CS 4873 Computer Networks Daily Topics --- Fall 1997
Listed here are the topics covered in each class.
1. Tuesday, August 26
Introductory Lecture: Network layers, ISO OSI
2. Thursday, August 28
Chapter 2: The Physical Layer.
Fourier series
3. Tuesday, September 2
Chapter 2: The Physical Layer (continued).
Sampling theorem, Nyquist theorem, Shannon theorem, noise,
signal-to-noise ratio.
Transmission Media: Section 2.2
4. Thursday, September 4
Chapter 2: (continued)
Wireless communication: section 2.3
Modems, cable system, RS232, codecs, PCM, T1 carrier,
delta modulation, FDM, TDM
5. Tuesday, September 9
Review S/N ratio
Review FDM and TDM
Circuit switching, message switching, packet switching
6. Thursday, September 11
Chapter 2: terminal handling, TDM, concentration
Chapter 3: The Data Link Layer
What the data link layer does, delimiting frames,
error detection and correction
7. Tuesday, September 16
Error detection and correction (continued)
Hamming distance and Hamming codes.
8. Thursday, September 18
Error Correction (finished)
Error Detection: burst errors and CRCs.
9. Tuesday, September 23
Data Link Layer Protocols: Utopia, Stop and Wait, PAR
10. Thursday, September 25
Protocol 4, Protocol Demos
11. Tuesday, September 30
12. Thursday, October 2
13. Tuesday, October 7
Return and go over assignmnet,
Answer questions about Thursday's exam,
Protocol 5
14. Thursday, October 9
15. Tuesday, October 14
Return and go over exam
Protocol 6
16. Thursday, October 16
Protocol 6 demo
Queueing Theory
17. Tuesday, October 21
Chapter 4: The Medium Access Sublayer
Static channel allocation
Dynamic channel allocation assumptions
Infinite Pure Aloha
18. Thursday, October 23
Infinite Pure Aloha (continued)
Infinite Slotted Aloha
19. Tuesday, October 28
Infinite Slotted Aloha (continued)
Finite Aloha
CSMA
20. Thursday, October 30
CSMA/CD
Limited contention protocols
21. Tuesday, November 5
Adaptive Tree Walk
802
802.3 and Ethernet
22. Thursday, November 7
802.3 MAC sublayer
802.4 Token Bus
23. Tuesday, November 11
24. Thursday, November 13
Assignment 4 due
Exam review
802.4 Token Bus
802.5 Token Ring
25. Tuesday, November 18
Student Course Surveys
Return and go over Assignment 4
26. Thursday, November 20
27. Tuesday, November 25
28. Tuesday, December 2