Building a network, Requirements ,Data communication Components , Data representation and Data flow ,Networks , Types of Connections , Topologies , Protocols and Standards, Layering and protocols ,Internet Architecture , Network software , Performance , Transmission Media, Networking Devices.
Link layer Services, Framing, Error Detection and Error Correction, Flow control, Media access control ,Random Access, CSMA/CD,CDMA/CA, Ethernet (802.3) ,Wireless LANs, 802.11 , Virtual LANs
Logical addressing, Basic Internetworking (IP, CIDR, ARP, BOOTP DHCP, ICMP), Routing algorithms, Routing (RIP, OSPF, metrics), Global Internet (Areas, BGP, IPv6), SDN.
Overview of Transport layer , UDP , Reliable byte stream (TCP), SCTP, Connection management , Flow control , Retransmission , TCP Congestion control , QoS , Application requirements, Socket Programming.
Traditional applications, Electronic Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME), HTTP, Web Services, DNS, DDNS, TELNET, File transfer Protocol. Case Studies – Hybrid Cloud Networking – Amazon VPC, Google Cloud, Azure
Reference Book:
1.James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, “Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internetâ€, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2009. 2.Nader. F. Mir, “Computer and Communication Networksâ€, Second Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers, 2010. 3.Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Fred Baker, “Computer Networks: An Open Source Approachâ€, Second Edition, Mc Graw Hill Publisher, 2011. 4.William Stallings, “Data and Computer Communicationâ€, Eighth Edition, Pearson Education, 2007. 5.A.S. Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", Fourth Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
Text Book:
1.Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, “Computer Networks: A Systems Approachâ€, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011. 2.Behrouz A. Forouzan, “Data communication and Networkingâ€, Fourth Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill, 2011.
