Spring 2010, ICE 3025-44
Stephen Kim, Ph.D.
 March 3rd – June 11th, 2010
 Wednesday and Friday 1:30-2:45 pm
 Room 21110
 In general, there are details about low level protocols and
standards including the related technologies in the data
communication fields. So, it covers all the standard topics
found in a typical introductory course in data
communication such as transmission media, analog and
digital signals, data transmissions, multiplexing. This
course is designed to help the student understand:
 concepts of data communications,
 the differences, advantage, and disadvantages of different
transmission media,
 analog and digital signals, modulation and demodulation
techniques, and
 the need for error detection and correction.
 Dongsoo Stephen Kim, Ph.D.
 Associate Professor at Indiana University
 Visiting/Research Professor at SKKU
 Contact
 Room 83345, Research Center II
 dskim@iupui.edu or dongsoo.s.kim@gmail.com
 (031)299-4642
 www.ece.iupui.edu/~dskim/
 Moonsik Choi
 Office Hour
 TBA
 Contact
 Email:
 M.P.:
cmszzang@skku.edu
010-4118-4172
 Behrouz A. Forouzan,
“Data Communications
and Networking (4th
ed.),” McGraw-Hill
Higher Education,
January 2007, ISBN#
007-125442-0
 W. Richard Stevens ,
“TCP/IP Illustrated,
Volume 1: The Protocols”,
1994, Addison-Wesley.
 Exams
 Homework/Quiz
 Attendance
 Projects
40%
25%
10%
25%
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Assignment and late submission
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Exams
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You MUST have a computer access offered by the School or your own PC.
Plagiarism
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All exams are closed-book, closed-notes, and comprehensive to cover the material up to
the point mentioned one week prior to the exam date.
Computer use
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Assignments must be submitted at the beginning of the class on the due date.
Late submissions will be accepted with 10% penalty per day up to 3 days.
After those 3 days, a late submission will not be accepted.
It is strongly recommended to discuss the class subjects with peers.
All submission in this class must be done individually.
Anyone who copies other’s work and whose work to be copied will receive no credit for the
submission.
Group project
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The projects are group effort, but will be evaluated individually.
Students will form a group of 5 persons.
Each group submits one copy of the project report.
Each member must complete a “Peer Rating” form and submit it to the instructor
confidentially.
 Overview and introduction to communication networks and their topology
 ISO/OSI 7-layer reference model, protocols and services
 Digital transmission and media, Nyquist theorem, and Shannon capacity
 Line coding and decoding, transmission media: guided vs. unguided
 Switching networks, circuit-switched, packet switching, switch architecture.
 Error detection and correction, framing, ARQ, flow control,
 multiple access, local area network, wireless LAN
 SONET, WDM and circuit switching
 Addressing, Internet Protocol Suite, routing
 Congestion control and QOS
 Internet applications
 Advanced topics