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 ====== Course Outline ======
-The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:
+===== Main Topics =====
-===== Week 1 =====
+The numbers in brackets refer to the section numbers of the textbook.
-Your notes here.
+=== - 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)
-===== Week 2 =====
+=== - 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)
-===== Midterm =====
+=== - Communication at the Data Link Layer ===
+  * **ARQ & Reliable Data Transfer** (5.2)
-===== Drop Deadline =====
+  * **Flow Control** (5.3)
+  * **Framing** (5.4)
-===== Week 13 =====
-===== Final Exam =====
+=== - 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)