COURSE SCHEDULE

Week-01
Introduction
Characteristics of a Data Communication System
Types of communication
Simplex, Half duplex, Full duplex
Network Topology
Mesh, Bus, Ring, Star, Hybrid
Circuit Switching vs. Packet Switching
Circuit Switching
Multiplexing: FDM, TDM

Week-02
Problems with Circuit Switching
Statistical Multiplexing
Packet Switching
Loss and Delay
Four Sources of Delay
Processing
Queuing
Transmission
Propagation
Layering and Protocol Stacks
Why Layering?
OSI Reference Model
TCP/IP Model

Week-03
Physical Layer
Digital Signals
Transmission Impairments
Attenuation, Distortion, Noise
Data Rate Limits
Nyquist and Shannon
Digital-to-Digital Conversions
Line coding schemes

Week-04
Analog-to-Digital Conversions
PCM
Digital-to-Analog Conversions
ASK, FSK, PSK
Analog-to-Analog Conversions
AM, FM, PM
Types of Media
Wired and Wireless
Week-05
Data Link Layer
Error Detection Techniques
Parity, Checksum, CRC
Error Correction Techniques
Hamming

Week-06
Flow and Error Control
Selective Repeat Automatic Repeat Request
Multiple Access
CSMA
CSMA/CD
CSMA/CA

Week-07
Wired LANs: Ethernet
IEEE Standards
Standard Ethernet
MAC Sub layer
Physical Layer
Wireless LANs
IEEE 802.11
Architecture
MAC Sub layer
Addressing Mechanism
Physical Layer

Week-08
Connecting LANs
Hubs
Repeaters
Bridges
Routers

Week-09
Network Layer
IPv4 Addresses
Address Space
Notations
Classful Addressing
Classless Addressing
Subnetting
Superneting
Network Address Translation (NAT)

Week-10
Internetworking
IPv4
Datagram
Fragmentation
Checksum
Options
Address Mapping
ARP, RARP, BOOTP, DHCP
ICMP

Week-11
Delivery
Forwarding
Unicast Routing Protocols
Intra and Interdomain Routing
Distance Vector Routing
Bellman Ford Algorithm
RIP
BGP

Week-12
Link State Routing
Dijkstra’s Algorithm
OSPF
Path Vector Routing

Week-13
Transport Layer
Process to Process Delivery
Client/ Server Paradigm
Multiplexing and Demultiplexing
Connectionless Versus Connection Oriented Service
Reliable Versus Unreliable
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Well Known ports for UDP
User Datagram
Checksum
UDP operations
UDP Uses

Week-14
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
TCP Services
TCP Features
Segment
A TCP Connection
Flow Control
Error Control
Congestion Control

Week-15
Application Layer
DNS
Electronic Mail

Week-16
FTP
WWW
HTTP