Class Schedule: Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments schedule in pdf

• Week 1: Aug 27, Aug 29
  Introduction, course overview, basic concepts in data communication networking, layering and communication network architectures (chap 1 & 2)


• Week 2: Sept 3, Sept 5
  Fundamental concepts and theoretical basis for data transmission, channel impairments, channel capacity (chap 3)
  


• Week 3: Sept 10, Sept 12
  Review of signals and systems, transmission media, guided and unguided transmission (chap 4)
  


• Week 4: Sept 17, Sept 19
  The physical layer: Guided and unguided transmission; propagation, wireless transmission (chap 4)
  
  
• Week 5: Sept 24, Sept 26
  Signal encoding techniques, signal constellations, binary encoding techniques (chap 5)
  


• Week 6: Oct 1, Oct 3
  Signal encoding techniques, quantization and PCM, transmission of analog and digital signals (chap 5)
  


• Week 7: Oct 8, Oct 10
  Digital data communications techniques; synchronous and asynchronous transmission, error detection and correction (chap 6)
  
  
• Week 8: Week 8: Oct 15 (Columbus Day Holiday– No Class), Oct 17 (Exam I)
  Exam I will be for the duration of class on October 17
  
  
• Week 9: Oct 22, Oct 24
  Data link control protocol (chap 7)
  
  
• Week 10: Oct 29, Oct 31
  Multiplexing (chap 8)
  


• Week 11: Nov 5, Nov 7
  Circuit and packet switching (chap 10)
  


• Week 12: Nov 12, Nov 14
  Cellular Networks (chap 14) and Local Area Networks (chap 15)
  


• Week 13: Nov 19 (Exam II), Nov 21
  Exam II will be for the duration of class on November 19
  Local Area Networks (chap 15)
  


• Week 14: Nov 26, Nov 28 (Thanksgiving Day Holiday– No Class)
  Ethernet and VLANs, Wireless LANS (chapter 16 & 17)
  


• Week 15: Dec 3, Dec 5
  Internet Protocols and Routing (chap 18)
  


• Week 16: Exam
  Final Exam on Tuesday December 17, 1:30 – 4:15 pm