Instructor: Dr. Richard J. Nieporent


This course provides a detailed examination of the OSI architecture for wired and wireless Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, the technology used for the development of LANs and MANs and the methods used for implementing LAN and MAN-based enterprise internetworks. The topology, transmission media, and transmission properties of LANs and MANs are described. The basic IEEE physical and data link layer LAN protocol standards for contention bus, token bus and token ring LANs are analyzed in detail and the bridging, routing and switching techniques used for internetworking these LANs are examined. The Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet LAN standards are studied. The very high speed 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet and the ring-based Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) and Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) MAN standards are examined. The wireless 802.11 WiFi LAN standard and the 802.15.1 Bluetooth and 802.15.4 Zigbee PAN standards are analyzed. Finally, the 802.16 fixed WiMAX wireless MAN and the 802.16e Mobile WiMAX standards are reviewed. Topics include Manchester, Differential Manchester, NRZI, 4B/5B, MLT3, 5B6B, 8B6T, OFDM and OFDMA encoding techniques; bus, star, and ring topologies; optical fiber, coaxial cable, and twisted wire media; baseband, broadband LANs and VLANs; bridges, routers, switches and the spanning tree and source routing protocols; CSMA/CA wireless access control and the 802.11i security protocol.

Fall 2012

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