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B.E. Semester - V (IT)

IT-502 Computer Networks

1.   INTRODUCTION:
 Network Applications. Network Hardware. Network Software. Reference Models.

2.      THE PHYSICAL LAYER:
Guided Transmission Media. Wireless Transmission. Communication Satellites. The Public Switched Telephone Network. The Mobile Telephone System. Cable Television.

3.      THE DATA DINK LAYER:
Data Link Layer Design Issues. Elementary Data Link Protocols. Sliding Window Protocols. Example of Data Link Protocols: HDLC: High-Level Data Link Control, The Data Link Layer In The Internet.

4.      THE MEDIUM ACCESS SUB-LAYER:
The Channel Allocation Problem. Multiple Access Protocols. Ethernet. Wireless LANS. Broadband Wireless. Blue Tooth. Data Link Layer Switching.

5.      THE NETWORK LAYER:
Network Layer Design Issues. Routing Algorithms. Congestion Control Algorithms. Quality of Service. Internetworking. The Network Layer In The internet: The IP Protocol, IP Addresses, Internet Control Protocols, The Interior Gateway Routing Protocol: OSPF. The Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol: BGP, Internet Multicasting, Mobile IP, Ipv6.

6.      THE TRANSPORT LAYER:
The Transport Service. Elements of Transport Protocols. A Simple Transport Protocol
Internet Transport Protocols: UDP;
TCP: Introduction To TCP, The TCP Service Model, The TCP Protocol The TCP Segment Header, TCP Connection Establishment, TCP Connection Release, Modeling TCP Connection Management, TCP Transmission Policy, TCP Congestion Control. TCP Timer Management, Wireless TCP and UDP, Transactional TCP.
Performance Issues: Measuring Network Performance, System Design For Better PERFORMANCE, FAST TPDU Processing, Protocols For Gigabit Networks.

7.      THE APPLICATION LAYER:
DNS: The Domain name system; Electronic Mail; SNMP.

8.      ATM NETWORK:
ATM Layer. ATM Application Layer. ATM Signaling. PNNI Routing.

9.      CASE STUDY WITH WINDOW 2000/LINUX:

10. TOPICS FOR EXPERIMENTS                                                                                       

1.      PC-to-PC file transfer using serial ports.

2.      Network OS installation and configuration.

3.      Networking Hardware and software components.

4.      Network Routing.

5.      Network Socket programming.      

6.      Shortest path routing.                                                                                                      

7.      Modem commands study.                          

8.      Use network simulators like NS2, DLL simulators.             

9.      Implement multithreaded client – server application.

10.  Assignment: prepare short note on any one advanced topic (not from above syllabus).

  v    BOOKS:

v   Text Books:

1.      A.S. Tanenbaum, “Computer Networks”, 4th edition, Prentice Hall.     

2.      B.F. Ferouzan, “Data and Computer Communication”, Tata McGraw Hill.

v     Reference:

1.      Peterson & Davie, “Computer Networks”, 2^nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann.           

2.      Kurose, Ross, “Computer Networking”, Addison Wesley                                

3.      Leon-Gracia and Widjaja, “Communication Networks”, Tata McGraw Hill               

4.      S.Keshay, “An Engg. Approach to Computer Networking”, Addison Wesley.           

5.      W. Richard Stevens, “TCP/IP Volume 1, 2, 3 “, Addison Wesley.

v     TERM WORK:

1.      Term work should be based on above listed practical.              

2.      A term work test must be conducted with a weight age of 10 marks.