Syllabus

WEEK             DATES                  TOPICS CHAPTERS
1 09 Feb. - 13 Feb.

Introduction

  
2 16 Feb. - 20 Feb.

Physical Layer

 2.1 - 2.4
3 23 Feb. - 27 Feb.

Modulation and Multiplexing

 2.5
4 02 March - 06 March

Telephone Network

 2.6 - 2.7
5 09 March - 13 March

Data Link Layer, Error Correction

 3.1
6 16 March - 20 March

CRC Polynomials

 3.2
7 23 March - 27 March

Data Link Protocols

 3.3
8 30 March - 03 April

Sliding Window Protocols

 3.4
9 06 April - 10 April

Medium Access Control

 3.5
10 13 April - 17 April

Ethernet

 4.1 - 4.2
11 20 April - 24 April

ATM, PPP

 4.3
12 27 April - 01 May

Wireless

 4.4 - 4.6
13 04 May - 08 May

Switching

 4.7
14 11 May - 15 May

using spanning-tree for loop elimination in switched networks

 4.8