Thursday, October 10, 2024

Principles of Communications Week 1, to Oct 10th, L1

Today sees start of 2023/2024 year and for Part II taking Principles of Communications I'll be noting progress and also adding occasional related reading/ and corrections on this blog.

If you want to revise anything to warm up for the course, I suggest last year's Computer Networks course should be a quick re-read! 

This week we'll just make a start on routing.

Glossary of Terms: from ISOC. Some acronyms come from the 7 layer model of the communications stack including terms like PHY (short for physical, so not really an acronym).

For an influential source on how a lot of the way we really "traverse" the Internet today, Cloudflare's head of research writes s very good blog