Time: MWF
2:30 – 3:30 PM (Day) Friday 6:00 – 9:30 (WEC)
Instructor: Noel J
Petit Office: Sverdrup 203D
Phone (Office) 612-330-1061 E-mail: petit@augsburg.edu
Text: Computer Networks and Internets, Douglas E.
Comer, Prentice-Hall, 5th Edition, 2009
This course will study topics in computer
networking and communication. The course will be made of three
components:
1) On-line instruction and
quizzes
2) Demonstration Sessions
3) In class laboratory sessions
On-Line
Instruction/Quizzes
The course will run using an on-line tool
called Moodle.
You will need access to AugNet for this
course and should contact the IT department at Augsburg if you do not have a
login and password for AugNet (this is the same login and password used for
"augsburg.edu" web-mail). If you have another e-mail account you will
still need to get an Augsburg login from IT in one of the following ways;
http://www.augsburg.edu/stucomp/
email:stucomp@augsburg.edu
phone: 612-330-1400
visit: Student Computing Desk on the second floor (link level) of the library.
The text has 32 chapters. We will take them
in order and roughly about 2 chapters per week. I will post a quiz for
each chapter. Sometimes the quiz will require you to search the Internet or use
some internet tool. You will have to spend about 2-3 hours per chapter on the
internet reading, researching and taking the quiz.
Grading will be based on your total quiz grades.
Quiz questions will be available in Moodle before you take the quiz. You can
research the questions ahead of time as you get only one chance to take the
quiz. Quizzes will be available for two weeks. You will have to keep up with
the quizzes as they will be taken off Moodle approximately one week after we
discuss the chapter. The Final is a comprehensive on-line 20 question quiz
(using the same format as the chapter quizzes).
The Day and WEC sections of this class are
merged on Moodle. Everyone will use the same schedule for quizzes.
Demonstration
Sessions - SEE MOODLE CALENDAR FOR CLASS, QUIZ AND LAB
SCHEDULE
In class Laboratory Sessions – we will
complete some simple networking labs in the Sverdrup 203 laboratory. Most of
these labs can be done on your home computer as well. The labs will be listed
in Moodle.
Help Sessions - in Sverdrup 203. These will be open sessions
for you to ask questions and work on problems you may have. I can arrange other
help and question sessions if you cannot attend the regular help sessions. I
will check e-mail daily at about 7 AM and 7 PM if you have questions.
Below I have listed the chapters and the
weeks that they will be covered. Exact quiz dates will be posted on the
Moodle calendar.
|
Day Date |
WEC Date |
Topic |
Chapters |
|
9 Sept |
11 Sept |
Introduction
and Applications |
1-2 |
|
18 Sept |
11 Sept |
Additional
Applications |
3-4 |
|
18 Sept |
11 Sept |
Data Sources,
Signals and Media |
6-7 |
|
25 Sept |
25 Sept |
Coding and
Transmission |
8-10 |
|
25 Sept |
25 Sept |
Mulitplexing
and Interconnection |
11-12 |
|
2 Oct |
9 Oct |
Packets and
Ethernet |
13-14 |
|
9 Oct |
9 Oct |
Wired and Wireless
LAN |
15-16 |
|
16 Oct |
23 Oct |
Routing |
17-18 |
|
23 Oct |
23 Oct |
Internetworking |
19-20 |
|
6 Nov |
6 Nov |
Addresses and
Forwarding, Support Protocols and IPv6 |
21-24 |
|
13 Nov |
20 Nov |
Transport
Protocols and Routing |
25-27 |
|
20 Nov |
20 Nov |
Net
Performance and Multimedia |
28-29 |
|
4 Dec |
4 Dec |
Trends,
Network Management and Security |
30-32 |
|
7 Dec |
|
Summary |
|