Wired and Wireless Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Course

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 high speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet and the ring-based Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) and Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) MAN standards are examined. Wireless LAN standards are analyzed including 802.11 WiFi, 802.15.1 Bluetooth and 802.15.4 Zigbee. 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 algorithms.

Fall 2009

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Standards Organizations

IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) standards organization responsible for the development of IEEE 802.X LAN standards
- IEEE 802 standards - The IEEE 802 LAN and MAN standards documents
IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the standards organization responsible for the development of TCP/IP standards
- RFCs - The complete set of Internet standards documents
- IANA - All of the numbers and parameters that have been assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority such as port numbers, Ethertypes, IP protocol numbers, etc.
ISO - The International Standards Institute (ISO) is the standards organization responsible for the development of OSI standards
ITU-T - The International Telecommunication Union Telecommuniction Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is the standards organization responsible for the development of X (data communications) and I (ISDN) standards
ETSI - The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ITU-T) develops standards for the European community
ANSI - The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is the US representative to ISO that is responsible for the US contribution to the development of OSI standards

Vendor Organizations

10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance - A consortium of organizations promoting the use and availability of Ethernet ranging from Fast Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
WiMAX Forum - A consortium of organizations to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standard
WiFi Alliance - A consortium of organizations devoted to the proliferation of Wi-Fi technology across devices and market segments
Bluetooth SIG - A consortium of organizations interested in the development and promotion of the Bluetooth technology
ZigBee Alliance - A consortium of organizations interested in the development of low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard
Broadband Forum - A consortium of organizations interested in the development of Broadband networks
The World Wide Web Consortium - A consortium of organizations developing standards for the World Wide Web (WWW)

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Instructor: Dr. Richard J. Nieporent

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