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Digital Communication

Lecturer: Professor I.M. Leslie (iml@cl.cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures: 12

This course is a prerequisite for Distributed Systems.

Aims

The aims of this course are to develop an understanding of communications networks from a wide perspective, within a framework of principles rather than technologies or architectures. Technologies and architectures will, however, be used as examples and motivation.

Lectures

Objectives

At the end of the course students should

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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