A Course Outline About Computer Networks

A COURSE OUTLINE ABOUT COMPUTER

NETWORKS

Muhammad Adil Raja

Roaming Researchers, Inc.

October 14, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Course Outline About Computer Networks

Introduction

INTRODUCTION I

1 Uses Of Computer Networks.1 Business Applications.2 Home Applications.3 Mobile Users4 Social Issues

2 Network Hardware1 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.

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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 Internet2 Third-Generation Mobile Phone Networks.3 Wireless LANs: 802.11.4 RFID and Sensor Networks.

6 Network Standardization.

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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.

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 Spectrum2 Radio Transmission.3 Microwave Transmission.4 Infrared Transmission.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Control1 Desirable Bandwidth Allocation.

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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.

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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 Compression6 Protocols for Long Fat Networks.

7 Delay-Tolerant Networking1 DTN Architecture.2 The Bundle Protocol.

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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.

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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.

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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 Algorithms1 DESÑThe Data Encryption Standard.2 AESÑThe Advanced Encryption Standard.3 Cipher Modes.4 Other Ciphers.5 Cryptanalysis.

3 Public-Key Algorithms1 RSA.2 Other Public-Key Algorithms.

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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.

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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

A Course Outline About Computer Networks

Network Security

NETWORK SECURITY IV

1 Privacy.2 Freedom of Speech.3 Copyright.

A Course Outline About Computer Networks

Conclusions

CONCLUSIONS I

1 Computer Networks – Andrew S. Tanenbaum – 5th Edition.