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Digital Communication I

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

No. of lectures: 12

This course is a prerequisite for Digital Communication II (Part II), Distributed Systems (Part II) and Security (Part II).


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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Christine Northeast
Mon Sep 20 10:28:43 BST 1999