COE-342 Data and Computer Communications

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Final Exam: 7:30 am Monday January 12th, 2004 - location 7-121

Please note: the TA's email address is siraj@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa and not as was reported in the programming assignment statement.

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Preliminary Final exam date: January 12th, 2003 - 7:30 AM

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Course Syllabus:

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Exam Dates:

Exam dates are:

• Major 1 on Friday October 17th, 2003 - 7:30 - 9:30 pm - Room 22-130
• Major 2 on Thursday December 11th 2003 - 7:00-8:30 pm - Rm 22-119
• Final exam: Monday January 12th, 2003 - 7:30 am - Rm 7-121

Lecture Notes

Students are responsible for the material in the textbook and that in the handouts, if any. The class notes and slides are just "notes"; they may not cover all required material. The book is the reference for the required material.

Below are a set of electronic class notes that are based on the textbook.

Chapter 1: Introduction, Topologies, and Protocols

Chapter 2: Protocols - The OSI Reference Model and the TCP/IP Stack

Chapter 3: Fourier Analysis - These slides are still under development - not final.

                In addition you can refer to the following handout:  Fourier Series Expansion and Filtering

               Data, Signals and Transmission

Chapter 4: Transmission Media

             These slides are originally for Stallings - I just added some explanatory text and modern (colored) illustrations

Chapter 5: Data Encoding -  Modulation Techniques

                 Animation for PCM (the animations were provided by Forouzan)

Chapter 6: Data Communication Interface (Asynchronous/synchronous Transmission, V.24/EIA-232-F, ISDN interface)

Chapter 7: Data Link Control (Flow/Error Control Schemes and HDLC)

                Animations for: stop-and-wait protocol, sliding-window protocol, CRC calculation, and HDLC (the animations were provided by Forouzan)

Chapter 8: Multiplexing (FDM and TDM)

                Animations for: FDM, TDM, and Statistical TDM  (the animations were provided by Forouzan)

These are the set of notes provided by the publisher. The original power point files are found at: ftp://ftp.prenhall.com/pub/esm/computer_science.s-041/stallings/Slides/DCC6e-Slides/

Handouts:

• Handout on Fourier Series Expansion and Filtering: This handout attempts to explain the following concepts using an example:

1. Periodic signals - Period T and the relationship with the fundamental frequency f
2. The DC component of a signal - The power of a periodic signal
3. The Fourier series expansion of a periodic signal
4. Computing the power of a signal using its Fourier series expansion - Computation of power of truncated signals
5. Low/Band/High pass filtering (ideal)
6. Introduces MATLAB programming language (code included in document)

Assignments:

        The grader for this course is Mr. Sheikh Sirajuddin (siraj@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa) - x. 1423 and he is located at 23-16

• Sept 13th, 2003    - Reading Assignment #1: Section 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 
• Sept 20th, 2003    - Reading Assignment #2: Sections 2.1 and 2.2
• Oct 4th, 2003: Textbook Problems: 2.4, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.11, 3.14, 3.18 - Due date: Monday October 20th, 2003.- solution key
• Nov 8th, 2003: Textbook Problems: 5-15, 5-19, 5-20, 5-24 - Due date: Saturday December 13th, 2003 - solution key
• Nov 8th, 2003: Programming Assignment #1 - Due date: Saturday December 13th, 2003

Quizzes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Sept 17th, 2003
• Quiz02: Sept 25th, 2003
• Quiz03: October 4th, 2003
• Major1: October 17th, 2003 - stats for results are available here
• Quiz04: November 3rd, 2003
• Quiz05: after the break - refer to Assignment 2 for solution key.
• Major 2:  Dec 11th, 2003
• Quiz07: Dec 24th, 2003

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Announcements:

• Week of Sept 20th, 2003 - Quiz #1
• Normal Saturday Classes will be held on Thursday, September 25, 2003, (Rajab 28, 1424H)

Matlab Tutorial Material:

Basic information:

• University of Utah site - Matlab
• Indiana University - Getting Started with Matlab

More detailed material at:

• University of Florida - Matlab Summary and Tutorial
• Michigan Technological University - A practical Introduction to Matlab

The MathWorks website - The makers of Matlab

Links and Sites of Interest:

These will be in response to some key inquiries and interesting remarks made during the lectures. It would be advantageous to explore these sites and getting yourself familiar with these topics:

• A good introduction into  the DSL technology
• Introducing digital packet switching and other derived technologies
• IP addresses:  IP101 (IP Addresses and Classes) - Static versus Dynamic Addresses
• Slides explaining  TV Technology
• The  NTSC video signal composition and timing
• DSL forum website - all you want to know about DSL/ADSL technology

Page still under construction - Last updated on 01/14/2004 .