CS 45201-600 * Computer Communication Networks
TR 5:30 AM - 6:45 PM - Room
MH 303
(Instructor: Dr. Angela Guercio e-mail aguercio@kent.edu)
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| Month/Day | Weekday | Topic | Reading Assignments | HW and Deadlines | |
| 1 | Sept 1 | T | Introduction to Computer Communication Networks course | Ch. 1 lesson 1 |
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| 2 | Sept 3 | R | Internet Architecture | Ch. 1 lesson 2 |
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| 3 | Sept 8 | T | Layers and Examples of Networks | Ch. 1 |
HW1 - p.81 n.9, 13, 21, 22, 26, 28, 35 - Read Article 1 |
| 4 | Sept 10 | R | Video Lecture - Application Layer | Ch. 7 |
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| 5 | Sept 15 | T | Physical Layer | Ch. 2 |
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| 6 | Sept 17 | R | Professor is sick - no class | ||
| 7 | Sept 22 | T | Completion of Physical Link | Ch. 2 lesson 5 |
HW2 - p.179 n.16, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 31, 53, 55
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| 8 | Sept 24 | R | Intro to Data Link - Error Correction | Ch. 2 - Ch. 3 lesson 6 |
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| 9 | Sept 29 | T | Review | ||
| 10 | Oct 1 | R | ATTENTION:Exam 1 has been moved to Oct 6.
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Ch. 3 lesson 7 |
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| 11 | Oct 6 | T | Exam 1 (Ch 1-2 + Article + Video Lecture) | ||
| 12 | Oct 8 | R | Other Data Link Protocols | lesson 8 | |
| 13 | Oct 13 | T | MAC - ALOHA | lesson 9 | HW 3: due by Oct 20 |
| 14 | Oct 15 | R | CSMA - CD | lesson 10 | |
| 15 | Oct 20 | T | Ethernet | lesson 11 | |
| 16 | Oct 22 | R | Wireless LAN | ||
| 17 | Oct 27 | T | Router/Bridges/Gateways | lesson 13 | HW4: due by Oct 29
p.338 n.4 p.339 n.10, 15 p.340 n.17,18, 28 |
| 18 | Oct 29 | R | Routing |
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| 19 | Nov 3 | T | Review | ||
| 20 | Nov 5 | R | Exam 2 | ||
| 21 | Nov 10 | T | More Routing | lesson 14 | Project issued |
| 22 | Nov 12 | R | The Network Layer | lesson 15 | |
| 23 | Nov 17 | T | Internetworking | lesson 16 | |
| 24 | Nov 19 | R | Internetworking | lesson 17 | |
| 25 | Nov 23 | T | Internet Control and Routing | lesson 18 | HW 5 - due by Dec 3 |
| Nov 25-29 | Thanksgiving Recess | ||||
| 26 | Dec 1 | T | |||
| 27 | Dec 3 | R | |||
| 28 | Dec 8 | T | |||
| 29 | Dec 10 | R | Review for final | ||
| 30 | Dec 17 | R | 6:00 pm - 8:00pm - Final Exam |
Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Computer Networks - Prentice Hall; 4th ed., 2002, ISBN-13: 978-0130661029
For those interested, advanced material can be found in journals and conferences.
The best journals in this area are: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM Wireless Networks Journal, ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication.
The best conferences in computer communication are IEEE/ACM Mobicom, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM Multimedia, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE IC3N.
Articles for Reading
P. Baran, “On distributed communications networks,” Communications Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications Systems, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1–9, 1964.