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RAMAKRISHNAN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
COURSE PLAN 2013 2014 ODD SEMESTER

SUBJECT NAME : EC2352 COMPUTER NETWORKS

STAFF NAME : SATHISH S, AP/CSE
CLASS : III ECE SEMESTER: VI
ACADEMIC YEAR : 2013 2014

UNIT I - PHYSICAL LAYER

Time
Session Teaching
Topics to be covered Propose Date Allocation
No Method
(min)
1 Networks-Definition, need for networks, basic
building blockscomputing
of networks, 50
2 Distributed Vs performance measures
computer networks,
of performance,
a network
3 Topology of networks-bus, ring, star, mesh,and
Factors that affect security tree. 50
reliability of categories
networks, of
applications
networks-offunctions
networks,
4 OSI Model-Layered Architecture, 50
Data communications-components,
LAN,MAN,WAN,addressing-logical addresses,
5 TCPprotocols,
/ IP protocol suite. Guided
standards, Transmission
standards media-
organizations 50
physical addresses, port addresses, specific addresses
6 twisted pair, coaxial cable, optical fiber-problems
Unguided Transmission media -wireless media- 50
Radio waves, microwave and BB/PPT
Circuit switched networks Vssatellite-problems.
Packet switched
7 networks; Data gram Networks Vs Virtual circuit 50
Cable networks fornetworks.
Data transmission: Dialup
8 modems EIA 232,EIA-449,EIA-530 Interface 50
standards
DSL ADSL,RADSL, HDSL, SDSL,
9 50
VDSL- Cable networks for Data transfer.

UNIT II- DATA LINK LAYER

Session Time Teaching
Topics to be covered Propose Date Allocation
No Method
Framing-fixed size framing, variable size framing, (min)
1 Flow control, Error control 50
Protocols for Noiseless and Noisy Channels-go back
2 n ARQ, selective repeat ARQ, stop and wait ARQ, 50
sliding protocol.
3 Bit oriented protocols-HDLC, Bit stuffing in HDLC, 50
RandomEthernet-IEEE
access-ALOHA, Slotted
802.1, ALOHA,
Frame format,CSMA-
4 CD,CSMA-CA,
CSMA/CD, 10BASE-5,controlled
10BASE-2, access.
10BASE-T, 50 BB/PPT
5 switched Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, fast
Wireless LANS : IEEE 802.11architecture Ethernet-
and 50
100BASE-TX,
Medium 100BASE-FX,
Access protocols, 100BASE-T4
Bluetooth
Routing algorithms-Distance vector, Link state
6 Connecting devices- Repeaters, bridges, 50
algorithm, Backbone networks, Virtual LANS
7 ArchitectureRouters, gateways,
and Layers switches
of Frame Relay, congestion 50
control, leaky and
Architecture bucket algorithm,
Layers traffic control
of ATM-switching,
8 switching fabrics, service classes 50
 UNIT III NETWORK LAYER
Time
Session Teaching
Topics to be covered Propose Date Allocation
No Method
(min)
1 IPv4 addressing-classes, dotted-decimal
notation,subnetting,masking,NAT 50
2 IPv6 addresses-Address, packet formats
Internetworking, IPv4,IPV6,transition from IPV4 to
3 50
IPV6
4 Address mapping :ARP, RARP, BOOTP, DHCP 50
5 ICMP-Message format, error reporting, query 50
6 IGMP-IGMP messages, packet 50 BB/PPT
format,operation,encapsulation
Delivery and Forwarding-techniques,process,routing
7 table 50
Unicast routing-shortest path routing, Distance
8 50
vector routing, link state routing, path vector routing
Multicast routing protocols-routing and routing
9 50
protocols

UNIT IV TRANSPORT LAYER

Time
Session Teaching
Topics to be covered Propose Date Allocation
No Method
(min)
Process-to-Process delivery-connection oriented and
1 connection less service, reliable and unreliable service 50
Process to process delivery- flow control and
2 buffering ,multiplexing,crash recovery 50
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)-service model,
3 protocol, segment header, connection management, 50
transmission policy

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) congestion

4 control, timer management, UDP 50

Congestion Control-open loop and closed loop, BB/PPT

5 congestion control in VC subnets 50

Congestion Control-choke packets, load shedding,

6 jitter control, congestion control for multicasting 50

Quality of services (QoS)-best effort service, flow

7 characteristics, flow classes 50

Techniques to improve QoS-scheduling,traffic

8 shaping, resource reservation, admission control 50
 UNIT V APPLICATION LAYER
Time
Session Teaching
Topics to be covered Propose Date Allocation
No Method
(min)
1 DNS-Namespaces,resource records,name servers 50
E-mail-Architecture and services,user agent,message
2
formats,RFC 822,MIME
E-mail-Message transfer,email privacy,PGP,PEM. 50
3 File transfer protocol
WWW- client side,server side,HTTP,writing web
4 pages in HTML,Basics of HTML,forms
50
WWW-Basics of JAVA,API,locating information on
5 web
Multimedia-Audio,video,data compression,video on
6 demand,multicast backbone 50

Cryptography-substitution ciphers,transposition
ciphers.symmetric key algorithms-DES,chaining BB/PPT
7 50
DES,Breaking DES
Public key algorithms-RSA and other algorithms
8 50
Digital signatures-secret key signatures, public key
9 signatures, message digests, Birthday attacks, 50
Management of public keys
Authentication protocols-based on a shared secret
10 key, establishing a shared key,Diffie-Hellman key
exchange
Authentication protocols-using key distribution 50
center, authentication using Kerberos, using public
11
key cryptography

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