====== Course Outline ======

===== Main Topics =====

The numbers in brackets refer to the section numbers of the textbook.

=== - Network Basics and Examples ===
  * **Introduction to Networks: Telegraph and Telephone** (1.1)
  * **Introduction to Networks: Internet** (1.1, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2)
  * **Basic Network Classification** (1.1, 7.1, 7.2 + details scattered throughout the textbook)
  * **Basic Network Performance Quantification** (1.1 + some example calculations scattered throughout the textbook)
  * **Protocols, Services, Layering** (2.1, 5.1, 8.5.2)
  * **OSI Reference Model** (2.2)
  * **TCP/IP Overview** (2.3)

=== - Communication at the Physical Layer ===
  * **Digitization** (3.1, 3.3)
  * **Baseband Digital Communication** (3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)
  * **Passband Digital Communication** (3.7)
  * **Physical Media** (3.8)
  * **Error Detection and Correction** (3.9)

=== - Communication at the Data Link Layer ===
  * **ARQ & Reliable Data Transfer** (5.2)
  * **Flow Control** (5.3)
  * **Framing** (5.4)

=== - Local Area Networks ===
  * **Medium Access Communications** (6.1, 6.2)
  * **Ethernet** (6.6, 6.7)
  * **WiFi** (6.10)
  * **LAN Bridges and Ethernet Switches** [tentative] (6.11)

=== - Packet Switching Networks and Internetworking ===
  * Routing Mechanics (7.4, 7.5)
  * Internet Structure and Addressing (8.2.2, 8.2.3)
  * Internet Routing and Controls (8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.9)