Course Number: CMSC 137
Course Title: Data Communications and Networking
Description: Basic principles of data communications; design issues and protocols in the layers of data network; networks for various applications.
Prerequisites: CMSC 125
Lecture: [Section AB, 8-9 WF, ICS LH 3]
[Section CD, 11-12 WF, ICS LH 3]
Lecture:
Joseph Anthony C. Hermocilla(jchermocilla@up.edu.ph)[Section CD]
PhySci C122a
Rozano S. Maniaol (rsmaniaol@up.edu.ph)[Section AB]
PhySci C122a
Laboratory:
Joman Emmanuel I. Encinas ()
PhySci C112
Dyanara Dela Rosa ()
PhySci C114
Kristine Bernadette Pelaez ()
PhySci C116
Marie Betel B. de Robles ()
PhySci C118
Student Assistant:
John Rommel B. de Robles (Section CD)
The aim of this course is to introduce students to data communications and networking concepts.
At the end of this course the students should be able to:
| 3 Lecture Exams (departmental) | 45% |
| Quizzes | 10% |
| Laboratory Exercises | 30% |
| Laboratory Project | 15% |
| Prefinal Total | 100% |
| Final Grade between | Numeric Equivalent | |
| 0 | 54.99 | 5.0 |
| 55.00 | 59.99 | 3.0 |
| 60.00 | 64.99 | 2.75 |
| 65.00 | 69.99 | 2.5 |
| 70.00 | 74.99 | 2.25 |
| 75.00 | 79.99 | 2.0 |
| 80.00 | 84.99 | 1.75 |
| 85.00 | 89.99 | 1.5 |
| 90.00 | 94.99 | 1.25 |
| 95.00 | 100 | 1.0 |
| Lec | Date | Topic | Readings | Slides |
| 1 | 08/02/17 W | Introduction | ||
| 2 | 08/04/17 F | Metropolitan Area Network | FOR Ch. 1 | RSM,JACH |
| 3 | 08/09/17 W | Internet Standards | ||
| 4 | 08/11/17 F | Open System Interconnect(OSI) model | FOR Ch. 2 | RSM,JACH |
| 5 | 08/16/17 W | TCP/IP Protocol Suite | ||
| 6 | 08/18/17 F | Analog Signals | FOR Ch. 3 | JACH |
| 7 | 08/23/17 W | Network Performance | ||
| 8 | 08/25/17 F | Digital-to-Digital Conversion: HDB3 | FOR Ch. 4 | JACH |
| 9 | 08/30/17 W | Transmission Modes | ||
| 10 | 09/01/17 F | (no meeting) | ||
| 11 | 09/06/17 W | Phase Modulation | FOR Ch. 5 | JACH |
| 12 | 09/08/17 F | Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum | FOR Ch. 6 | JACH |
| 13 | 09/13/17 W | (no classes) | ||
| 14 | 09/15/17 F | (no meeting) | ||
| 15 | 09/20/17 W | Exam 1 | ||
| 16 | 09/22/17 F | Infrared Transmission | FOR Ch. 7 | JACH |
| 17 | 09/27/17 W | Crossbar Switch | FOR Ch. 8 | JACH |
| 18 | 09/29/17 F | Checksum | FOR Ch. 10 | JACH |
| 19 | 10/04/17 W | Go-Back-N ARQ | FOR Ch. 11 | JACH |
| 20 | 10/06/17 F | PPP | ||
| 21 | 10/11/17 W | CSMA/CA | FOR Ch. 12 | JACH |
| 22 | 10/13/17 F | CDMA | ||
| 23 | 10/18/17 W | (no meeting) | ||
| 24 | 10/20/17 F | Exam 2 | ||
| 25 | 10/25/17 W | Wired LANs | FOR Ch. 13 | JACH |
| 26 | 10/27/17 F | Wireless LANs | FOR Ch. 14 | JACH |
| 27 | 11/01/17 W | (no class) | ||
| 28 | 11/03/17 F | IPv6 Addresses | RSM | |
| 29 | 11/08/17 W | IPv6 Deployment | RSM | |
| 30 | 11/10/17 F | (no meeting) | ||
| 31 | 11/15/17 W | Routing | FOR Ch. 22 | RSM |
| 32 | 11/17/17 F | STCP | FOR Ch. 23 | RSM |
| 33 | 11/22/17 W | Guest Lecture | ||
| 34 | 11/24/17 F | Exam 3 | ||
| 35 | 11/28/17 W | |||
| 36 | 12/01/17 F |
| Lab | Date | Topic | Handout |
| 1 | Introduction | ||
| 2 | Cabling and Wiring | ||
| 3 | Configuring Linux for TCP/IP Networking | ||
| 4 | IP Routing | ||
| 5 | Subnet Calculations | ||
| 6 | DNS Server Configuration | ||
| 7 | GNU Privacy Guard and SSH | ||
| 8 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | ||
| 9 | Analyzing Network Packets with Wireshark | ||
| 10 | (Extra topic 1) | ||
| 11 | (Extra topic 2) | ||
| 12 | Project | ||
| 13 | Project | ||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | |||
| 16 |
java -jar netsim-3.0.jar
Attendance will be checked every meeting. Students with
seven(7) or more absences in the lecture or four(4) or more absences
in the lab will be automatically dropped from the course.
There will be a closed door policy, 11:15am.
No makeup will be given to missed quizzes and assignments. Makeup exam will be given only to those who can provide a valid excuse slip.
Students caught cheating will automatically get a grade of 5.0 for the course.