CS 388 DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS - SPRING 2004
PROFESSOR
Dr. Constantine Coutras
Office: 163 William Street, 2nd Floor, Office 216
Phone number: (212) 346-1006
e-mail: ccoutras@pace.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 3:00-5:30
DESCRIPTION
This course provides a foundation in digital communications as a basis
for modern telecommunications systems and computer networks. Topics
include: layered architectures, signals and information transmission, bandwidth and capacity,
transmission media, modulation techniques, digitizing analog signals, multiplexing, circuit switching, link
layer protocols, cellular telephone and satelitte networks, and virtual
circuit switching networks.
PREREQUISITES
CS 232 Computer Organization, CS 242 Data Structures and Algorithms II, MAT 132 Calculus II and MAT 137 Introduction to Discrete Mathematics.
TEXT
Required: Behrouz A. Forouzan, Data Communications and Networking, Third Edition, McGraw Hill
Optional: William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Seventh Edition, Prentice Hall
ON-LINE RESOURCES
The companion web site for the required textbook can be reached through: http://www.mhhe.com/forouzan. It contains student study aids like: quizzes, flashcards, selected solutions and animations, and other resources.
GRADING
Homework 10% (Late homework is not accepted)
Midterm 40%
Final 50% (Cumulative)
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Week 1 Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Network Models
Week 2 Chapter 3 Signals
Week 3 Chapter 4 Digital Transmission
Week 4 Chapter 5 Analog Transmission
Week 5 Chapter 6 Multiplexing, Section 13.3 Channelization
Week 6 Chapter 7 Transmission Media; Review for Midterm Exam
Week 7 MIDTERM EXAM
Week 8 Chapter 8 Circuit Switching and Telephone Network
Week 9 Chapter 9 High Speed Digital Access: DSL, Cable Modems and SONET
Week 10 Chapter 10 Error Detection and Correction
Week 11 Chapter 11 Data link Control and Protocols
Week 12 Chapter 17 Cellular Telephone and Satellite Networks
Week 13 Chapter 18 Virtual Circuit Switching: Frame Relay and ATM; Review for Final Exam
Week 14 FINAL EXAM