CS 3413 Data Communications

Fall 2009

syllabus

 

Class Web Page

http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~korkmaz/teaching/cs3413

Time and

Location

TR 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm (Aug 26, 2009 - Dec 19)

BB 3.03.22   

Instructor

Dr. Turgay Korkmaz
Office: SB 4.01.13
Email: korkmaz@cs.utsa.edu
Phone: (210) 458-7346
Fax: (210) 458-4437

Instructor's Office Hours

TR 2:00pm-3:30pm (or by appointment)

Important Announcements

TA/Grader

TBA

Prerequisite

Computer organization, Programming experience in C or Java, and
working knowledge of Unix operating system.

Textbook

Required:        

Data and Computer Communications by William Stallings (8th Edition)

      See http://www.williamstallings.com/DCC/DCC8e.html

 

Objectives

To learn the fundamental concepts, principles, and terminology of data communications. 

Course Topics

Core material that we will cover from the text book:

  1. Data Communications and Networking Overview. 
  2. Protocol Architecture. 
  3. Data Transmission.
  4. Guided and Wireless Transmission.
  5. Signal Encoding Techniques.
  6. Digital Data Communication Techniques.
  7. Data Link Control.
  8. Multiplexing.
  9. Spread Spectrum.
  10. Circuit Switching and Packet Switching.

Additional material (e.g., Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17) will be presented if time permits.

 

Grading

  • Midterm:                     20%     (two exams: 0.75*max+0.25*min)  
      1. Midterm-I     Oct 6, 2009    Tuesday 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
      2. Midterm-II   Nov 10, 2009  Tuesday 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
  • Q&Attendance           10%     (The lowest quiz grade will be dropped)
  •  Assignments:              40%     (problem solving and programming) !NO LATE HW!
  • Final:                           30%    EXAM DATE:  Wed, Dec 09, 10:30 am - 01:00 pm

            Make-up examinations will be given if you have an officially acceptable excuse.

Assignments

We will have 9 assignments and the lowest one will be dropped.

Officially they will be posted on the WebCT and

You must submit your assignments using WebCT 

But I will also post them here for quick access.

 

!!!!  NO LATE HW WILL BE ACCEPTED  !!!!

1.      Assignment 1, due date: Friday, Sept 11, 2009 5pm

2.      Assignment 2, due date: Wed, Sept 23, 2009 5pm

3.      Assignment 3, due date: Wed, Sept 30, 2009 5pm

4.      Assignment 4, due date: Friday, Oct 23, 2009 5pm

1.      Assignment 5, (programming) due date: Monday, Nov 2, 2009 5pm

Class Notes

!! You need Microsoft PowerPoint to read/print slides. !!
Thanks to the author of our text book for providing the slides

Assigned readings

 

Other online materials