Indicative contents

• Data communication basics: Analog and digital signaling, Nyquist criteria, Shannon capacity, Transmission impairment.
• Digital Signals: Line coding, block coding, sampling, transmission modes.
• Analog Transmissions: Modulation of digital data, telephone modems, modulation of analog signals.
• Multiplexing: FDM, WDM, TDM
• Transmission media: Guided and Unguided
• Circuit switching and telephone networks.
• OSI protocol suite: All 7 layers of OSI stack, their duties, their protocols and its functions
• Introduction to Networking: Networking Fundamentals and Networking Media, Cable Testing, Cabling LANs and WANs, Ethernet Fundamentals, Ethernet Technologies, Ethernet Switching, TCP/IP Protocol Suite and IP Addressing, Routing Fundamentals and Subnets, TCP/IP Transport and Application Layer, Case Study on Structured Cabling
• Wide Area Networking, Router and Switch configuration: WANs and Routers, Introduction to Router, Configuring a Router, Learning about Other Devices, Managing Cisco IOS Software, Routing and Routing Protocols, Distance Vector Routing Protocols TCP/IP Suite Error and Control Messages, Basic Router Troubleshooting, Intermediate TCP/IP, Access Control Lists (ACLs), Case Study on Routing, Introduction to Classless Routing, Single-Area OSPF, EIGRP, Switching Concepts, Switches and Switch Configuration, Spanning Tree Protocol, Virtual LANs, VLAV Trucking Protocol, Case Study on Access Control Lists (ACLs), Scaling IP Addresses, WAN Technologies PPP, Introduction to Network Administration, Case Study on WANs.

Module Resources

• Essential reading
  1. Course Notes.
• Recommended Reading
  1. Behrouz A.Forouzan: “Data Communications and Networking” 3rd edition, Tata Mcgrawhill, 0-07-058408
  2. D. E. Comer, “Computer Networks and Internets”, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 2nd Edition, 1999
  3. L. L. Peterson and B. S. Davie, “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach”, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2nd Edition, 1999
  4. Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt “Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications” 1st edition, Pearson education Asia, ISBN: 81-7808-319-1, 2001