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Mon.
Sep. 13 |
PD.:
Intro
(ch.1), pt-pt
(2.1-2.2), Switching
(3.1-3.2) and Supplementary Notes: Information, Bandwidth
and Noise |
Network design issues; layered reference model; bandwidth; Nyquist & Shannon theorems; baud rate; signal-to-noise ratio and decibels; modems and modulation; satellites; optical fibers; (Differential) Manchester encoding; 4B/5B encoding; baseband/broadband signaling; multiplexing/concentrating.
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Mon.
Sep. 20 |
Supplementary
Notes: Probability |
Homework 1 due; Review of probability: discrete probability
(conditional probability, permutations and combinations)
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Mon.
Sep. 27 |
Supplementary
Notes: Probability,
Queuing
Theory, Queuing
Example: A Print Server; |
Homework 2 due; Review of probability (continued):
(continuous probability: Poisson distributed events and the Exponential
distribution – read only); bit/frame error rate; Introduction to Queuing Theory
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Mon.
Oct. 4 |
Homework 3 due; Bit/character stuffing; error
detection/correction; RS232C standard; asynchronous/BISYNC formats; Centronics
interface;
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Mon.
Oct. 11 |
PD.:
pt-pt (2.5) |
Point-to-point data link protocols- stop & wait,
sliding window;
Review for Exam 1 (Tanenbaum:
Chapters 1-4).
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Mon.
Oct. 18 |
EXAM 1 (Covers topics from Sep. 13 through Oct. 4); Shared Media Access (2.6) |
Broadcast networks; carrier sense (CSMA) network
protocols
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Mon.
Oct. 25 |
PD.:
Shared Media Access (2.7-2.10) |
Exam 1 reprise; Token rings; Wireless; NICs
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Mon. Nov. 1 |
Homework 4 due; Packet/circuit switching; virtual circuits
vs. datagrams; Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm; routing tables and
algorithms;
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Mon.
Nov. 8 |
Homework 5 due; Bridges; spanning trees; sink trees; Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM); Review for Exam 2
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Mon.
Nov. 15 |
PD.:
IP (4.1,
4.3.1,4.3.5, 4.6) |
EXAM 2 (Covers topics from Oct. 11 through Nov.
8);
DNS, UDP, TCP, sockets
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Mon.
Nov. 22 |
PD.:TCP (5.1-5.5)
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Exam 2 Reprise; UDP; TCP; RPC; Performance
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Mon.
Nov. 29 |
PD.:
Multimedia
(7.1-7.3), DNS
(9.1),Applications
(9.2 - PDF Tanenbaum c. 7) |
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Homework 6 due; Multimedia; DNS; HTML; FTP; Mail
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Mon.
Dec. 6 |
Discussion
Notes: DoctorD's
Home Network, NAT Routers,
Dynamic IP, and FTP, Linksys
Router |
Homework 7 due; Setting up a home network - Dynamic IP; NAT
Router; Web Server; FTP Server; Mail Server;
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Mon.
Dec. 13 |
ALL
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Course Review: Come prepared to ask questions!
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Mon.
Dec. 20 |
FINAL EXAM (Cumulative, Covers all topics from Sep. 13 through Dec. 6) |