ECS 252 Local and Metropolitan Area Networks -- Winter 1998

UC Davis, Department of Computer Science

Homeworks

HW4 (assigned March 5, '98, due March 12, '98)
HW3 (assigned Feb. 24, '98, due March 3, '98)
HW2 (assigned Feb. 3, '98, due Feb. 10, '98)
HW1 (assigned Jan. 26, '98, due Feb. 3, '98)

Lectures

9:00 am to 10:30 am, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 233 Wellman Hall

Instructor

Biswanath Mukherjee, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science

Textbooks

1) Joseph L. Hammond and Peter J.P. O'Reilly, Performance Analysis of Local Computer Networks, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1986.
2) William Stallings, Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Fifth Edition, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1997.

References

1) Selected papers from the recent literature.
2) LAN/MAN Workshop

Prerequisite

ECS 152 / ECS 152A or equivalent
(or "graduate standing" with reasonable understanding of 2 out of the following 3 topics can be considered adequate as well: probability, computer architecture, digital communication)

Basis for Grading

1) 4-5 Homework Assignments (1/3)
2) One Exam -- towards the end of the quarter (1/3)
3) Project (1/3)

Course Outline

Local and metropolitan area network functions, structures, and access protocols are studied. Performance modeling and analysis of multiaccess techniques in polling, ring, and random access networks. Ethernet, 100 Mbps Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet. Standards, example products, high-speed LANs (FDDI), metropolitan area networks (IEEE 802.6 DQDB), and recent directions in research (local lightwave networks).