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CRN | 10435 |
Course Number | ECEC-631 |
Section Number | 501 |
Credits | 3.0 |
Time | Thursdays 6pm - 8:50pm |
Room | Curtis 451 |
Instructor | Steven Weber |
Restrictions | graduate standing |
Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Principles of circuit switching, packet switching and virtual circuits; protocol layering; application layer protocols for e-mail and web applications; naming and addressing; flow control and congestion avoidance with TCP; Internet Protocol (IP); routing algorithms; router architectures; multicast protocols; local area network technologies and protocols; issues in multimedia transmissions; scheduling and policing; Quality-of-Service and emerging Internet service architectures; principles of cryptography.
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Primary text (required) | |
Title | Communication Networking : An Analytical Approach | |
Authors | Anurag Kumar, D. Janjunath, and Joy Kuri | |
Publisher | Morgan Kaufmann | |
ISBN | 0124287514 | |
Edition | 1st |
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Supplemental text (optional) | |
Title | Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering | |
Author | Albert Leon-Garcia | |
Publisher | Prentice-Hall | |
ISBN | 020150037X | |
Edition | 2nd |
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Supplemental text (optional) | |
Title | Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet | |
Author | James Kurose and Keith Ross | |
Publisher | Pearson Addison Wesley | |
ISBN | 0201976994 | |
Edition | 2nd |
A couple of comments on the textbooks:
Homework (one problem set per week) | 30% |
Midterm Exam (comprehensive) | 30% |
Final Exam (comprehensive) | 40% |
Makeup exams are only available if you are unable to attend due to a severe health problem or a death in your family. Homeworks are due at the beginning of class, one week following the class in which they were assigned. Late homeworks will not be accepted.
In accordance with Drexel University policy, any student with a documented disability who needs accommodations is encouraged to contact the Office of Disability Services (215-895-1401) or speak directly to the professor for further information about this office. Students must register with the Office of Disability Services and receive an Accommodation Verification Form prior to receiving accommodations. Contact with the Office of Disability Services is strictly confidential. Please make contact as early in the term as possible in order to receive timely accommodations.
All students sitting in the classroom during the class must be registered for the course and on the class list supplied to the instructor for the second class. Any student not on the list at that time will be asked to leave until proper registration is obtained.
The Drexel University policy on academic dishonesty may be found here and will be strictly enforced. Plagiarism, fabrication, and cheating will, at the discretion of the instructor, constitute grounds for failure of the course.
Please read the assigned materials for the lecture before the class in which it is covered.
Class | Date | Material | Homework |
1 | 9/30 |
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2 | 10/7 |
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3 | 10/14 |
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4 | 10/21 |
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5 | 10/28 | Midterm Exam |
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6 | 11/4 |
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7 | 11/11 |
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8 | 11/18 |
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11/25 | Thanksgiving Holiday (no class) | ||
9 | 12/2 |
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10 | 12/9 |
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11 | 12/16 | Final Exam |