Teaching Use

CS117 Networking: Physical Layer - UCLA
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/winter04/cs117/
Using WHYNET techniques and tools to expose students to

• channel properties and effects of interference from other communication technologies and noise on data transmission in a wireless channel.
• effects of intermittent losses on TCP throughput and fairness

EE239 Embedded Systems - UCLA
Gave the students the 802.11a specification and asked them to design a complete demodulator at the physical layer

• Simulation Component
• Implementation in Matlab
• Experimental Component
• Acquire data in real-time but process in non-real-time
• Using C/C++
• Analysis and Conclusions
• Compare field data and simulation data

EE233A Wireless Communications Theory - UCLA
Gave the students journal papers and they were required to implement the paper's algorithm EX: - BLAST, Noncoherent coding and demodulation

• Simulation Component
• Implementation in Matlab
• Experimental Component
• Implementation in real-time DSP
• Using C/C++
• Analysis and Conclusions
• Compare field data and simulation data

EE233B Wireless Communications Systems - UCLA

• Simulation Component
• Students simulate a complete end to end QAM system with DFE and smart antenna processing
• Experimental Component
• Experimental system transmits 10Mbps real time and incorporates both DFE and smart antenna system
• Students carry out field measurement campaign and collect data
• Analysis and Conclusions
• Compare field data and simulation data
• Draw conclusions and explain discrepancies

DEGAS networking group at University of Delaware
Use the QualNet simulator to supplement the textbook Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, and to develop companion exercises and simulation models

• Developed an initial set of animations for ad hoc networking protocols (DSR, AODV, LAR, ODMRP, IEEE 802.11 RTS/CTS)
• Both exercises and animations are publicly available at http://lentil.cis.udel.edu/QualNet/