EE 6340 INTRODUCTION TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS 

(3 semester hours) Circuit, Message and Packet Switching. The ISO-OSI layered
system. The Physical Layer: channel characteristics, coding, error detection. The
Data Link Control Layer: retransmission strategies, framing, multiaccess
protocols, e.g. Aloha, Slotted Aloha, CSMA, CSMA/CD. The Network Layer: routing,
broadcasting, multicasting, flow control schemes. Co-prerequisite: UTA EE 5302.