Spring 2010, ECE

Fri 9:00-11:45am Room 21222

A qualitative and quantitative study of issues in design, analysis, and operating of computer communication and telecommunication network as they evolve toward the integrated networks of the future, employing both packet and circuit-switching technology. Packet and circuit switching, the OSI standards for architecture and protocols, elementary queueing theory for performance evaluation, random access techniques, local area networks, reliability and error recovery, and integrated networks.

Dongsoo Stephen Kim Associate Professor at Indiana University Visiting/Research Professor at SKKU Contacts or (031) Office Research Center II, Room 83345,

Yeonjoon Jeong Contact Office Hours TBA

Alberto Leon-Garcia and Indra Widjaja, “Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architecture (2nd ed.),” McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003, ISBN# X.

Jim Pitman, “Probability,” 1999, Springer, ISBN# G. Bolch, et.al. “Queueing Networks and Markov Chains: Modeling and Performance Evaluation with Computer Science Applications,” 2006, Wiley-Interscience, ISBN#

Exams40% Homework/Quiz25% Attendance10% Projects25%

Assignments must be submitted at the beginning of the class on the due date. Late submissions will be accepted with 10% penalty per day up to 3 days. After those 3 days, late submission will not be accepted. All exams are closed-book, closed-notes, and comprehensive to cover the material up to the point mentioned one week prior to the exam date. You need have a computer access offered by the School or your own PC. All submission in this class must be done individually. Anyone who copy other’s work and whose work to be copied will receive no credit for the submission. The projects are group effort, but will be evaluated individually. Students will form a group of 5 persons. Each group submits one copy of the project report. Each team member must complete a “Peer Rating” form and submit it to the instructor confidentially.

Overview and introduction to communication networks and their topology ISO/OSI 7-layer reference model, protocols and services Digital transmission and media, Nyquist theorem, and Shannon capacity Line coding and decoding, transmission media Switching networks, circuit-switched, packet switching, switch architecture Probability and queueing theory Error detection and correction, framing, ARQ, flow control, Multiple access, local area network, wireless LAN SONET, WDM and circuit switching Internet Protocol Suite, routing, and congestion control