HY335b: Computer Networks (website)
This course covers the basic principles and technologies of computer networks. Its contents include: Introduction to communications networks and the services they offer. Design principles, layered architecture, information transmission, switching, mutliplexing. The OSI model and the Internet model. Physical layer: signal propagation, optical transmission, synchronization and framing, digitization of information. Data link layer: protocols, alternating bit protocol, go-back-N, selective repeat, examples. Local area networks: ALOHA, Ethernet, token ring, FDDI, DQDB. Network layer: naming and addressing, IP routing, address resolution, congestion control, network design, examples. Transport, session, presentation and application layers: TCP, session establishment, syntax conversion, main applications.