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Valid for year : 2007
 
TSIN01 Information Networks, 6 ECTS credits.
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For:   CII   CS   D   I   Ii   IT   Y  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 28
Rec. self-study hours: 132

  Area of Education: Technology

Subject area: Electrical Engineering
  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The course aims at the understanding of how an information network works and of how the choice of parameters affects its performance. The course intends to give a good knowledge about a few methods of analysing and important aspects of communication in networks. The central theme of the course is how good communication networks can we design and what methods of analysis can we use. After completing the course the student is expected to be able to:
  • Describe protocols for multiple access to a shared media.
  • Give an account of properties of mechanisms in protocols for multiple access to a shared media
  • Formulate assumptions to model and analyse information networks and discuss how valid these assumptions are.
  • Be able to perform typical calculations within the different parts covered by the course.


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Basic knowledge in Statistics.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
Organisation:
The course consists of lectures, problem-solving classes and a home assignment.
Course contents:
  • Slotted multiple access and the Aloha System.
  • System Modelling and Assumptions.
  • Performance Analysis of multiaccess systems.
  • Splitting Algorithms
  • Carrier Sensing CSMA/CD (LAN/Ethernet access)
  • Carrier Sensing CSMA/CA (Wireless LAN access)
  • Packet Radio Networks
  • Routing methods and Algorithms
  • Future Development of Informations Networks.
Course literature:
Bertsekas och Gallager: "Data Networks", 2nd ed., ISBN 0-13-200916-1.
New reference materials will be distributed during lectures.

Examination:
Written examination
Assignment report
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4 ECTS
2 ECTS
 


Course language is Swedish/English.
Department offering the course: ISY.
Director of Studies: Lasse Alfredsson
Examiner: Robert Forchheimer
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Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Last updated: 06/27/2011