CSC/ECE 778: SCHEDULE (FALL 2008)
The video lectures may be accessed from the Engineering Online webite (available only to students erolled in this course with a valid NCSU login id and password).
All chapter numbers refer to the course textbook. Lecture slides, assignments, and solutions are available in PDF (only to students erolled in this course with a valid NCSU login id and password).
| Date | Topic | Assignment | Due |
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| Aug 20 | Overview, goals, logistics (pdf) | ||
| Aug 25 | Optical networks: the big picture (pdf) Chapter 1 | Project 1 (pdf) (files) | |
| Aug 27 | Discussion of Project 1 | HW 1 (pdf) Literature report (pdf) |
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| Sep 1 | No class (Labor day holiday) |
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| Sep 3 | Trends and challenges (pdf) Fundamentals of fiber optic communications (pdf) Chapter 2 |
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| Sep 8 | Fundamentals of fiber optic communications (cont'd) (Lecture by PhD student Mohan Iyer) |
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| Sep 10 | SONET (pdf) (Lecture by PhD student Mohan Iyer) Chapter 6 |
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| Sep 15 | SONET (cont'd) | HW 2 (pdf) | HW 1 |
| Sep 17 | Protection in SONET (pdf) Chapter 11 |
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| Sep 22 | Protection in SONET (cont'd) | ||
| Sep 24 | Next Generation SONET (pdf) | ||
| Sep 29 | Passive optical networks (PON) (pdf) Chapter 5 |
Project 2 (pdf) (files) | Project 1 |
| Oct 1 | PON (cont'd) | ||
| Oct 6 | Discussion of Project 2 | ||
| Oct 8 | No class (fall break) | ||
| Oct 13 | Optical LANs (pdf) Chapter 3 |
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| Oct 15 | Optical LANs (cont'd) Chapter 4 |
HW 3 (pdf) | HW 2 |
| Oct 20 | Optical LANs (cont'd) | ||
| Oct 22 | Wavelength routed networks (pdf) (Lecture by PhD student Mohan Iyer) Chapter 7 |
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| Oct 27 | Dynamic optical networks for global science (ppt) (Lecture by Gigi Karmous-Edwards) |
Project 3 (pdf) (files) | Project 2 |
| Oct 29 | Discussion of Project 3 | ||
| Nov 3 | Wavelength routed networks (cont'd) Chapter 8 |
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| Nov 5 | Traffic grooming (pdf) Chapter 13 |
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| Nov 10 | Hierarchical traffic grooming |
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| Nov 12 | Dynamic traffic grooming |
HW 3 | |
| Nov 17 | Waveband grooming and switching Chapter 14 | ||
| Nov 19 | Optical burst switching (pdf) Chapter 18 |
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| Nov 24 | Dynamic wavelength allocation in IP/WDM Metro Access Networks (pdf) (Lecture by Dr. Emre Yetginer) |
Project 3 | |
| Nov 26 |
No class (Thanksgiving holiday) | ||
| Dec 1 | Discussion of final exam | Final exam (pdf) | Literature report (sample) |
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| Dec 8 | Final exam |