Course Description

Table of Contents:

General Information

Textbook

Coursework

Syllabus

Introduction, OSI Model, Internet TCP/IP Protocol Stack (1 week)

Physical Layer (2 weeks)

Datalink Layer: Logical Link Control (LLC) Sublayer (2 weeks)

Datalink Layer: Medium Access Control (MAC) Sublayer (2 weeks)

Network Layer (2 weeks)

Transport Layer (2 weeks)

Application Layer / Network Security (2 weeks)

General Information

There is one section of COMP241 during the first semester of 2007/2008

Please make sure that you are in the correct room(building 1 first floor Lab 3) for lectures.

Additional COMP210 course information appears on the COMP241 Home Page

 

                                                     Back to top

Textbook

Computer Networks, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

                                                               Back to top

Evaluation

• First Exam (20%)
  •  In-class 1-hour closed-book exam on the 11^th-12^th week of the semester.
• Second Exam (20%)
  • In-class 1-hour closed-book exam on the 7^th-8^th week of the semester.
• Assignments, Reports, Homework, and Quizzes (10%)
• Final Exam (50%)
  • 120-minute closed-book final exam

                                                              Back to top

Syllabus

• Introduction, OSI Model, Internet TCP/IP Protocol Stack ( Intro Slides )
  • Readings: sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
  • Lecture Material:
    • Course overview (slides 1-10), administrative information (handout)
    • Resource sharing (slides 24-29), LAN/WAN (slides 22-23), client/server (slides 30-37), OSI model (slides 71-96)
    •  Protocols/interfaces (slides 67,70), OSI model recap (slides 78,81-82,97), Internet TCP/IP protocol stack (slides 110-113), layering example (slides 98-109)
• Physical Layer ( Physical Layer Slides )
  • Readings: sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.5.1, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.8, 4.3.2
  • Lecture Material:
    •  Physical layer (slides 1,2), transmission basics (notes), some physics (slides 75,12-14), impairments (slides 16-22)
    •  Bandwidth concepts (slides 23, 37, 15), analog/digital signalling (slides 3-6), Nyquist Theorem (slides 32), Shannon Theorem (notes), advantages of digital transmission (slides 25-30),
    •  Transmission media (Dr Mahanti, slides 50-70,73)
    •  Digital signalling schemes (slides 7-10), analog signalling schemes (slides 11-13, 31, 33-36)
    •  Modems (slides 38-42), constellation diagrams (slide 36), multiplexing (slides 91-100)
    •  Circuit-switching and packet-switching (slides 104-119 plus bonus slides), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (slides 125-131)
• Datalink Layer: Logical Link Control (LLC) Sublayer ( Logical Link Control Slides )
  • Readings: sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7
  • Lecture Material:
    •  Data link layer overview (slides 2, 6), functions and services (slides 7-11), framing (slides 13-21)
    •  Error control (slides 25-42), error detection, error correction, examples
    •  Error correction (cont'd), flow control protocols (slide 43), demo, stop and wait protocol (slides 44-48)
    •  Flow control (cont'd), PAR protocol, sliding window protocols (slides 51-56)
    •  Go-back-N (slides 60-61), selective repeat (slides 62-63), example datalink layer protocols (slides 64-68), DLL protocol performance (slides 58-59)
• Datalink Layer: Medium Access Control (MAC) Sublayer ( Medium Access Control Slides )
  • Readings: sections 4.1, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7
  • Lecture Material:
    • Medium Access Control (MAC) sublayer (slides 1-4), Channel access protocols (slide 5-8), ALOHA (slides 9-10)
    •  Slotted ALOHA (slide 12), Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) Protocols (slides 13-15)
    •  CSMA/CD (slide 16), IEEE 802.3 Ethernet LANs (slides 19-57)
    •  Ethernet LANs (cont'd), VLANs (slides 65-69)
    •  IEEE 802.11b Wireless LANs (slides 70-79 )

• Network Layer :( Network Layer Slides )
  • Readings: sections 5.1, 5.2.1-5.2.6, 5.3.1-5.3.5, 5.5, 5.6
  • Lecture Material:
    •  Service models, Datagram, Virtual Circuit (slides 2-9)
    •  Routing, Shortest-Path, Distance Vector, Link State (slides 10-22, plus Distance-Vector Example)
    •  Hierarchical Routing, Congestion Control, Internetworking
    • Internet Protocol IPv4, IP Addressing, Subnets (slides 29-35, 41-57)
    •  CIDR, NAT, DHCP, ARP, RARP (slides 60-68)
    •  RIP, OSPF, BGP, Mobile IP (slides 37-40)
• Transport Layer ( Transport Layer Slides )
  • Readings: sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.5
  • Lecture Material:
    •  Transport layer functionality, Service models (slides 1-10)
    •  Connection management, Flow control, Error control, Transport service primitives (slides 11-14),
    •  Socket programming API (sockets slides), Client/server example, User Datagram Protocol UDP (slides 15-20)
    • Transmission Control Protocol TCP (slides 21-50)
    •  TCP features, TCP versions, TCP analysis (bonus slides)
    • Wireless TCP performance issues (Wireless TCP slides), HTTP and TCP issues (HTTP and TCP slides)

• Application Layer/Network Security: (security slides)
  • Readings: sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.6
  • Lecture Material:
    •  Domain Name System (DNS slides), World Wide Web
    •  Electronic mail, Network security (slides 1-3), Firewalls (slides 73-86)
    •  Symmetric encryption (slides 7-8), Public-key cryptography (slides 9-11), Digital signatures (slides 12-15)
    • Certificate authorities (slides 20-41), Secure Socket Layer (slides 43-53)
    •  Virtual Private Networks (slides 54-55), IPsec (slides 56-70)
    •  Recap and review, Discuss final exam

Module 1	Module 2	Module 3	Module 4
Module 5	Module 6	Module 7	Module 8
Module 9		Module 10

  

Back to top