Resources

• Textbook resource website, including errata, for Shaw, 3rd edition.
• An interactive demonstration of the Fourier transform.
• A description (PDF) of parity checks and checksums.
  (This is a chapter from a book being written by Peter Fenwick.)
• An introduction (PDF) to Information Theory.
  (These are notes from lectures that Peter Fenwick gave some years ago.)
• The coding applet to demonstrate data coding and transmission
• The Ethernet Simulator applet
• Notes on logarithms (and a few other things as well...).
• the handout on Ethernet and Spread Spectrum
• a handout from earlier years on 802.2 LANs.
• a handout on IEEE802.2 (PDF), describing Service Access Points, SNAP headers, carrying other protocols, and so on.
• Handout on Virtual Circuits (PDF), explaining some of the terms and how Virtual Circuits are constructed.
• Handout on Units (PDF), explaining how big and how small, and how long lots of things take to happen.
• The foils from a seminar (in PDF format) given here at Auckland by Bob Fink, one of the leaders in the design and implementation of IPv6. There is far more here than is necessary; you need know only what is in the text, but this may help some people.
• A discussion of Ethernet number conventions and formats, extracted from RFC 1340 "Assigned Numbers".