Communications Engineering 2

On-Line Documents

The information on these pages relates to the Communications Engineering 2 course in the School of Engineering. The following links are to computer-printable copies of slides. This set of slides does not cover all slides used in the course, but covers most of the slides used in the lectures. In some cases, slides are available in two format as multiple slides per page, in these cases both sets of slides are identical.

Copies of presentations:

• Ethernet Presentations
• IP Presentations
• Transport Presentations:UDP
• Transport Presentations:TCP

Other commonly used resources:

• The course road map
• An abbreviations List
• The Packet Header Sheet
• Animation of the operation of traceroute (CAIDA.org)

Tutorial resources:

• A set of the tutorial questions are available. Students should prepare an answer for the each tutorial prior to the tutorial class.
• The Spanning Tree Tutorial

All material G. Fairhurst (c) 2023

Copies of old Material

The following documents are now obsolete for the EG/ES 3567 course. They are retained for other people accessing the site who may wish to see them.

*** Obsolete after June 2000

• Link:
  • HDLC with 4 slides per page: (hdlc9874.pdf) (8 printed pages)
  • HDLC with 6 slides per page: (hdlc9876.pdf) (5 printed pages)
• ARQ and Reliability:
  • ARQ with 4 slides per page: (arq9814.pdf) (5 printed pages as Acrobat PDF)
  • ARQ with 6 slides per page: (arq9816.pdf) (4 printed pages as Acrobat PDF)
• OSI:
  • OSI Slides

G. Fairhurst (c) 2006.