資料通訊 Data Communication Fall 2011, NTNU-CSIE

General Information Time: Tuesday 2:10pm~5:00pm Place: S203 Instructor: 陳伶志 Ling-Jyh Chen Phone: ext iis.sinica.edu.tw TA: 李威賢 Course Website: Google Groups: NTNU-2011-data-communication

What’s this course about? for junior, senior, and grad mainly focus on the data link layer We will study the emerging wireless standards basic math background is required We will study basic queueing theory

Course Outline Fundamental aspects of network design and analysis Architecture Layering Topology design Protocols Pt.-to-Pt. Multiple access End-to-end Algorithms Error recovery Routing Flow control Analysis tools Probabilistic modeling Queueing theory

Textbook Required: Data Networks, 2nd edition, Dimitri Bertsekas and Robert Gallager, Prentice Hall, ( 新月圖書代理 ) Recommended: An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, S. Keshav, Addision-Wesley. Computer Networks, 4th ed., Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall.

Schedule

Grading In-Class Participation: 5% Homework: 30% Midterm (closed book): 30% Final (open book): 35%

Misc Participation is expected You may want to take notes, especially for week 3-5 Course materials (slides, HW, solutions, etc) will be posted on the course website Hand in your homework in next week class NO NO delayed homework Do homework by yourself! Let me know if you have any questions!

Chap 1: Introduction

Questions What are the pros and cons of network layering? Is network layering really needed?