Introduction

Important concepts of wireless networking, including detection and recovery from data corruption and loss, collision detection and avoidance, data-link protocols, table-driven and on-demand routing algorithms, and the security of networks, may all be investigated.

The ideas discussed here are well supported by thoroughly tested network simulation software that has been refined over fourteen years and used by thousands of undergraduate students at hundreds of institutions world-wide.

Development of the cnet simulator described in this lecture has been supported by an ACM-SIGCSE Special Project Grant, and an Australian Apple University Consortium Scholarship.