The course will enable the students to
Course Outcomes (COs):
Course Outcome s(at course level) | Learning and teaching strategies | Assessment Strategies |
The students will: CO158. Identify the different types of network devices and define the role of protocols in network communications CO159. List the advantages of using a layered network model and describe the role of each layer in the OSI and TCP/IP models CO160. Explain the addressing and naming schemes used in network communications CO161. Classify various transmission media and distinguish guided and unguided media CO 162. Ability to detect the presence of errors and correct errors in the transmission system using error detection and correcting schemes. | Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstrations, G-suite. | Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects and peer review. |
Data Communications: Components, Data Representation and Data flow; Networks: Distributed Processing, Network Criteria, Network Models, Categories of networks and Internetwork; Internet and Protocols and Standards.
Network Models: Layered tasks, the OSI model, Layers in the OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol Suit, Addressing.
Data and Signals: Analog and Digital Data, Analog and Digital Signals, Periodic and Non periodic Signals, Transmission impairment, Data rate limits and Performance. Transmission modes. Transmission Media: Guided media (Twisted Pair Cable, Coaxial Cable & Fiber-Optic Cable) and Unguided media (Radio wave, Microwave, Infrared & Light wave).
Digital Transmission: Digital to Digital Conversion: - Line coding (Unipolar, Polar & Bipolar), Block Coding (4B/5B & 8B/10B), Scrambling (B8ZS & HDB3), Analog to Digital Conversion: PCM & DM, Digital to analog conversion:ASK, FSK, PSK&QAM, Analog to Analog conversion: Amplitude Modulation, Frequency Modulation & Phase Modulation.
Multiplexing: FDM, WDM, Synchronous TDM and Statistical TDM.
Switching: Circuit switched networks, message switching & packet switching. Datagram networks, Virtual Circuit networks. Error Detection and Correction: Introduction, Block coding: Hamming Distance & Parity bit, linear block codes, cyclic codes: CRC, VRC & LRC, and Checksum.
Data Link control: Framing, Introduction of Flow and Error Control. Elementary Data Link Protocols: - Simplest Protocol, Stop & Wait Protocol and Simplex protocol for a Noisy channel. Sliding window Protocols: -one-bit sliding window protocol, Go-Back-N Protocol, Selective Repeat Protocols.
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