CS6551 COMPUTER NETWORKS Syllabus Semester V IT BTECH Anna University-Regulation-2013

CS6551                                           COMPUTER NETWORKS                                                   L T P C
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OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:

• Understand the division of network functionalities into layers.
• Be familiar with the components  required to build different types  of networks
• Be exposed to the required functionality at each layer
• Learn the flow control and congestion control algorithms

UNIT I         FUNDAMENTALS & LINK LAYER                                                                                    9
Building  a  network  –  Requirements  -  Layering  and  protocols  -  Internet  Architecture  –  Network software – Performance ; Link layer Services  -  Framing - Error Detection - Flow control

UNIT II        MEDIA ACCESS & INTERNETWORKING                                                                         9
Media access control - Ethernet (802.3) - Wireless LANs – 802.11 – Bluetooth - Switching and bridging – Basic Internetworking (IP, CIDR, ARP, DHCP,ICMP )

UNIT III       ROUTING                                                                                                                           9
Routing (RIP, OSPF, metrics) – Switch basics – Global Internet (Areas, BGP, IPv6), Multicast –
addresses – multicast routing (DVMRP, PIM)

UNIT IV      TRANSPORT LAYER                                                                                                          9
Overview of Transport layer - UDP - Reliable byte stream (TCP) - Connection management - Flow control - Retransmission – TCP Congestion control - Congestion avoidance (DECbit, RED) – QoS – Application requirements

UNIT V      APPLICATION LAYER                                                                                                        9
Traditional applications  -Electronic Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME) – HTTP – Web Services – DNS
- SNMP


OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

• Identify the components required to build different types  of networks
• Choose the required functionality at each layer for given application
• Identify solution for each functionality at each layer

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

• Trace the flow of information from one node to another node in the network

TEXT BOOK:

1. Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, “Computer Networks: A systems approach”, Fifth Edition,

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011.


REFERENCES:

1. James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, “Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach Featuring the

Internet”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2009.

2. Nader. F. Mir, “ Computer  and  Comm unication  Network s  ”, Pearson Prentice Hall  Publishers,

2010.

3. Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Fred Baker, “Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach”,

Mc Graw Hill Publisher, 2011.

4. Behrouz A. Forouzan, “Data communication and Networking”, Fourth Edition, Tata McGraw –

Hill, 2011.



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