TCT-315 FUNDAMENTAL OF COMPUTER COMMUNICATION 3L:1T:2P 4 Credits

SYSTEM

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Communication concepts, channel, signal characteristics, noise, modulation fundamentals of data
communication, data rates, full duplex, synchronous communication, encoding at bit, byte and frame levels,
error detection & correction, data communication sub-systems, Multiplexing including statistical
multiplexing, telephone system characteristics, modems, introduction to computer networks and
application, store and forward, switching ,layered architecture of communication protocols, physical and
data link layer protocols, multi-channel access.

DETAILED CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION

COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS
Analog and digital transmissions, digital radio, channels and Shannon law, signal characteristics, causes
and sources of noise, SNR
.
MODULATION FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA COMMUNICATION
Amplitude modulation, frequency shift and phase shift keying, quadrature amplitude modulation,
trellis coded modulation, pulse code modulation, delta modulation etc.

DATA RATES
Bps, baud, dibit, tribit etc and multi-level modulation.

DIRECTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Simplex, half-duplex, full duplex and full duplex modes of communication.

ENCODING
Return-to-zero, non-return to zero, alternate mark inversion, Manchester encoding, decoding etc.

ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION

Block parity check. Cyclic redundancy check, forward error correction.

DATA COMMUNICATION SUB-SYSTEMS

Modems, Dow inline Processor, front-end processor, host processor, terminals.

MULTIPLEXING
Frequency-division, time division, statistical time division multiplexing, data concentrators.

TELEPHONE SYSTEM CHARACTERISTCIS

Basic telephone systems, telephone instruments, local switching equipment.

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKS

Wide area and local area networks, protocol etc.

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Data Communication and Networking, Forouzen, Tata MeGrew Hill
2. Understanding Data Communication & Networks, William. A. Shany, Vikas