Week 	Lectures	 			Readings 
Problem Sets

1		Introduction:  Protocols and		Hughes chap 1, 2.1,	PS 1 out
		Data Terminal Equipment; 8086 Devices		2.2

2 		Commkit Software:  Processes,		Hughes section 2.3
		Interrupts, and Interprocess Communication

3		Asynchronous Communications:		Hughes chap 3		PS 1 due, PS 2 out
			Concepts, hardware, implementation

4		Physical Connections and 		Hughes chap 4, 5
			Testing Tools

5		Synchronous Communications:		Hughes cahp 6		PS 2 due, PS 3 out
			Error detection and recovery
			protocols, hardware, implementation

6		Synchronous Communications		Hughes chap 6		 Exam I 

7		File Transfer Implemenation		Hughes chap 7,9		PS 3 due, PS 4 out
			and Multiplexing

8		Wide Area Networks:			Hughes chap 10
			Topologies and Protocols

9		WANs:  implementation and Commkit	Hughes chap 10
PS 4 due, PS 5 out

10		Bus Local Area Networks:		Hughes chap 11
			Ethernet and Commkit software

11		Ring Lans 				Hughes chap 12
PS 5 due, PS 6 out

12		Commkit local software; Gues Lecture	

13		Layered Architectures:			Hughes chap 13
PS 6 due, PS 7 out
			OSI model, DARPA protocol, Sockets

14		Layered Architectures			Hughes chap 13

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