بسم
الله الرحمن الرحيم
Course Name : Computers-II (Computer Networks)
Course Offering : Fourth Year – 1st
Semester
Course Instructors :
Dr. Khaled F.
Elsayed
Course Contents :
( Part I - Dr.
El-Hadidi – 11 lectures)
Classification
– Topologies – Information Modes – Transmission Modes – Data Transmission
Basics – Requirements for Computer Communications
Ethernet
Overview (CSMA/CD access protocol – hubs – ARP – switches) – Routers Overview
(operation- routing tables – internet) – ATM Overview (operation – routing
table – QoS) – Layered Architecture Overview (OSI – IEEE – Internet – ATM)
Historical
Overview – Architecture (data link layer – network layer – transport layer –
application layer) – Names and Addresses (class-based – Subnetting – CIDR) – IP
Protocol (operation – frame format – OSPF routing – BGP routing) – DHCP
Prototocl – Mobile IP – TCP Protocol (SR protocol – ports – time sequence
diagram – frame format)
( Part II - Dr. Elsayed
– 10 lectures)
Local Area Networks (4-5
lectures)
Types of LANs – The IEEE 802.x family of protocols – LAN architectures (BUS, Ring, Star) – Ethernet Protocol Architecture and Details of the physical and Data Link Layers – Multiple Access Techniques and simplified Performance of the CSMA/CD protocol – LAN Interconnection and Extended LANS – Spanning Trees – Prim’s Algorithm for MCST
Asynchronous Transfer
Mode Networks (5-6
lectures)
The ATM Protocol Reference Model – ATM Cell
Format – Advantage/Disadvantages of ATM Switching Mechanism - Why fixed cell
size? – Adaptation Layers Overview – Details of AAL5 – End to End Services and
Service Classes – Traffic Characterization and Descriptors – Traffic Shaping
and Details of the GCRA Algorithm – Simple Buffer Dimensioning – IP over ATM:
Classical, NHRP, MPOA.
Communication
Networks: A First Course
Jean Warland
McGraw-Hill, 1998
(Prepared
by Dr. El-Hadidi, 2 July 2002) (Modified by Dr. Khaled on Oct. 7, 2002)