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Module-2
Media Access Control: Random Access: ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA.
Controlled Access: Reservation, Polling, Token Passing.
Wired LANs: Ethernet: Ethernet Protocol: IEEE802, Ethernet Evolution, Standard
Ethernet: Characteristics, Addressing, Access Method, Efficiency, Implementation,
Fast Ethernet: Access Method, Physical Layer, Gigabit Ethernet: MAC Sublayer,
Physical Layer, 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
Module-3
Wireless LANs: Introduction: Architectural Comparison, Characteristics, IEEE 802.11:
Architecture, MAC sublayer, Adressing Mechanism, Physical Layer, Bluetooth:
Architecture, Layers.
Connecting Devices: Hubs, Switches, Virtual LANs: Membership, Configuration,
Communication between Switches, Advantages.
Network Layer: Introduction, Network Layer services: Packetizing, Routing and
Forwarding, Other services, Packet Switching: Datagram Approach, Virtual Circuit
Approach, IPV4 Addresses: Address Space, Classful Addressing, Classless Addressing,
DHCP, Network Address Resolution, Forwarding of IP Packets: Based on destination
Address and Label.
Module-4
Network Layer Protocols: Internet Protocol (IP): Datagram Format, Fragmentation,
Options, Security of IPv4 Datagrams, ICMPv4: Messages, Debugging Tools, Mobile IP:
Addressing, Agents, Three Phases, Inefficiency in Mobile IP.
Unicast Routing: Introduction, Routing Algorithms: Distance Vector Routing, Link
State Routing, Path vector routing, Unicast Routing Protocol: Internet Structure,
Routing Information Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, Border Gateway Protocol
Version 4.
Module-5
Transport Layer: Introduction: Transport Layer Services, Connectionless and
Connection oriented Protocols, Transport Layer Protocols: Simple protocol, Stop and
wait protocol, Go-Back-N Protocol, Selective repeat protocol, User Datagram Protocol:
User Datagram, UDP Services, UDP Applications, Transmission Control Protocol: TCP
Services, TCP Features, Segment, Connection, State Transition diagram, Windows in
TCP, Flow control, Error control, TCP congestion control.
Question paper pattern:
• The question paper will have ten questions
• Each full question consists of 16 marks.
• There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each
module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a
module
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question
from each module
Text Book:
1. Data Communications and Networking , Forouzan, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill,
2016 ISBN: 1-25-906475-3
Reference Books:
1. Computer Networks, James J Kurose, Keith W Ross, Pearson Education, 2013,
ISBN: 0-273-76896-4
2. Introduction to Data Communication and Networking, Wayarles Tomasi,
Pearson Education, 2007, ISBN:0130138282