U6CSA18 DATA COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER NETWORKS

UNIT I

LTPC
3003

Data Communication: Data Communication system components, Networks, Protocols Standard making organizations - Data rate and Channel capacity - Encoding and Digital data
communication techniques-Concepts of source coding and channel coding - Asynchronous
and Synchronous transmission - Comparison of bit / baud for various keying technique ASK,
PSK, FSK, QAM - Interfaces and modems - Digital data transmission - Parallel and Serial DTE /
DCE interface data terminal equipment, data circuit terminating equipment - Standards RS
232, Other interface standards EIA 449, EIA 530, X.21, Transmission rate of modems, Modem
standards.
UNIT II

Computer Networks: Network Structure - Network Architecture - Line configuration Topology of networks - Transmission modes - Categories of Networks - Inter-Networks - OSI
model - Functions of different layers - Physical layer - Switching: Circuit switching, Packet
switching, Message switching - Network layer - Connection oriented and connectionless
services. Local area network - Networking and inter-networking devices - Repeater - Bridges
- Routers - Gateways - Ethernet - Token bus - Token ring - FDDI comparison - LAN controller.
UNIT III

Types of errors and detection, redundancy, VRC, LRC, CRC techniques - Error correction Forward and backward error correction - Single bit and multi bit error correction - Hamming
code. Data link control: Need for data link control - Line discipline, ENQ / ACK, Flow control
stop and wait sliding window protocol, Error control, ARQ, Stop and wait ARQ, Sliding window
ARQ Protocols: Asynchronous and Synchronous communications - Asynchronous and
Synchronous Protocol - Character oriented protocol, BSC, bit oriented protocols - HDLC
frames - Link access procedures - X.25 Protocol.
UNIT IV

Network layer design issues, Congestion Control algorithm, Routing algorithm - Transport
layer - Design issues - Duties of the Transport layer, Connection management - OSI Transport
Protocol - Transport Protocol data unit.
UNIT V

Upper OSI layers - Session layer: Session and Transport initialization - Synchronization points
- Session Protocol Data unit - Presentation layer - Translation - Encryption / Decryption,
Substitution and transposition Ciphers, Data Encryption Standards (DES), DES Chaining,
Breaking DAS, Public key cryptography, Authentication - Data Compression.
Application layer - Message handling systems - Presentation concepts SNMP-Abstract
syntax notation.1 (ASN.1), structure of management, Protocols File Transfer Access and
Management (FTAM) - Virtual Terminal (VT) - Directory services - Common Management
Information Protocol - TCP/IP: TCP/IP and the Internet - TCP/IP and OSI, IP and other protocols
in the Network layer, UDP - Introduction to WIFI and WI MAX.

TOTAL: 45 periods
TEXT BOOKS
1. Behrouz Forouzan, Introduction to Data Communications and Networking, Tata McGraw
Hill, 2nd Edition, 2001.
2. Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, PHI, 5th Edition, 1997.

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. William Schewber ,Data Communication, McGraw Hill, 1987.
2. Tanenbaum , Computer Networks, PHI, 3rd Edition, 1996