COMPUTER NETWORK DESIGN EEB_7_876 1
Dec 27, 2015
COMPUTER NETWORK DESIGN EEB_7_876
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Website
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/vle
Methods of Teaching and Learning : Lecture/Tutorial and WorkshopAssessment of the module :2-hour written examination -- 50% 2 laboratory reports -- 25% + 25%
Lecturer: Ya Bao
Textbook: Computer Networks 5/E, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 2011. ISBN: 0-13-255317-1.
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Available from Blackwell’s, London Road
Benefits of purchasing this book:
• New problems and lab exercises at the end of each chapter helps reinforce concepts presented and pass your exams
• Based on real-world networks and networking challenges, enabling you to apply theory to the types of problems you are most likely to encounter in industry
• Companion Website containing PowerPoint slides and other learning tools
Andrew TanenbaumComputer Networks 5th Edition
4th edition e-book is available at: (access from LSBU library, Ebook) http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/library/
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Top-Down Network Design, 3rd Edition
Priscilla Oppenheimer
Designing and Supporting Computer
Networks (CCNA)
BACKGROUND READING (essential for students who lack of
communication background)
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Data and Computer Communications 9/E, by W. Stalling, Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 2010.
Data Communications and Networking 4/E, by B. Forouzan, Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
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Another book recommended for who lacks of backgrounds.
SIMPLIFIED COMMUNICATIONS MODEL - DIAGRAM
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Chapter 1 Introduction
COMMUNICATIONS TASKS
Transmission system utilization
Addressing
Interfacing Routing
Signal generation Recovery
Synchronization Message formatting
Exchange management Security
Error detection and correction
Network management
Flow control8
NETWORKING
•Business Applications•Home Applications•Mobile Users•Social Issues
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•Point to point communication not usually practical—Devices are too far apart—Large set of devices would need impractical number of connections
•Solution is a communications network
—Wide Area Network (WAN)
—Local Area Network (LAN)
CLASSIFICATION OF INTERCONNECTED PROCESSORS BY SCALE
Classification of interconnected processors by scale.10
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ProtocolsUsed for communications between entities in a system
Must speak the same language
DESIGN ISSUES FOR THE LAYERS
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• Addressing
• Error Control
• Flow Control
• Multiplexing
• Routing
REFERENCE MODELS
The TCP/IP reference model.
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HYBRID MODEL
The hybrid reference model to be used in this unit.
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EXAMPLE NETWORKS
• The Internet• Connection-Oriented Networks:
X.25, Frame Relay, and ATM• Ethernet: 802.3• Wireless LANs: 802:11
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Other networks
PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
GSM, UMTS, LTE and WiMax
IEEE 802 STANDARDS
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The 802 working groups. The important ones are marked with *. The ones marked with are hibernating. The one marked with † gave up.
METRIC UNITS
The principal metric prefixes.17