COMP SCI 358 Data Communications and Computer Networks - Spring 2012

Professor: William Shay Office: MAC C308 Phone: 465-2316/5038

Click here to get the course syllabus

Click here to get the course policies

I'll post some powerpoint files below throughout the semester that you can download.

1. Introduction (Chapters1-2 of the text).
2. Sockets (I will go through ONLY the first few slides on this file and rely mostly on the demo programs below).
3. Signals and transmission media.
4. A Maple worksheet showing characteristics of Analog signals.
5. Compression.
6. Error detection.
7. Cryptography.
8. Authentication.
9. Security.
10. Flow Control.
11. Sliding Window.
12. LANs.
13. Wireless.
14. LAN connections.
15. Network Layer.
16. Transport Layer.
17. Animated presentation on TCP-IP.

I'll provide some programming examples when they are ready.

• Zipped file containing a java client to download a file.
• Zipped file containing a java server to download a file.
• Zipped file illustrating java's BigInteger class.

For the second programming assignment click here to download the server program that simulates periodic transmission errors in the data that it sends.

If you have any questions or need to contact me, please send email to Bill Shay at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Last update on: Tuesday, May 01, 2012