Text: Data and Computer Communications, William Stallings, Sixth Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2000,ISBN 0-13-084370-9
Course groundrules. Exams will count for between 70% to 80% of your grade, with homework and programs making up the rest. The midterm is scheduled for March 12; the final is scheduled for, well, a reasonable interpretation of the schedule is that we do meet at 3:30 pm (not starting at, but it doesn't say that), which lets us schedule the final for Monday, May 5, 12:40-2:40.
Homework 2, due Wednesday, April 16.
Trunk Line Usage programming assignment, and
Sorts.java.
Final Exam review guide. There are now some (still fairly minimal) answers here. Jason Thorn found a nice online review of leaky bucket filters, at http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~de/CN-L21.pdf; that site uses lambda and L where I used T and tau.
Chapters in book to be read are listed in parenthesis.
1. Introduction, OSI Model, Protocols and Architecture (Ch. 1,Ch. 2)
2. Data Transmission (Ch. 3) 3. Transmission Media (Ch. 4) 4. Data Encoding (Ch. 5) (new) 5. Data Communications Interface (Ch. 6) 6. Data Link Control (Ch. 7) 7. Multiplexing (Ch. 8) Midterm 8. Circuit Switching (Ch. 9) 9. Packet Switching (Ch. 10) 10. ATM and Frame Relay (Ch. 11) 11. Congestion Control in Data Networks (Ch. 12) 12. ISDN (Appendix A)