Date

Topic

Lecture Notes/Slides

Week 1 
Introduction

 August 26

Course organization.
Review: Main Protocols & Technologies. 

Lecture 1

print

Notes: overview

Research Issues

August 28

Key Research Issues.

Lecture 2

print

Week 2
Research Issues

September 2

Key Research Issues.

Readings on Network Economics

September 4

Static Games

Tutorial on Game Theory

print

Reading List on Games

Notes on Game Theory

Week 3
Game Theory

September 9

Cooperative Games

Mechanism Designs 

September 11

Mechanism Designs & Auctions

Lecture Slides
Print

Readings on Mechanisms

Week 4

Mechanism Designs

September 16

Games Papers

September 18

Alex K, IC [Myerson]

Slobodan M, Routing [La]

Suggestions for presentations

Week 5 

Games Papers
 

September 23

Alex A, Duality & TCP[Low]

Mark J, Competitive routing[Orda]

Class presentations

Mechanism Papers

September 25

Dezhen S [Mackie-Mason]

Hayden S [Shu-Varaiya]

Dennis C [Shapiro-Varian]

Week 6

Mechanism Papers

September 30

Niels H [Akerloff]

Ashwin G[de Vries-Vohra]

Rahul T[de Vries-Vohra]

October 2

802.11 Overview and Physical Layer

Lecture Slides

Readings on 802.11 and Sensor networks

Week 7 
802.11 Wi-Fi

October 7

802.11 MAC Layer

Lecture Slides

802.11 Wi-Fi

October 9

802.11 Security & QoS

Lecture Slides

Week 8 
Sensor Networks

October 14

Sensor Networks Overview

Lecture Slides

Sensor Networks

October 16

A Power Efficient MAC for Sensor Networks: PEDAMACS

Lecture Slides

Week 9 
802.11/Sensor Networks Papers

October 21

Slobodan M, QoS[Wong]

Dennis C,Load balancing[Papanikos]

Schedule for Class Presentations

802.11/Sensor Networks Papers

October 23

Alex A, TCP[Pilosof]

Dezhen S,Energy-efficient[Heinzelman]

Week 10 
802.11/Sensor networks Papers

October 28

Niels H, Connectivity[Dousse]

802.11/Sensor Networks Papers

October 30

Rahul T, Capacity[Gupta-Kumar]

David, Protocols [Sohrabi]

Week 11 
802.11/Sensor Networks Papers

November 4

802.11/Sensor Networks Papers

Congestion Control

November 6

Hayden S

Week 12 
Holiday

November 11

Veterans Day holiday

Congestion Control

November 13

TBD 

Week 13

Traffic Models

Review

November 18

Survey of Traffic Models 

Quick Review

review

Project Presentations

November 20

Ashwin G, Rahul T [Auctions] 

Week 14 
Project Presentations

November 25

Alex K [Repeated games]

MarkJ [loadbalancing]

Holiday

November 27

Thanksgiving holiday

Week 15 
Project Presentations

December 2

David E [SMACS]

Project Presentations

December 4

Finals Week