Contents

• Contents
• INTRODUCTIONS
  • Classification of Computer Communication Networks:
  • Evolution of Networking:
  • Objectives of Networking:
  • Network Applications:
  • Future Trends in Networking:
• Network Structures
  • Network Functional Architectures
  • Information Traffic Characteristics
• Layer Principles of Networks: The OSI Reference Model
• Physical Layer
  • Physical characteristics of the channel
  • Modulating schemes used to carry digital information over analog channels
  • Analog vs. digital channels
  • Bit error rate performance associated with the particular modulating scheme
  • maximum channel rates (channel capacities)
  • Transmission and Switching
    • Time Division Multiplexing
    • Time Division Switching
    • TDM Hierarchy
    • Channel Bandwidth Allocations Using TDM
    • Integrated Digital Services Networks (ISDN)
• Medium Access Control Sublayer
  • Main responsibilities of MAC layer:
  • Key Features of Multi Access Channels:
  • ALOHA Protocols:
  • Efficiencies of ALOHA
  • Carrier Sensing Multiple Access (CSMA) Protocols
  • Tree Walk Algorithm
  • IEEE 802.3 and Ethernet
  • The Switching Hub Concepts:
  • IEEE 802.4, Token Bus
  • IEEE 802.5, Token Ring
  • Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
  • Comparison of LANs
  • Internetworking
• Error Detection and Error Correction
  • Parity Check Codes
• Data Link Layer
  • Framing and Error Protections:
  • Sliding Window Protocols
    • One Bit Sliding Window Protocol
    • GO-BACK-N (GBN) Protocol
    • Selective Repeat Protocol (SRP)
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks
  • What is Asynchronous Transfer Mode?
  • What's in an ATM Cell?
  • Virtual Channel, Virtual Path and Virtual Circuit
  • How are ATM connections set up?
  • Performance and Other Requirement of ATM
  • ATM Reference Model (BISDN Model)
  • Call Setup and Bandwidth Allocations in ATM
  • ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) Functions
  • Traffic Managements in ATM
    • Admission Control
    • Policing
    • Congestion Control
    • Combined source rate policing and control using feedback
    • Quality of Service Issues
    • Analytical Models for Video Traffic in ATM networks
    • Some Observations:
• Network Layer
  • The Internet Protocol
  • What's in an IP header?
  • IP Fragmentations
  • IP Addresses
  • Domain Name System(DNS)
  • How is IP routing implemented?
  • Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
  • Routing
    • Shortest Path Routing
    • Other Routing Techniques
  • Other Protocols Using IP
• Queueing Models for Computer Networks
  • Poisson Process
  • Little's Theorem
  • M/M/1 Queues
• Transport Layer Protocols
  • Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
  • What's in a TCP header?
  • Connection management in TCP
  • Flow Management in TCP
    • Sliding window
    • Timeout and retransmission
  • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• Probabilities and Random Variables:
  • Independence:
  • Expectations:
  • An Example:
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