Telecommunications and Coordination Technologies

Information Systems Department, Stern School of Business, NYU

Prof. Arthur Goldberg, Computer Science Department, NYU

Spring 2000

C20.0045001, 3 credits

Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 to 3:15 PM, Tisch UC64

Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Computer Systems (C20.0035) or Prof. Goldberg’s permission

Modification history in 2000: 2/1, 2/10, 3/21, 3/23, 3/29, 3/30, 4/3, 4/11

Abstract

This course surveys the major components and functions of electronic communications systems, focusing on computer networks and reviewing telephone and cable television networks. It discusses the major trends and issues relating to network technologies. Among the specific topics covered are principles and standards of computer communication, the underlying technologies for communication systems, network protocols and network software.

Readings

Required text: Douglas E. Comer, Ralph E. Droms, Computer Networks and Internets, Hardcover - 590 pages, 2nd edition (January 1999), Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0130836176. $74.00 plus shipping at www.amazon.com.

Additional reference: Andrew Tanenbaum, Computer Networking, Third Edition, 1996, ISBN 0-13-349945-6. The best technical telecommunications and computer networking text that covers all important topics. It sells for $55.30.

Course Homepage

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/artg/telecom/spring00/index.html

Lectures

Professor

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Guests

March 2, Cliff Roth, GIST.com and noted Cable Industry Reporter, The US CATV Industry

April 13, Monica Rabotnicoff, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Stern MBA ’99, The Evolution of the Telecommunications Industry and the Impact of the Internet

Notes from a Fall 99 guest

Bill Russell: NYU-NET: Internetworking inside NYU and between NYU and the World: Status and Plans

Magazine Articles


Week	Name	Author	Publication Date	URL Alternate
3	Northern Light	Heidi Brown	17-May-99	article
3	Wireless warrior	Toni Mack	19-Apr-99	Hardcopy
6	Getting into the Fast Lane	Scott McCormack	Fall 1999	article
6	Man in the Middle	Geoff Baum, Forbes ASAP	23-Aug-99	Hardcopy
6	The $20 billion crumb	Thomas Easton and Scott Woolley	19-Apr-99	Hardcopy
10	Multimedia Transmissions Are Driving Internet Toward Gridlock	Sara Robinson	8/23/99	New York Times, hardcopy
11	Master of Your Domain	Scott Woolley	26-Jul-99	article
14	An Edison for a New Age?	Dyan Machan	17-May-99	article

Comer Readings and Problem Sets

Assignments following April to be specified precisely as the course proceeds.

Week	Date	Topic	Comer sections		Questions in Comer due
			From	Through
1	20-Jan	Preface
		1 – Introduction	1.1	1.6
		2 – Motivation and Tools	2.1	2.7
2	25-Jan	3 – Transmission Media	3.1	3.12
	27-Jan	4 - Local Asynchronous Communication (RS-232)	4.1	4.3	2: 3, 5; 3: 3, 7 ping_gateway use traceroute to get round-trip times.
			4.5: 1st paragraph	4.5: 3rd paragraph
			4.7	4.8: 2nd paragraph
			4.11
3	1-Feb	5 - Long Distance Communication (Carriers, Modulation, and Modems)	5.1	5.2: 2nd paragraph
			5.3	5.8
	3-Feb		5.10	5.11	Week 3 articles
4	8-Feb	6 - Packets, Frames, and Error Detection	6.1	6.9	4: 2; 5: 2, 4
			6.13	6.14
	10-Feb	7 – LAN Technologies and Network Topology	7.1	7.9
			7.11	7.14
5	15-Feb	8 - Hardware Addressing and Frame Type Identification	8.1	8.6	6: 1, 2; 7: 1, 5
			8.7
			8.9	8.10
			8.12	8.13
	17-Feb	9 - LAN Wiring, Physical Topology, and Interface Hardware	9.1	9.4	Quiz on chapters 3 and 5
			9.7	9.13
6	22-Feb	11 - Long Distance Digital ConnectionTechnologies	11.1	11.7	8: 4, 10
			11.9	11.10
	24-Feb		11.13	11.19	Week 6 articles
			11.22
7	29-Feb	12 - WAN Technologies and Routing	12.1	12.12	11: 2, 4, 8, 9
			12.13
			12.17	12.18
	2-Mar		13.1	13.4
			13.6
			13.8	13.9
8	7-Mar				Midterm covering all material through 2-Mar
	9-Mar	Guest lecture: Cliff Roth, Cable Industry			12: 2, 9
9	21-Mar	13 - Network Ownership, Service Paradigm, and Performance 14 - Protocols and Layering	14.1	14.10.3
			14.12
	23-Mar	15 - Internetworking: Concepts, Architecture, and Protocols	15.1	15.14
10	28-Mar	Prof Goldberg Ill			13: 3, 4, 6
	30-Mar	15 – Rest Of Internetworking: Concepts, Architecture, and Protocols;16 - IP: Internet Protocol Addresses	16.1	16.5
			16.7	16.13
			16.15	16.17
11	4-April	18 - IP Datagrams and Datagram Forwarding	18.1	18.11	14: 4
		22 – TCP: Reliable Transport Service	22.1	22.9
			22.13	22.14
	6-April	23 - Client-Server Interaction	23.1	23.14
			23.17
			23.19
12	11 - April	26 - Naming with the Domain Name System	26.1	26.11	18: 7, 8, 10; 22: 3, 6, 7; 23: 4
			26.16
	13-April	Guest lecture: E-Business in Telecommunications: The Impact of the Internet on the Communications Industry, Monica Rabotnicoff, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (ppt)
13	18-April	27 - Electronic Mail Representation and Transfer	27.1	27.17	26: 1, 7, 14
	20-April	29 - World Wide Web Pages and Browsing	29.12	29.17	27: 3, 6, 7
14	25-April	Guest lecture: Wireless: Warren Melnick, www.kentech.com
	27-April	34 - Network Security	34.1	34.12	29: 1, 2, 7
					34: 2, 3
	9-May	2:00 – 3:50			FINAL EXAM

Communications

Email: artg@cs.nyu.edu.

Phone: 998-3014

Home page: www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/artg

Office: 715 Broadway (across from McDonald’s), Room 711, Computer Science Department

Office hour: Mondays 12:00 to 1:00, or by appointment

Secretary: Lourdes Santana, 998-3026, santana@cims.nyu.edu

Email beacon: The email beacon, or mail forwarder, enables anyone (usually Prof. Goldberg), to broadcast email to the professor and all students in the class. It will be used for important announcements. You must register with the email beacon. To receive these email broadcasts send an email to

lyris@forums.nyu.edu, in the message body put:

join telecomspring2000 Your-Name telecomspring2000

The second telecomspring2000 is the List-Password

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CONTRIBUTING:

To contribute to the list by email, send a message to:

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Please read email every couple of days to keep up.

Assignments

The assignments are listed below. Dates may change as the course progresses.

Assignment	Date	Graded by	Percent
Midterm	March 7	One week later	20
One 40 minute quiz	Feb. 15	One week later	10
Final exam	May 9	One week later	35
Class participation		Half at midterm, other half at end	10
Problem sets	In syllabus	Within a week of being passed in	25

Class participation

Please speak up in class, and help me get to know you. I will make a seating chart and urge you to sit in the same place regularly so I can help identify you.

Problem sets

The syllabus indicates a set of problems from Comer associated with most lectures. Some lectures have supplemental problems. We’ll correct them within a week, usually.

Grades for late problem sets will be penalized twenty percent per week, pro rated.

Intellectual Property Rules for Problem Sets

At least half of each answer must be written in your own words.

Text which is copied from any other source must appear in quotes with as full a reference to the source as possible. For a book or magazine article provide as many of the following as possible: author, title, article title, date, publisher and page. For a Web page provide URL, date, title, author. If you work on your homework with someone else, put down his or her name(s).

No credit will be awarded for answers containing copying without attribution. Repeated copying without attribution will result in more serious penalties, including failing the course.