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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

 

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Textbook

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

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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

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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

 

  

 

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