A Course Outline About Computer Networks

A Course Outline About Computer Networks

A COURSE OUTLINE ABOUT COMPUTER

NETWORKS

Muhammad Adil Raja

Roaming Researchers, Inc.

October 14, 2014


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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).


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.



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.




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.




IV

1 Uses of Bridges.2 Learning Bridges.3 Spanning Tree Bridges.4 Repeaters, Hubs, Bridges, Switches, Routers, and

Gateways.5 Virtual LANs.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


Network Security

NETWORK SECURITY IV

1 Privacy.2 Freedom of Speech.3 Copyright.


Conclusions

CONCLUSIONS I

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

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networks-Edition-Andrew-Tanenbaum/dp/0132126958

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