DATA COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING MADRAS UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS

Title of the Course/
Paper-XIII
DATA COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING
Core
III Year & Sixth Semester
Credit: 4

Objective of the course
This course introduces the details about basic concepts of data communication and networking.
Course outline
Unit 1: Introduction to Data Communication, Network, Protocols & standards and standards organizations - Line Configuration - Topology - Transmission mode - Classification of Network - OSI Model - Layers of OSI Model.
Unit-2: Parallel and Serial Transmission - DTE/DCE/such as EIA-449, EIA-530, EIA-202 and x.21 interface - Interface standards - Modems - Guided Media - Unguided Media - Performance - Types of Error - Error Detection - Error Corrections.
Unit 3: : Multiplexing - Types of Multiplexing - Multiplexing Application - Telephone system - Project 802 - Ethernet - Token Bus - Token Ring - FDDI - IEEE 802.6 - SMDS - Circuit Switching - Packet Switching - Message switching - Connection Oriented and Connectionless services.
Unit-4:  History of Analog and Digital Network - Access to ISDN - ISDN Layers - Broadband ISDN - X.25 Layers - Packet Layer Protocol - ATM - ATM Topology - ATM Protocol.
Unit-5 : Repeaters - Bridges - Routers - Gateway - Routing algorithms - TCP/IP Network, Transport and Application Layers of TCP/IP - World Wide Web.

1. Recommended Texts
i.Behrouz and Forouzan,2001,Introduction to Data Communication and Networking, 2nd Edition,TMH.
2. Reference Books
i.Jean Walrand 1998,Communication Networks (A first Course),Second Edition, WCB/McGraw Hill.
ii. Behrouz and Forouzan,2006,Data Communication and Networking,3nd Edition ,TMH.





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