Data Communications; Networks; the Internet; Protocols and Standards; Layered tasks; The OSI Model and the layers in the OSI model; TCP / IP Protocol Suite.
Analog and digital signals; Transmission impairment; Data rate limits; Performance; Digital-to-Digital conversion; Analog-to-Digital conversion; Transmission modes.
Digital - to - Analog conversion; Analog - to - Analog conversion; Multiplexing; Spread spectrum.
Twisted pair cable, Coaxial cable, Fibre-Optic cable, Radio waves, Microwaves, Infrared. Introduction to error detection / correction; Block coding; Linear block codes; Cyclic codes, Checksum.
Framing; Flow and Error control; Protocols; Noiseless channels; Noisy channels; HDLC; Point-to-point Protocol - framing, transition phases.
Random Access; Controlled Access; Channelization. Ethernet:IEEE standards; Standard Ethernet and changes in the standard; Fast Ethernet; Gigabit Ethernet.
IEE 802.11; Bluetooth. Connecting devices; Backbone Networks; Virtual LANs.
Cellular telephony; SONET / SDH: Architecture, Layers, Frames; STS multiplexing. ATM: Design goals, problems, architecture, switching, layers.