CSE3213 Fall 2015

EECS 3213: Communication Networks
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Fall 2015
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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    Lecture Schedule:                     TR 11:30 - 13:00 (CLH 110)
    Instructor:                                   Natalija Vlajic
    Instructor's Office Hours:           TR 14:00 - 15:00 (LAS 2047)
    TA:                                             Pooria Madani (madani@cse ...)

Course News:

Dec 21: Final exam solutions are available here.
Dec 21: Final grades are now available through ePost. For 'OverallScore' to 'FinalGrade' conversion scheme, check: YorkU Grades and Grading Schemes.
Dec 8: The final exam, scheduled for Dec 13 (7pm, TEL 0014), will be closed book and closed notes. Basic calculators and one-sided cheat-sheet will be allowed. A sample of an earlier final exam is provided here. (Questions 1.5), 1.6), and 5 do not apply this year!)
Dec 1: Quiz 2 grades are now available through ePost. Solutions to Quiz 1 and Quiz 2 are also available.
Nov 24: Lab 2 is posted now. Due date Dec 13 (bring to final exam). As in the case of Lab 1, to assist students with Lab 2 exercise, 2 3-hour supervised lab session will be provided at the Networking Laboratory (LAS 2007) on the following dates and times: Friday Nov 27 and Friday Dec 4, 16:00 - 19:00. Laboratory attendance is not mandatory, though students are strongly encouraged to join one of the two sessions.
Nov 17: IMPORTANT! Quiz 2 will take place on Thursday Nov 19, at the beginning of the lecture (first 20 min). PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME!!! The quiz will cover all the material discussed in class from November 3 till November 17 (excluding the lecture on Medium Access Control). A sample of an earlier Quiz can be found here (Q3 does NOT apply).
Nov 9: LAB TIMES: To assist students in getting familiar with Riverbed Modeler (simulation software used in Lab1), 2 3-hour supervised lab session will be provided at the Networking Laboratory (LAS 2007) on the following dates and times: Friday Nov 13 and Friday Nov 20, 16:00 - 19:00. Laboratory attendance is not mandatory, though students are strongly encouraged to join one of the two sessions. Riverbed Modeler is a freeware, and can be downloaded from https://splash.riverbed.com/community/product-lines/steelcentral/university-support-center/. Copies of the software are also available on the machines in LAS 2007.
Nov 9: Lab 1 is posted now. Due date Nov 24 (in class).
Nov 4: Midterm grades are now available through ePost. Midterm solutions are posted here.
Oct 22: The midterm test, scheduled for October 27, will be closed book and closed notes. (Basic) calculators and one-sided cheat-sheet containing formulas only! will be allowed. The exam will cover all the material discussed in class prior and including the lecture of October 20. A sample of an earlier midterm is provided here.
Oct 13: Quiz 1 grades are now available through ePost.
Oct 05: Midterm date has changed to October 27.
Sep 29: IMPORTANT! Quiz 1 will take place on Tuesday Oct 6, at the beginning of the lecture (first 20 min). PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME!!! The quiz will cover all the material discussed in class until and including Oct 1 lecture. A sample of an earlier Quiz can be found here.
Sep 10: Classes begin.
Aug 15: Web site is up!

     Course Information:
     Textbook and Recommended Reading Material
     Grading Scheme
     Course Description
     Prerequisite
     Course Schedule (Topics, Notes, Required Reading, Assignments)

     Lab/Software Information:   Riverbed Modeler (Academic Edition)

     Course Policies:
     Missed Midterm and Quizzes
     Academic Honesty

Course Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Required Reading	Important dates
1	R, Sep 10	Introductory Class
	T, Sep 15	Message & Circuit Switching Packet Switching, LANs, WANs, the Internet (1)	Forouzan Ch. 1 Garcia 1.1, 1.2
2	R, Sep 17	Packet Switching, LANs, WANs, the Internet (2)
	T, Sep 22	Packet Switching, LANs, WANs, the Internet (3) Applications and Layered Architectures (1)	Forouzan Ch. 2 Garcia 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
3	R, Sep 24	Applications and Layered Architectures (2)
	T, Sep 29	Applications and Layered Architectures (3) Analog and Digital Signals (1)	Forouzan 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 Garcia 3.1, 3.2
4	R, Oct 01	Analog and Digital Signals (2)
	T, Oct 06	Quiz 1 Analog and Digital Signals (3) Examples
5	R, Oct 08	Digital Signal - Additional Explanation Digital vs. Analog Transmission (1)	Forouzan 3.4 to 3.6 Garcia 3.3 to 3.5
	T, Oct 13	Digital vs. Analog Transmission (2)
6	R, Oct 15	Digital vs. Analog Transmission (3) Line Coding (1)	Forouzan 4.1 Garcia 3.6
	T, Oct 20	Line Coding (2) PCM and Delta Modulation (1)	Forouzan 4.2 Garcia 3.3.2, 3.3.3
7	R, Oct 22	no class
	T, Oct 27	Midterm
	R, Oct 29	fall reading days
8	T, Nov 03	Midterm Solutions
	R, Nov 05	PCM and Delta Modulation (2) Digital Modulation (ASK, FSK, PSK) (1)	Forouzan 5.1 Garcia 3.7
9	T, Nov 10	Digital Modulation (ASK, FSK, PSK) (2) Error Detection & Correction (1)	Forouzan 10.1, 10.2 Garcia 3.9.1, 3.9.2, 3.9.3	Lab 1 Nov 9 - last date to drop courses
	R, Nov 12	Error Detection & Correction (2)
10	T, Nov 17	Error Detection & Correction (3) Medium Access Control: Aloha (1)	Forouzan 12.1.1 Garcia 6.1, 6.2.1, 6.2.2
	R, Nov 19	Quiz 2 Medium Access Control: Aloha (2)
11	T, Nov 24	Medium Access Control: CSMA, CSMA/CD Random Variable Notes	Forouzan 12.1.2, 12.1.3 Garcia 6.2.3, 6.2.4	Lab 2
	R, Nov 26	Medium Access Control: Scheduling Approaches	Forouzan 12.2, 12.3 Garcia 6.3, 6.4.1, 6.4.2
12	T, Dec 01	LAN Protocols: Ethernet (802.3)	Forouzan 13.1 to 13.5 Garcia 6.7, 6.8
	R, Dec 03	Connecting LANs	Forouzan 17.1, 17.2 Garcia 6.11.1
		Final Exam: Sun, December 13, 7pm, TEL 0014

Textbook:

"Data Communications and Networking", B. A. Forouzan, McGraw Hill, 2013, 5th edition.
"Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures", A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, McGraw Hill, 2004, 2nd edition.

Recommended Reading Material

"Computer Networks: A Systems Approach - Network Simulation Experiments Manual", E. Aboelela, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012, 5th edition.
"Computer Networks: A Systems Approach", L. L. Peterson, B. S. Davie, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012, 5th edition.
"Data and Computer Communications", W. Stallings, Prentice Hall, 2014, 10th edition.
"Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet", J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Addison Wesley, 2012, 6th edition.
"Computer Networks", A. S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 2010, 5th edition.
The TCP/IP Guide, Charles M. Kozierok.

Grading Scheme

Quizzes	2 * 6 = 12%
Lab reports	2 * 4 = 8 %
Midterm	35%
Final	45%

Course Description

The course is an introduction to communications and networking. Topics covered include: Distinction between information and data, between signal and data, and between analogue and digital data. Transmission media. Time domain and frequency domain. Fundamental limits due to Shannon and Nyquist theorem. Protocol hierarchies; the OSI model. Encoding, error and flow control. Medium access. Ethernet and token passing systems in LANs. Routing of packets in networks. Internetworking.

Prerequisite

General Prerequisite.

Missed Midterm and Quizzes

Makeups of missed midterm exam or quizzes are only possible in extremely exceptional situations (such as verifiable medical emergencies) or by arrangement well prior to the exam, provided there is an extremely compelling reason.

Academic Honesty

"The Department takes the matter of academic honesty very seriously. Academic honesty is essentially giving credit where credit is due. And not misrepresenting what you have done and what work you have produced. When a piece of work is submitted by a student it is expected that all unquoted and uncited ideas and text are original to the student. Uncited and unquoted text, diagrams, etc., which are not original to the student, and which the student presents as their own work is considered academically dishonest."
For more see: Department of Computer Science Academic Honesty Guidelines