December 23: Final exam marks and overall grades have been posted. Happy holidays and best of luck with your studies!
December 8: Review questions on Chapter 19 and TCP have been posted.
November 20: The PROJECT has been posted.
November 13: Assignment 2 has been posted. There will be
2 bonus quizzes starting from Nov. 14.
November 10: Midterm solutions will be discussed in class today and will not be posted.
November 2: Answers to the review problems have been posted and will be removed on Nov. 3.
October 26: Assigned reading 1 has been posted.
October 21: Please do not send your print jobs to the printer in room Petrie 119.
October 7: Office hour during reading week: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 12PM-1PM.
September 23: Assignment 1 has been posted. Office hour on Tuesday the 27th is moved to 1:30PM-2:30PM.
September 8: First lecture.
The instructor reserves the right to update the notes right up to class time and within two weeks after each corresponding lecture. Check the time and date at the bottom left corner of the slides to make sure you have the most up-to-date version.
Communication Networks Overview - Reading: 1.3 - 1.5
TCP/IP Protocol Suite, examples - Reading: 2.1, 2.3, 2.5
Data Transmission - Reading: chapter 3
Data Encoding: digital data to digital signals - Reading: section 5.1
Analog data to digital signals - Reading: section 5.3
Data Encoding: part 3 - Reading: sections 5.2 and 5.4
Digital Data Communication Techniques - Reading: chapter 6
Data Link Control Protocols - Reading: chapter 7
LAN Overview - Reading: section 15.1
Ethernet - Reading: chapter 16
Error Correction - Reading: section 6.4
LAN Overview - part 2 - Reading: sections 15.3 and 15.4
Assigned reading 1: HDLC (7.3) - Due date: Nov. 8
Review exercises for midterm test: 5.20, 5.21, 5.24, 6.1, 6.2, 6.11(a), 6.13, 6.15, 7.3 (U=1/(1+2a)), 7.10 in the textbook. SOLUTIONS (to be removed Nov. 3)
Wireless LANs - Reading: chapter 17 - References: spread spectrum technology, OFDM
Assigned reading 2: High-speed Ethernet (16.2) - Due date: Nov. 15
Internet Protocols - Reading: chapter 18
Multicasting - Reading: section 19.1
TCP connection establishment - Reading: chapter 20
Routing - Reading: section 19.2
References: Bellman-Ford algorithm -
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)