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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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Fax: |
(314) 516-6827 |
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E-mail: |
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URL: |
http://www.umsl.edu/~subraman |
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Office Hours: |
W 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., or by appointment |
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Class Hours: |
W 6:55 p.m. – 9:35 p.m., CCB 103 |
The topic of telecommunications will be addressed from a technical and managerial viewpoint. In particular, the course will address issues such as communications components and services, local area and wide area network architectures, network design, implementation issues, and organizational issues.
The technical dimension of the course will focus on the technology of voice communications, voice and data transmission media and control, signaling concepts, data transmission and routing, and communication protocols.
The managerial dimension of the course will focus on issues such as network design and implementation, network security, and management of networks. 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 performance on two written exams and a network design project. The written exams will be of the multiple choice and/or numerical problems variety. Exam 1 and Exam 2 will each contribute 25%, and the project will contribute 50% to 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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1/17 |
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Orientation |
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Business Information |
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1/31 |
Data Transmission Fundamentals, Transmission efficiency |
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2/07 |
Ch. 17 |
Data Link Control, |
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2/14 |
Ch. 12 |
WANs: Approaches to Networking (Circuit Switching, Packet Switching) |
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2/21 |
Ch. 13, 14 |
WANs: Frame Relay & ATM, Wireless Networks, and Review for Exam 1 |
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2/28 |
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Exam 1 |
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3/07 |
Ch. 9 |
LANs: Architecture & Protocols, Transmission Media
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3/14 |
Ch. 10, 11 |
LANs: Ethernet & Fibre Channel, Internetworking, Wireless
Technologies
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3/21 |
Ch. 4, 5, 6 |
Internet: Architecture & Protocols, Applications
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4/04 |
Ch. 3, 7 |
Dist. Processing: Client Server & Intranet Computing |
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4/11 |
Ch. 8 |
Internet: Addressing, Routing, Operation |
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4/18 |
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Network Design Project Analysis & Discussion |
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4/25 |
Ch. 18 |
Network Security, Network Management |
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5/02 |
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Review for Exam 2, Projects Due |
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5/09 |
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Exam 2 (7:45 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.) |