Course Outline

1. Evolution of telecommunication networks (html)

2. Network services and applications (figure)

• Services :

  1 - Voice (text)

  2 - Electronic Mail (text)

  3 - File Transfer (text)

  4 - Virtual Terminals (text)

  5 - Remote Procedure Calls (text)

  6 - Videotex Systems (image)

  7 - Business Data Exchange (text)

  8 - World Wide Web (text)

  9 - Summary (image)

• Applications :

  1 - National Challenges

  1. Digital Libraries (text)
  2. Crisis and Emergency Management (text)
  3. Education and Lifelong Learning (text)
  4. Electronic Commerce (EC) (text)
  5. Health Care (text)
  6. Public Access to Government Information (text)

  2 - Popular internet Browsers

  • Mosaic
  • Netscape

  4 - Hyper links to some organizations

3. Network traffic characterization (html)

1 - Voice & Video

i - Micro-level, characterstics of voice signals

ii - Macro-level, characterstics of voice traffic

2 - Data

3 - Typical Peak Rates for Network Traffic (html)

4. Network impairments (text), (postscript)

5. Network technologies

1 - Circuit switching (text)

2 - Message switching (text)

3 - Packet switching (text)

4 - Virtual Circuit Switching (text+figures)

• Comparision (postscript)

6. Network standards and open systems (html)

7. Network architectures and the OSI Reference Model (html)

8. Introduction to network performance evaluation (text+figures) -> (postscript version - 4 pages)

1 - Basic queueing theory (postscript-29 pages)

2 - Modeling and simulation of telecommunication networks (postscript- 150 pages)

3 - Introduction to network simulation (postscript- 68 pages)

9. Telephone systems, switch architectures and signaling (html)

10. ISDN, SONET, and Broadband ISDN

1 - B-ISDN, ATM and SONET Overview

2 - ATM

3 - SONET

Additional References on ATM and B-ISDN

Pacbell ISDN Tutorial

ISDN Products and Services

11. Media Access Control

1 - Media Access Control (General) (postscript-11 pages)

2 - Polling techniques (postscript-2 pages)

3 - Random access techniques (postscript-14 pages)

4 - Collision Free (postscript-3 pages)

5 - Packet Radio (postscript-5 pages)

6 - Satellite networks (postscript-3 pages)

7 - Standards (postscript-3 pages)

8 - LAN Comparison (postscript)

i - Ethernet

Tutorial (IEEE 802.3)

(postscript- 5 pages)

1-persistent CSMA/CD Flow Diagram (postscript)

ii - Token Ring (IEEE 802.5) (postscript-3 pages)

iii - Token Bus (IEEE 802.4) (postscript-1 pages)

iv - FDDI (postscript-2 pages)

v - DQDB (IEEE 802.6) (html)

vi - ATM

12. Data Link Control

1 - 1. Introduction to Data Link Control, Framing and Introduction to error control coding. (text+figures) -> (postscript version-28 pages)

2 - Error and Flow Control

Simple DLC Protocol (postscript-14 pages)

Advanced DLC Protocol (postscript-7 pages)

Sliding Window Protocol (animation)

3 - DLC Protocol Efficiency (postscript-9 pages)

4 - Rate control (postscript-3 pages)

5 - Standard DLC (postscript-6 pages)

13. High Layer Protocols

1 - Service Primitives (postscript-9 pages)

2 - Network addressing (postscript-9 pages)

3 - TCP/IP (postscript-24 pages)

4 - Routing and congestion (postscript-5 pages)

5 - Network Design

6 - Frame Relay (postscript-24 pages)

14. Network Security

(postscript-35 pages)

(Web Reference)