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EC114 Computer Networks and Security

3 Credits

1 Data communication Components : Representation of data and its flow Networks , Various Connection Topology, Protocols and Standards, OSI model, Transmission Media, LAN: Wired LAN, Wireless LANs, Connecting LAN and Virtual LAN, Techniques for Bandwidth utilization: Multiplexing - Frequency division, Time division and Wave division, Concepts on spread spectrum 

2 Data Link Layer and Medium Access Sub Layer : Error Detection and Error Correction Fundamentals, Block coding, Hamming Distance, CRC; Flow Control and Error control protocols - Stop and Wait, Go back - N ARQ, Se- lective Repeat ARQ, Sliding Window, Piggybacking, Random Access, Multiple access protocols -Pure ALOHA, Slotted ALOHA, CSMA/CD,CDMA/CA 

3 Network Layer : Switching, Logical addressing – IPv4, IPv6; Address mapping –ARP, RARP, BOOTP and DHCP–Delivery, Forwarding and Unicast Routing protocols. Transport Layer: Process to Process Communication, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), SCTP Congestion Control; Quality of Service, QoS improving techniques: Leaky Bucket and Token Bucket algorithm.

4 Application Layer: Domain Name Space (DNS), DDNS, TELNET, EMAIL, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), WWW, HTTP, SNMP, Bluetooth, Firewalls, Basic concepts of Cryptography

5 Network Security: Passive and Active Attacks, Symmetric Encryption, Encryption Algorithms, Key Distribution, Traffic Padding, Message Authen- tication, Hash function, Secure Hash function, Public-key Encryption, Digital Signature, RSA Public Key Encryption algorithm, Key Management, Secure Socket Layer and Transport layer Security, SSL Architecture, SSL Record Pro- tocol, Change Cipher Spec Protocol, Alert Protocol, handshake Protocol, IP level security IPSEC, Application layer security PGP, Firewall, Virtual Private Networks.

Name of Authors / Books /Publishers
1 “Data Communication and Networking”, 4th Edition, Behrouz A. Forouzan, McGraw-Hill
2 “Data and Computer Communication”, 8th Edition, William Stallings, Pearson Prentice Hall India
3 “Computer Networks”, 8th Edition, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Pearson New International Edition.
4 “Internetworking with TCP/IP”, Volume 1, 6th Edition Douglas Comer, Prentice Hall of India.
5 “TCP/IP Illustrated”, Volume 1, W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley, United States of America
6 “Network Security Bible”, by Cole, Krutz and Conley, Wiley dreamtech