Class 3. P: ECE 302 or equivalent. A qualitative and quantitative
study of issues in design, analysis, and operation of computer
communication and telecommunication networks as they evolve toward the
integrated networks of the future, employing both packet and
circuit-switching technology. Packet and circuit switching, the OSI
standards for architecture and protocols, elementary queuing theory
for performance evaluation, random access techniques, local area
networks, reliability and error recovery, and integrated networks.