TCOM 502-001 Wide Area Networks and
Internet (1.5) Instructor
Dr. Qiang Lin Office
Room 235, Science & Technology II E-mail
qiang.lin@saic.com Telephone
(703) 676-0028 Time and Place Monday 7:20 PM – 10:00
PM,EH 278. Office Hours After class or by
appointment. Required Textbook B.A. Forouzan, Data
Communications and Networking, 4th, Slides There is a course web site for posting slides and homework
assignments, which is at: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/. Sign in is required to access the contents in the briefcase.
Please do not remove anything from the briefcase or change the file
permissions.. Homework Will be assigned every Monday and is due the following week's
class unless specified differently. Although the homework can be turned in later
time without penalty if the student gets my permission, there will be 20%
penalty on turning in more than TWO homeworks on the
final exam date. Exams
There will be one mid-term exam and one final exam for this
course. The mid-term exam will cover the contents taught before the mid-term
exam. The final exam will cover the contents taught after the mid-term exam and
before the final exam. The precise dates for the exams will be listed below.
Project
There will be no projects for this course due to the
extensive materials covered and the time constraint. Final Grade
The final grade will be determined from the combined scores
of homework, mid-term exam, and final exam as follows: ·
Homework 20% ·
Mid-term Exam 40% ·
Final Exam 40% Course Outline Mar 24,
Monday: Network Layer 1.
Mar 31, Monday: Network Layer 2 and Process-to-Process
Delivery. Apr 14, Monday:
QoS, DNS, Email. Apr 21, Monday:
WWW, SNMP and Multimedia. Apr 28,
Monday: Security. May 5, Monday: Final Exam
Mar 17, Monday: SONET/SDH, Frame Relay
and ATM. Reading: Chapters 17 and 18
Apr 7, Monday: Mid-term Exam