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Digital Communication I

Lecturer: Dr A.W. Moore

No. of lectures: 12

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

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 reading

* Peterson, L.L. & Davie, B.S. (2007). Computer networks: a systems approach. Morgan Kaufmann (4th ed.).
Comer, D. & Stevens, D. (2005). Internetworking with TCP-IP, vol. 1 and 2. Prentice Hall (5th ed.).
Schwartz, M. (1987). Telecommunication networks: protocols, modeling and analysis. Addison-Wesley.



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