CS 4380 - Data Communications

Spring 1999

Room IC. 211


COURSE INFORMATION


Instructor:Prof. Mani Subramanian
            Room 264, GCATT Building
            Tel: 894-6562
            email: manis@cc.gatech.edu
            Office Hours: Tue. 3:15-3:45 & Thu. 3:15-3:45 (CCB 215)
           

TA for course: Minaxi Gupta
            Room: 265, GCATT Building
            Tel: 894-1916
            email: minaxi@cc.gatech.edu
            Office Hours: Mon. 2:00 -3:00pm and Wed. 2:00 - 3:00pm @Commons

NOTE: Please drop an e-mail if you intend to come to either the instructor's or TA's office hours
 

Objectives:

  1. Understand general concepts of data communications as applied to computer networks
  2. Learn fundamental concept asssociated with data link, network, transport, and application protocol layers.
  3. Application of the concepts to network technology

Grading: Homework 30%
Midterm 30%
Final 35%
Attendance / Class participation 5%

Reading Assignment: Read sections of textbook to be covered in the next class.

Attendance Policy: Be on time for the class. I take attendance irregularly. Send me email ahead if you will be missing a class.

Homework Policy: Submit in class on due-date. Late submission (maximum 24 hours) to TA accepted with 20% penalty in grade.

Textbook:

Andrew Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Third edition, Prentice Hall 1996

References Books:

  1. William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Fifth edition, Prentice Hall 1997
  2. Fred Halsall , Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley 1996
  3. Saadawi, et.al Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks John Wiley & Sons 1994

Schedule:

Date

Chapter.Section

Subject
     

3/30

Ch.1

Introduction

4/1

Ch2

Physical Layer

4/6

3.1-3.2.1

Error detection and correction

4/8

3.2.2

Error detection and correction

4/13

3.3

Stop and wait

4/15

3.4

Sliding Window Protocols / Go back n

4/20

3.4

Selective Repeat Protocol

4/22

3.6

HDLC

4/27

  

Midterm

4/29

4.1-4.2.1

MAC Protocols / Aloha

5/4

4.2.2

CSMA & CSMA/CD

5/6

4.3.1

Local Area Network / IEEE 802.3 & Ethernet

5/11

4.3.3

IEEE 802.5 Token Ring

5/13

4.4 - 4,5

Bridges High & Speed LANs

5/18

5.1-5.2.4

Routing Algorithms: Dijkstra's algorithm

5/20

5.2.5

Bellman-Ford algorithm

5/25

5.3

Congestion control

5/27

5.4-5,5

Internetworking & IP

6/1

5.5, 5.6, 6.1-6.2

IP, ATM & Transport protocols

6/3

Ch 7

Application Protocols

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