CS 4873 Computer Networks Daily Topics --- Fall 1999 Listed here are the topics covered in each class.

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1. Tuesday, August 31

Introductory Lecture: Network layers, ISO OSI

2. Thursday, September 2

ISO OSI Model
Tanenbaum Chapter 2: The Physical Layer, through section 2.1.1

3. Tuesday, September 7

Continue Chapter 2:
Fourier series

4. Thursday, September 9

Sampling, Nyquist, Shannon, S/N

5. Tuesday, September 14

Wireless communication

6. Thursday, September 16

Digital transmission, switching

7. Tuesday, September 21

circuit, message, and packet switching problems
Data Link Layer

8. Thursday, September 23

Return and discuss assignment 1
Character and bit stuffing

9. Tuesday, September 28

Hamming Codes

10. Thursday, September 30

Error detection, polynomial codes
Data Link Layer Protocol assumptions

11. Tuesday, October 5

Protocols 1, 2 and 3

12. Thursday, October 7

Protocol 4, demos

13. Tuesday, October 12

Give back and go over assignment 2
Review for exam on October 14
Start Protocol 5?

14. Thursday, October 14

First Exam

15. Tuesday, October 19

Give back and go over exam
Protocol 5

16. Thursday, October 21

Protocol 6 and demos

17. Tuesday, October 26

Protocol 6 code

18. Thursday, October 28

Queueing Theory

19. Tuesday, November 2

Chapter 4: Medium Access Sublayer
Infinite Pure Aloha

20. Thursday, November 4

Infinite Pure Aloha (continued)
Infinite Slotted Aloha
Finite Slotted Aloha

21. Tuesday, November 9

CSMA

22. Thursday, November 11

802.3
repeaters, bridges, routers

23. Tuesday, November 16

802.3 transmission algorithm
802.3 performance under heavy load

24. Thursday, November 18

Exam 2

25. Tuesday, November 23

802.4 Token Bus

26. Tuesday, November 30

802.5 Token Ring

27. Thursday, December 2

Network Layer

28. Tuesday, December 7

Return Assignment 5 and review for final

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