2K6 EC 803: COMPUTER COMMUNICATION & NETWORKING

Module 1: (14 hours)
Characteristics of communication networks – traffic characterization and quality of service CBR, VBR, UBR traffic – network services – flow control – congestion control – error control – error detection – ARQ retransmission strategies – analysis – OSI model – Ethernet – token ring – FDDI – DQDB – frame relay
Module 2: (12 hours)
TCP/UDP – TCP congestion control – congestion avoidance – window adjustment in TCP – routing optimization in datagram networks – circuit switched networks – SONET – SDH- routing optimization in circuit switched networks
Module 3: (12 hours)
Markov chain- Discrete time and continuous time Markov chains- Poisson process- Queuing models for Data gram networks- Little’s theorem- M/M/1 queuing systems- M/M/m/m queuing models- M/G/1 queue
Module 4: (14 hours)
ATM networks – main features – statistical multiplexing – addressing, signaling and routing – ATM header structure – ATM adaptation layer – IP over ATM– IPV4, IPV6. Introduction to WSN ; MAC Protocols – classification, comparative analysis Overview/Architectures.

Text books and references:
1. Jean Walrand & Pravin Varaiya, “High Performance Communication Networks”. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2nd Edition
2. James. F. Kurose and Keith.W. Ross, “Computer Networks, A top-down approach featuring the Internet”, Addison Wesley, 2001.
3. D. Bertsekas and R. Gallager, “Data Networks”, PHI, 2000.
4. Tannenbaum A., “Computer Networks”, Prentice Hall
5. S. Keshav, “An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking”, Addison Wesley
6. Peterson L.L. & Davie B.S., “Computer Networks: A System Approach”, Morgan Kaufman Publishers.
7. Anurag Kumar, D. Manjunath, and Joy Kuri, Communication Networking: An Analytical Approach, Morgan Kaufman Publ. 2004.
8. C. Siva Ram Murthy and B. S. Manoj, “Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols”, Prentice Hall.