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Digital Communication

Lecturer: Professor I.M. Leslie

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


* Peterson, L.L. & Davie, B.S. (2003). Computer networks: a systems approach. Morgan Kaufmann (3rd ed.).
Comer, D. & Stevens, D. (1995). Internetworking with TCP-IP, vol. 1 and 2. Prentice-Hall (3rd ed.).
Schwartz, M. (1987). Telecommunication networks: protocols, modeling and analysis. Addison-Wesley.



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