CS6551 COMPUTER NETWORKS L T P C 3
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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. 9
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS