236840 - High Speed Networks
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Times and Places
- Lecture:
- Monday 10:30 - 12:30 Fisbah 413
- Recitations (tirgulim):
- Thursday 9:30 - 10:30 Ulman 501
- Thursday 14:30 - 15:30 Ulman 309
Staff
- Lecturer :
- Dr. Reuven Cohen
- Office: 434
- Phone: (829)4305
- Reception hours: Monday 12:30 - 14:30
- e-mail: rcohen@cs.technion.ac.il
- Teaching assistant :
- Eyal Felstine
- Office: 430
- Phone: (829)4301
- Reception hours: Thursday 10:30 - 11:45
- e-mail: eyalfe@csd.technion.ac.il
Grading Policy
- The grade in the course will include 30% homwork (magen) and 70% -
100% Final exam.
- All 6 exercises should be submitted (in pairs). if a student fail to
submit an exercise his grade will be zero.
Course Structure
Part 1 (3 lectures): Fast LAN's:
- From Ethernrt and token ring to FDDI.
- voice transmition in FDDI/II.
- How can spatial-reuse increase the network's utilization.
- The theoretical limit of linear networks.
Part 2 (3 lectures): Fast WAN's:
- Digital transmition of voice.
- Data transmition via telephone networks (ISDN).
- Problems that occurs when voice and data are transmitted on the same net.
- Broadband ISDN.
Part 3 (8 lectures): ATM's technology:
- ATM as a single solution to both LAN's and WAN's.
- Support of diferent information types with different requirements.
- The structure of the ATM switch.
- Connection / disconnection protocols.
- Routing in ATM networks.
- Congestion control algorithms in ATM networks.
Downloadable files
- At future time we might put some downloadable files at this location.
Useful links
Below is a list of useful links, sorted by subject.
Related courses
- Prerequisite course:
236334 - Introduction to Computer
Networks
- Related course:
Computer communications lab 236340
- A list of all course homepages at the CS faculty at the Technion,
as well as a link to the Hebrew University's CS faculty course
homepages can be found
here
Staff home pages
-
Reuven cohen's home page
-
Eyal felstine's home page
Announcements
- It is advisable to xerox the foils from the Electrical
Engineering or Computer Science library & to bring them to the lectures.
- Submition of exercises in pairs only. Otherwise zero grade will
be given to the exercise.
- HW1 can be obtained at CS library "hadar iyun".
- Notice changes at "Times and Places" Section they will be
subjected to changes in the near future.
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