Course Description

The course examines wireless cellular, ad hoc and sensor networks, covering topics such as wireless communication fundamentals, medium access control, network and transport protocols, unicast and multicast routing algorithms, mobility and its impact on routing protocols, application performance, quality of service guarantees, and security. Energy efficiency and the role of hardware and software architectures may also be presented for sensor networks.

Course Objectives

To know problem solving techniques
To understand techniques for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms
To be able to design algorithms for new problems with volume of data