Data Communications – DCM 555
Professor: Ronald Liang
Office: A4018 Tel.: 416-491-5050 ext.22442
E-mail: ronald.liang@senecacollege.ca
September - December 2015 Schedule (Tentative)
(Revision 1.0, Sep. 7, 2015)
URL for course details/material: http://my.senecacollege.ca/
Modes of evaluation
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Quizzes (10%)
Term tests (30 %)
Labs (30 %)
Final exam (30 %)
TOTAL = 100 %
NOTE: Students must pass the lab portion to pass the course.
Prescribed Texts:
Title: Lecture Notes & Labs (posted on my.senecacollege.ca DCM site, previous DCM
students may have got them in a package from Seneca Bookstore)
Author: Prof. C. Rodgers
Reference Texts:
Title: Data Communications and Networking, 4th edition
Author: Behrouz Forouzan
Publisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-325032-8
ISBN-10: 0-07-325032-5
References:
Student Web Resource:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072967757/student_view0/
Week #1 (Sep 8 - 11, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 1 Overview to Data Communications and Networking
Chapters 1, 2
Lab: Lab Policy, Module 1 – Agilent Equipment Familiarization
Week #2 (Sep 14 - 18, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 2 Data and Signals
Chapter 3
Practice Exercise 1
- Quiz 1
Lab: Module 2 – RS-232 Serial Transmission
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Week #3 (Sep 21 - 25, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 2 Data and Signals - Transmission Line Effects
Practice Exercise 2
- Quiz 2
- Topic 3 Digital & Analog Transmission
Chapter 4
Practice Exercise 3A
Lab: Module 3 – Rectangular Pulse Waveforms
Week #4 (Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 3 Digital & Analog Transmission
Chapter 4, 5
Term Test 1
Lab: Module 4 – Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)
Week #5 (Oct 5 - Oct 9, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 3 Digital & Analog Transmission
Chapter 5
Practice Exercise 3 (3B)
- Topic 4 Bandwidth Utilization
Chapter 6
Lab: Module 5 – Introduction to the General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB)
Week #6 (Oct 13 - 16, 2015) (Thanksgiving Holiday on Oct 12 no classes)
Theory:
- Topic 4 Bandwidth Utilization
Chapter 6
Practice Exercise 4
- Quiz 3
- Topic 5 Transmission Media
Chapter 7
Lab: Module 6 – Transferring Waveforms over the General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB)
Week #7 (Oct 19 - 23, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 5 Transmission Media
Chapter 7
Practice Exercise 5
Lab: Module 7 – Digital Modulation Techniques using the Arbitrary Waveform Generator
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Week #8 (Oct 26 - 30, 2015)
Study Week – No classes
Week #9 (Nov 2 - 6, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 5 Transmission Media
Chapter 7
Practice Exercise 6
- Topic 6 Telephone and Cable Networks for Data Transmission
Term Test 2
Lab: Module 8 – Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Part 1
Week #10 (Nov 9 - 13, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 6 Telephone and Cable Networks for Data Transmission
Chapters 8 (incl. Circuit-Switched Network)
Lab: Module 9 – Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Part 2
Week #11 (Nov 16 - 20, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 6 Telephone and Cable Networks for Data Transmission
Chapters 8, 29, 9 (incl. Digital Data Compression, High Speed Digital Access)
Practice Exercise 7
- Quiz 4
Lab: Module 10 – Introduction to Protocol Analysis
Week #12 (Nov 23 - 27, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 7 Error Detection and Correction
Chapter 10
Practice Exercise 8
Term Test 3
- Topic 8 Data Link Control & Multiple Access
Chapters 11, 12
Lab: Lab makeup, review/prepare for lab test
Week #13 (Nov 30 - Dec 4, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 8 Data Link Control & Multiple Access
Chapters 11, 12
Practice Exercise 9
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- Topic 9 Cellular Telephony Introduction
Chapter 16
Lab:
LAB TEST
Week #14 (Dec 7 - 9, 2015)
Theory:
- Topic 9 Cellular Telephony Introduction
Chapter 16
Practice Exercise 10
- Review for final exam
Lab:
Exam Week (Dec 10 - 16, 2015)
FINAL EXAM
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