005.10.27
Course slide of 802.11e has been released. Please download the silde in the "Course Slides" area.
2005.10.25

The requirements of lab3 report:
1. The screens of server shows out the associated station's MAC address
2. Server code and ieee802_11.c code you added
3. What you have learned in this experiment?
4. Do you have problems in this experiment? Why? How to solve these problems?
5. (Bonus) Use web user interface to adjust other network management function by yourself.
2005.10.21
The telphone of EC446B is not working right now. If you have questions, you can sned email or come to EC446B.
2005.10.14
Course slides of 802.11i and RC4 have been released. Please download these sildes in the "Course Slides" area.
2005.10.13
Experiment 3 has released. Please download files in the "Experiment" area.

2005.10.07

The contents of the homework are in accordance with the English documents.
2005.10.03
Document of Experiment-2 has been modified, please re-download from CH Doc HW2

NOTE: Basic requirement of Experiment-2 is to capture 802.11 packet using wireless card in promiscuous mode on Linux.

2005.10.03
Course slide of Ch2 has been modified, please re-download from here.
Course slide of Ch3 has been modified, please re-download from here.

Download the paper "Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function" from here.

2005.09.29

Please consider the following question as the second question of the Exp. Part I.                                2. Fill in the filter field with ” wlan.sa == 00:02:2d:46:12:3a”, and then find out the fourth probe response packet.

This question have a bug. Please correct the red word "sa" to "da."

2005.09.27
The following time you can come to EC446B to borrow card or ask question.

Mon. Tues.      2:00~5:00 PM

Wed.  Thurs.   10:00~12:00 AM and 2:00~5:00 PM

Fri.                 10:00~12:00 AM

2005.09.26
Experiment 1 and experiment 2 have been released. Please download files in the "Experiment" area.
2005.09.15
Course slides have been released. Please download these slides in the "Course Slides" area.

 

Chapter
Course Slides
Chapter 2
Overview of 802.11 Networks
Chapter 3
The 802.11 MAC
Chapter 4
802.11 Framing in detail
Chapter 5
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
Chapter 6
802.1x
Chapter 7
Management Operations
Chapter 8
Contention-free services with the PCF

Chapter 9

Physical Layer Overview
Chapter 10
Physical Layer Overview
Chapter 11
802.11a: 5-GHz OFDM
Chapter 14
Using 802.11 Access Point
Chapter 15
802.11 Network Deployment
Chapter 16
802.11 Network Analysis
Chapter 17
802.11 Performance Tuning
RC4
RC4
802.11i
802.11i
802.11e
802.11e
802.11s
802.11s

Mesh

Wireless Mesh Network: A survey

Ref.

A Survey of Ad Hoc Routing

Ref.

AODV
Ref.
OLSR
IAPP
IAPP
Ref.
Wireless Mesh Network: A survey

 

No
Experiment

Attention: we don't receive the delayed homework.

Exp. 1

Documents and required files for HW1  CH Doc HW1 Due Date: 10/14

Exp. 2

Documents and required files for HW2  CH Doc HW2 Due Date: 10/14
Exp. 3
Documents and required files for HW3 Due Date: 10/28
Exp. 4
Documents and required files for HW4  CH_Doc_HW4 Due Date: 11/18
Exp. 5
Documents for HW5   Due Date: 12/02
Exp. 6
Documents for HW6   Due Date: 1/17