Advanced Computer Networking
Advanced Computer Networking
II Semester Computer Science and Engineering (With effect from the Academic Year 2011-2012) MECSC102 - ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKING Hours /week : 4 Hrs Credits :4 UNIT-I Network Overview: interfaces, protocols and services, connection-oriented and connectionless services, OSI & TCP/IP Reference Models, ATM, Novel Netware, Local Area Networks: Topologies - star, bus, ring. UNIT-II Media Access Control: deterministic and probabilistic, IEEE 802.x. wireless networking. Data Link Protocols: framing and data transparency, error detection & correction, flow control. UNIT-III Interconnecting Networks: transparent and source routing bridges, switches. Routers - adaptive and non-adaptive routing protocols. Internet Protocols: IP Addressing, ARP & RARP, IP & ICMP, UDP & TCP. UNIT-IV Overview of distributed system architecture: motivation, system structures, ODS Reference model and distribution transparencies, design issues, Client-Server Model. Interaction primitives: message passing, remote procedure call, remote object invocation. UNIT-V Interaction implementation: message passing, RPC, concurrency and threads Security: threat analysis, access control concepts - identification, authentication, authorization and delegation, access control lists, capabilities, secret and public key encryption, Kerberos. TEXT BOOKS :
1. Computer Networks, 5th / 4th Ed., A.S.Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 2010. 2. Advanced Operating System, 2nd Ed., A.S.Tanenbaum
: 40 : 60
REFERENCES:
1.Data Communications and Networking, Behrouz a Forouzan. 2."Distributed systems: principles and paradigms", A.S.Tanenbaum,