All lecture notes
Sections in the books.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 1: Introduction (Chapter 1 Tanenbaum, Chapter 1 Kurose)

  Concepts: packet switching/circuit switching
            point-to-point/broadcast networks
            multiplexing
            LAM/WAN
            Computer Networks
            Components in Computer Networks
            delay/throughput
            Layer architecture (Why?)
            protocol/service interface
            connection-oriented service/connectionless service
            reliable and unreliable service
            elements in a protocol
            network architecture
            Layers in the OSI/ISO reference model
            Layers in the TCP/IP reference model
            Basic facts about the layers

  Calculation: delay and throughput

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 2: Application layer (Chapter 2 Kurose)

  Concepts: TCP API
            TCP/UDP service model
            sequence of system calls in TCP clients/servers

            Email: SMTP, Pop, Message format
            HTTP: 
                  persistent/non-persistent HTTP
                  examples of different types of messages
                  cookies
            DNS: functionality of DNS
                 How DNS system is organized
                 root name servers/top-level domain 
                 servers/authoritative DNS servers/local name servers
                 How to access DNS?
                 recursive query/iterated query
  
   Coding: Project No. 1

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 3: Physical Layer (Chapter 2, Tanenbaum, 2.1.2)

  Concepts: Bandwidth
            capacity
            bit rate/baud rate
            modulation: amplitude modulation, frequency modulation,
                        phase modulation
            PCM code, differential pulse code, delta modulation, predictive 
                      encoding
            simplex/duplex/half duplex communication
            multiplexing: TDM, FDM, code division multiplexing
            components in a physical layer protocol

  Calculation: Nyquist's theorem and Shannon's theorem

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 4: Data link layer (Chapter 3, Tanenbaum, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6)

  Concepts: design issues in data link layer
            framing
            character count
            byte oriented framing with character stuffing
            bit oriented framing with bit stuffing
            physical level code violation
            flow control
            PAR, Go-back-N sliding/selective repeat sliding window
            Hamming distance
            relation between hamming distance with error correction and
            detection capability
            CRC code

   calculation:
            Error detection and correction capability for a given code
            CRC checksum calculation
            throughput/delay calculation with PAR and sliding window

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 5: Medium access control (Chapter 4, Tanenbaum, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3)

   Concepts: ALOHA, slotted ALOHA, CSAM, CSMA/CD
             bitmap/binary countdown
             adaptive tree walk
             Ethernet CSMA/CD + binary exponential backoff
             relation between minimum frame size and network size
             Issues with Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
   Calculation:
             relation between minimum frame size and network size

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Problem types:

1) True/False/Multiple choices
2) Definition
3) Explain
4) Calculation 
5) Coding (project No. 1)
  
------------------------------------------------------------------------