635.411 Foundations of Networking and Telecommunications

Spring 2002

John E. Boon, Jr.

Lecturer in the Whiting School Part-Time Programs In Engineering and Applied Science

Johns Hopkins University

NEWS ITEMS (May 12, 2002)

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Syllabus:

	Class Day/Time	:  Tuesday 5:00-8:00pm
	Office Hours	:  TBD

Text Book:

• Telecommunications Primer: Data, Voice and Video Communications, Second Edition, E. Bryan Carne, Prentice Hall, PTR, 1999 (ISBN: 0-13-022155-4)

Semester Lectures

1. Lecture 01 - Introduction/Data Communications and Telecommunication Stds
2. Lecture 02 - Distance Communication/Collaboration no posted electronic notes
3. Lecture 03 - Meeting this week cancelled
4. Lecture 04 - Baseband Signals (Foundations)
   • Periodic Functions
   • Harmonics
5. Lecture 05 - Baseband Signals (Noise, Voice, TV)
   • Compression 101 from dbx Professional Products
6. Lecture 06 - Modulated Signals
   • Modulation examples based on book example
7. Lecture 07 - Meeting this week cancelled
8. Lecture 08 - Transmission Over Distance; Multiplexed Signals and Their Carriers
   • Queueing summary notes
   • Solitons in optical cables
   • Intelsat
   • Inmarsat coverage map
   • Ellipso architecture overview
   • ICO system description
   • Globalstar coverage map
   • Iridium
   • Teledesic
   • PSpice 9.1 Student Demo Version
9. Lecture (Spring Break Makeup Day) - Signal Carriers and Data Communication
   • LZW Data Compression, Mark Nelson, Dr. Dobbs October 1989
   • LZW Revisited, Shawn Reban, Dr. Dobbs June 1990
   • File Verification Using CRC: 32-bit cyclical redundancy check, Mark Nelson, Dr. Dobbs May 1992
   • Flecther's Checksum: Error correction at a fraction of the cost, John Kodis, Dr. Dobbs May 1992
10. Lecture 9 - OSI Protocol Stack
    • TINA-C
    • HP OpenView Integrated Services Management Overview
11. Lecture 10 - Transfer Modes
    • Paul Baran's RAND Publications in the "On Distributed Communications" Series. "Baran conceived of the Internet and digital packet switching, the Internet's underlying data communications technology. His concepts are still employed today; just the terms are different."
    • BBN Info on early participation in ARPANET
    • SRI Info on early participation in ARPANET
    • History of the Internet 1962-1992 The Computer Museum History Center
    • Packet Radio From an Amateur Radio perspective
    • ATM Hot Links: White papers and links.
    • ATM Forum: Leading the effort to expand the functionality of ATM networks.
    • Cell Relay Retreat: Contains archives of the cell-relay mailing list, links to numerous ATM-related documents, and links to many ATM-related web sites.
    • Frame Relay Forum: The Frame Relay Forum is leading the effort to expand the functionality of frame relay networks.
12. Lecture 11 - Wireless Networks
13. Lecture 12 - LANs, MANs, and Internet
    • 3Com Buyer's Guide
14. Lecture 13 - Enterprise Networks
    • Avaya
    • Lucent
    • Cisco AVVID
    • Siemens Information and Communication Networks
    • Siemens Enterprise Networks
15. Lecture 14 - Final Presentations

Semester Assignments

1. Research Project - Deadline in the document
2. HW 01 - Due 2/19 | Revised Feb 13
3. HW 02 - Due 2/26 | Revised Feb 19
4. HW 03 - Due 03/12
5. HW 04 - Due 04/02
6. HW 05 - Due 04/23

Semester Support Files and Tools

1. Postscript File Viewer: GSview for Windows.
2. Note Format this Semester is Acrobat pdf:
3. Citing Internet References
   • Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
   • MLA Style: Orders for the style manual may be made at this site.

Course-Specific Links

1. Ping/Traceroute Gateway at CMU
2. RFC Editor, an entryway into RFCs
3. Linux Documentation Project (See the Guides section for information related to this course (e.g., The Linux Users' Guide, The Linux Network Administrators' Guide, and The Linux Programmer's Guide)
4. Linux Online
5. 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
6. Ethernet Web Site, by Charles Spurgeon
7. Linux Network Drivers Page, by Donald Becker
8. The Universal Library: Numerical Recipes in C, The Art of Scientific Computing, Second Edition
9. Computer Security Resource Division (CRSC) at NIST. See especially Links to Academic Sites
10. RSA
11. Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center
12. Computer Networks and Internets, Third Edition, Douglas Comer, CD-ROM by Ralph Droms
13. Data and Computer Communications, Sixth Edition, William Stallings
14. T1.523-2001, American National Standard for Telecommunications - Telecom Glossary 2000, T1A1 Technical Subcommittee on Performance and Signal Processing
15. LEAP Forum Lightweight & Efficient Application Protocols (LEAP) Forum: LEAP: An Effective Alternative to WAP
16. whatis.com; source for definitions of terms
17. encyclopedia.com; source for definitions of terms
18. Paul Baran's RAND Publications in the "On Distributed Communications" Series. "Baran conceived of the Internet and digital packet switching, the Internet's underlying data communications technology. His concepts are still employed today; just the terms are different."
19. BBN Info on early participation in ARPANET
20. The "Original" PacketRadio Glossary of terms Buck Rogers K4ABT
21. Adam Back's home page with links to definitive sources of RSA in Perl
22. International PGP Home Page
23. Phillip Zimmerman's Crypto Bibliobraphy
24. RFC 2440 OpenPGP Message Format
25. OpenPGP Alliance
26. RSA Laboratories
27. Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Devision (CSD), Computer Security Resource Center, NIST
28. Kerberos
29. Sally Floyd's Home Page (Random Early Detection (RED))

JHU and Whiting School of Engineering Links

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