CS4

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CS4

• Computer Networks
• Hitesh Tewari
• Room - F.38 ORI
• Tel - 608 2896
• Email - htewari_at_cs.tcd.ie
• http//ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/htewari/

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Course Details

• Course duration
• 9 weeks
• 3 hrs of lectures/week
• Tuesday 7-10pm in M21
• Examination
• June Exam counts for 80 of marks
• Exam paper consists of 2 sections
• Required to attempt at least 2 questions from
  each section and the third from either
• Coursework comprises of 20 of marks

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Course Outline

• Introduction
• Computer Networks
• Standards Bodies
• OSI Reference Model
• Peer-to-Peer Communications
• Physical Layer
• Encoding Schemes
• RS-232 Interface
• Modems
• Circuit and Packet Switching
• ADSL
• Data Link Layer
• Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission
• Character and Bit Oriented Framing
• Flow Control
• Error Control
• SLIP PPP

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Course Outline

• Local Area Network Protocols
• Transmission Techniques
• Network Topologies
• The IEEE 802 Standard
• Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)
• Token Ring (IEEE 802.5)
• High Speed Networks
• The Need for High Speed LANs
• Fast Ethernet (IEEE 802.3u)
• VG-anyLAN (IEEE 802.12)
• LAN Switching
• FDDI
• Security Issues
• Classical Cryptography
• Symmetric Key Cryptography
• Asymmetric Key Cryptography
• Digital Signatures

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Course Outline

• The Internet Suite of Protocols
• Internet Protocol (IP)
• ARP and RARP
• Routing Issues
• Addressing Subnets
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• IPv6
• Broadband Issues
• ISDN
• B-ISDN
• ATM

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Text Books

• Computer Networks, 3rd Ed.,
• Andrew Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall
• Data Communications, Computer Networks Open
  Systems, 4th Ed.,
• Fred Halsall, Addison Wesley
• Data Computer Communications, 5th Ed.,
• William Stallings, Prentice Hall
• Electronic Payment Systems, 2nd Ed.,
• Donal OMahony et al., Artech House
• Interworking with TCP/IP, Vol 1 Principles,
  Protocols and Architecture, 3rd Ed.,
• Douglas E. Comer, Prentice Hall