Overview of Data Communications- Networks – Building Network and its types– Overview of Internet - Protocol Layering - OSI Mode – Physical Layer – Overview of Data and Signals - introduction to Data Link Layer - Link layer Addressing- Error Detection and Correction
Overview of Data link Control and Media access control - Ethernet (802.3) - Wireless LANs – Available Protocols – Bluetooth – Bluetooth Low Energy – WiFi – 6LowPAN–Zigbee - Network layer services – Packet Switching – IPV4 Address – Network layer protocols ( IP, ICMP, Mobile IP)
Routing - Unicast Routing – Algorithms – Protocols – Multicast Routing and its basics – Overview of Intradomain and interdomain protocols – Overview of IPv6 Addressing – Transition from IPv4 to IPv6
Introduction to Transport layer –Protocols- User Datagram Protocols (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocols (TCP) –Services – Features – TCP Connection – State Transition Diagram – Flow, Error and Congestion Control - Congestion avoidance (DECbit, RED) – QoS – Application requirements
Application Layer Paradigms – Client Server Programming – World Wide Web and HTTP - DNS- - Electronic Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME) – Introduction to Peer to Peer Networks – Need for Cryptography and Network Security – Firewalls.
Reference Book:
1. James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, ―Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet‖, Seventh Edition, Pearson Education, 2016. 2. Nader. F. Mir,― Computer and Communication Networks‖, Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers, 2nd Edition, 2014. 3. Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Fred Baker, ―Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach‖, Mc Graw Hill Publisher, 2011. 4. Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, ―Computer Networks: A Systems Approach‖, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011.
Text Book:
Behrouz A. Forouzan, ―Data communication and Networking‖, Fifth Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill, 2013 (UNIT I –V)
