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Relevant Courses @ USC:

• CS 570  Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 04):

  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms.
  • Greedy Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Divide and Conquer, Network Flow, Computational Intractability and NP-hardness, Approximation Algorithms and Linear Programming. 
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• EE 599 (Spring 04):

  • Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) applications, design and analysis.
  • Wireless Communication, data-centric and energy efficiency paradigmns.
  • WSN capacity and lifetime, collaborative signal processing, reliability and security.

   

• CS 694a (Spring 04):

  • Examine current research topics in network and distributed systems; verbal and written presentation skills, effective critiquing, and evaluation.

   

• CS 551 (Fall 03):

  • Protocol design for computer communication networks, network routing, transport protocols, internetworking.

  • Topics covered BGP, TCP, Buffer Managment, Wireless Networks, Multicast, Overlays, DHT's , Security, Web.

   

• CS 571 (Summer 03)

  • Advanced study of programming languages with application to the Web. Languages for client-side and server-side processing.

  • HTML,CSS, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Perl, SQL, JSP, Web Servers (apache, TomCat), Web Services (Axis).

   

• EE 550 Design and Ananlysis of Computer Communications Networks(Fall 03):

  • Applications of stochastic modeling and optimization techniques to communication network design and analysis. Data link control; performance models; multi-access channels; routing and flow control.

   

• EE 555 Broadband Network Architectures (Summer 03):

  • Architecture and principles of operation for integrated broadband networks capable of supporting video, voice, data and graphics telecommunication services over local and wide areas.

  • LANs (e.g. Ethernet, FDDI), WANs (e.g. IPng, ATM), optical networks (e.g. WDM), and wireless networks.

  • Performance analysis topics include multimedia traffic modeling, policing and congestion control, fast switching, IP multicast and multicast routing protocols and quality of service (QoS) support.

   

• EE 558 Optical Fiber Communication Systems (Spring 04):

  • State-of-the-art optical fiber communication systems.

  • Optoelectronic-device and communication-systems issues necessary to provide high-speed and/or networked optical communications.