CS 3413 Data Communications Introduction
Topics for today:
- Your instructor
- Office Hours - also after class
- Check the course web page
- Class meetings - bring your textbook
- Syllabus
- Pictures - at end of class
- Textbook
- Skim chapters 1 and 2 - these give an overview of the rest of the book
- We will cover chapters 3-11 plus additional material as time permits
- Some math review for Chapter 3
- Overview of chapters 3-11
Math for Chapter 3:
Graph and properties of sin x
Period of sin(2πkft)
Logarithms using base 2 and 10
Overview of Chapters 3-11
Chapter 3 Data Transmission
Representation of analog and digital signals
Converting between analog an digital signals
Attenuation, channel capacity, bandwidth, power, noise
Chapter 4 Guided and Wireless Transmission
twisted pair, coax, optical fiber
wireless transmission
antennas, microwave, satellite, radio
Chapter 5 Signal Encoding Techniques
Representing x-type data with y-type signals where c and y can be
digital or analog.
Chapter 6 Digital Data Communication Techniques
Error detection and correction
Line topology
Interfaces
Chapter 7 Data Link Control
Flow control
Error control
HDLC: High-level Data Link Control
Chapter 8 Multiplexing
Frequency division multiplexing
Synchronous and statistical time division multiplexing
DSL
Chapter 9 Spread Spectrum
Frequency hopping
Direct sequence
Code-division multiple access
Chapter 10 Circuit Switching and Packet Switching
circuit switching
packet switching
X.25
Frame relay
Chapter 11 Asynchronous Transfer Mode
logical connections
cells
service categories