Click on the date to get lecture topics and reading and homework assignments.  The exam dates are fixed but the lecture topics may be modified during the semester.

• Tuesday, Aug 27, 2002   "Introduction to CprE 489, networks and services, definitions"
• Thursday, Aug 29, 2002   "Networks, packets, switching, services, access technologies, security"
• Tuesday, Sep 3, 2002   "Protocols, services, access technologies, control and data, network issues, routing and traffic control"
• Test-Out Information
• Thursday, Sep 5, 2002   "Switching, Network layering, HTTPd"
• Tuesday, Sep 10, 2002   "Connection topologies, layered architectures, daemons, TCP data pipe, OSI reference model"
• Thursday, Sep 12, 2002  "EMAIL, sequence diagram, OSI model, TCP/IP reference model"
• Tuesday, Sep 17, 2002   "OSI model, how layers cooperate, TCP/IP"
• Thursday, Sep 19, 2002    "Exam #1: (STUDY GUIDE-1)   (Exam-1 Sample Test)"
• Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002  "Layer concepts, campus network model, connection issues"
• Thursday, Sep 26, 2002   "Quality of Service, efficiency, technology dependence, Peer-to-Peer protocols, Adapdation functions"
• Tuesday, Oct 1, 2002  "Service model, connection-connectionless, flow control, ARQ protocols"
• Thursday, Oct 3, 2002   "Class Cancelled - Business Trip"
• Tuesday, Oct 8, 2002   "Homework hints, ARQ Protocols, Sliding Window Protocols"
• Thursday, Oct 10, 2002   "Go-back-N ARQ, Selective Repeat ARQ, transmission efficiency"
• Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002    "Exam #2: (STUDY GUIDE-2)"
• Thursday, Oct 17, 2002  "Network Address Translator"
• Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002   "ARQ: go-back-N, selective repeat, ARQ transmission efficiency"
• Thursday, Oct 24, 2002  "Frame Synchronization, bit stuffing, PPP, network access types"
• Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002   "Multiple access communications, Medium access control (MAC)"
• Thursday, Oct 31, 2002   "MAC protocols, CSMA, Scheduling methods "
• Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002    "Random access, Scheduling, Channelization"
• Thursday, Nov 7, 2002   "Channelization, TDMA, FDMA, Hybrid, SDMA, CDMA"
• Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002   "Exam #3: (STUDY GUIDE-3)"
• Thursday, Nov 14, 2002   "CDMA Concepts"
• Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002   "Lan Standards, Frames: Ethernet, IEEE 802.5 MAC, Token Ring, FDDI"
• Thursday, Nov 21, 2002   "Wireless LAN, AD-HOC Networks, IEEE 802.11"
• NOVEMBER 25-29 THANKGIVING BREAK
• PDF for Problem 6-45
• The Decibel
• Tuesday, Dec 3, 2002   "Physical Layer, SNR, Shannon Theorem, Baud, BPS, signal attenuation"
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• Berkeley API sockets programming (Sockets Tutorial PDF file)
• Thursday, Dec 5, 2002   "TCP/IP, Physical Layer"
• Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002   "Physical Layer, class evaluations"
• Thursday, Dec 12, 2002   "Physical Layer, Wireless Network Security Tutorial"
• DECEMBER 16-20, 2002 FINALS WEEK
• Final Exam is Exam #4: (STUDY GUIDE-4)"on 9:45-11:45 AM, TUESDAY, DEC 17 in our usual classroom
• Final Exam info from ISU web: http://www.iastate.edu/~registrar/exams/examinfo.html
• Final Exam schedule from ISU web: http://www.iastate.edu/~registrar/exams/exsched.html