EECS-3213
Communication Networks
Topics covered include:
- Distinction between information and data, between signal and data, between symbol and data, and between analogue and digital data
- Transmission media; time domain and frequency domain
- Fundamental limits due to Shannon and Nyquist
- Protocol hierarchies; the OSI model
- Encoding of analogue/digital data as analogue/digital signals
- Data link protocols; error and flow control
- Medium access; Ethernet and token passing systems in LANs
- Routing of packets in networks, congestion control
- Internetworking