To be specific, this course aims to cultivate students’ ability and competence in the following aspects:

    1). Analytical thinking: students are taught to analyze the performance of various networks with a focus on networking performance according to specific requirements.

    2). Self-regulated learning ability: students will be able to sort out, summarize, and digest the knowledge they have learned from the course and enhance their self-learning ability for acquiring advanced knowledge after the course. Additionally, students are expected to broaden their horizon via classroom teaching, reference books and materials. 

    3). Self-expression skills: students are required to express themselves concisely and logically when working on the assignments; and be able to illustrate how they analyze and solve the problems in after-class tasks. 

    4). Programming competence: students are expected to organize their ideas and solve problems during the process of programming via computer experiments. 

    5). Innovative spirit: students are encouraged to cultivate the habit of independent thinking. They are expected to develop their in-depth learning ability, for example, the ability of proposing different solutions to the same problem based on various analyzing methods. Furthermore, they are encouraged to draw analogies between the networking performance in theory and actual networking in real life.  

    This course is comprised of 9 chapters taught in a total of 32 class-hours: 

Chapter 1. Introduction (3 class-hours), 

Chapter 2. Physical layer (4 class-hours),  

Chapter 3.  Data link layer (5 class-hours), 

Chapter 4.  Medium Access Control Sublayer (6 class-hours), 

Chapter 5.  Network Layer (6 class-hours), 

Chapter 6. Transport Layer (3 class-hours), 

Chapter 7. Application Layer (2 class-hours), 

Chapter 8 Network Security (1 class-hour), 

Chapter 9 Coding and Video Compression Technology (1 class-hour), and the course summary (1 class-hour).