Course details

Data Communications, Computer Networks and Protocols

PDS Acad. year 2018/2019 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

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.

Guarantor

Ryšavý Ondřej, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)

Course coordinator

Matoušek Petr, doc. Ing., Ph.D., M.A. (DIFS)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination (written+oral)

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 (written part)
  • 25 pts projects

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

Lecturer

Grégr Matěj, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)
Matoušek Petr, doc. Ing., Ph.D., M.A. (DIFS)
Pluskal Jan, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)
Polčák Libor, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)
Ryšavý Ondřej, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)
Veselý Vladimír, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)

Instructor

Grégr Matěj, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)
Letavay Viliam, Ing. (DIFS)
Pluskal Jan, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)
Veselý Vladimír, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)

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.

Study literature

Fundamental literature

Syllabus of lectures

  1. L2 and L3 technologies.
  2. Technologies for network and traffic control.
  3. Transport layer, flow-control and congestion-control.
  4. Switch architecture.
  5. Routing and switching theory.
  6. Router architecture.
  7. Packet processing in operating system.
  8. Software Defined Networks.
  9. Architecture of peer-to-peer networks.
  10. Anonymity on the Internet.
  11. IDS and IPS.
  12. Protocol engineering and formal methods in protocol design.
  13. Net neutrality.

Syllabus of laboratory exercises

  • Basic network attacks.

Syllabus - others, projects and individual work of students

  • Design, modeling and implementation of a network application.

Progress assessment

Written mid-term exam and submitting project in due dates.
Exam prerequisites:
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.

Exam prerequisites

Requirements for class accreditation are not defined.

Course inclusion in study plans

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