Data Communications and Telecommunication Networks

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Enforced requisite: course 131A. Layered communications architectures. Queueing system modeling and analysis. Error control, flow and congestion control. Packet switching, circuit switching, and routing. Network performance analysis and design. Multiple-access communications: TDMA, FDMA, polling, random access. Local, metropolitan, wide area, integrated services networks. Letter grading.

Review Summary

Clarity
8.3 / 10
Organization
8.3 / 10
Time
0-5 hrs/week
Overall
8.3 / 10

Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2022 In-Person
    Grade: A

    The material up to the midterm can be pretty dry but the midterm was not that bad if you went to the recitations/discussions and the TA's review session. After the midterm, the focus is queuing systems which make up the majority of the final. Go to the recitations/discussions and ask the TA for help and you'll do just fine.

Course

Instructor
Izhak Rubin
Previously taught
25W 23F 22F 21F 20F 19F 18F 18W
Formerly offered as
EL ENGR 132B

Grading Information

  • No group projects

  • Attendance required

  • 1 midterm

  • Finals week final

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