Advanced Data Communications

Goals: to provide the computer science and engineering science students with the basic understanding and  knowledge in  LAN, WAN  and Data Communications; to provide the ability to work with LAN.  

Course Outlines

        Local area networks:

Components of a LAN:   workstations, disk and file servers, print servers, database  server, LAN hardware, LAN adapters, LAN media, LAN Operating Systems, LAN Security, LAN administrating.

           Network topologies:    Ring, Bus, Star, Token Bus, Star-Wired LANs.

            Media Access Methods:   Token Passing, CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA.

           Network interconnectivity:  Repeaters, Routers, Gateways, Backbones.

           General characteristics of the following LANs:   Novell NetWare, NetWare Lite, LAN Manager, LAN Server, LANtastic, POWERLAN, WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 95/98, UNIX LAN.

        Protocol basics:   

           Communication protocols: OSI Model. Low-Level Protocols. Ethernet Token

          Ring. Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI). TCP/IP. Physical Layer Protocols. Data Link and  Network Layer Protocols. Mid-Level Protocols. Transport Protocols. Wide area networks.

           Internet and Intranet.

           Integrated Services Digital Networks. 

           Asynchronous Transfer Mode ( ATM).

           Circuit Switching.

           Packet Switching.  

                    Text book: "Data Communication, Computers Networks and Open Systems", by Fred Halsall, ADDISON WESLEY.

            Coordinator:  Dr. Anatoliy S. Gordonov.