Data Communications. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

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Prerequisite: No formal prerequisites – The course assumes knowledge of topics of MATH 333 or equivalent courses. Intensive study of the analytic tools required for the analysis and design of data communication systems. Topics include: birth-death queuing systems, Erlang's distribution, bulk-arrival and bulk-service systems, design and analysis of concentrators and multiplexers, elements of Renewal Theory, M/G/1 system, analysis of Time Division Multiplexing, priority queues, analysis of random access systems, time reversibility, open and closed queuing networks, mean value analysis, flow and congestion, control mechanisms, routing algorithms, flow models, and network topological design.