This document outlines a course about computer networks. It covers 9 major topics: introduction, the physical layer, data link layer, medium access layer, network layer, transport layer, application layer, network security, and conclusions. Each topic is further broken down into 3 or more subsections that will be taught as part of the course. The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of computer network concepts and protocols.

1. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
A COURSE OUTLINE ABOUT COMPUTER
NETWORKS
Muhammad Adil Raja
Roaming Researchers, Inc.
October 14, 2014

2. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

3. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

4. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

5. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

6. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

7. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

8. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

9. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

10. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
OUTLINE
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
8 NETWORK SECURITY
9 CONCLUSIONS

11. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
Introduction
INTRODUCTION I
1 Uses Of Computer Networks.
1 Business Applications.
2 Home Applications.
3 Mobile Users
4 Social Issues
2 Network Hardware
1 Personal Area Networks.
2 Local Area Networks.
3 Metropolitan Area Networks.
4 Wide Area Networks.
5 Internetworks.
3 Network Software.
1 Protocol Hierarchies.
2 Design Issues for the Layers.
3 Connection-Oriented Versus Connectionless Service.

12. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
Introduction
INTRODUCTION II
4 Service Primitives.
5 The Relationship of Services to Protocols.
4 Reference Models,
1 The OSI Reference Model.
2 The TCP/IP Reference Model.
3 The Model Used in This Book.
4 A Comparison of the OSI and TCP/IP Reference Models.
5 A Critique of the OSI Model and Protocols.
6 A Critique of the TCP/IP Reference Model.
5 Example Networks.
1 The Internet
2 Third-Generation Mobile Phone Networks.
3 Wireless LANs: 802.11.
4 RFID and Sensor Networks.
6 Network Standardization.

13. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
Introduction
INTRODUCTION III
1 Who’s Who in the Telecommunications World.
2 Who’s Who in the International Standards World.
3 Who’s Who in the Internet Standards World.
7 Metric Units.

14. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Physical Layer
THE PHYSICAL LAYER I
1 The Theoretical Basis For Data Communication.
1 Fourier Analysis.
2 Bandwidth-Limited Signals.
3 The Maximum Data Rate of a Channel.
2 Guided Transmission Media.
1 Magnetic Media.
2 Twisted Pairs.
3 Coaxial Cable.
4 Power Lines.
5 Fiber Optics.
3 Wireless Transmission.
1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
2 Radio Transmission.
3 Microwave Transmission.
4 Infrared Transmission.

15. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Physical Layer
THE PHYSICAL LAYER II
5 Light Transmission.
4 Communication Satellites.
1 Geostationary Satellites.
2 Medium-Earth Orbit Satellites.
3 Low-Earth Orbit Satellites.
4 Satellites Versus Fiber.
5 Digital Modulation And Multiplexing.
1 Baseband Transmission.
2 Passband Transmission.
3 Frequency Division Multiplexing.
4 Time Division Multiplexing.
5 Code Division Multiplexing.
6 The Public Switched Telephone Network.
1 Structure of the Telephone System.
2 The Politics of Telephones.

16. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Physical Layer
THE PHYSICAL LAYER III
3 The Local Loop: Modems. ADSL, and Fiber.
4 Trunks and Multiplexing.
5 Switching.
7 The Mobile Telephone System.
1 First-Generation (coco1G) Mobile Phones: Analog Voice.
2 Second-Generation (2G) Mobile Phones: Digital Voice.
3 Third-Generation (3G) Mobile Phones: Digital Voice and
Data.
8 Cable Television.
1 Community Antenna Television.
2 Internet over Cable.
3 Spectrum Allocation.
4 Cable Modems.
5 Adsl Versus Cable.

17. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Data Link Layer
THE DATA LINK LAYER I
1 Data Link Layer Design Issues.
1 Services Provided to the Network Layer.
2 Framing.
3 Error Control.
4 Flow Control
2 Error Detection And Correction.
1 Error-Correcting Codes.
2 Error-Detecting Codes.
3 Elementary Data Link Protocols.
1 A Utopian Simplex Protocol.
2 A Simplex Stop-and-Wait Protocol for an Error-Free
Channel.
3 A Simplex Stop-and-Wait Protocol for a Noisy Channel.
4 Sliding Window Protocols.
1 A One-Bit Sliding Window Protocol.

18. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Data Link Layer
THE DATA LINK LAYER II
2 A Protocol Using Go-Back-N.
3 A Protocol Using Selective Repeat.
5 Example Data Link Protocols.
1 Packet over SONET.
2 ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop).

19. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Medium Access Layer Control Sublayer
THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER I
1 The Channel Allocation Problem.
1 Static Channel Allocation.
2 Assumptions for Dynamic Channel Allocation.
2 Multiple Access Protocols.
1 ALOHA.
2 Carrier Sense Multiple Access Protocols.
3 Collision-Free Protocols.
4 Limited-Contention Protocols.
5 Wireless LAN Protocols.
3 Ethernet.
1 Classic Ethernet Physical Layer.
2 Classic Ethernet MAC Sublayer Protocol.
3 Ethernet Performance.
4 Switched Ethernet.
5 Fast Ethernet.

20. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Medium Access Layer Control Sublayer
THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
II
6 Gigabit Ethernet.
7 10-Gigabit Ethernet.
8 Retrospective on Ethernet.
4 Wireless Lans.
1 The 802.11 Architecture and Protocol Stack.
2 The 802.11 Physical Layer.
3 301 4.4.3 The 802.11 MAC Sublayer Protocol.
4 The 802.11 Frame Structure.
5 Services.
5 Broadband Wireless.
1 Comparison of 802.16 with 802.11 and 3G.
2 The 802.16 Architecture and Protocol Stack.
3 The 802.16 Physical Layer.
4 The 802.16 MAC Sublayer Protocol.

21. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Medium Access Layer Control Sublayer
THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
III
5 The 802.16 Frame Structure.
6 Bluetooth.
1 Bluetooth Architecture.
2 Bluetooth Applications.
3 The Bluetooth Protocol Stack,
4 The Bluetooth Radio Layer.
5 The Bluetooth Link Layers.
6 The Bluetooth Frame Structure.
7 RFID.
1 EPC Gen 2 Architecture.
2 EPC Gen 2 Physical Layer.
3 EPC Gen 2 Tag Identification Layer.
4 Tag Identification Message Formats.
8 Data Link Layer Switching.

22. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Medium Access Layer Control Sublayer
THE MEDIUM ACCESS LAYER CONTROL SUBLAYER
IV
1 Uses of Bridges.
2 Learning Bridges.
3 Spanning Tree Bridges.
4 Repeaters, Hubs, Bridges, Switches, Routers, and
Gateways.
5 Virtual LANs.

23. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Network Layer
THE NETWORK LAYER I
1 Network Layer Design Issues.
1 Store-and-Forward Packet Switching.
2 Services Provided to the Transport Layer.
3 Implementation of Connectionless Service.
4 Implementation of Connection-Oriented Service.
5 Comparison of Virtual-Circuit and Datagram Networks.
2 Routing Algorithms.
1 The Optimality Principle.
2 Shortest Path Algorithm.
3 Flooding.
4 Distance Vector Routing.
5 Link State Routing.
6 Hierarchical Routing.
7 Broadcast Routing.
8 Multicast Routing.

24. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Network Layer
THE NETWORK LAYER II
9 Anycast Routing.
10 Routing for Mobile Hosts.
11 Routing in Ad Hoc Networks.
3 Congestion Control Algorithms.
1 Approaches to Congestion Control.
2 Traffic-Aware Routing.
3 Admission Control.
4 Traffic Throttling.
5 Load Shedding.
4 Quality Of Service.
1 Application Requirements.
2 Traffic Shaping.
3 Packet Scheduling.
4 Admission Control.
5 Integrated Services.
6 Differentiated Services.

25. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Network Layer
THE NETWORK LAYER III
5 Internetworking,
1 How Networks Differ.
2 How Networks Can Be Connected.
3 Tunneling.
4 Internetwork Routing.
5 Packet Fragmentation.
6 The Network Layer In The Internet.
1 The IP Version 4 Protocol.
2 IP Addresses.
3 IP Version.
4 Internet Control Protocols.
5 Label Switching and MPLS.
6 OSPFÑAn Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.
7 BGPÑThe Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol.
8 Internet Multicasting.
9 Mobile IP.

26. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Transport Layer
THE TRANSPORT LAYER I
1 The Transport Service.
1 Services Provided to the Upper Layers.
2 Transport Service Primitives.
3 Berkeley Sockets.
4 An Example of Socket Programming: An Internet File
Server.
2 Elements Of Transport Protocols.
1 Addressing.
2 Connection Establishment.
3 Connection Release.
4 Error Control and Flow Control.
5 Multiplexing.
6 Crash Recovery.
3 Congestion Control
1 Desirable Bandwidth Allocation.

27. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Transport Layer
THE TRANSPORT LAYER II
2 Regulating the Sending Rate.
3 Wireless Issues.
4 The Internet Transport Protocols: Udp.
1 Introduction to UDP.
2 Remote Procedure Call.
3 Real-Time Transport Protocols.
5 The Internet Transport Protocols: Tcp.
1 Introduction to TCP.
2 The TCP Service Model.
3 The TCP Protocol.
4 The TCP Segment Header.
5 TCP Connection Establishment.
6 TCP Connection Release.
7 TCP Connection Management Modeling.
8 TCP Sliding Window.
9 TCP Timer Management.

28. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Transport Layer
THE TRANSPORT LAYER III
10 TCP Congestion Control.
11 The Future of TCP.
6 Performance Issues.
1 Performance Problems in Computer Networks.
2 Network Performance Measurement.
3 Host Design for Fast Networks?
4 Fast Segment Processing??
5 Header Compression
6 Protocols for Long Fat Networks.
7 Delay-Tolerant Networking
1 DTN Architecture.
2 The Bundle Protocol.

29. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Application Layer
THE APPLICATION LAYER I
1 DNS – The Domain Name System.
1 The DNS Name Space.
2 Domain Resource Records.
3 Name Servers.
2 ELECTRONIC MAIL*
1 Architecture and Services.
2 The User Agent.
3 Message Formats.
4 Message Transfer.
5 Final Delivery.
3 The World Wide Web.
1 Architectural Overview.
2 Static Web Pages.
3 Dynamic Web Pages and Web Applications.
4 HTTP – The HyperText Transfer Protocol.

30. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
The Application Layer
THE APPLICATION LAYER II
5 The Mobile Web.
6 Web Search.
4 Streaming Audio And Video.
1 Digital Audio.
2 Digital Video.
3 Streaming Stored Media.
4 Streaming Live Media.
5 Real-Time Conferencing.
5 Content Delivery.
1 Content and Internet Traffic.
2 Server Farms and Web Proxies.
3 Content Delivery Networks.
4 Peer-to-Peer Networks.

31. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
Network Security
NETWORK SECURITY I
1 Cryptography.
1 Introduction to Cryptography.
2 Substitution Ciphers.
3 Transposition Ciphers.
4 One-Time Pads.
5 Two Fundamental Cryptographic Principles.
2 Symmetric-Key Algorithms
1 DESÑThe Data Encryption Standard.
2 AESÑThe Advanced Encryption Standard.
3 Cipher Modes.
4 Other Ciphers.
5 Cryptanalysis.
3 Public-Key Algorithms
1 RSA.
2 Other Public-Key Algorithms.

32. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
Network Security
NETWORK SECURITY II
4 Digital Signatures.
1 Symmetric-Key Signatures.
2 Public-Key Signatures.
3 Message Digests.
4 The Birthday Attack.
5 Management Of Public Keys.
1 Certificates.
2 X.509.
3 Public Key Infrastructures.
6 Communication Security.
1 IPsec, 814.
2 Firewalls.
3 Virtual Private Networks.
4 Wireless Security.
7 Authentication Protocols.

33. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
Network Security
NETWORK SECURITY III
1 Authentication Based on a Shared Secret Key.
2 Establishing a Shared Key: The Diffie-Hellman Key
Exchange.
3 Authentication Using a Key Distribution Center.
4 Authentication Using Kerberos.
5 Authentication Using Public-Key Cryptography.
8 Email Security.
1 PGPÑPretty Good Privacy.
2 S/MIME.
9 Web Security.
1 Threats.
2 Secure Naming.
3 SSLÑThe Secure Sockets Layer.
4 Mobile Code Security.
10 Social Issues

34. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
Network Security
NETWORK SECURITY IV
1 Privacy.
2 Freedom of Speech.
3 Copyright.

35. A Course Outline About Computer Networks
Conclusions
CONCLUSIONS I
1 Computer Networks – Andrew S. Tanenbaum – 5th Edition.