Course details
Data Communications, Computer Networks and Protocols
PDS Acad. year 2008/2009 Summer semester 5 credits
Coding for error detection and correction, error control. Bit and packet synchronization. Data-flow control. Multiple access control methods. Switching techniques. Switch architectures. Internet structures. Internet routing. Routing with multicast. Scheduling. Packet-error control. Flow control. Traffic management. Protocol engineering and formal specifications. Protocol implementation.
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Time span
- 39 hrs lectures
- 4 hrs exercises
- 2 hrs laboratories
- 7 hrs projects
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Understanding communication functions and their implementations in computer networks; being informed about related formal tools.
Understanding communication principles in current computer networks.
Learning objectives
Understand communication functions and their implementations in computer networks; be aware of related formal tools.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The sets, relations and mappings. The elementary notions of the graph theory. The elementary notions of communication protocols. Principles of Internet.
Syllabus of lectures
- Coding for error detection and correction, error control
- Bit and packet synchronization
- Multiple access
- Data-flow control
- Switching techniques
- Internet structures and multicasting
- Internet routing
- Multicast routing
- Scheduling
- Packet-error control
- Traffic management
- Protocol engineering and formal specifications
- Protocol implementation
Progress assessment
Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.
Requirements for class accreditation are not defined.
Teaching methods and criteria
Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
Controlled instruction
Mid-term exam, laboratory practice supported by project work, and final exam are the monitored, and points earning, education. Mid-term exam and laboratory practice are without correction eventuality. Final exam has two additional correction eventualities.
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