605.471 Principles of Data Communications Networks

This course provides an introduction to the field of data communications and computer networks. The course covers the principles of data communications, the fundamentals of signaling, basic transmission concepts, transmission media, circuit control, line sharing techniques, physical and data link layer protocols, error detection and correction, data compression, common carrier services and data networks, and the mathematical techniques used for network design and performance analysis. Potential topics include analog and digital signaling; data encoding and modulation; Shannon channel capacity; synchronous and asynchronous transmission; RS232 physical layer interface standards; FDM, TDM, and STDM multiplexing techniques; inverse multiplexing; analog and digital transmission; V series modem standards; PCM encoding and T1 transmission circuits; LRC/ VRC and CRC error detection techniques; Hamming and Viterbi forward error correct techniques; BSC and HDLC data link layer protocols; Huffman, MNP5 and V.42bis data compression algorithms; circuit, message, packet and cell switching techniques; ISDN, frame relay, SMDS and ATM networks; minimum spanning tree, Esau-Williams and Add network topology optimization algorithms; reliability and availability, TRIB, and queuing analysis topology optimization techniques; and circuit costing.

Spring 2010 Course Schedule

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