Data Communication and Networking for Todays Enterprise - A communications Model- Data Communications - Networks - The Internet. The Need for a Protocol Architecture - The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture- The OSI Model - Standardization within a Protocol Architecture-Traditional Internet-Based Applications-Multimedia.
Concepts and Terminology - Analog and Digital Data Transmission - Transmission Impairments - Channel Capacity. Transmission Media: Guided Transmission Media - Wireless Transmission - Wireless Propagation - Line-of-sight Transmission.
Digital data, Digital Signals - Digital Data, Analog signals - Analog Data, Digital signals - Analog Data, Analog signals, Digital Data Communication Techniques: Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission - Types of Errors - Error Detection - Error Correction - Line Configurations.
Protocol Architecture- ATM Logical Connections - ATM Cells - Transmission of ATM Cells - ATM Service Categories. Congestion Control in Data Networks: Effects of Congestion - Congestion control - Traffic Management- Congestion Control in Packet-switching Networks - Frame Relay Congestion Control - ATM Traffic Management - ATM GFR Traffic Management.
Basic Protocol Functions - Principles of Internetworking - Internet Protocol Operation - Internet Protocol - IPv6 - Virtual Private Networks and IP Security. Transport protocols: Connection oriented Transport Protocol Mechanisms - TCP - TCP Congestion Control - UDP 693
Reference Book:
Computer Networks, Andrew S Tanenbaum and David J Wetherall, fifth edition, Pearson Publisher,2010
Text Book:
Data and Computer Communications,Tenth Edition, William Stallings, Pearson Prentice hall, 2014
