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University: McGill University
Professor: Mark Coates
Department: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Teaching

1. ECSE-489 Telecommunication Network Laboratory

Undergraduate laboratory network course (course webpage).

This course provides laboratory experience complementary to the material covered in ECSE-414 Introduction to Telecommunication Networks. The course consists of six experiments. Five of these involve modeling and simulation of networks using OPNET Modeler and application of Internet measurement tools. The experiments explore:

(a) TCP connections – overhead involved in connection setup, latency and loss phenomena, performance in congestion and congestion control parameters.

(b) MAC protocols – CSMA and CSMA/CD in Ethernet/LAN environments, and bridges for forwarding and filtering.

(c) Network security: secure communication, denial of service attacks, IP traceback, port-scan detection and filtering.

(d) Multimedia network applications – use of the real-time streaming protocol to packetize and transport video over UDP, analysis of behaviour in congested networks, fairness issues, forward-error correction mechanisms and QoS delivery.