The syllabus is broken up into seven two-week sections.
- Introduction
- Data Communications and the Physical Layer
- The Data-Link Layer
- ISDN and Frame Relay
- BISDN, ATM, and SONET-SDH
- Metropolitan-Area Networks
- Internet and Mobile Telephony
I will try hard not to change the syllabus during the semester, but I make no
promises.
The syllabus contains a provisional reading list; papers will be added and
removed from the list in the coming weeks.
- Section 1 - Introduction, Wednesday, 8 September to Monday, 20 September.
- Readings
-
End-To-End Arguments in System Design by Jerome Saltzer, David Reed, and
David Clark; ACM Transactions on Computer Systems; November 1984; Vol
2, No. 4.
The Rise of the Stupid Network by David
Isenberg, Computer Telephony; August, 1997.
- Class notes
-
Introduction.
The End-to-End Argument.
Stupid Networks.
- Quiz
- Wednesday, 22 September
-
The answers.
The grades.
- Section 2 - Data Communications and the Physical Layer, Wednesday, 22 September to Monday, 4 October.
- Readings
-
A
Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon; Bell System
Technical Journal; July, 1948; Vol. 27, No. 3.
The ATM physical layer by
Sailes Rao and Mehdi Hatamian; Computer Communication Review; April,
1995; Vol. 25, No. 2.
- Class notes
-
Background.
Noisless Systems.
Noisy Systems.
The Physical Layer.
- Quiz
- Wednesday, 6 October
-
The answers.
The grades.
- Section 3 - The Data-Link Layer, Wednesday, 6 October to Monday, 18 October.
- Readings
-
Congestion Avoidance
and Control by Van Jacobson; Computer Communication Review; January
1995.
Synchronous data link control: A perspective by J. R. Kersey; IBM
Systems Journal; Vol. 13, No. 2.
Other readings.
- Class notes
-
Congestion Avoidance and Control.
Data-Link Control.
- Quiz
- Wednesday, 22 October
-
The answers.
The grades.
- Section 4 - ISDN and Frame Relay, Wednesday, 22 October to Monday, 1 November.
- Readings
-
Congestion Control in ISDN Frame-Relay Networks by B. Doshi and H. Nguyen;
AT&T Technical Journal, November/December 1988
ISDN Protocol Architecture by N. Duc and E. Chew; IEEE
Communications; March 1985; Vol. 23, No. 3.
- Class notes
-
Frame relay.
Integrated services digital network (ISDN).
- Quiz
- Wednesday, 3 November
-
The answers.
The grades.
- Section 5 - BISDN, ATM, and SONET-SDH, Wednesday, 3 November to Monday, 15 November.
- Drop Day
- Tuesday, 9 November.
-
- Readings
-
ATM Concepts,
Architectures, and Protocols by Ronald Vetter;
Communications of the ACM; February 1995; Vol 38. No. 2.
All-Optical Networks by
Samir Chatterjee and Suzanne Pawlowski
Communications of the ACM;
June 1999; Vol. 24
No. 6.
Other readings.
- Presentations
-
ATM presentation by J. Martino and M. Reagan.
- Class notes
-
Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
SONET and SDH.
Optical networking.
- Quiz
- Wednesday, 17 November
-
The answers.
The grades.
Pop quiz 2.
- Section 6 - Metropolitan-Area Networks, Wednesday, 17 November to Monday, 29 November.
- Readings
-
Evolution of Metropolitan Area Networks to Broadband ISDN by William
Byrne, George Clapp, Henry Kafka, Gottfried Luderer, and Bruce Nelson;
IEEE Communications; January 1991; Vol. 29 No. 1.
All-Optical Packet Switching for Metropolitan Area Networks: Opportunities
and Challenges by Shun Yao, S.J Ben Woo, Biswanath Mukherjee and Sudhir
Dixit; IEEE Communications; March 2001; Vol. 39, No. 3.
- Presentations
-
Presentation by S. Pasala and X. Zhu from 4 to 5 on Wednesdy, 24 November.
MAN presentation by S. Koya and P. Penumatcha.
- Class notes
-
Metropolitan-area networks.
Metropolitan-area network architectures.
Optical switching.
- Quiz
- Wednesday, 1 December
-
The answers.
The grades.
- Section 7 - Internet and Mobile Telephony, Wednesday, 1 December to Monday, 13 December.
- No class
- Wedensday, 15 December
-
Given the Thursday-for Wedensday schedule on the final day of class, there
will be no meeting on Wednesday, 15 December.
- Term Paper or Project
-
Progress report due on Wedensday, 1
December no later than 6:00 p.m.
Final version due on Wedensday, 15 December no later than 6:00
p.m.
Note that even though there is no class on 15 December, the
final version of the term paper or project report is due in my office
in that day by 6 p.m.
- Readings
-
Internet Telephony: Architecture and Protocols by Henning Schulzrinne and
Johnathan Rosenberg.
Mobile Telephony by Carl Weisman.
- Presentations
-
VoIP presentation on Monday, 6 December, from 4 to 5 by M. Sundararajan
and S. Bandlamudi.
VoIP presentation by K. Rao and S. Verma from 4 to 5 on Wednesday, 8
December.
Mobile Telephony presentation by A. Joshi and D. Woolley from 5 to 5:50
on Wednesday, 8 December.
Mobile Telephony presentation by K. Sood and P. Kumar from 4 to 5
on Monday, 13 December.
- Class notes
-
The Real-Time Protocols.
- Quiz
- Monday, 13 December
-
- Open Lecture on a topic to be determined from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30
p.m. on Wedensday, 22 December, in Howard Hall 530.
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