Description: Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 131A. Performance analysis and design of telecommunication networks, mobile wireless networks, and multiple-access communication systems. Network architectures, multiplexing and multiple-access, message delays, error and flow control, switching, routing, layered networking protocols, and Internet. Selected latest network systems such as cellular wireless networks, heterogeneous large/small cell networks, WiFi mesh networks, peer-to-peer mobile ad hoc wireless networks, vehicular highway networks, autonomous transportation networked systems, smart grid networks, adaptive multimedia streaming over mobile wireless networks, embedded sensor networks, satellite and long-haul networks, energy aware networking, cyber security. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0