CS 3413 Data Communications Daily Topics Fall 2004

Listed here are the topics covered in each class.


1. Week 1, Thursday, August 26, 2004
      Introductory Lecture

2. Week 2, Tuesday, August 31, 2004
      Chapter 3 - through Video Components

3. Week 2, Thursday, September 2, 2004
      Chapter 3 - continued

4. Week 3, Tuesday, September 7, 2004
      Chapter 3 - problems
      Chapter 4 - up to twisted pair

5. Week 3, Thursday, September 9, 2004
      Chapter 4 - up to parabolic antennas

6. Week 4, Tuesday, September 14, 2004
      Chapter 4 - continued - up to line of sight

7. Week 4, Thursday, September 16, 2004
      Assignment 1 solutions
      Chapter 4 - continued - through line of sight

8. Week 5, Tuesday, September 21, 2004
      Chapter 4 - concluded including refraction
      Chapter 5 - through Bipolar-AMI

9. Week 5, Thursday, September 23, 2004
      Assignment 2 due
      Chapter 5 - up to digital data, analog signals

10. Week 6, Tuesday, September 28, 2004
      Go over Assignment 2

11. Week 6, Thursday, September 30, 2004
      Short exam review - assignment from last class
      Chapter 5 - up to delta modulation

12. Week 7, Tuesday, October 5, 2004
      First Midterm Exam

13. Week 7, Thursday, October 7, 2004
      Go Over Exam
      Chapter 5 - finished
      Chapter 6 - through asynchronous transmission

14. Week 8, Tuesday, October 12, 2004
      Chapter 6 - CRC calculations, Hamming distance

15. Week 8, Thursday, October 14, 2004
      Chapter 6 - Error correcting Codes

16. Week 9, Tuesday, October 19, 2004
      Chapter 6 - finished (including USB2 notes)
      Chapter 7 - stop and wait - upto delayed acks

17. Week 9, Thursday, October 21, 2004
      Chapter 7 - continued - stop and wait program code

18. Week 10, Tuesday, October 26, 2004
      Go over Assignement 3
      Introduction to sliding window protocol code

19. Week 10, Thursday, October 28, 2004
      Sequential Receive - program code

20. Week 11, Tuesday, November 2, 2004
      Nonsequential Receive

21. Week 11, Thursday, November 4, 2004
      Assignment 4 Due
      Chapter 7 - completed

22. Week 12, Tuesday, November 9, 2004
      Go over Assignment 4
      Exam Review

23. Week 12, Thursday, November 11, 2004
      Second Midterm Exam

24. Week 13, Tuesday, November 16, 2004
      Go over exam
      Chapter 8 - up to TDM

25. Week 13, Thursday, November 18, 2004
      Chapter 8 - up to frequency hopping

26. Week 14, Tuesday, November 23, 2004
      Chapter 8 - continued

27. Week 15, Tuesday, November 30, 2004
      Return and go over Assignment 5
      Protocol 6 practice problems

28. Week 16, Thursday, December 2, 2004
      Last Class

Final Exam: Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 10:30 AM