Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Networks
Introduction
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Textbooks
• Textbooks
– Behrouz A. Forouzan, Data communications and
networking, McGraw Hill, 2007, 4th edition
– Fred Hasall, Data communications, computer
networks and open systems, Addition-wesley,
1995, 4th edition
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Recommended references
• References
– Robert Gallager, course materials for 6.450 Principles of Digital
Communications I, Fall 2006. MIT OpenCourseWare
(http://ocw.mit.edu/), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Downloaded on [26 April 2018].
– C. E. Shannon, "A mathematical theory of communication," in The Bell
System Technical Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 379-423, July 1948. doi:
10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x
– Eytan Modiano, course materials for 16.36 Communication Systems
Engineering, Spring 2009 . MIT OpenCourseWare
(http://ocw.mit.edu/), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Downloaded on [30 September 2015].
– Hari Balakrishnan and George Verghese, course materials for 6.02
Introduction to EECS II: Digital Communication Systems, Fall 2012. MIT
OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/), Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Downloaded on [9 August 2018].
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Why data communications and
networks?
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Development history
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Current network totplogies
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The fundamental of digital
communications
• A common platform for all kind of communication
systems
• Achievable using Shannon’s information theory
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Fundamental architectural principles
• Standardized interfaces
– The user one side of the interface ignore all details about the other
side of the interface except for certain specified interface
characteristics.
• Layering
– Break up communication functions into a string of separate layers
– Lower layers can be viewed in aggregate as a communication channel.
– Higher layers can be viewed in aggregate as a simple source and
destination.
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Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
model
Computer
Science
Tele-
communicatio
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Roles of OSI’s layers
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Assessment and Course’s content
Percent Note
Quizzes 20%
Laboratory 20%
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