Course Catalog 2013-2014
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Course Catalog 2013-2014

ELT-53106 Computer Networking II, 4-6 cr

Additional information

This course is a successor to old TLT-2330 Tietoliikenneprotokollat II and TLT-2336 Computer Networking II, with the additional information on network security, administration and design. Additional labs are available as part of ELT-53006 Communication Networks Laboratory Course, and are highly recommended to guarantee maximal effect from this course.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Dmitri Moltchanov, Alexander Pyattaev, Evgeny Kucheryavy

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Assignment
Laboratory work
Online work




 




 
 2 h/week
 5 h/per
 6 h/per
 3 h/per
+2 h/week
+5 h/per

+3 h/per




 
ELT-53106 2013-01 Thursday 16 - 18, TB109
Thursday 16 - 18, TB222

Requirements

Completion of the laboratory work is required for exam admission. Examination is required to pass the course. Optional homeworks and assignment give extra credits (1 CP for homeworks and 1 CP for assignment).
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

Teaching includes weekly lectures, homeworks, simulation assignment and network design laboratory work.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student will be able to design, configure and maintain a large office network, as well as analyze its performance through measurements and simulation. The course also includes a short introduction to network security and protocol design. Additionally, the course provides a survey of modern Internet technologies such as MPLS, cloud computing, distributed file systems, as well as future internet technologies such as IPv6, Internet of Things etc. During this course the student will: - understand routing protocols and their functions; - be able to study the most important architectures and mechanisms for QoS provisioning in the Internet; - learn how to provide secure communications in computer networks; - identify QoS requirements of various applications and choose protocols to support them; - will have an opportunity to design a corporate network in a lab. This course is highly recommended for the following courses: ELT-53606 Network Analysis and Dimensioning I ELT-53656 Network Analysis and Dimensioning II

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Internetworking: - IPv6 - interior and exterior gateway protocols - Virtual Private Networks - multicasting and mobile IP     
2. Quality of Service assurance: - IntServ, RSVP, DiffServ, NSIS - queuing disciplines and traffic shaping - label switching with MPLS     
3. Network security: - cryptographic algorithms overview - network security protocols - possible attacks and defense solutions     
4. Applications: - cloud computing, network storage - session control protocols - Voice over IP - P2P fundamentals, device-to-device communications - network management, future network technologies     
5. Network design: - requesting IP address blocks - designing routing and VLANs - practical experience     

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

Completion of the laboratory assignment is required for exam admission. Examination is required to pass the course. Homeworks give extra credits.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures   Alberto Leon-Garcia, Indra Widjaja         No    English  
Book   Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach   James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross         No    English  
Book   Computer Networks: A Systems Approach   Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie         No    English  
Book   Data and Computer Communications   William Stallings         No    English  

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
ELT-51006 Networking Laboratory I Advisable   1
ELT-51106 Computer Networking I Mandatory   1

1 . Or equivalent knowledge from previous studies.

Additional information about prerequisites
Basic understanding of computer networking is expected, including the following technologies: IP, Ethernet, ARP, ICMP, DNS, HTTP and FTP Students are expected to have experience in Linux systems configuration for the laboratory work.

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
ELT-53106 Computer Networking II, 4-6 cr TLT-2336 Computer Networking II, 5 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
ELT-53106 2013-01 ELT-53106 (formerly TLT-2336) COMPUTER NETWORKING II implementation for Spring 2014. Note that the content of this course is different from previous years, so partial completions are no longer supported.   Lectures
Practical works
Laboratory assignments
   
Contact teaching: 60 %
Distance learning: 20 %
Self-directed learning: 20 %  

Last modified17.09.2013