• Introduction and Review (LGW: Ch. 1 and 2).

    Why should anyone care?; remember 3251?; let's get organized

  • Digital Transmission Fundamentals (LGW: Ch. 3)

    How do signals get from one point to another?; why are modems sometimes slow and why is optical fiber fast?; how are communication errors detected?

    • Physical Signalling
    • Error Detection and Correction
    • Analog to Digital Conversion
  • Media Access (LGW: Ch. 6)

    How can several people share a transmission medium and not get in each others way?

    • Ethernet
    • Token Rings
    • Satellite and Wirless links
  • Socket Programming (DC: All of it!)
  • Peer-to-peer Communications (LGW: Ch. 5)

    How can entities communicate across a constrained and imperfect "wire".

    • ARQ protocols
    • Sliding window flow control
  • Packet-Switching Networks (LGW: Ch. 7)

    how can we build networks from point-to-point links?; why is it not trivial?

    • Network Service Models (VC and DG)
    • Routing: theory and practice
    • Congestion Control
  • Advanced Topics (Readings will be give at the time): The coverage here will vary and may include:
    • Multimedia Networking
    • Quality of Service
    • Formal Methods for Protocol Modelling
    • Performance Evlautaion Techniques
    • Multicast Communication