This document outlines an advanced computer networks course that goes beyond basic undergraduate networking. The course aims to help students understand concepts in routing, addressing, network management, and performance analysis. It is divided into 5 units that cover networking principles, the OSI model and TCP/IP protocol suite, addressing, unicast and multicast routing protocols, and network management and performance analysis. The expected outcome is that students will be able to understand routing and addressing, network management, and analyzing network performance.

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Pre-requisites :ITA527
Objective:
To go beyond the basic level of understanding that is typically offered at an undergraduate networking
course.
Expected Outcome:
On completion of course students will be able to understand the concepts in routing and addressing,
network management and performance analysis of networks.
Unit No. I Networking Principles, Standards and Specification 9 hours
Networking principles. Switching - circuit switching, packet switching, multiple access. Networking
standards and specifications, Need for standardization, ISO and the IEEE standards.
Unit No. II Communication Network Protocol Suite 9 hours
Layers in the OSI model, TCP/IP protocol suite. LAN – Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet,
WLAN. Point-to-point WANS, Connecting Devices
Unit No. III Addressing 9 hours
IPv4 Addresses: Classful addressing, Subnetting/Supernetting, Classless Addressing. Delivery and
forwarding of IP packets. IP package, ARP package.
Unit No. IV Unicast and Multicasting Routing Protocols 9 hours
Intra- and Inter-Domain Routing, Distance Vector Routing, RIP, Link State Routing, OSPF, Path Vector
Routing, BGP, IGMP.
Unit No. V Network Management and Performance Analysis of Networks 9 hours
Overview of the issues of network management; Domain names and name services; Issues for Internet
service providers (ISPs); Quality of service issues: performance, failure recovery.
Text / Reference Books:
1. Behrouz A. Forouzan, ―TCP/IP Protocol Suite‖, 4th edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2010.
2. W. Stallings, Data & Computer Communications, Prentice-Hall, 2007.
3. A. S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Prentice-Hall, 5th Edition.
4. Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 5th Edition, 2012.
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