EE 4367.501 Telecommunications Networks

Spring 2021

General Information

·         Instructor: Andrea Fumagalli,

o   Office: ECSN 3.524, Netid: andreaf,

o   Office hours: Please see this page

·         TA: TBD,

o   Office TBD, Netid: TBD,

o   Office hours:  TBD

·         Class information:

o   When: Monday and Wednesday 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. (U.S. Central Time)

o   Where: Class will be offered remotely using Microsoft Teams

·         Syllabus: http://www.utdallas.edu/~andreaf/courses/ee4367/syllabus

Grading Policy

·         Three written exams collectively contribute to 90% of your final score. Worst score of the three exams is discarded. Homework contributes to 10% of your final score.

·         Note: we cannot offer hands-off projects due to the university lockdown.

 

Written Exams and Project Demos

Guidelines: All written exams are open-book and open-notes. Click here for the full list of topics covered by each exam .

·         Midterm I: February 24, 2021– exam administered online

·         Midterm II: April 14, 2021 – exam administered online

·         Final: TBD – exam administered online

Practicing & Solving Problems

·         See OneNote

Exam Examples

Midterm Exam I:

·         Spring 2016

·         Spring 2017

·         Spring 2018

 

Midterm Exam II (Previously referred to as Final Exam):

·         Spring 2016

·         Spring 2017

·         Spring 2018

 

Final Exam: Problems will be solved in class

 

Written Exam Scores and Equivalent Grades

·         Midterm I

·         Midterm II

·         Final

·         Project (not applicable)

 

Homework

Guidelines: Each homework assignment must be returned by the deadline in order to be considered for full credit. Homework must have the full name of the author.  Due assignments and their due dates can be found in OneNote.

·  Homework 1: [Little’s Theorem]

·  Homework 2: [Parity check codes]

·  Homework 3: [Traffic load balancing in ring]

·  Homework 5: [Minimum spanning tree computation]

·  Homework 6: [Shortest Path computation]

·  Homework 4p: [Poisson Arrival Process and M/M/1]

·  Homework 4: [M/M/1 queue and network of queues models]

 

Solutions:

·         Homework 1

·         Homework 2

·         Homework 3

·         Homework 4

·         Homework 5

·         Homework 6

 

 

Projects

These milestones were used in previous semesters and provide samples of what the project could be this semester. If you are interested in working on a project please contact the instructor.

·         Spring 2018

o   Milestone 1 (due April 4, 2018)

o   Milestone 2 (due April 18, 2018)

o   Milestone 3 (due May 4, 2018, 12:00 noon)

·         Spring 2017

·         Spring 2016

·         Spring 2015

 

Opportunities