The domain of Internet has grown in a rapid pace from traditional circuit switched and packet switched small scale networks to modern high-speed mobile and wireless Internet. A large number of methods, architectures and designs came up at every protocol level to cop up with the demands for developing a secure and highly dependable information technology infrastructure.
The broad objective of the course is to understand - (i) the architecture and principles of today's computer networks, (ii) the protocols and their functionalities, (iii) the requirements for the future Internet and its impact on the computer network architecture.
In this course, we'll broadly cover the basic TCP/IP protocol stack and touch on the next generation computer networks. We'll take a top-down approach to cover different protocols at the TCP/IP protocol stack.
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INTENDED AUDIENCE: CSE, ECE, EE
CORE/ELECTIVE: Core Course
UG/PG: UG / PG Course
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INDUSTRY SUPPORT: IT industries
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Soumya
K. Ghosh received the Ph.D. and M.Tech. degrees from Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur,
India. Presently, he is a Professor with Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. Before joining IIT Kharagpur, he worked for the
Indian Space Research Organization in the area of satellite remote sensing
and geographic information systems. He has more than 200 research papers in
reputed journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include
spatial data science, spatial web services and cloud computing.
Sandip Chakraborty received the Ph.D. and M.Tech. degrees from
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor
with Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He has
around 100 research papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings.
His research interests include computer systems, distributed systems and
mobile computing.
COURSE LAYOUT:
Week 1 : Introduction to Computer Networks – History, Circuit Switching and Packet Switching
Week 4 : Transport Layer Primitives – Connection Establishment and Closure
Week 5 : Flow Control and Congestion Control at the Transport Layer
Week 6 : Transmission Control Protocol – Basic Features, TCP Congestion Control
Week 7 : Network Layer Primitives – IP Addressing
Week 8 : IP Routing – Intra Domain Routing Protocols, Inter Domain Routing Protocols (BGP)
Week 9 : IP Services – SNMP, ARP
Week 10 : Data Link Layer Service Primitives – Forwarding, Flow Control, Error Control
Week 11 : Media Access Control - Channel Access Protocols, Framing
Week 12 : End to End Principles of Computer Networks
SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:
Books
Computer Networking: A Top - Down Approach, by Ames Kurose, Keith Ross
Computer Networks - Andrew S Tanenbaum
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach Book by Bruce S. Davie and Larry L. Peterson
TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, (IBM Redbook) - Download From http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/gg243376.html
TCP/IP Guide, Charles M. Kozierok, Available Online - http://www.tcpipguide.com/
Request for Comments (RFC) - IETF - http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
Journals/Transactions
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
IEEE Transactions on Communication
CERTIFiCATION EXAM :
The exam is optional for a fee.
Date and Time of Exam: October 28, 2018 (Sunday):
Time of Exams: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm.
Exam for this Course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATE:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 8 out of 12 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur.It will be e-verifiable at http://nptel.ac.in/noc/
