Computer Networks

The objective of the course is to teach the basics of the use, administration and design of modern computer networks. The course is an introduction to a broad and rapidly developing field of ICT.

Lectures:

• Communication basic terms, network classifications.
• Network reference models (ISO OSI, TCP/IP, IEEE LAN/MAN).
• Today's network technologies (Word Wide Web, Internet, other WAN technologies, access networks, passive networks, Wavelength-Division Multiplexing, special-purpose networks). History of the Internet evolution.
• Computer serial links (types of wired interfaces, transmission media, data representations, bit error correcting code, framing).
• Addressing in IP networks (2nd layer addresses – IEEE 802 addresses, 3rd layer addresses – Internet addresses, 4th layer addresses – port numbers, Web addresses – Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
• Packet transmission issues (communication reliability, network congestion, packet delays).
• IPv4 & IPv6 protocols and auxiliary protocols (ARP, RARP, BOOTP, DHCP, ICMP). Network address translation.
• Routing (terminology, mechanisms, protocols).
• Queuing, scheduling and Quality of Service (QoS).
• Ethernet (features, history, CSMA/CD basis, differences between Ethernet varieties, frame structure, virtual local networks, switches, industrial Ethernet, Ethernet Passive Optical Network).
• TCP internals (main features, slow start, sliding window, handshakes, timers, state diagram, congestion control).
• UDP and other transport protocols.
• Domain Name System.
• Multicast solutions.
• MPLS technology.
• Software-Defined Networking.
• Network management tasks, tools and protocols.
• Selected security issues (threats, services, cypher algorithms, Public Key Infrastructure basis, virtual private networks).

Laboratories

• Networking media, network monitoring.
• Basic router configuration, RIP.
• EIGRP, DHCP.
• OSPF.
• BGP.
• Access Control Lists.
• Network Address Translation.
• Virtual LANs.
• STP, MSTP.
• IPv6.

1. Peter Dordal, An Introduction to Computer Networks, Loyola University Chicago (2014).https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/353
2. Olivier Bonaventure, Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice, Universite catholique de Louvain (2011). https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/computer-networking-principles-protocols-and-practice
3. Andrew Tanenbaum i David Wetherall, Computer Networks, Pearson (2021).
4. Mário Marques da Silva , Cable and Wireless Networks: Theory and Practice, CRC Press (2020).
5. R.Fox, Internet Infrastructure: Networking, Web Services, and Cloud Computing, CRC Press, (2020).
6. Cisco Networking Academy, Routing and Switching Essentials v6 Companion Guide, Pearson Education (2016).
7. L.Peterson, B.Davie, Computer Network: A Systems Approach, 5th Edition, Elsevier (2011). http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780123850591/index.php
8. N.Olifer, V.Olifer, Computer Networks: Principles, Technologies and Protocols for Network Design, Wiley (2006).
9. M.J.Castelli, LAN Switching First–Step, Ciscopress (2004).
10. D.U.Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, 6th Edition, Prentice Hall (2013).
11. D.U.Comer, Computer Networks and Internets, 6th Edition, PrenticeHall (2014).
12. J.F.Kurose, K.W.Ross, Computer Networking A top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 6th Edition, Addison Wesley (2012).
13. M.Sportack, Networking Essentials Unleashed, SAMS (2006).
14. W. R. Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, The Protocols. Addison Wesley (2011).
15. A.S.Tanenbaum, D.J.Wetherall, Computer Networks, 5th ed. Prentice Hall (2010).

ECONE.A

test 1 0..30 pts.

test 2 0..30 pts.

laboratories r.568 0..60 pts.

laboratories r.017 0..30 pts.

egzamination 0..150 pts.

Final note is simply derived from the sum of points

without any additional conditions.

Students who will get 136..150 points before exam

do not have to attend to examination and will get:

136..150 pts. 5,0 A without exam

121..135 pts. 4,5 B+ without exam

Other students (and those who will come to try to get 5,0 instead of
4,5)

will get notes according to the scale:

271..300 pts. 5,0 A

241..270 pts. 4,5 B+

211..240 pts. 4,0 B

181..210 pts. 3,5 C+

151..180 pts. 3,0 C

121..150 pts. 2,0 D

0..40 pts. 0,0 E