COSC 3213: Communication Networks
Winter 2009

I haven't officially been told anything about the marks, but I've been unofficially told that they accepted the ones I submitted. So, the letter grades found on York's web page under "My Student Records" should be accurate.

Lectures: M/W 5:30-7:00, TEL 1005
Instructor: Christopher Thomas
(chris at cse dot yorku dot ca)
Office: Petrie 021A
(office hours: 3pm-5pm M/W/F)
Web Page: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~chris/3213
Textbook: "Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures", 2nd edition, Alberto Leon-Garcia and Indra Widjaja


Course Description:

This course is an introduction to communications and networking. The first half of the course, up to the midterm, describes signal encoding and data transmission. The second half of the course describes communications networks and protocols.

Specific topics of each lecture are listed in the lecture schedule.

Grading Scheme
The course has one midterm test, and one final exam. These contain most of the course's marks. The quizzes are intended to help you prepare for the midterm and exam; they are held at the beginning of the first class of each week, and cover the previous week's lecture material.

Academic Honesty

Part of the university's Academic Honesty policy is quoted below. It can be summarized as:

"Any work handed in must be completely your own."

If you having trouble with this course, come and see me and I'll help as much as I can.
"The department takes the matter of academic honesty very seriously. Academic honesty is essentially giving credit where credit is due. And not misrepresenting what you have done and what work you have produced. When a piece of work is submitted by a student it is expected that all unquoted and uncited ideas and text are original to the student. Uncited and unquoted text, diagrams, etc., which are not original to the student, and which the student presents as their own work is considered academically dishonest."
(Full details at: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/admin/coscOnAcadHonesty.html)