The course consists of a small project requiring ca. 20 hours of work. By the end of the course the student has to provide a demonstration tool designed to explain one given phenomena in the area of communication networks.
The addressed topic has to be selected from the following fields:
- Multi-access communication: CSMA/CD - reservation techniques (token and polling) - packet radio networks (WLANs)
- Routing in data networks: shortest path routing - optimal routing and topology design
- Flow control (TCP)
- Quality of service (QoS) in IP networks: requirements for multimedia transmission - network support: scheduling, shaping, forward error correction