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Instructor: |
Ashok Subramanian |
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Office: |
234 CCB |
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Phone: |
(314) 516-6279 |
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E-mail: |
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Office Hours: |
Tue., Thu. 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., and by appointment |
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Class Hours: |
Tue. 6:55 p.m. - 9:35 p.m. 205 SSB (section E01) Thu. 11:00 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. 131 SSB (section 001) |
The topic of telecommunications will be addressed from both a technical and managerial viewpoint. In particular, the course will address issues such as communications components and services, local area and wide area network architecture, managerial implementations, and organizational issues.
The technical dimension of the course will focus on the technology of voice communications, voice and data transmission media and control, communications circuits and networks, and communications protocols.
The managerial dimension of the course will focus on issues such as network design and implementation, network security, and management of the network. In addition, industry standards on network architectures and communication protocols will be examined with the intention of assessing future developments in the telecommunications area.
Students will be assigned a letter grade for this course based on their performance on three written exams. The written exams will be of the multiple choice and/or numerical problems variety. Each exam will contribute equally toward the final score. Letter grades will be assigned for the final weighted score.
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Tentative Class Schedule |
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Readings |
Topic |
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1/14, 1/16 |
Ch. 1,2 |
Orientation, Business Information |
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1/21, 1/23 |
Ch. 6 |
Data Transmission |
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1/28, 1/30 |
Ch. 7 |
Transmission Media |
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2/04, 2/06 |
Ch. 8 |
Communications Fundamentals |
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2/11, 2/13 |
Exam 1 |
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2/18, 2/20 |
Ch. 9 |
Data Link Control |
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2/25, 2/27 |
Ch. 10 |
Transmission Efficiency |
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3/04, 3/06 |
Ch. 11 |
Wide Area Networks (WANs) |
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3/11, 3/13 |
Ch. 12 |
Wide Area Networks (WANs) |
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3/18, 3/20 |
Exam 2 |
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4/01, 4/03 |
Ch. 13 |
Wireless Networks |
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4/08, 4/10 |
Ch. 14, 15 |
Local Area Networks (LANs) |
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4/15, 4/17 |
Ch. 4, 5 |
Protocol Architectures: TCP/IP, OSI |
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4/22, 4/24 |
Ch. 16 |
Distributed Applications |
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4/29, 5/01 |
Ch. 3, 17 |
Dist. DP, Client/Server & Intranet Computing |
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Exam 3 |
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Exam 3 |
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