Institute

School

Name
Program Name
B.E. (ECE)
Course Code
Course Name
Computer Networks
Lecture (per week)
5
Course
Coordinator

Course Credits

Name

1. Scope and Objectives of the Course

The course aims at providing knowledge of topologies and small networks

by following the top-down approach from application to physical layer.

The course provides the base to prepare the students to study the
distributed network concepts.
To cultivate engineering students with theoretical knowledge about network
technologies.
To enumerate the layers of the OSI model and TCP/IP and to learn the
function(s) of each layer.

At the end of this course, students should be able to design, build and
analyze simple networks using the application-driven paradigm.

2.

Textbooks
TB1: Introduction to Data Communications and Networking by B. Forouzan,
Tata McGraw Hill, Fourth Edition, 2006.

3.

Reference Books
RB1: Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Pearson Education,
Fourth Edition.

4.Other readings and relevant websites

S.
No.

Link of Journals, Magazines, websites and Research Papers

1. http://www.nos.org/srsec330/330L5.pdf
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network
3. http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2278/Data-Communication
4. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/courses/chapters/network.p
df
5. http://highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0072515848/student_view0/glossary.html
6. http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/data-comms
7. http://www.mendeley.com/computer-and-information-science/datacommunication-and-networks

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5. Course Plan
Lect.
No.
(1 Hr)
1-2

Topics

Text
Book

Section No.,
Page No.

Introduction-- Data Communications,

Networks, Protocols and standards

TB1

3-4

Network Models Layered Tasks, The OSI

model, Layers in the OSI model

TB1

Sec 1.1- 1.2 (P 315), Sec 1.4 (P 1921)

Sec 2.1 -2.3 (P 2742)

TCP/IP protocol suite, Addressing

TB1

Sec 2.4-2.5 (P 4250)

Physical Layer: Transmission impairments, TB1

Data Rate limits, Performance

Sec 3.4-3.6 (P 8094)

7-8

Transmission
Media:
Unguided Media: wireless

Sec 7.1-7.2(P 192207)

Switching: Circuit switched networks,

Datagram networks, virtual circuit Networks

10-11

Data Link Layer- Introduction,

coding, Linear Block codes,

12-13

Cyclic codes: cyclic redundancy check,

polynomials, cyclic code analysis, checksum.

14

Data Link Control : Framing, Flow and TB1

Error control, Protocols
Noiseless channels, Noisy channels
TB1

15-16

17-18
19-20
21-23

23- 25
26- 28

Guided

Media, TB1
TB1

Block TB1

Multiple
Access:
Random
access,
Controlled Access
Wired LANs: Ethernet IEEE standards,
standard Ethernet. Changes in the standard
ST-1 ( 1-50%)
Wireless LANs: IEEE 802.11- Architecture,
MAC sublayer, addressing mechanism,
Bluetooth Architecture, Bluetooth layers,
radio layer
Network Layer: IPv4 addresses, IPv6
addresses
Network Layer: Delivery, Forwarding,

TB1

TB1
TB1

Sec 8.1- 8.3 (P

214-227)
Sec 10.1- 10.3 (P
267-278)
sec 10.4 (P 284286, 291-293), Sec
10.5 (P 298-299)
Sec 11.1 -11.3 (P
307-311)
Sec 11.4 (P 312313, 315-317), Sec
11.5(
P
318320,322-328, 331335, 338-339)
Sec 12.1-12.2( P
364-383)
Sec 13.1-13.3 ( P
395-408)

TB1

Sec 14.1 (P 421429) Sec 14.2 (P

434-437)

TB1

Sec 19.1 -19.2(P

549-571)
Sec 22.1- 22.3 ( P

TB1

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Unicast routing protocols

29-31

647 - 678)

Transport layer process to process

delivery, user datagram protocol, TCP
Congestion control : Data Traffic, congestion,
congestion control

TB1

34-35

Application layer Domain name system

TB1

36-38

Application layer Protocols: Remote TB1

logging, Electronic Mail- architecture, user
agent services, SMTP, message access
agent, FTP- communication over control
connection,
communication
over
data
connection

39- 40

WWW Architecture, HTTP

32-33

Sec 23.1-23.3 (P
703-735)
Sec 24.1 24.3 ( P
761-767)

TB1

Sec 25.1 -25.4 ( P

798- 805)
Sec 26.1 (P 817819), Sec 26.2 (P
824-829, 834-835,
837-842),
Sec
26.6.1-26.6.2
( P 910- 916)

TB1

Sec 27.1 (P 851854),

Sec
27.3
(P861-862)

ST-II & ST-III

6. Evaluation Scheme:
Component 1
Component 2

Two Online Test based on MCQs

End Term Examination
Total

40%
60%
100

Details of Component-1: There will be two sessional tests (STs) for all the theory
papers as per below stated guidelines:
(i) 1st sessional test will be from 0- 50% syllabus of the subject
(ii) 2nd sessional test will be from 51-60% syllabus of the subject.
(iii) 3rd sessional test will be from 100% syllabus of the subject.
(iv) The best of two tests will be taken for finalizing the internal of the subject..
Details of Component-2: The End Term Examination will be held at the end of
semester. As per academic guidelines minimum 75% attendance is required to
become eligible for appearing in the end term examination.
This Document is approved by:
Designation
Course

Name
Ms. Rashpinder Kaur

Coordinator
Program

Ms. Shivani Malhotra

Signature

Incharge
Deputy Dean
Date

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COMPUTER NETWORKS
S.
No
1

Topics

Lectu
res

Introduction: Data Communications,

Network criteria,
Physical topology, Categories of networks, Protocols and
standards
Network Models Layered Tasks, The OSI model, Layers in
the OSI model
TCP/IP protocol suite, Addressing: Physical addresses, logical
addresses, port addresses, specific addresses

Weighta
ge
(%age)

5
10%

Physical Layer: Transmission impairments, Data

Rate
limits, Performance
Transmission Media: Guided Media, Unguided Media: wireless
Switching: Circuit switched networks, Datagram networks,
virtual circuit Networks.

3
15%

Data Link Layer-- Framing, Character stuffing, bit stuffing

Error Detection and Correction (CRC, Hamming Code, Parity
Bit,
checksum)
Data link protocols -simplest, stop-and-wait protocol, Sliding
window protocols- 1-bit sliding window protocol, go back-n,
selective repeat protocol, piggybacking

Medium Access sub Layer: Channel allocation, Multiple

access
protocols: random access (Aloha, Pure aloha, slotted aloha),
controlled
access (reservation, polling, token passing)

Wired LANS- standard Ethernet, Wireless LANs, Bluetooth

15%

Network Layer-- IPv4 addresses ( IP protocol, IP addresses,

Subnets, NAT) , IPv6 addresses, Routing protocols: delivery,
forwarding, Unicast routing protocols (optimization, intra and
inter domain routing, distance vector routing, link state
routing, path vector routing)

15%

Transport layer-- Process to process delivery, Process to

process delivery UDP (user datagram, checksum, UDP
operation) , Process to process delivery TCP (TCP services,
TCP features, TCP connection), Congestion and Congestion
control.

15%

Application layerDNS, Electronic Mail and File Transfer,

HTTP, WWW , TELNET

10%

40

100%

TOTAL

20%

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Textbooks
TB1: Introduction to Data Communications and Networking by B. Forouzan,
Tata McGraw Hill, Fourth Edition, 2004.
Reference Books
RB1: Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Pearson Education,
Fourth Edition.

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