Learning Objectives

• Identify the role of physical and data link layer in link communications
• State the general structure of frames and list examples of frame fields
• Calculate performance of protocols using metrics of data rate, delay, error rate, overhead, throughput and efficiency
• List the general techniques available for error detection and correction

Lecture Material

• Lecture Notes: View, Print, Source
• Delay and throughput examples: View, Source

Readings

• Stallings: chapter 6
• Forouzan: chapter 10
• Kurose: none

Videos

• Last year: Part 1

Notes

• Notes from the lecture are below. Hover over the image to see a description; right-click and view the image to zoom in. Alternatively, download a zip archive with all the images or a printable PDF of the notes.