Class Schedule: Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments schedule in pdf (Note: the pdf file superceeds the web contents!)

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


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


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


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


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


• Week 7 & 8
  Columbus Day Holiday– No Class on Oct 10
  Probem solving session
  Digital data communications techniques; synchronous and asynchronous transmission, error detection and correction (chap 6)
  Exam I will be for the duration of class on October 5
  
• Week 9
  Data link control protocol (chap 7)
  
  
• Week 10
  Multiplexing (chap 8)
  


• Week 11
  Circuit and packet switching (chap 9); Cellular Networks (chap 14)

• Week 12
  Cellular Networks (chap 10)
Exam II will be for the duration of class on November 14

• Week 13
  Local Area Networks (chap 11); Thanksgiving Day Holiday– No Class on Nov 23
  


• Week 14
  Ethernet and VLANs (chapter 12), Wireless LANS (chapter 13),
  


• Week 15
  Internet Protocols and Routing (chap 14)
  


• Week 16: Exam
  Final Exam on Tuesday December 19, 1:30 – 4:15 pm