Fall 2005

ECE683 Computer Network Design and Analysis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Final exam will be held on December 21, 2005, Wednesday, 08:30AM-11:00AM, ECEC 100 . One 8.5"x11" one-sided sheet of hand-written notes is allowed.

Selected HW solutions have been posted.

 


Nirwan Ansari
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Newark College of Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Office 223 ECEC
E-mail nirwan.ansari@njit.edu
Phone (973) 596-3670
Fax (973) 596-5680
Office Hours Tue:5:30-6:30 pm; Wed: 12-1 pm. Others by appointments.

Grading

Grading: Mid-term 35%; Final 45%; Assignments/Quizzes 20%. By default, there is a quiz every week.


Honor Code

The NJIT Honor Code will be upheld, and any violations will be brought to the immediate attention of the Dean of Students.


Tentative Course Schedule Week

Warriors of the Net
Communication Networks and Services

Network Architecture and Services
Telegraph Networks & Message Switching
Telephone Networks and Circuit Switching
Computer Networks & Packet Switching
Future Network Architectures and Services
Key Factors in Network Evolution

1
Applications and Layered Architectures
Protocols, Services & Layering
OSI Reference Model
TCP/IP Architecture
How the Layers Work Together
Berkeley Sockets
Application Layer Protocols & Utilities
2-3
Random Processes and Simple Queueing Models
4-5
Circuit-Switching Networks
Multiplexing
SONET
Transport Networks
Circuit Switches
The Telephone Network
Signaling
Traffic and Overload Control in Telephone Networks
Cellular Telephone Networks
6-7
Mid-term Exam
8
Peer-to-Peer Protocols
Peer-to-Peer Protocols and Service Models
ARQ Protocols and Reliable Data Transfer
Flow Control
Timing Recovery
TCP Reliable Stream Service & Flow Control
9-10
Data Link Control
Framing
Point-to-Point Protocol
High-Level Data Link Control
Link Sharing Using Statistical Multiplexing
10-11
Medium Access Control Protocols
Multiple Access Communications
Random Access
Scheduling
12
Packet-Switching Networks
Network Services and Internal Network Operation
Packet Network Topology
Datagrams and Virtual Circuits
Routing in Packet Networks
Shortest Path Routing
13-14


Texts

A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communications Networks, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004.
Lecture notes

 


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