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Digital Communication II

Lecturer: Dr I.A. Pratt (ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures + examples classes: 12 + 4

Prerequisite course: Digital Communication I

This course is a prerequisite for Security (Part II).


Aims


This course aims to provide a detailed understanding of how computer networks operate, and to present the issues which are involved in building such systems. It also hopes to cover a selection of topics which relate to recent trends in digital communications systems.


Lectures


Objectives


At the end of the course students should be able to


Recommended books


Comer, D. & Stevens, D. (1995). Internetworking with TCP-IP, vol. 1 and 2. Prentice-Hall (3rd ed.).
Halsall, F. (1992). Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems. Addison-Wesley (3rd ed.).
Schwartz, M. (1987). Telecommunication Networks: Protocols, Modeling and Analysis. Addison-Wesley.



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