UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE

DIRECTORATE OF OUTREACH AND

ONLINE PROGRAMS
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

SEMESTER – II

Hard Core Courses

1. Data Communication and Networks
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Embedded Systems
4. .Net with C#

Softcore courses
1. Linear Algebra and Probability Distribution
2. Cloud Computing
3. Data Mining and Data Warehousing
4. Cryptography and Network Security
 II Semester

Hardcore Courses

Data Communication and Networks (3:0:1)

Course Outcome:
 Understand the data communications system and its components.
 Summarize signal conversions techniques for digital communication.
 Identify and categorize various types of transmission media.
 Understand various analog and digital services for data communication.
 Evaluate bandwidth utilization using multiplexing techniques.
 Implement advanced technique such as Data encoding and Compression for Image
processing Applications.

Course Content:

Unit –I

Data Communication, Component and Basic Concepts – Introduction, Characteristics –

Delivery, Accuracy, Timeliness and Jitter, Components, Topology – Mesh, Star, Tree, Bus,
Ring and Hybrid Topologies Transmission modes – Simplex, Half Duplex, Full Duplex
Categories of networks – LAN, MAN, WAN, Network Components – Signal Transmission –
Analog Signaling, concept of ASK, FSK, PSK, Digital Signaling, concept of Unipolar, Polar,
Return-to-Zero(RZ), Biphase,

Unit –II

Manchester, Differential Manchester, Non-Return-to-Zero (NRZ), Bit Synchronization,

Asynchronous Bit Synchronization and Synchronous Bit Synchronization, Baseband and
Broadband Transmissions.

Transmission Media - Guided Media – Twisted-Pair Cable, Coaxial Cable, Fiber-Optic Cable
Unguided Media – Radio Wave Transmission Systems, Microwave Transmission Systems,
Infrared Transmission Systems and Satellite Communication System.

Unit –III

The OSI Model – Functions of all the Seven Layers, Networking Devices – Functions and
Applications of Hub, Switches, Bridges, Repeaters Internetworking Devices – Functions and
Applications of Routers and Gateways, IP Addressing – Dynamic IP Addressing, Static IP
Addressing, Types of IP Addresses, Protocols –TCP, UDP, IP, IPV4, IPV6, TCP/IP Suite,
SMTP,ARP, RARP, OSPF, BGP, ALOHA.

Unit–IV

Packet Switching Networks – Network Services and Internal Network Operations, Packet
Network Topology, Datagrams and Virtual Circuits, Connectionless Packet Switching,
Virtual Circuit Packet Switching.

Routing Concepts – Routing Tables, Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Routing Algorithm, Flooding,
Distance Vector Routing, Congestion Control Algorithms-Leaky Bucket Algorithm.

Data Link Issues –Single bit error and Burst Error, concepts of Redundancy, Checksum,
Single Bit Error correction and Hamming Code correction method.

Reference Books:

1. Introduction to Data Communications and Networking by Behrouz Forouzan.

2. Computer Networks by Andrew S Tanenbaum.

3. Networking Essentials – Third Edition – Jeffrey S. Beasley, Piyasat Nilkaew

Artificial Intelligence (3:0:1)

Course Outcome

 Explain what constitutes "Artificial" Intelligence and how to identify systems with
Artificial Intelligence.

 Explain how Artificial Intelligence enables capabilities that are beyond conventional
technology, for example, chess-playing computers, self-driving cars, robotic vacuum
cleaners.

 Use classical Artificial Intelligence techniques, such as search algorithms, minimax

algorithm, neural networks, tracking, robot localization.

 Ability to apply Artificial Intelligence techniques for problem solving.

 Explain the limitations of current Artificial Intelligence techniques.

Course Content

Unit-I

Introduction: Origin of AI, AI solution to problems, characteristics of AI problems; State

space search - blind searches, heuristic searches; Search in game tree.

Unit-II

Predicate logic: Backward reasoning, Resolution; Other reasoning methods - Probabilistic,

Fuzzy, Non monotonic

Unit-III

Knowledge representation: Overview of Semantic nets, Frames, Conceptual dependency,

Scripts; Planning - Goal stack, Non linear, Hierarchical.

Unit-IV

Expert systems Learning: Rote, By Advice, By Analogy, Macro.

Reference Books

1. Artificial Intelligence, Elaine Rich, Kevin Knight, Shivashankar Nair, Tata McGraw Hill

2. Artificial Intelligence, Patrick Henry Winston, AWL

3. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Dan W. Patterson, PHI

4. Artificial Intelligence, Nils J Nilson, Elsevier, Morgan Kaufmann

Embedded Systems (3:1:0)

Course Outcome:

 Understand the composition, design, and implementation of embedded systems, the basics
of interfacing hardware and software.

 Be familiar with both medium level and high level languages appropriate for embedded
systems development techniques; reading and understanding processor and component
datasheets; driving use contexts, including human‐computer interaction, environmental
sensing and actuation, etc.,
 Be familiar with working on a team to create and apply embedded systems and be exposed
to history of embedded interfaces.

Course Content:

Unit –I

Introduction to Embedded Systems: Introduction to Embedded Systems – The build

process for embedded systems- Structural units in Embedded processor , selection of
processor & memory devices- DMA – Memory management methods- Timer and
Counting devices, Watchdog Timer, Real Time Clock, In circuit emulator, Target
Hardware Debugging.

Unit –II

Embedded Networking: Embedded Networking: Introduction, I/O Device Ports &

Buses– Serial Bus communication protocols – RS232 standard – RS422 – RS485 – CAN
Bus -Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) – Inter Integrated Circuits (I2C) –need for device
drivers.

Unit –III

Embedded Firmware Development Environment: Embedded Product Development Life

Cycle-objectives, different phases of EDLC, Modelling of EDLC; issues in Hardware-
software Co-design, Data Flow Graph, state machine model, Sequential Program Model,
concurrent Model, object oriented Model.

Unit–IV

RTOS Based Embedded System Design: Introduction to basic concepts of RTOS- Task,
process & threads, interrupt routines in RTOS, Multiprocessing and Multitasking,
Preemptive and non preemptive scheduling, Task communication shared memory,
message passing-, Inter process Communication – synchronization between processes-
semaphores, Mailbox, pipes, priority inversion, priorityinheritance, comparison of Real
time Operating systems: Vx Works, чC/OS-II, RT Linux. Embedded System Application
Development: Case Study of Washing Machine- Automotive Application- Smart card
System Application.
Reference Books:

1. Rajkamal, ‘Embedded System-Architecture, Programming, Design’, McGraw Hill, 2013.

2. Peckol, “Embedded system Design”, John Wiley & Sons,2010

3. Lyla B Das,” Embedded Systems-An Integrated Approach”, Pearson, 2013

4. Shibu. K.V, “Introduction to Embedded Systems”, Tata Mcgraw Hill,2009.

5. Elicia White,” Making Embedded Systems”, O’ Reilly Series,SPD,2011.

6. Han-Way Huang, ”Embedded system Design Using C8051”, Cengage Learning,2009.

7. Rajib Mall “Real-Time systems Theory and Practice” Pearson Education, 2007.

.Net with C# (2:1:1)

Course Outcome

 Understand the .Net frame work and the features of C# programming language to design
and implement web-based applications as per the requirement.

Course Content:

Unit-I

Introduction: An overview of the .NET framework. CLR, FCL, ASP.NET to support Internet
development and ADO.NET to support database applications. Languages supported by
.NET, introduction to Visual Studio .NET.

Unit-II

Introduction to C#: Program structure, Basic IO, data types, operators and expressions,
relational and logical operations, control structures. Writing methods, Recursion and
overloading arrays and data representation. Class definitions. Properties, indexers, and access
Arrays control. Inheritance and polymorphism, delegates. Exception handling.

Unit-III

ADO.NET: Introduction to SQL. ADO.NET after Native Drivers, ODBC Drivers,

DAO/RDO and ADO. Database using VS.NET Establishing Connection with Database.
Unit- IV

ASP.NET: Web forms in ASP.NET, States, Validation, Login; ASP.NET Administrative

tasks ASP.NET Data controls, Ajax Extensions, LINQ, Working with XML data, Web
Services.

Reference Books

1. Pro C# with .NET 3.0 by Andrew Troelsen.

2. Microsoft ASP.NET by G.Andrew Duthie.

3. Building ASP.NET WebPages with Microsoft web Matrix. By Steve Lydford

Softcore courses

Linear Algebra and Probability Distribution (3:1:0)

Course Outcome

 Understand the concept and applications of vector spaces, subspaces and linear
independence.

 Understand various inner products and able to perform various inner product operations.

 Explore the applicability of general Liner Transformations, Linear operators, Composition

of operators and linear transformations.

 Understand the basics of probability theory and its applications

Course Content

Unit-I

Vector Spaces: General Vector Spaces, Subspaces, Linear Independence, Basis and
Dimension, Span, Some Fundamental Theorems, Row Space, Column Space, Nullspace,
Rank and Nullity, Four Fundamental Spaces,

Unit-II

Inner Product Spaces: General Inner Products, Euclidean and Weighted Inner Product,
Length, Distance, Norm, Angle and Orthogonality in Inner Product Spaces, Caucy-Schwarz
Inequality, Orthogonal Complement, Orthonormal Bases, Gram-Schmidt Procedure, QR-
decomposition.

Unit-III

Linear Transformations: General Liner Transformations, Linear operators, Composition of

operators and linear transformations, Kernel and Range, Dimension theorem for Linear
Transformation, Inverse Linear Transformations, Matrices of General Linear
Transformations, Matrices of Compositions and Linear Transformations.

Unit-IV

Probability Theory: Basics of Probability theory, Discrete Random Variables and Probability
Distributions, Mean and Variance, Moments of a Discrete Random Variable, Uniform
Distribution, Binomial Distribution, Poisson Distribution, Functions of Random Variables,
Continuous Random Variables and Probability Distributions

Text Books/References:

1. Howard Anton and Chris Rorres, "Elementary Linear Algebra", John Wiley and Sons, 9th
Edition, 2008.

2. Douglas C. Montgomery and George C. Runger, "Applied Statistics and Probability for
Engineers", John Wiley and Sons, 3rd Edition, 2003.

Cloud Computing (3:1:0)

Course Outcome:

 Define Cloud Computing and memorize the different Cloud service and deployment
models.

 Describe importance of virtualization along with their technologies.

 Use and Examine different cloud computing services.

 Analyze the components of open stack & Google Cloud platform and understand Mobile
Cloud Computing.

 Design & develop backup strategies for cloud data based on features.
Course Content

Unit–I

Introduction: Cloud models-Evolution of Cloud Computing –System Models for Distributed

and Cloud Computing – NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture – On-demand
Provisioning – Elasticity in Cloud – deployment models – service models-cloud service
providers.

Virtualization: Basics of Virtualization- Types of Virtualization- Implementation Levels of

Virtualization, Virtualization Structures - Tools and Mechanisms – resource sharing and
resource pooling Desktop Virtualization – Server Virtualization.

Unit–II

Cloud Infrastructure: Architectural Design of Compute and Storage Clouds – Layered Cloud
Architecture Development – Design Challenges - Inter Cloud Resource Management –
Resource Provisioning and Platform Deployment – Global Exchange of Cloud Resources.

Unit–III

Programming Model: Parallel and Distributed Programming Paradigms – Map Reduce,

Twister and Iterative Map Reduce – Hadoop Library from Apache – Mapping Applications -
Programming Support.

Security in the Cloud: Security Overview – Cloud Security Challenges – Access control
mechanisms – Security Governance – Risk Management – Security Monitoring – Security
Architecture Design – Virtual Machine Security.

Unit–IV

Enterprise Cloud-Based High Performance Computing (HPC): Overview of High

Performance Computing (HPC) on Cloud-Enterprises HPC applications (high-performance
grid computing, high-performance big data computing/analytics, high performance
reasoning)- HPC Cloud vendor solutions: compute grids (Windows HPC, Hadoop, Platform
Symphony ,Gridgain), data grids (Oracle coherence, IBM Object grid, Cassendra, HBase,
Memcached, HPChardware (GPGPU, SSD, Infiniband, Non-blocking switches)
Setting up own cloud: Cloud setup-How to build private cloud using open source tools-
Understanding various cloud plugins- Setting up your own cloud environment-Auto
provisioning- Custom images-Integrating tools like Nagio-Integration of Public and Private
cloud.

Reference Books

1. Kai Hwang, Geoffrey C Fox, Jack G Dongarra, Distributed and Cloud Computing, From

2. Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things, 2012, 1st Edition, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers.

3. Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Thomas Wozniak, SantiRistol, Grid and Cloud Computing –

A Business Perspective on Technology and Applications, 2010, Springer.

4. John W.Rittinghouse and James F.Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation,

Management, and Security”, 2010, CRC Press.

5. Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert Elsenpeter, Cloud Computing, A Practical Approach,
2009, TMH.

6. George Reese, Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in

the Cloud O'Reilly, 2009.

Data Mining and Data Warehousing (3:1:0)

Course Outcome

 Acquire the knowledge of data preprocessing and data quality; modeling and design of
data warehouses and algorithms for data mining.

 Be able to design data warehouses and apply acquired knowledge for understanding data
and select suitable methods for data analysis.

Course Content
Unit-I
Introduction to data mining and Data Warehousing, Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP, Data
Warehouse Implementation, Data Mining – types of data, types of patterns, Data cleaning,
Data integration.

Unit-II
Data Reduction, Wavelet Transforms, Attribute Subset Selection, Histogram, Clustering,
Sampling, Data Cube Aggregation Data Transformation: Strategies Overview, Data
Transformation by Normalization.
UNIT-III
Mining Frequent Patterns, Associations & Correlations: pattern evaluation methods.
Classification, Decision tree Induction, Attribute Selection Measures, Tree Pruning, Bayes
Classification Methods.

Unit-IV
Cluster Analysis: Requirement for Cluster Analysis, clustering methods Data Mining
Applications & Trends: Mining Sequence Data; Time Series, Symbolic, Statistical Data
Mining, Visual Data Mining, Data Mining Applications.

Reference Books:

1. Jiawei Micheline Kamber, ‘Data Mining Concepts and Techniques’, Morgan Kauf Mann
Publishers.

2. George M. Marakas, ‘Modern Data Warehousing, Mining and Visualization’, Pearson

Education, 2003.

3. W.H. Inmon, ‘Building the Data Warehouse’, Wiley dreamtech, 3 rd Edition.

4. Mastering Data Mining – Michael J.A. Berry & Gordon S. Linoff (Wiley Pub.).

5. Data Warehousing (Pearson Ed.) – Sam Anahory & Dennis Murray.

Cryptography and Network Security (3:1:0)

Course Outcome

 Analyze the vulnerabilities in any computing system and hence be able to design a security
solution.

 Identify the security issues in the network and resolve it.

 Evaluate security mechanisms using rigorous approaches, including theoretical.

 Compare and Contrast different IEEE standards and electronic mail security.
Course Content

Unit–I

Introduction-computer security concepts, attacks, security services, security mechanisms;

Classical encryption techniques-symmetric cipher models, substitution techniques,
transposition techniques, rotor machines

Unit–II

Symmetric ciphers-Block cipher principles; DES-Algorithm, strengths and weaknesses of

DES, attacks on DES and defense, multiple encryptions; Asymmetric ciphers-Essential
mathematics, public key cryptography.

Unit–III

RSA, Diffie Hellman key exchange, random number generation, Data integrity and
authentication Hash functions; MAC; Digital signatures;

Unit–IV

Key management; Authentication, Web and system security, Web security; IP security; E
mail security; System security-intruders, malicious software, firewalls

References Books

1. Cryptography and Network Security - Principles and Practice, William Stallings,

PEARSON

2. Cryptography and Network Security, AtulKahate, Tata McGraw Hill