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COMPUTER COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING Theory (100) Practical (50) BASIC NETWORKING CONCEPTS Wired > LAN, MAN, WAN and GAN. Topologies: Star, BUS, RING, MESH, TREE. Wireless Networks. DIGITAL SWITCHING CONCEPTS Circuit Switching, Message Switching, Packet Switching (SITA, TYMNET, ARPANET). SHANNON LAW AND CHANNEL CAPACITY ELEMEMTARY TELEPHONE HIERACHY TRANSMISSION MEDIA Hard-Media >Open-wire, twistedwires, coaxial cables(Simplex, Halfduplex and Fullduplex (Baseband and Broadband), Optical Fiber cable, Overview of transmission and reception over otical fibre, Soft-Media >Microwave, Infrared, Satillite(Access methods: Point-to-multipoint access (ALOHA, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA), VSATs, Cellular mobile radio. PROTOCOLS OSI Model, IEEE standards for wired and wireless networks, Ethernet Technology, CDMA/CA,CDMA/CD, Cyclic Redency Check(CRC), SDLC,HDLC, SNA, CCITT X.25. INTERFACES Network Interface Card (NIC), FDDI, RS-232, Dial-up connections, Leasedline(T1, T2, T3, T4 circuits), Modems > Leased line modem, Asychronous/Syschronous modems, optical modems, wireless radio modems, Satellite modems, Modem Protocols: x/y modem, Z-modem, Kermit modem, ASCI- modem. INTERNETWORKING Internet,Internet Architecture, Intra-net, IP, IP-ng, TCP, User Datagram Protocol(UDP), ConnectionLess and Connection oriented protocols, Inter-message control protocols (ICMP), Address Resolution Protocols (ARP), Reverse address Resolution Protocols (RARP). INTERNET SERVICES E-mail, ON/Off-line services, World wide web (WWW), Gopher, FTP, TELNET, Inter-Relay-Chat(IRC), Internet-Phone. SERVERS File Servers, Proxy-Server, Modem-Server, CD-ROM Server. CASE STUDIES OF NETWORKING OPERATING SYSTEM Novell Netware, Windows-NT and UNIX. REFERENCE BOOKS [1] Stan Schatt, "Uunderstanding Local Area Networks" SAMS [2] James Martin,
"Local Area Networks: Architecture and Implementations", [3] Peter Hodson, "Local Area Networks" [4] Gilbert Held, "Understanding Data Communications" SAMS [5] John M.
Senior, "Optical Fiber Communications: Priciples and Practice" 2nd [6] Bartee, "Digital Communications" SAMS [7] Cady and Pat McGregor BPB, "Mastering the Internet"
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