CS 4873 Computer Networks Daily Topics
Listed here are the topics covered in each class.
1. Tuesday, August 27
2. Thursday, August 29
Chapter 2: The Physical Layer - results of Shannon and Nyquist
3. Tuesday, September 3
The Physical Layer (continued) - transmission media,
wireless communication, modems and codecs
4. Thursday, September 5
The Physical Layer (continued) PCM, TDM and FDM, circuit, message, and
packet switching
5. Tuesday, September 10
The Physical Layer (continued) Problems 2-33 and 2-34, terminal handling,
Chapter 3: The Data Link Layer, bit and character stuffing
6. Thursday, September 12
Section 3.2, Error Detection and Correction
7. Tuesday, September 17
Error Detection and Correction continued, Hamming codes, polynomial codes
8. Thursday, September 19
Polynomial codes, Elementary Data Link Layer Protocols 1 and 2
9. Tuesday, September 24
Discuss Assignment 1, Lab demo
10. Thursday, September 26
Data Link Layer Protocols 3 and 4
11. Tuesday, October 1
Data Link Layer Protocols 4 and 5
12. Thursday, October 3
Exam Review, Data Link Layer Protocols 5 and 6
13. Tuesday, October 8
Go over problems 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, and 20 from Chapter 3
14. Thursday, October 10
15. Tuesday, October 15
16. Thursday, October 17
Finish Protocol 6, Queueing Theory introduction
17. Tuesday, October 22
Answer questions about the exam topics,
Start Chpater 4 through pure infinite Aloha
18. Thursday, October 24
19. Tuesday, October 29
Return and go over exam 1A, Infinite slotted Aloha,
Finite population Aloha, CSMA (persistant and non-persistant)
20. Thursday, October 31
21. Tuesday, November 5
22. Thursday, November 7
Finish Ethernet performance under heavy load, start 802.4
23. Tuesday, November 12
Finish 802.4, start 802.5
24. Thursday, November 14
Exam review, Finish 802.5, FDDI, Fast Ethernet
25. Tuesday, November 19
Student Evaluations, Finish Fast Ethernet, Start the Network Layer
26. Thursday, November 21
27. Tuesday, November 26
Assignment 3 due, return and go over exam 2
Continue Network Layer: routing algorithms
28. Tuesday, December 3
Last class, return last problem set