Course details
Data Communications, Computer Networks and Protocols
PDS Acad. year 2017/2018 Summer semester 5 credits
Coding for error detection and correction, error control. Packet synchronization. Switch architecture. Label switching technique. Packet-error control. Architecture of routers, queuing theory. Multicast addressing and routing. Exterior routing using BGP. Routing in IPv6 and their alternatives. Routing in wireless and sensor networks. Resource reservation and QoS. Protocol engineering. Formal specifications and verification of network communication.
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Time span
- 39 hrs lectures
- 4 hrs exercises
- 2 hrs laboratories
- 7 hrs projects
Assessment points
- 60 pts final exam (written part)
- 15 pts mid-term test (6 pts written part, 6 pts test part)
- 25 pts projects
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Understanding communication functions and their implementations in computer networks; being informed about related formal tools.
Understanding communication principles in current computer networks.
Learning objectives
Understand communication functions and their implementations in computer networks; understand archicture of basic network devices. Be aware of related formal tools for modelling, simulation and verification of network communication.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The sets, relations and mappings. The elementary notions of the graph theory. The elementary notions of communication protocols. Principles of Internet.
Syllabus of lectures
- Coding for error detection and correction, error control.
- Bit and packet synchronization.
- Switching techniques.
- Label switching.
- Packet-error control.
- Router architecture.
- Queue theory, network of queues.
- Multicast addressing and routing.
- BGP routing. Routing in IPv6.
- WLAN routing, routing in sensors networks.
- Resource reservation and QoS.
- Protocol engineering.
- Formal specification and verification.
Syllabus of laboratory exercises
- BGP routing.
Progress assessment
Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.
Requirements for class accreditation are not defined.
Controlled instruction
Mid-term exam, laboratory practice and/or homework supported by project completion, and final exam are the monitored, and points earning education. Mid-term exam and laboratory practice are without correction eventuality. Final exam has two additional correction eventualities. The minimal number of points that can be obtained from the final exam is 25. Otherwise, no points will be assigned to a student.
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