Regularly updated.
Lecture: Monday 6 - 8pm at Caulfield in E224
Course Outline (pdf).
Overheads
The overhead slide I use in this subject are provided for your
downloading. They are in PDF format and may be viewed and printed
using the
Adobe acrobat reader.
The pdf files contain four slides per page.
Tutorial
A practical demonstration conducted by your tutor is outlined in
this document. The Tera Term Pro
communications package can be found
here
.
Assignments
A total of 50% of your mark is allocated to the tutorials and
assignments. There are two assignments, each are worth 20%. The
remaining 10% will be assessed by your tutors based on your attendance
and participation in the tutorial sessions.
- Assignment 1: Based on theory found
in chapters 1 to 7 of Stallings. Due 30th April 2002.
- For question 9: ACK = acknowledgement - same as a RR-frame. NAK =
negative acknowledgement - same as an REJ-frame.
- Assignment 2: Based on theory found
in chapters 8, 13 and 14 of Stallings, plus some external
research (some links here). Due 7th June
2002.
- A page with analysis topic links HERE.
- Question 5: This question was not very clear. Typically a
router is actually used for this function. What I am looking
for in this question is a `special type of bridge'. I would
like you to examine the 802.3 and 802.5 MAC protocols and
briefly describe how it would be possible, using the `special
bridge', to convert between the two network architectures, thereby
leaving the LLC layer intact. For this conversion, we will need
to ignore the frame size differences between the two network
architectures. Furthermore, I would like you to suggest ways
in which acknowledgements on each network could be handled when
frames are sent from the 802.3 network to the 802.5 and vice
versa. How does the `special bridge' handle sending frames
on each network, and how does it handle receiving frames from
each network?
Final Exam
The final examination is worth 50%. There are 20 questions worth a total
of 50 marks. You should attempt to answer all questions. It is a
closed-book examination. The time allocated for this exam is two hours.
Calculators are NOT permitted. Mathematical questions are simple
enough to be solved without a calculator.
Here are past exams and practice exams as set by
Chintha.
It is highly recommended that you look at these, since the exam for this
subject will be similar. Ignore questions which are not related to the
material covered in the lectures.
Contact
Count:
|
Last Updated: 21 Jul 2003
|
