CS6551 COMPUTER NETWORKS | syllabus

                                           

                                            CS6551 COMPUTER NETWORKS L T P C
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OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:
 Understand the division of network functionalities into layers.
 Be familiar with the components required to build different types of networks
 Be exposed to the required functionality at each layer
 Learn the flow control and congestion control algorithms

UNIT I      FUNDAMENTALS & LINK LAYER    (9)
Building a network – Requirements - Layering and protocols - Internet Architecture – Network
software – Performance ; Link layer Services - Framing - Error Detection - Flow control

UNIT II     MEDIA ACCESS & INTERNETWORKING    (9)
Media access control - Ethernet (802.3) - Wireless LANs – 802.11 – Bluetooth - Switching and
bridging – Basic Internetworking (IP, CIDR, ARP, DHCP,ICMP )

UNIT III    ROUTING    (9)
Routing (RIP, OSPF, metrics) – Switch basics – Global Internet (Areas, BGP, IPv6), Multicast –
addresses – multicast routing (DVMRP, PIM)

UNIT IV    TRANSPORT LAYER    (9)
Overview of Transport layer - UDP - Reliable byte stream (TCP) - Connection management - Flow
control - Retransmission – TCP Congestion control - Congestion avoidance (DECbit, RED) – QoS –
Application requirements

UNIT V     APPLICATION LAYER    (9)
Traditional applications -Electronic Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME) – HTTP – Web Services – DNS
- SNMP

                                                                                                                          TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
 Identify the components required to build different types of networks
 Choose the required functionality at each layer for given application
 Identify solution for each functionality at each layer
 Trace the flow of information from one node to another node in the network

TEXT BOOK:

1. Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach”, Fifth Edition,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011.

REFERENCES:
1. James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, “Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach Featuring the
Internet”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2009.
2. Nader. F. Mir, “Computer and Communication Networks”, Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers, 2010.
3. Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Fred Baker, “Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach”,
Mc Graw Hill Publisher, 2011.
4. Behrouz A. Forouzan, “Data communication and Networking”, Fourth Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill,
2011.