PAF- KARACHI INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS &

TECHNOLOGY
Course Outline Spring 2015
Course Title: Data Communication
Credit Hours: 3+1
Pre-requisite(s): EE - 3410 - Communication Systems
Teaching Faculty: Engr. Kamran Ali Khan
Email Address: getkak@gmail.com
Prescribed Book:
CNAP (Cisco Netwrok Academy Program) course
material. (To be provided by the teaching faculty)
Computer Networks & Internets by

Reference Book:

Douglas E. Comer. (4 Ed.)

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Course Objective:

To
develop
a
basic
understanding
of
data
communication techniques and their implementations
in networks and The Internet.
At the end of the course the students are supposed to
have grasped the fundamentals of network and
communication
protocols
and
basic
network
components used for data communication in LANs,
WANs and the Internet.
Instructions:
1. Presented below is a tentative lecture breakdown meant to
serve as a guide line for the pre-lecture study of topics by the
students.
2. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of the class.
Marks Distribution: (Theory)
Hourly Exams (2):

30%
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Quizzes:
Assignment:
Final Exam

10%

Total

100%

10%
50%

Summary of topics to be covered during the entire course of

proceedings:
(Each topic contains sub-topics and the topics may not necessarily be covered in
the order given below)

Analog and Digital Signaling

Transmission Media
Basic Networking Terminology
Digital Bandwidth
The OSI Model
Packets, Frames & Error Detection
LAN Technologies and Network Topologies
Hardware Addressing & Frame Type Identification
Fiber Modems, Repeaters, Bridges & Switches
WAN technologies & Routing
The Router as a vital Internet tool
Protocols & Layering
Internetworking: Concepts, Architecture & Protocols
The TCP/IP Protocol Stack
Client Server Interaction Basics.
The Socket Interface
WWW Pages & Browsing Technologies
Naming with the Domain Name System

General rules and code of conduct expected of the students:

Regularity and Punctuality will not be compromised at any cost. A

student has to be present in the lecture room before the attendance is called
upon. Student entering the class after the roll call has been made would be
marked as absent.
A thought provoking, friendly environment is desired in the class. Discussions
on the lecture at appropriate intervals are highly desirable and encouraged.
Any mode and medium of communication is welcomed. All of this is
supposed to comply by the rules and disciplinary requirements maintained
by the university.
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Quizzes are surprise tests and can be conducted at any time without
prior information to the students.
The final exam will NOT be descriptive in nature and will comprise of
analytical questions/Blanks to be filled-in/MCQs requiring contemplation and
numerical analysis. The students, therefore, are relieved form memorizing
the topics word by word. Instead the emphasis is on digesting the concept in
full and it is expected of the students to be able to improvise their knowledge
in their examinations.

The heights of great men, reached and kept,

Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upwards in the night
(Henry Longfellow)

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