MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

6.263/16.37 Data Communications Networks Fall, 2001

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Tentative course syllabus

# Day Date Topic Lecturer

L1 Th 9/6 Introduction, OSI 7-layer architecture

L2 T 9/11 Data Link Layers, Framing, error detection

L3 Th 9/13 Retransmission Algorithms

L4 T 9/18 Retransmission Algorithms

L5 Th 9/20 Queueing Models - Introduction & Little's theorem

L6 T 9/25 M/M/1, M/M/m, queues etc.

L7 Th 9/27 Networks of queues

L8 T 10/2 M/G/1 queues, M/G/1 w/ vacations

L9 Th 10/4 M/G/1 queues and reservations, priority queues

T 10/9 No class (Columbus Day)

L10 Th 10/11 Stability of queueing systems

L11 T 10/16 M/G/1 queue occupancy distribution

L12 Th 10/18 Quiz

L13 T 10/23 Multiple access & Aloha

L14 Th 10/25 Stabilized Aloha, Tree Algorithms

L15 T 10/30 CSMA, CSMA/CD and Ethernet

L16 Th 11/1 High-speed LANs, Token rings, Satellite reservations

L17 T 11/6 Introduction to switch architecture

L18 Th 11/8 High Speed Switch Scheduling

L19 T 11/13 Broadcast routing & Spanning trees

L20 Th 11/15 Shortest path routing

L21 T 11/20 Distributed routing algorithms, optimal routing

Th 11/22 no class (Thanksgiving)

L22 T 11/27 Flow Control - Window/Credit Schemes

L23 Th 11/29 Flow Control - Rate Based Schemes

L24 T 12/4 Transport layer and TCP/IP

L25 Th 12/6 ATM Networks

L26 T 12/11 Special topic: Optical Networks, Wireless networks

Final Exam: During finals week