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Data Communications Fundamentals

COMPSCI 314 S2 T

Prerequisites	COMPSCI 210 and COMPSCI 215.
Assessment	Final Exam 70%; Test 15%; Assignments 15%  (Passes required in both practical and written work)
Lecturers	Assoc Prof Nevil Brownlee (Room 590) Prof Clark Thomborson (Room 593) Prof Cristian S. Calude (Room 575) Dr Brian Carpenter (Room 587)
Tutor	DongJin Lee
Class Representative	Benny Chan
Time & Location	Tue, Thu 4:30 pm,  731-201          Fri 3:30 pm,  731-201
Recommended Text	William A. Shay, "Understanding Data Communications and Networks," Thomson*Brooks/Cole (3rd Edition) Last year's text – F. Halsall, "Computer Networking and the Internet," Addison-Wesley, (5th Edition) – should also be suitable   The course is mostly based on the text; you should plan to read the sections from it that are covered in the course. Note, however, that other material (e.g. Skype, Powerline Communications) is not covered in the text – suitable web references for such material will be given in lectures.
Description	The fundamentals of data communications and computer networks, concentrating on the OSI model up to and including the Transport Layer (Level 4). It includes Local Area Networks, Internet Protocols (TCP/IP) and applications such as Email and Voice over IP.
Contents	The course will be based on the textbook, i.e. lectures (and lecture handouts) are aimed at directing students to the relevant sections of the textbook. Some sections of the textbook are not covered in the course. The course outline (below) lists the sections that are most likely to be covered. Expected topics include: physical transmission techniques and coding, data security and integrity, protocols, local area networks, wide area networks, routing, Internet applications Part 1: Signals, Codes, Compression, Integrity, Skype, and Powerline Communications will be presented by Cris Calude

You may look at the Archive section to see material from earlier years. 

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Office Hours and Contacts

DongJin's office hours are Wed 3-5 pm, room 596.

Nevil Brownlee does not have formal "Office Hours," preferring to have an open door policy, room 303.590, so that students can see him whenever they desire, from about 10am to 4.30pm. If the time is inconvenient he may ask you to come back later, or perhaps make an appointment.

Cris Calude prefers email communication.

Clark Thomborson's office hours are Mon 2-3pm and Wed 3-4pm, in room 303.593.  You may ask him very short questions at other times, but he prefers to work by email.

Brian Carpenter joined the Department early in September 2007. Glad to answer email questions. Informal office hours, between 10am and 4pm most days in room 303.587 (morning is better, as he is actively house-hunting and often has to be out after lunch at the moment).

We are unlikely to answer email from home, so do not expect responses during the evening.

All email messages must include the class "catalogue" number (314) and your student ID number.

Messages which do not not include this information will be treated as spam.
This applies especially to those from an address such as "happy653@yahoo.com"

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Cheating and Plagiarism

The Department of Computer Science has instituted a general policy on cheating and plagiarism.
Briefly, if we detect material in assignments or projects that appears to be copied from elsewhere,
we will give zero marks for that assignment or project.
Appeals must be in writing to the Head of Department (not to the lecturer).
You may read the official statement of the Departmental policy.

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Exam and Test Information

Exam Date: Monday 29 October 2007 at Tamaki
Time: 9.15 - 11.30 am

Test Date: Friday, 14 September 2007
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm (i.e., usual lecture time)
Surnames   A-H: room 731-201
Surnames    I-Z: room 732-201

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Timetable for 2007

This table represents a first estimate of topics to be covered throughout the lectures, together with assignment and test dates. All details are subject to change.

• Lectures are at 4:30-5:30 on Tusdays and Thursdays, and on Fridays at 3:30-4:30 pm, in lecture theatre 731-201
• The dates are the start of each week, with all assignments due on Wednesdays, exact details to be arranged.
• While this is the general plan of the allocation of topics to each lecture,
  the division and allocation of material is by no means guaranteed.

Topics may very well move slightly as the course develops.
The numbers at the start of each lecture entry are just the sequential numbers of the lectures.
For each lecture, the textbook sections we expect to cover are shown after the lecture title.

Week Starting	Tuesday	Thursday	Friday	Assessment
16 July	1 Introduction	— No Lecture —	2 Signals
23 July	3 Codes	4 Analog & Digital	5 Analog & Digital
30 July	6 Compression	7 Compression	8 Data Integrity
6 August	9 Data Integrity	10 Skype	11 Powerline	Ass 1 due    Sat 11, Aug
13 August	12 Flow Control	13 Flow Control	14 LAN: link control
20 August	15 Ethernet	16 Ethernet	17 Wireless 802.11
26 August	— Mid Semester Break —
3 September	— Mid Semester Break —
9 September	18 Encryption	19 Authentication	— No Lecture —	TEST:  3:30 pm    Fri 14 Sep
16 September	20 Bridges	21 Switches	— No Lecture —	Ass 2 due    Mon, 17 Sep
23 September	22 Routing	23 Routing	24 IPv4 basics
30 September	25 IPv4 continued:      DHCP, ARP, DNS	26 IPv6	27 TCP
7 October	28 UDP, Sockets	29 SSH, FTP,      SMTP, SNMP	30 HTTP, the Web
14 October	31 Internet overview,      questions	— No Lecture —	— No Lecture —
21 October	No lectures - just lots of time to study			Ass 3 due    9am Mon, 22 Oct