Spring Semester 2025, ECEN 423, Section 500: "Computer and Wireless Networks" 
Class-Information and Handouts

Welcome to the official web site for ECEN 423-505 "Mobile Wireless Communications Networks" class. Please check back here often as I will post related material here for your convenience. Most of the documents that are posted here are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print.

Instructor:                 Professor Xi Zhang

Phone:                        979-458-1416
 E-mail:                       xizhang@ece.tamu.edu

Webpage:                  https://people.engr.tamu.edu/xizhang

 

Class Hour:               Tue. & Thur. 05:30PM-06:45PM

Class Room:              ETB 1037

 

Office Hour:              Tue. & Thur. 04:15 pm-05:15 pm

Office:                        On-Line by Appointments

 

 

Lecture Notes

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Research Papers:

 

  1. Van Jacobson and M. J. Karels, “Congestion avoidance and control,” SIGCOMM'88: Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols, August 1988.

  2. Chaskar, H.M; Lakshman, T.V.; Madhow, U. "TCP over wireless with link level error control: analysis and design methodology", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 605-615, Oct. 1999.

  3. T. V. Lakshman, U. Madhow,  “The performance of TCP/IP for networks with high bandwidth-delay products and random loss”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 336-350, June 1997.

  4. D. Chiu and R. Jain, “Analysis of the Increase/Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks,” Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN, Vol. 17, No. 1, June 1989, pp. 1-14.

  5. J.-C. Bolot and A. U. Shankar, “Dynamical behavior of rate-based flow control mechanisms,” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 20, no. 2, April 1990, pp. 35-49.

  6. Xi Zhang and Kang G. Shin, “Second-Order Rate-Control Based Transport Protocols,” IEEE ICNP 2001, pp. 342 - 350.

  7. X. Zhang, H.-H. Chen, and M. Guizani, “Second-Order Rate-Control Based Transport Protocols Over Mobile Wireless Networks,” in Proc. WCNC, 2007, pp. 3722-3727.
     

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