Course Information CSE 3213 – Fall 2011

Instructor U. T. Nguyen /new-yen/ Office: CSEB-2024 Email: utn@cse.yorku.ca Office hours: Tuesday, 14:00-15:00 Thursday, 14:00-15:00 By appointment in special cases Home page: www.cse.yorku.ca/~utn Course web site: www.cse.yorku.ca/course/3213

Textbook Data and Computer Communications (9th edition) by William Stallings , Prentice Hall (2010) Note: 8th edition may be used, but students are responsible for matching sections and exercise problems between the two versions Recommended reference: Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures (2nd edition) by Alberto Leon-Garcia McGraw-Hill Companies

Grading Scheme 10% - Quizzes (2) 5% - Assigned reading and project 30% - Midterm test 55% - Final exam There will also be 2 assignments, but they will not be graded. However, many questions in the quizzes will be similar to or based on assignment questions. Assigned reading will be chapters in the textbook that discuss standards (e.g., HDLC, IEEE 802.11 physical layer, IPv6). will not be on quizzes, midterm test or final exam, but ... short exercises based on these chapters will be given and graded.

Test and Exam Policy You are allowed to miss a test/exam only under extraordinary circumstances. If the reason is sickness, your doctor must fill in the Attending Physician's Statement form. Only this form, completely and properly filled, will be accepted. There is NO make up test. The weight of the first quiz will be transferred to the second quiz. The weight of the midterm test or the second quiz will be transferred to the final exam. All quizzes, test and exam are closed-book tests. No books, notes or calculators are allowed during a test/exam. All assignments, test and exam are individual work. Plagiarism and cheating are not tolerable.

Useful Suggestions When sending emails to the instructor or TA, please indicate "CSE 3213" in the subject line (e.g., "CSE 3213 - Lecture notes unreadable"). For questions related to course materials, it is best to come to the office hours. Email is not a good way to explain the materials. Attend the lectures! The lecture notes give only outlines of the lectures. Details and additional information will be given in class. This course is heavy! Read the lecture notes and the textbook before and again right after each lecture. Work on suggested homework problems.

Course Content This course is an introduction to communications and networking. 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 TCP/IP protocol suite Encoding of analogue/digital data as analogue/digital signals Data link protocols; error and flow control Local area networks Medium access control: Ethernet and WiFi Routing of packets in networks Internetworking

Your First Homework Read all the pages and links on the course web site. http://www.cs.yorku.ca/course/3213

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