Courses persons responsible
Evgeny Kucheryavy

Lecturetimes and places
Per IV,V: Tuesday 16 - 18, TB224

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	-	-	-	2 h/week	2 h/week	-
Exercise work	-	-	-	1 h/week	1 h/week	-
Assignment	-	-	-	10 h/week	10 h/week	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
During this course you will learn the basics of communications protocols: modelling concepts, state-based behaviour, layered structure of protocol stacks. Typical protocol mechanisms: error control and flow control, connection set-up, medium access control (MAC) protocols for shared medium LANs. Performance issues for flow control and MAC protocols. TCP protocol realizations like Tahoe, Reno, New Reno, SACK etc. Application Level protocols: FTP, SIP, HTTP, DNS, etc.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Theoretical Concepts of a Protocol. Early beginnings. Model of a protocol.
2.	Physical layer: signals, coding, errors, etc. Data Link Layer MAC protocols: CSMA/CD 802.3, CSMA/CA in accordance with 802.11x
3.	IP layer: IPv4/IPv6. Routing protocols in detail.
4.	TCP family: Tahoe, Reno, New Reno, SACK, etc. State machine. Flow control.
5.	Application layer protocols: FTP, HTTP 1.0/1.1, RTP, RTSP, SMTP, POP3 etc.

Requirements for completing the course
Lectures, exercises, assignment, exam

Evaluation criteria for the course

Study material

Type	Name	Auhor	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability...	Exam material	Language
Book	Data and Computer Communications	W. Stallings			6-7th editions	Yes	English

Prerequisites

Code	Course	Credits	M/R
TLT-2106	TLT-2106 Basic Course on Networking	5	Recommendable

Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Remarks

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	75
Exercises	36
Assignments	22
Total sum	133

Correspondence of content
8305010 Communications Protocols

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Last modified	10.02.2007
Modified by	Jarmo Harju