Computer networks and Internet, network types, Performance, OSI Model, Transmission media.
Services, ARP, DLC Protocols, HDLC, PPP, Media Access Control, Wired LANs: Ethernet, Wireless LANs: IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, Connecting devices: Hubs, Routers, Switches.
Services, Virtual circuit and Datagram networks, IP: Datagram-IPV4 Addressing-ICMPv4, IPv6 Protocol, Routing Algorithms, Unicast Routing Protocols
Services, UDP: Datagram-Services-Applications, TCP: Services-Segment-Connection-Windows-Flow control-Error control- Congestion control.
WWW and HTTP, FTP, Email, Telnet, SSH, Multimedia Networking: RTP, RTCP
Reference Book:
1 William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Tenth Edition, Pearson Education, 2013. 2 Andrew Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Fifth Edition, Pearson (5th Edition) Education, 2013. 3 James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking, A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Sixth Edition, Pearson Education, 2013. 4 Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., 2012.
Text Book:
1 Behrouz A. Forouzan, Data Communications and Networking, Fifth Edition TMH, 2013.
