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Recommended Books and Other Resources.

Last Updated: Tuesday September 2, 2008

KEY:

MSNET = Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking (2^nd Edition).

How to get the most out of the Reading Assignments.

While the Lectures comprise the primary source for this course and will be the final arbiter for questions about Exam and Homework answers, we also expect you to do the readings assigned from the required books for the course.

To get the most out of the readings, you should do them before the lectures for the week during which they are assigned. In other words, to get the most out of the first week's readings, you should read them before you attend the first lecture on Monday, January 9 (although I realize few if any of you will find this page until after the first day of class).

I realize you will come across terms or concepts that are unfamiliar and you may also read about items we will not discuss at length in class. However, doing the readings before class will at least introduce you to these terms and concepts so they are not completely foreign to you when we discuss them in class.

Other Important Resources.

• HP ProCurve 420 Access Point Installation and Getting Started Guide. [78 pages]
• HP ProCurve 420 Access Point Management and Configuration Guide. [215 pages]

Weeks of September 1 and September 8:

• LAN-CD:
  • Chapter 2 (File named "02_52-96.pdf") from Goldman, Local Area Networks.
• MSNET:
  • OSI Model, pp. 887-889
  • Physical Layer, pg. 924
  • Cabling, pp. 204-206
  • Coaxial Cabling, pp. 260-261
  • Twisted-Pair Cabling, pp. 1134-1135
  • Unshielded Twisted-Pair (UTP) Cabling: pp. 1153-1154
  • "Network": pp. 835-836
  • "Network Design": pp. 844-846
  • "Network Architecture": pp. 870-874
  • "Topology": pp. 1124-1125
  • "Bus Topology": pp. 195-196
  • "Ring Topology": pp. 991-992
  • "NIC (Network Interface Card)": pp. 849-850
  • "Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model": pp. 887-889
  • "Physical Layer": pg. 924
  • "Data link Layer": pp. 317-318
  • "Signal"" pp. 1042-1043
  • "Network Layer": pp. 850-851
  • "Network Protocol": pg. 856
  • "Transport Layer": pg. 1130
  • "Ethernet": pp. 441-444
  • "Fast Ethernet": pp. 461-463
  • "Gigabit Ethernet": pp. 516-521
  • "Baseband Network": pg. 151
  
  

Weeks of September 15 and September 22:

• MSNET:
  • "Wireless Networking": pp. 1230-1233
  • "Wireless LANs": pg. 1229
  • "802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b": pp. 26-31
  • "Infrared Transmission": pp. 594-595
  • "Spread Spectrum": pp. 1060-1061
  • "Gigabit Ethernet": pp. 516-521
  • "802.16": pp. 32
  • "Wireless Broadband Communications": pg. 184-185

Weeks of September 29 and October 6:

• MSNET:
  • "Internet Protocol (IP)": pp. 628-629
  • "Internet Protocols": pp. 629-630
  • "CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing)": pp. 250-251 (skim)
  • "Network Address Translation (NAT)": pp. 838-841
  • "IPv6": pp. 646-647