Institute

School

Name
Program Name
Course Code
Course Name
Lecture (per week)
Course
Coordinator

Chitkara Institute of Engineering & Technology

B.E. (ECE)
CSL4203
Computer Networks
5
Course Credits
Ms. Manisha Aggarwal

Name

1. Scope and Objectives of the Course

The course aims at providing knowledge of topologies and small networks

by following the top-down approach from application to physical layer.
The course provides the base to prepare the students to study the
distributed network concepts.
To cultivate engineering students with theoretical knowledge about network
technologies.
To enumerate the layers of the OSI model and TCP/IP and to learn the
function(s) of each layer.
At the end of this course, students should be able to design, build and
analyze simple networks using the application-driven paradigm.

2. Textbooks
TB1: Introduction to Data Communications and Networking by B. Forouzan,
Tata McGraw Hill, Fourth Edition, 2006.

3. Reference Books
RB1: Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Pearson Education,
Fourth Edition.

4. Other readings and relevant websites

S.
No.

Link of Journals, Magazines, websites and Research Papers

1. http://www.nos.org/srsec330/330L5.pdf
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network
3. http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2278/Data-Communication
4. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/courses/chapters/network.p
df
5. http://highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0072515848/student_view0/glossary.html
6. http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/data-comms

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7. http://www.mendeley.com/computer-and-information-science/datacommunication-and-networks

5. Course Plan
Lect.
No.
(1 Hr)
1-2

Topics

Text
Book

Section No.,
Page No.

Introduction-- Data Communications,

Networks, Protocols and standards

TB1

3-4

Network Models Layered Tasks, The OSI

model, Layers in the OSI model

TB1

Sec 1.1- 1.2 (P 315), Sec 1.4 (P 1921)

Sec 2.1 -2.3 (P 2742)

TCP/IP protocol suite, Addressing

TB1

Sec 2.4-2.5 (P 4250)

Physical Layer: Transmission impairments,

Data Rate limits, Performance

TB1

Sec 3.4-3.6 (P 8094)

7-8

Transmission
Media:
Unguided Media: wireless

Media,

TB1

Sec 7.1-7.2(P 192207)

Switching: Circuit switched networks,

Datagram networks, virtual circuit Networks
Data Link Layer- Introduction,
Block
coding, Linear Block codes,

TB1

Sec 8.1- 8.3 (P

214-227)
Sec 10.1- 10.3 (P
267-278)

12-13

Cyclic codes: cyclic redundancy check,

polynomials, cyclic code analysis, checksum.

TB1

14

Data Link Control : Framing, Flow and

Error control, Protocols
Noiseless channels, Noisy channels

TB1

Multiple
Access:
Random
access,
Controlled Access
Wired LANs: Ethernet IEEE standards,
standard Ethernet. Changes in the standard
ST-1 ( 1-50%)
Wireless LANs: IEEE 802.11- Architecture,
MAC sublayer, addressing mechanism,
Bluetooth Architecture, Bluetooth layers,
radio layer
Network Layer: IPv4 addresses, IPv6

TB1

10-11

15-16

17-18
19-20
21-23

23- 25

Guided

TB1

TB1

TB1

sec 10.4 (P 284286, 291-293), Sec

10.5 (P 298-299)
Sec 11.1 -11.3 (P
307-311)
Sec 11.4 (P 312313, 315-317), Sec
11.5(
P
318320,322-328, 331335, 338-339)
Sec 12.1-12.2( P
364-383)
Sec 13.1-13.3 ( P
395-408)

TB1

Sec 14.1 (P 421429) Sec 14.2 (P

434-437)

TB1

Sec 19.1 -19.2(P

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26- 28

addresses
Network Layer: Delivery,
Unicast routing protocols

Forwarding,

TB1

Transport layer process to process

delivery, user datagram protocol, TCP
Congestion control : Data Traffic, congestion,
congestion control

TB1

34-35

Application layer Domain name system

TB1

36-38

Application layer Protocols: Remote

logging, Electronic Mail- architecture, user
agent services, SMTP, message access
agent, FTP- communication over control
connection,
communication
over
data
connection

TB1

39

WWW Architecture

TB1

40

HTTP

TB1

29-31
32-33

549-571)
Sec 22.1- 22.3 ( P
647 - 678)
Sec 23.1-23.3 (P
703-735)
Sec 24.1 24.3 ( P
761-767)

TB1

Sec 25.1 -25.4 ( P

798- 805)
Sec 26.1 (P 817819), Sec 26.2 (P
824-829, 834-835,
837-842),
Sec
26.6.1-26.6.2
( P 910- 916)
Sec 27.1 (P 851854)
Sec 27.3 (P861862)

ST-II (51- 100% syllabus)

ST-III (100% syllabus)
6. Evaluation Scheme:
Component 1
Component 2

Two Online Test based on MCQs

End Term Examination
Total

40%
60%
100

Details of Component-1: There will be two sessional tests (STs) for all the theory
papers as per below stated guidelines:
(i) 1st sessional test will be from 0- 50% syllabus of the subject
(ii) 2nd sessional test will be from 51-60% syllabus of the subject.
(iii) 3rd sessional test will be from 100% syllabus of the subject
(iii) The best of two tests will be taken for finalizing the internal of the subject.
Details of Component-2: The End Term Examination will be held at the end of
semester. As per academic guidelines minimum 75% attendance is required to
become eligible for appearing in the end term examination.
This Document is approved by:
Designation
Course

Name
Ms. Manisha Aggarwal

Signature

Coordinator

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HoD
Dean Academics
Date

Ms. Lipika Gupta

Dr. Rajnish Sharma

25.11.2014

COMPUTER NETWORKS
S.
No
1

Topics

Introduction: Data Communications,

Network criteria,
Physical topology, Categories of networks, Protocols and
standards
Network Models Layered Tasks, The OSI model, Layers in
the OSI model
TCP/IP protocol suite, Addressing: Physical addresses, logical
addresses, port addresses, specific addresses

Lectu
res

Weighta
ge
(%age)

5
10%

Physical Layer: Transmission impairments, Data

Rate
limits, Performance
Transmission Media: Guided Media, Unguided Media: wireless
Switching: Circuit switched networks, Datagram networks,
virtual circuit Networks.

3
15%

Data Link Layer-- Framing, Character stuffing, bit stuffing

Error Detection and Correction (CRC, Hamming Code, Parity
Bit,
checksum)
Data link protocols -simplest, stop-and-wait protocol, Sliding
window protocols- 1-bit sliding window protocol, go back-n,
selective repeat protocol, piggybacking

Medium Access sub Layer: Channel allocation, Multiple

access
protocols: random access (Aloha, Pure aloha, slotted aloha),
controlled
access (reservation, polling, token passing)

Wired LANS- standard Ethernet, Wireless LANs, Bluetooth

15%

Network Layer-- IPv4 addresses ( IP protocol, IP addresses,

Subnets, NAT) , IPv6 addresses, Routing protocols: delivery,
forwarding, Unicast routing protocols (optimization, intra and
inter domain routing, distance vector routing, link state
routing, path vector routing)

15%

Transport layer-- Process to process delivery, Process to

process delivery UDP (user datagram, checksum, UDP
operation) , Process to process delivery TCP (TCP services,
TCP features, TCP connection), Congestion and Congestion

15%

20%

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control.
8

Application layerDNS, Electronic Mail and File Transfer,

HTTP, WWW , TELNET
TOTAL

10%

40

100%

Textbooks
TB1: Introduction to Data Communications and Networking by B. Forouzan,
Tata McGraw Hill, Fourth Edition, 2004.
Reference Books
RB1: Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Pearson Education,
Fourth Edition.

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