COSC 3213: Communication Networks
Winter 2009

Lecture Schedule

Week Date Quiz Topic Chapters
1 4 Mar   course intro, digital information, sampling, quantization, Nyquist rate 3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.5.1
2 9 Mar Q1 time and frequency domains 3.3.1
  11 Mar   time and frequency domains, Nyquist rate, Shannon channel capacity 3.1, 3.5
3 16 Mar Q2 Shannon review, ASK/FSK/PSK 3.7, 3.7.1
  18 Mar   ASK/FSK/PSK, QAM, constellations 3.7.2
4 23 Mar Q3 QAM, constellations, line coding 3.6, 3.7.2
  25 Mar   line coding, key concepts for error detection 3.6
5 30 Mar Q4 error detection: parity and checksum 3.9.1, 3.9.3
  1 Apr   Hamming distance, error correction, 2D parity, voting 3.9.1, 3.9.2
6 6 Apr Q5 (review)  
  8 Apr   MIDTERM  
7 13 Apr   Midterm and Assignment 1 solutions  
  15 Apr   network intro, OSI layers, ethernet LAN example 1.1, 2.2, 2.3
8 20 Apr Q6 layers, example continued, encapsulation between layers 1.1, 2.2, 2.3
  22 Apr   communication between many machines: overview, ALOHA 6.1, 6.2
9 27 Apr Q7 ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA-CD 6.2
  29 Apr   performance analysis of ALOHA and SL-ALOHA 6.2
10 4 May Q8 course evaluation, performance analysis of (SL-)ALOHA and CSMA-CD 6.2
  6 May   recap of ethernet/IP-network architecture, switching and routing intro, MAC/LLC sublayers 6.6, 6.11
11 11 May Q9 ethernet/LLC/SNAP frames 6.7.1, 6.7.2
  13 May   ethernet review, IP/TCP/UDP intro, IP packets and addresses, ARP intro 8.1, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.6
12 18 May   (Victoria Day holiday)  
  20 May Q10 (review)  
  22 May   FINAL EXAM (3:30-6:30pm, SLH B)  

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