A Course Outline About Computer Networks
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This document outlines a course about computer networks. It covers 9 major topics: introduction, the physical layer, data link layer, medium access layer, network layer, transport layer, application layer, network security, and conclusions. Each topic is further broken down into 3 or more subsections that will be taught as part of the course. The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of computer network concepts and protocols.
A Course Outline About Computer Networks
- 1. A Course Outline About Computer Networks A COURSE OUTLINE ABOUT COMPUTER NETWORKS Muhammad Adil Raja Roaming Researchers, Inc. October 14, 2014
- 2. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 3. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 4. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 5. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 6. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 7. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 8. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 9. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 10. A Course Outline About Computer Networks OUTLINE 1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 8 NETWORK SECURITY 9 CONCLUSIONS
- 11. A Course Outline About Computer Networks Introduction INTRODUCTION I 1 Uses Of Computer Networks. 1 Business Applications. 2 Home Applications. 3 Mobile Users 4 Social Issues 2 Network Hardware 1 Personal Area Networks. 2 Local Area Networks. 3 Metropolitan Area Networks. 4 Wide Area Networks. 5 Internetworks. 3 Network Software. 1 Protocol Hierarchies. 2 Design Issues for the Layers. 3 Connection-Oriented Versus Connectionless Service.
- 12. A Course Outline About Computer Networks Introduction INTRODUCTION II 4 Service Primitives. 5 The Relationship of Services to Protocols. 4 Reference Models, 1 The OSI Reference Model. 2 The TCP/IP Reference Model. 3 The Model Used in This Book. 4 A Comparison of the OSI and TCP/IP Reference Models. 5 A Critique of the OSI Model and Protocols. 6 A Critique of the TCP/IP Reference Model. 5 Example Networks. 1 The Internet 2 Third-Generation Mobile Phone Networks. 3 Wireless LANs: 802.11. 4 RFID and Sensor Networks. 6 Network Standardization.
- 13. A Course Outline About Computer Networks Introduction INTRODUCTION III 1 Who’s Who in the Telecommunications World. 2 Who’s Who in the International Standards World. 3 Who’s Who in the Internet Standards World. 7 Metric Units.
- 14. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Physical Layer THE PHYSICAL LAYER I 1 The Theoretical Basis For Data Communication. 1 Fourier Analysis. 2 Bandwidth-Limited Signals. 3 The Maximum Data Rate of a Channel. 2 Guided Transmission Media. 1 Magnetic Media. 2 Twisted Pairs. 3 Coaxial Cable. 4 Power Lines. 5 Fiber Optics. 3 Wireless Transmission. 1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum 2 Radio Transmission. 3 Microwave Transmission. 4 Infrared Transmission.
- 15. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Physical Layer THE PHYSICAL LAYER II 5 Light Transmission. 4 Communication Satellites. 1 Geostationary Satellites. 2 Medium-Earth Orbit Satellites. 3 Low-Earth Orbit Satellites. 4 Satellites Versus Fiber. 5 Digital Modulation And Multiplexing. 1 Baseband Transmission. 2 Passband Transmission. 3 Frequency Division Multiplexing. 4 Time Division Multiplexing. 5 Code Division Multiplexing. 6 The Public Switched Telephone Network. 1 Structure of the Telephone System. 2 The Politics of Telephones.
- 16. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Physical Layer THE PHYSICAL LAYER III 3 The Local Loop: Modems. ADSL, and Fiber. 4 Trunks and Multiplexing. 5 Switching. 7 The Mobile Telephone System. 1 First-Generation (coco1G) Mobile Phones: Analog Voice. 2 Second-Generation (2G) Mobile Phones: Digital Voice. 3 Third-Generation (3G) Mobile Phones: Digital Voice and Data. 8 Cable Television. 1 Community Antenna Television. 2 Internet over Cable. 3 Spectrum Allocation. 4 Cable Modems. 5 Adsl Versus Cable.
- 17. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Data Link Layer THE DATA LINK LAYER I 1 Data Link Layer Design Issues. 1 Services Provided to the Network Layer. 2 Framing. 3 Error Control. 4 Flow Control 2 Error Detection And Correction. 1 Error-Correcting Codes. 2 Error-Detecting Codes. 3 Elementary Data Link Protocols. 1 A Utopian Simplex Protocol. 2 A Simplex Stop-and-Wait Protocol for an Error-Free Channel. 3 A Simplex Stop-and-Wait Protocol for a Noisy Channel. 4 Sliding Window Protocols. 1 A One-Bit Sliding Window Protocol.
- 18. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Data Link Layer THE DATA LINK LAYER II 2 A Protocol Using Go-Back-N. 3 A Protocol Using Selective Repeat. 5 Example Data Link Protocols. 1 Packet over SONET. 2 ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop).
- 19. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Medium Access Layer Control Sublayer THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER I 1 The Channel Allocation Problem. 1 Static Channel Allocation. 2 Assumptions for Dynamic Channel Allocation. 2 Multiple Access Protocols. 1 ALOHA. 2 Carrier Sense Multiple Access Protocols. 3 Collision-Free Protocols. 4 Limited-Contention Protocols. 5 Wireless LAN Protocols. 3 Ethernet. 1 Classic Ethernet Physical Layer. 2 Classic Ethernet MAC Sublayer Protocol. 3 Ethernet Performance. 4 Switched Ethernet. 5 Fast Ethernet.
- 20. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Medium Access Layer Control Sublayer THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER II 6 Gigabit Ethernet. 7 10-Gigabit Ethernet. 8 Retrospective on Ethernet. 4 Wireless Lans. 1 The 802.11 Architecture and Protocol Stack. 2 The 802.11 Physical Layer. 3 301 4.4.3 The 802.11 MAC Sublayer Protocol. 4 The 802.11 Frame Structure. 5 Services. 5 Broadband Wireless. 1 Comparison of 802.16 with 802.11 and 3G. 2 The 802.16 Architecture and Protocol Stack. 3 The 802.16 Physical Layer. 4 The 802.16 MAC Sublayer Protocol.
- 21. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Medium Access Layer Control Sublayer THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER III 5 The 802.16 Frame Structure. 6 Bluetooth. 1 Bluetooth Architecture. 2 Bluetooth Applications. 3 The Bluetooth Protocol Stack, 4 The Bluetooth Radio Layer. 5 The Bluetooth Link Layers. 6 The Bluetooth Frame Structure. 7 RFID. 1 EPC Gen 2 Architecture. 2 EPC Gen 2 Physical Layer. 3 EPC Gen 2 Tag Identification Layer. 4 Tag Identification Message Formats. 8 Data Link Layer Switching.
- 22. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Medium Access Layer Control Sublayer THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER IV 1 Uses of Bridges. 2 Learning Bridges. 3 Spanning Tree Bridges. 4 Repeaters, Hubs, Bridges, Switches, Routers, and Gateways. 5 Virtual LANs.
- 23. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Network Layer THE NETWORK LAYER I 1 Network Layer Design Issues. 1 Store-and-Forward Packet Switching. 2 Services Provided to the Transport Layer. 3 Implementation of Connectionless Service. 4 Implementation of Connection-Oriented Service. 5 Comparison of Virtual-Circuit and Datagram Networks. 2 Routing Algorithms. 1 The Optimality Principle. 2 Shortest Path Algorithm. 3 Flooding. 4 Distance Vector Routing. 5 Link State Routing. 6 Hierarchical Routing. 7 Broadcast Routing. 8 Multicast Routing.
- 24. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Network Layer THE NETWORK LAYER II 9 Anycast Routing. 10 Routing for Mobile Hosts. 11 Routing in Ad Hoc Networks. 3 Congestion Control Algorithms. 1 Approaches to Congestion Control. 2 Traffic-Aware Routing. 3 Admission Control. 4 Traffic Throttling. 5 Load Shedding. 4 Quality Of Service. 1 Application Requirements. 2 Traffic Shaping. 3 Packet Scheduling. 4 Admission Control. 5 Integrated Services. 6 Differentiated Services.
- 25. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Network Layer THE NETWORK LAYER III 5 Internetworking, 1 How Networks Differ. 2 How Networks Can Be Connected. 3 Tunneling. 4 Internetwork Routing. 5 Packet Fragmentation. 6 The Network Layer In The Internet. 1 The IP Version 4 Protocol. 2 IP Addresses. 3 IP Version. 4 Internet Control Protocols. 5 Label Switching and MPLS. 6 OSPFÑAn Interior Gateway Routing Protocol. 7 BGPÑThe Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol. 8 Internet Multicasting. 9 Mobile IP.
- 26. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Transport Layer THE TRANSPORT LAYER I 1 The Transport Service. 1 Services Provided to the Upper Layers. 2 Transport Service Primitives. 3 Berkeley Sockets. 4 An Example of Socket Programming: An Internet File Server. 2 Elements Of Transport Protocols. 1 Addressing. 2 Connection Establishment. 3 Connection Release. 4 Error Control and Flow Control. 5 Multiplexing. 6 Crash Recovery. 3 Congestion Control 1 Desirable Bandwidth Allocation.
- 27. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Transport Layer THE TRANSPORT LAYER II 2 Regulating the Sending Rate. 3 Wireless Issues. 4 The Internet Transport Protocols: Udp. 1 Introduction to UDP. 2 Remote Procedure Call. 3 Real-Time Transport Protocols. 5 The Internet Transport Protocols: Tcp. 1 Introduction to TCP. 2 The TCP Service Model. 3 The TCP Protocol. 4 The TCP Segment Header. 5 TCP Connection Establishment. 6 TCP Connection Release. 7 TCP Connection Management Modeling. 8 TCP Sliding Window. 9 TCP Timer Management.
- 28. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Transport Layer THE TRANSPORT LAYER III 10 TCP Congestion Control. 11 The Future of TCP. 6 Performance Issues. 1 Performance Problems in Computer Networks. 2 Network Performance Measurement. 3 Host Design for Fast Networks? 4 Fast Segment Processing?? 5 Header Compression 6 Protocols for Long Fat Networks. 7 Delay-Tolerant Networking 1 DTN Architecture. 2 The Bundle Protocol.
- 29. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Application Layer THE APPLICATION LAYER I 1 DNS – The Domain Name System. 1 The DNS Name Space. 2 Domain Resource Records. 3 Name Servers. 2 ELECTRONIC MAIL* 1 Architecture and Services. 2 The User Agent. 3 Message Formats. 4 Message Transfer. 5 Final Delivery. 3 The World Wide Web. 1 Architectural Overview. 2 Static Web Pages. 3 Dynamic Web Pages and Web Applications. 4 HTTP – The HyperText Transfer Protocol.
- 30. A Course Outline About Computer Networks The Application Layer THE APPLICATION LAYER II 5 The Mobile Web. 6 Web Search. 4 Streaming Audio And Video. 1 Digital Audio. 2 Digital Video. 3 Streaming Stored Media. 4 Streaming Live Media. 5 Real-Time Conferencing. 5 Content Delivery. 1 Content and Internet Traffic. 2 Server Farms and Web Proxies. 3 Content Delivery Networks. 4 Peer-to-Peer Networks.
- 31. A Course Outline About Computer Networks Network Security NETWORK SECURITY I 1 Cryptography. 1 Introduction to Cryptography. 2 Substitution Ciphers. 3 Transposition Ciphers. 4 One-Time Pads. 5 Two Fundamental Cryptographic Principles. 2 Symmetric-Key Algorithms 1 DESÑThe Data Encryption Standard. 2 AESÑThe Advanced Encryption Standard. 3 Cipher Modes. 4 Other Ciphers. 5 Cryptanalysis. 3 Public-Key Algorithms 1 RSA. 2 Other Public-Key Algorithms.
- 32. A Course Outline About Computer Networks Network Security NETWORK SECURITY II 4 Digital Signatures. 1 Symmetric-Key Signatures. 2 Public-Key Signatures. 3 Message Digests. 4 The Birthday Attack. 5 Management Of Public Keys. 1 Certificates. 2 X.509. 3 Public Key Infrastructures. 6 Communication Security. 1 IPsec, 814. 2 Firewalls. 3 Virtual Private Networks. 4 Wireless Security. 7 Authentication Protocols.
- 33. A Course Outline About Computer Networks Network Security NETWORK SECURITY III 1 Authentication Based on a Shared Secret Key. 2 Establishing a Shared Key: The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange. 3 Authentication Using a Key Distribution Center. 4 Authentication Using Kerberos. 5 Authentication Using Public-Key Cryptography. 8 Email Security. 1 PGPÑPretty Good Privacy. 2 S/MIME. 9 Web Security. 1 Threats. 2 Secure Naming. 3 SSLÑThe Secure Sockets Layer. 4 Mobile Code Security. 10 Social Issues
- 34. A Course Outline About Computer Networks Network Security NETWORK SECURITY IV 1 Privacy. 2 Freedom of Speech. 3 Copyright.
- 35. A Course Outline About Computer Networks Conclusions CONCLUSIONS I 1 Computer Networks – Andrew S. Tanenbaum – 5th Edition.