Online Courses Handbook 2003

5687 (v.5) Networking Systems 603

Area:	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11341 (v.3) Stochastic Processes for Telecommunications Systems 601 or any previous version
Introduction to data and computer communication networks - network architectures, protocol, hierarchies. OSI Reference Model - Point to Point protocols and links, error detection, Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) strategies - the network layer - multi access networks, local and metropolitan area networks (LANs and MANs) - Queueing theory and performance modelling of data networks.