CS6551 COMPUTER NETWORKS SYLLABUS

CS6551                            COMPUTER NETWORKS                                         L T P C 

OBJECTIVES:                                                                                                        3 0 0 3 

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 & INTERNET WORKING                             9    

Media access control – Ethernet (802.3) – Wireless LAN’ s – 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.