Data Communication - Networks – Network Types – Protocol Layering – TCP/IP Protocol suite – OSI Model – Introduction to Sockets - Application Layer protocols: HTTP – FTP – Email protocols SMTP - POP3 - IMAP - MIME – DNS – SNMP
Introduction - Transport-Layer Protocols: UDP – TCP: Connection Management – Flow control - Congestion Control - Congestion avoidance (DECbit, RED) – SCTP – Quality of Service - Switching : Packet Switching - Internet protocol - IPV4 – IP Addressing – Subnetting - IPV6, ARP, RARP, ICMP, DHCP
Data Link Layer – Framing – Flow control – Error control – Data-Link Layer Protocols – HDLC – PPP - Media Access Control – Ethernet Basics – CSMA/CD – Virtual LAN – Wireless LAN (802.11) - Physical Layer: Data and Signals - Performance – Transmission media- Switching – Circuit Switching
Authentication overview - Authentication protocols - Authentication and key establishment – key exchange - mediated key exchange - User Authentication – password-based authentication - password security - Certificate Authority and key management - digital signatures – digital Certificates.
Basics of cryptography -cryptographic hash functions - symmetric and public-key encryption - public key cryptography principles & algorithms - cipher block modes of operation - Secure Hash Functions – HMAC
Reference Book:
M. Speciner, R. Perlman, C. Kaufman “Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World,” , Prentice Hall, 2002 Cryptography and network Security, Third edition, Stallings, PHI/Pearson A look back at Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, S. Bellovin, ACSAC 2004 Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., 2012 William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Tenth Edition, Pearson Education, 2013
Text Book:
Behrouz A. Forouzan, Data Communications and Networking with TCP/IP Protocol Suite, Sixth Edition TMH, 2022 Network Security Essentials (Applications and Standards) by William Stallings Pearson Education, Sixth edition, 2018