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This document provides an overview of the CSI2103 Computer Networks and Data Communications I course. The course aims to equip students with foundational knowledge of modern computer networks. Key learning outcomes include understanding network layers, packet routing, error correction, and configuring simple networks. The course content will cover network architectures, protocols, standards, physical and data link layers, routing, transport layer, applications, security, and network design. Assessment includes coursework, labs, assignments, projects, and a final exam. Recommended reading materials are also listed.

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This document provides an overview of the CSI2103 Computer Networks and Data Communications I course. The course aims to equip students with foundational knowledge of modern computer networks. Key learning outcomes include understanding network layers, packet routing, error correction, and configuring simple networks. The course content will cover network architectures, protocols, standards, physical and data link layers, routing, transport layer, applications, security, and network design. Assessment includes coursework, labs, assignments, projects, and a final exam. Recommended reading materials are also listed.

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CSI2103

Computer Networks and Data


Communications I

LECTURE 0
Course Leaders
• Mr. Dave Sarran (dave.sarran@uog.edu.gy)
• Mr. Devindra Kashrinandan (TBA)
• Mr. Timothy Velloza (TBA)
Aims
• This course is intended for students pursuing the two-year full time
Associate Degree in Computer Science program.

• This course will equip the students with the foundational knowledge
required to understand major aspects of modern computer networks.
Learning Outcomes
• Discuss the evolution of modern computer networks and the internet.

• Describe the responsibilities of the physical, data link, network, transport,


and application layers.

• Explain how a packet is routed over the Internet.

• Explain how a network can detect and correct transmission errors.

• Assign IP addresses to various interfaces


Learning Outcomes
• Create and configure a simple network with two clients and a single
server using standard host configuration software tools such as DHCP
and DNS.

• Build simple server applications

• Summarize the strengths and weaknesses associated with different


approaches to security.
Course Content
1 Network Architectural principles:
• History of data communication networks and the Internet
• Network architectures
• Network Protocols

2 Network Architectural principles:


• Layering principles (encapsulation, multiplexing)
• Client/server and peer-to-peer paradigms
• Switching techniques (e.g. circuit, packet)
Course Content
3 Network Communication
• Network standards and standardization bodies
• The ISO 7-layer reference model in general and its instantiation in TCP/IP.
• Overview of physical and data link layer concepts (framing, error control, flow
control, and protocols)

4 Link-layer:
• Introduction to Transmission Media - signal types, signal spectrum, signal to noise
ratio, attenuation

• Ethernet networks, switches

• Wireless networks
Course Content
5 Network layer:
• Names and addresses: ARP, IPv4, IPv6, and NAT
• Routing and flooding, source routing, and spanning trees
• Routing algorithms: Bellman-Ford, Dijkstra Routing: Intra-AS
routing (RIP and OSPF), Inter-AS routing (BGP), and multicast

6 • Network services: DHCP, DNS

Test #1
Course Content
7 Transport layer:
• Connectionless transport: UDP
• Connection-oriented transport:TCP

• Client/server and peer-to-peer paradigms

8 Applications Layer Protocols and Services:


• Web/HTTP, Email/SMTP

• Socket programming in TCP and UDP

9 Client-server programming: Sockets


Course Content

10 Introduction to distributed systems:


• Issues, challenges
• Distributed system models (architectural, interaction, failure, security)

11 Test # 2

Network security:
• Fundamentals of cryptography
o Secret-key algorithms
o Public-key algorithms
• Authentication protocols
• Network attack types, e.g., denial of service, flooding, sniffing, and traffic redirection.
Course Content
12 Network security:
• Basic network defense tools and strategies

o Intrusion detection
o Firewalls
o Detection of malware
o Kerberos
o IPSec
o Virtual Private Networks
o Network Address Translation

13 Network design and operation:


• Infrastructures; enterprise/campus, ISP/home networks

• Network monitoring and management, SNMP

• Virtual network environments


Methods of Teaching
• Lectures (39 hrs per semester)
• Labs/ Tutorials (26 hrs per semester)
Methods of Assessment
• Coursework (40%)
• 2 Tests - 20 %
• 2 Labs/Assignments - 10%
• 1 Project – 10%

• Final Examination (60%)


Facebook Connect
• Group Name: CSE2103 (2019/2020)
Recommended Readings
• Tanenbaum, A. S. and Wetherall, D. J., ( 2011), Computer Networks, 5/E, Prentice Hall, 2010, 960pp. ISBN-13: 978-0132126953.

• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach


by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie
Morgan Kaufmann, 5th Edition, 2011. ISBN 978-0123850591

• TCP/IP Sockets in C: A Practical Guide for Programmers


by Michael J., Kenneth L. Calvert
Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0123745408

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach


Kurose, J. F. and Ross, K. W., 6th Edition, Pearson, 2012, 864pp, paper, ISBN-13: 978-0132856201; ISBN-10: 0132856204

• TCP/IP Illustrated volume 1


by W. Richard Stevens.
Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0-201-63346-9.
• IETF, Official Internet Protocol Standards, Mar. 2013, [Online]. Available: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html

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