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The Computer Networks course aims to equip students with fundamental networking concepts, protocols, and challenges related to data flow and error control. The syllabus covers various topics including network topologies, models, protocols, and switching techniques over 18 weeks, culminating in a final examination. Recommended textbooks include works by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and James F. Kurose.

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Computer Networks Outline

The Computer Networks course aims to equip students with fundamental networking concepts, protocols, and challenges related to data flow and error control. The syllabus covers various topics including network topologies, models, protocols, and switching techniques over 18 weeks, culminating in a final examination. Recommended textbooks include works by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and James F. Kurose.

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Computer Networks

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
When students complete this course, they will be able to:
 Understand the fundamental concepts of networking.
 Know different protocols and working
 Identify the challenges involved in data flow and error control.
SYLLABUS:
WEEK TOPICS
1. Networking Concepts

2. Topologies: Bus, Star, Ring, Tree, Mesh


3. Need of Networks, Peer- to-Peer networks, Client- Server Networks, Hybrid Networks
4. Network Models,TCP/IP Model, IP and Routing
5. OSI Reference Model
6. Data Encoding/Framing, Error Detection/Correction & Control Techniques, Error
Control Techniques
7. Ethernet and FDDI
8. High Level Data Link Control Protocols (HDLC, Stop & Wait, Sliding Window)
9. Mid Term Examination
10. Cell Switching and ATM, Bridges, Hubs, Switches, Router
11. End-to-End Protocols, UDP and RPC
12. Routing and Routed Protocols: RIP, OSPF, IGRP and EIGRP
13. DHCP, Domain Name System (DNS)
14. WWW Protocols, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SNMP Protocols
15. CSMA, CSMA/CD, Token Passing, NICs
16. Switching Techniques, Circuit and Packet Switching, Message Switching, Structure
of a Switch
17. Logical Addressing, IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing and Packet Structure, Transition from
IPv4 to IPv6
18. Final Examination

TEXT/ REFERENCE BOOKS:


1. Computer Networks; 3rd Edition By Andrew S.Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall.
2. Computer networks: a systems approach, Larry Peterson, Bruce Davie, Princeton Univ.,
Princeton.
3. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 2/e, James F Kurose,
Keith W Ross, Addison Wesley 2003. ISBN: 0-201-97699-4
4. Stallings, W. (2007). Data and Computer Communications (8 th Ed.). Prentice Hall.

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