Section TY3
Class Meeting: 06:05 - 08:10pm, Tuesday
Classroom: 105 West End Building
Review Topics I (1 of 2)
The Structure of the Exam
- For all topics, you should be able to gain sufficient
competency so that you can complete all the homework questions
and exercises independently very well with confidence.
- Questions for the most part will resemble the exercises and homework assignment questions.
Sections in the Textbook
- Sections 1.1 – 1.6
- Sections 2.1 – 2.6
- Sections 3.1 – 3.6
Topics Covered
- Concepts of bandwidth, throughput, data rate, baud rate, and symbol rate
- Concepts of latency including propagation delay, transmit delay
- Application requirements
- Reference models (TCP/IP, OSI, and 5-layer model used in the textbook and the class)
- Peer and service interfaces
- Transmission media
- Maximum data rate of error-free/noiseless and noisy channels
- Concept of modulation, multiplexing, and switching
- Schemes of baseband transmission and passband transmission
- Error detection and correction
- Framing methods
- Elementary data link protocols and analysis
Exercises
- Exercises C02a-1 — C02a-2
- Exercises C05b-1 — C05b-3
- Exercises C06a-1 — C06a-3
- Exercise C07a-1
- Exercise C08a-1
Homework Assignment and Additional Questions
- Questions 3, 4 in Chapter 1
- Questions 2, 4, 8, 15, 16, 20, and 22 in Chapter 2
- (Some of questions, e.g., even or odd numbered) Questions 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 16, 17, 20, 27, 32 in Chapter 3