UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BEC062

Data Communication Networks

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2024-25 TypeTheory
Appears in 3 semesters · 3 branches

B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering · Sem 6 (Department Elective-III) · B.Tech Electronics & Instrumentation / Instrumentation & Control · Sem 6 (Department Elective-III) · B.Tech ECE (Advanced Communication Technology) · Sem 6 (Department Elective-III)

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Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1: Introduction to Networks & Data Communications

8 hrs

Goals and Applications of Networks, The Internet, Protocols & Standards, Layered Tasks, OSI reference Model, TCP / IP, Addressing, Line Coding Review.

Unit2

Unit 2: Physical Layer

8 hrs

Transmission Media- Guided and unguided, Network Topology Design, Data Link Layer: Error detection and Correction, Framing, Flow and Error Control Protocols, Noiseless Channel and Noisy Channel Protocol, HDLC, Point-to-Point Protocol

Unit3

Unit 3: Multiple Access

8 hrs

RANDOH, CDMA, CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA, Controlled Access, Channelization Wired LANs: IEEE Standards, Standard Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth IEEE 802.16.

Unit4

Unit 4: Network Layer

8 hrs

Design Issues. Routing Algorithms. Congestion control Algorithms. Internetworking –TCP/IP, IP Packet, IPv4 and IPv6 Protocols, IPV4 Addresses, Connecting Devices, Virtual LAN IPV6 Addresses.

Unit5

Unit 5: Transport Layer Protocol

8 hrs

UDP and TCP, ATM, Cryptography, Network Security, Session Layer-Design issues. Application Layer: File Transfer, Electronic mail, HTTP, WWW, SMTP, Cryptography, Network Security.

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Identify the issues and challenges in the architecture of a network.
  2. CO2Analyze the services and features of various protocol layers in data layer.
  3. CO3Demonstrate the knowledge of multiple access to design a access technique for a particular application.
  4. CO4Realize protocols at different layers of a network hierarchy.
  5. CO5Recognize security issues in a network and various application of application layer.

Text Books

  1. B. A. Forouzan, “Data Communications and Networking”, 5th Edition, TMH, 2017.

Reference Books

  1. S. Tanenbaum, “Computer Networks”, 4th Edition, Pearson, 2013.
  2. W. Stallings, “Data and Computer Communication”, 8th Edition, Pearson, 2007.

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 24 of the original AKTU PDF.

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