Unit 1 - TCC24305
Unit 1 - TCC24305
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Class Timetable
Course Organisation
Objectives
1. Describe concepts related to data communication and computer
networks.
2. Explain different transmission modes and standards.
3. Describe communication architectures and protocols.
4. Compare among different types of networks.
5. Describe several protocols used in TCP/IP protocol suite.
6. Describe techniques and algorithms used for network and computer
security.
Course Outcomes
1. Describe various data communication, computer networking related
and transmission media terms and technical information.
2. Explain concepts of LAN and WAN and create logical design of both.
3. Differentiate and discuss types of internet architecture components
and standards.
4. Define network management and apply techniques to solve
computer network management problems.
5. Outline and demonstrate the application of network and computer
security for proper message exchange protection.
Unit 1
Unit 1 Outcomes
1. Describe various data communication media, computer network
models and types of transmission media used in computer networks.
2. Explain the concepts of LAN and WAN and create logical designs of
both.
3. Differentiate and discuss the types of Internet architecture
components and standards.
4. Define network management and apply techniques to solve computer
network management problems.
5. Outline and demonstrate the application of network and computer
security for proper message exchange protection.
Unit 1 Objectives
1. Describe the concepts and technical aspects of data communication
and networking, protocol and standards.
2. Elaborate the functions OSI model and TCP model.
3. Explain different types of signals in data communication and their
encoding methods and transmission media in computer networks.
1.1 Overview, protocols and standards
By the end of this section, you should be able to:
1. Describe concepts and technical aspects of data communication.
2. Describe concepts and technical aspects of computer networks.
3. Define standards and protocols in data communication and networking.
1.1 Covers from page 6 until page 35
• Overview of data communication
• Data communication trends.
• Overview of computer networks
• Categories of networks
• The internet
• Protocols and standards
• Data communication trends.
Basic communication model
Fibre-optic cable Wireless
Information Capacity: Its ever-increasing
capacity has caused
Identification: It provides the
users the ability to
Transmission organisations to enjoy high
speed transmission at much
lower costs.
conveniently identify
themselves over a large area,
for example, Global Positioning
The most influential System (GPS).
transmission medium namely Cost effective: Its channel Mobility: It enables users to
capacity is high but price has have access to data and
1. Fibre-optic cables (OFC) dropped tremendously. information any time and
2. Wireless transmission anywhere by using their
mobile devices such as mobile
phones, PDAs, laptops, etc.
Data and signal are completely different things. Data is raw data, or
unprocessed data; Signal, is used to transfer data from one point to another
Digital data, Digital signal
• Nonreturn to Zero (NRZ)
• Nonreturn to Zero-Level (NRZ-L)
• Nonreturn to Zero Inverted (NRZI)
• Multilevel Binary
• Bipolar-AMI
• Pseudoternary
• Biphase
• Manchester
• Differential Manchester
TMA 1
Due date 3rd March 2019 at 11:59:59 PM
Marks distribution
• 5 marks for definition and explanation for
attenuation
• Discussion for each problem would be 5
marks each
Marks distribution
• Choose one NRZ or Bi-phase and Justify
your reasons (5 marks)
• Discuss the advantages – 3 points, each
carries 5 marks
• Discuss the disadvantages – 3 points,
each carries 5 marks
Next Class (24th Feb 2019 |14:30 – 16:30 )
Unit 2: Data Link and Media Access Control
2.1 Synchronisation and multiplexing
2.2 Error detection and correction
2.3 Framing, flow and error control