Computers in Communication

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Overall Aims of the Course

This course introduces students to Serial communication, Modems, RS standards, Routing, Session control, File transfer, E-mail, virtual terminals, TCP/IP protocol models.

Course Contents / Lectures

• OSI reference model and TCP/IP protocol models
• Transmission media
• Switching: circuit switching, datagram, virtual-circuit
• Delay, Loss, and Throughput in Packet-Switched Networks
• Transmission modes: parallel transmission and serial transmission (YouTube Link)
• Using telephone and cable networks for data transmission and Modems (Part 1) (YouTube Video)
• Using telephone and cable networks for data transmission and Modems (Part 2) (YouTube Video)
• Addressing in Network Layer (YouTube Video)
• Routing algorithms (YouTube Video)

Textbooks

1. Behrouz A. Forouzan, "Data Communication and Networking", McGraw-Hill, 2007.
2. James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, "Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach", Sixth Edition, Pearson Education, 2013.

Review Problems

Review Problems Lecture 3: Switching

Review Problems Lecture 4: Delay, Loss and Throughput