SCHEDULE
Lectures: Week 1~8, Week 10
Article/Book Chapter Readings: Week 11~16
Examination: Week 17
TEXTBOOK
William Stallings, Business Data Communications, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2005.
REFERENCES
William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2004. Chapter 1 Slide
Larry Peterson & Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks: A systems approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. Chapter 1
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.
LECTURE CONTENT
1. Introduction. (Week 2)
I. REQUIREMENTS.
2. Business Information. (Week 2)
3. Distributed Data Processing. (Week 2)
Case Study I: MasterCard International.
II. THE INTERNET AND DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS.
4. Internet History and Architecture. (Week 3)
5. TCP/IP and OSI. (Week 3)
Case Study II: Florida Department of Management Services.
6. Internet-Based Applications. (Week 4)
7. Client/Server and Intranet Computing. (Week 4)
Case Study III: ING Life.
8. Internet Operations. (Week 5)
III. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.
9. LAN Architecture and Protocols. (Week 6)
10. Ethernet and Fiber Channel. (Week 7)
Case Study IV: Carlson Companies.
11. Wireless LANs. (Week 8)
Case Study V: St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
IV. WIDE AREA NETWORKS.
12. Circuit Switching and Packet Switching. (Week 10)
Case Study VI: Staten Island University Hospital.
13. Frame Relay and ATM.
Case Study VII: Olsten Staffing Services.
Case Study VIII: Guardian Life Insurance.
14. Wireless WANs. (Week 11)
Case Study IX: Choice Hotels International.
V. DATA COMMUNICATIONS.
15. Data Transmissions. (Week 12)
16. Data Communication Fundamentals. (Week 12)
17. Data Link Control and Multiplexing.
Case Study X: Haukeland University Hospital.
VI. MANAGEMENT ISSUES.
18. Doing Business on the Internet. (Week 13)
Case Study XI: The Hacker in All of Us.
19. Network Security. (Week 14)
20. Network Management. (Week 15)
ASSESSMENT
Article/Book Chapter Readings: 40%
Examination: 60%