Introduction to Computer Networks and Internet Protocols
Make a niche in the segment of Internet protocol and computer networks with Introduction to Computer Network and Internet Protocol.
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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
Cyberworld enthusiasts, as well as people seeking employment opportunities in the digital industry, must know the networks in use today and protocols that define and allow them to function. This course will pull you through everything that you need to know about TCP/IP protocols and networking which are a must in the current times and more.
Introduction to Computer Network and Internet Protocol has been made a tailored fit for emerging IT students and engineers by providing them insights into the industry that will be very valuable. The course goes into great details for the candidates about all the essential topics like the Internet of Things(IoT), Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Software Defined Networks and other significant points as well.
The course goes on to training candidates about all the theoretical skills including data traffic engineering and layer designing. The contents of the course are lined one after the other with industry-relevant skills and have been designed in such a way that each of the doubts that the candidates may get could easily be solved and every requirement attended to.
The Highlights
- Undergraduate level study
- Best universities
- Online sessions
- India’s top faculties
- 15 week-long course
Programme Offerings
- video lectures
- Discussion Forums
- Online Sessions
- Reading Materials
- Self-assessment tests
- quizzes
Courses and Certificate Fees
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What you will learn
When the applicants have gone through the contents of the course, they will understand the following industry-relevant concepts:
- The candidates will start off by learning various functions of protocols and their types.
- Afterwards, the applicants will learn about computer networks and data communication process.
- Candidates will learn about Radio, EM Spectrum, Microwave and other types of waves as well as wired and wireless data communication types.
- Routing and Network layers will be important in their learning.
Who it is for
Application Details
Participants who are keen to seek admission in Introduction to Computer Networks and Internet protocol programme must follow the steps below:
Step 1: Candidates need to click on the below-given programme URL:
https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/cec20_cs16/preview
Step 2: Candidates are then required to register themselves on the account. They can log in via Facebook, Microsoft or Google for this purpose or create an account on SWAYAM itself.
Step 3: Applicants can also use their pre-existing accounts for it.
Step 4: After having done that, applicants are required to login into the accounts and go back to the course page.
Step 5: The joining link of the course is not available yet. When it will be available, candidates can click on it to go to the application form.
Step 6: Applicants will, afterwards, fill the application form and submit it having agreed to the terms and conditions.
The Syllabus
- Introduction to computer networks and TCP/IP Protocols
- The TCP/IP Protocol Suite and the TCP/IP model
- The job of each layer
- The concept of layering
- Complete communication process, an email and a web access communication over TCP/IP network
- TCP as CO service over CL connection and UDP as CL service over CL connection
- Connectionless vs. Connection-oriented communication and services
- Showcasing how SMTP and HTTP works at each layer in a brief
- Definition of the network
- Network components and network connections
- Computer networks and its fundamentals
- Its characteristics
- Packet classification
- Modern network demands
- Conventional network model and modern network model based on service based on packet classification.
- Services using the packet classification process
- Smart city networks. Big Data problems associated with these networks
- Networks based on IOT devices, Home networks
- Variety of modern Networks having non-computers as members, wired and wireless sensor networks
- Relation between the Bandwidth and the data rate of a channel
- The process of multiplexing,
- Data communication and the physical layer
- Maximum data rate of a channel based on bandwidth of the channel and other parameters
- Data communication process and its ingredients
- The duties of physical layer
- Analog and digital data
- Amplitude
- Demultiplexing and errors
- How analog and digital signalling is used for data communication at the physical layer
- Analog and digital signalling
- Frequency and phase modulation and their use in data communication
- Introduction to EM Spectrum
- The need for the signalling process for data communication
- FO cables and their use in data communication
- 802.11ac
- xDSL physical layers
- OFDMA and Discrete multitone
- The EM spectrum
- UTP
- Microwave and other types of waves
- OFDM
- Wired and wireless physical layers
- 802.11n
- Radio
- 802.11a
- 802.11b
- Wireless LAN 802.11
- Characteristics of each of the portions and consequences
- The relation between data communication and the frequency bands
- Total internal reflection principle and the difference between UTP and FO cables Hidden and exposed stations problem for wireless data communication and their solution
- Frequency bands
- 802.11.16
- 802.11g
- The frequencies used by different portions of the spectrum
- Multiple standards and versions of 802.11
- Convolution
- Communication at the data link and transport layers
- Introduction to CRC
- Sliding windows
- LDPC and Turbo codes
- Hamming distance
- Error correction vs. error detection
- Reed-Solomon
- Hamming code
- Need for protocols
- Error correction and other jobs of Data Link Layer
- Error handling process
- The Data link layer duties
- Go back n and Selective repeat strategies for communication
- Dual speed cards and auto negotiation
- Fragmentation
- 802.11 frame structure
- The Ethernet: The need for MAC layer
- Inter cell and intra cell transmission process
- Medium Access Sublayer
- Service primitives for infrastructure model
- Introduction to Ethernet
- CSMA/CA
- Gigabit and 10G Ethernet
- The Medium Access Sublayer 802.11 Wi-Fi – II
- The Medium Access Sublayer:802.11 (Wi-Fi) –I, MAC layer, DCF and PCF Mode; i.e. ad hoc and infrastructure modes
- Extensions to 802.11
- Addressing in networks
- Connecting LANs
- IPv4 addressing mechanism
- Different addressing mechanisms used by IPv6
- Virtual LAN and 802.1Q
- 802.1Q standard
- Challenges and solutions for virtual LAN
- Managing addressing with CIDR
- The advantage offered by the IPv6
- Subletting and CIDR
- Self-learning switches
- The difference between IPv4 and IPv6 addressing mechanism
- Interconnecting LANs
- Routing in MANets and the Exterior routing
- Addressing in TCP/IP
- The difference in exterior routing
- Connectionless and connection oriented forwarding
- Network layer
- How routing is performed in TCP/IP networks
- Hot potato and interior routing used in the exterior routing process
- Advantage of connecting networks at the network layer
- Routing and forwarding
- What a router contains
- The challenges in MANet Routing
- Network layer: routing
- Link state algorithm
- AODV routing
- How the best path is decided
- Multicast and broadcast routing
- Two phases of LS algorithm
- Routing algorithms
- Network layer: services
- Accounting
- It’s duties
- Congestion at Network layer and MPLS
- Transport layer services
- Tomlinson’s solution and the need for the three-way handshake
- How retransmission timer is managed at TCP
- How MPLS works
- Handshake process is managed and errors are handled at TCP
- TCP Timers and delayed duplicates problem in TCP
- The transport layer
- Types of timers TCP normally uses
- Congestion
- How switching based on tags is done in networks
- Different categories and types of transport layer services
- Congestion control
- How TCP manages connections
- What are the challenges in implementing MPL?
- Delayed duplicates
- Flow control and estimation of round trip time
- How tag based routing is performed in MPLS Routes
- Connection management with TCP
- Introduction to SCTP
- Implicit and explicit congestion control methods
- Congestion control
- Application Layer
- Connection release process
- A connectionless service mechanism over a connectionless delivery system
- Domain Name Service
- Slow start
- Application layer
- Fast recovery and fast retransmit
- Introduction to DNS and the process of name resolution
- A transport layer better suited for a multimedia traffic
- Introduction to UDP
- Resource records
- The asymmetric and symmetric connection release process
- Explicit congestion notification
- AIMD
- Different types of resource records
- Resource Records in DNS and introduction to FTP
- Persistent connection
- POP3 and IMAP
- The WWW and HTTP request and response
- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- Internet mail standards
- The Email system and SMTP protocol
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
- How FTP works
- Passive FTP extensions
- Cookies and session variables
- Control and data connections
- Mesh Networks and IPv6 over Mesh
- Using protocols like mDNS, DNS-SD, PANA, etc.
- 802.15.4
- How routing is performed for storing and non-storing node, DOADG
- Internet of Things
- Why IoT devices prefer mesh networks
- Intelligent embedded devices
- The reason IPv6 is chosen for mesh
- Monitoring and control
- M2M
- Construction of DOADG and the role of the central router
- Mesh-under and route-over approaches
- 6LowPAN and related issues
- Configuring IPv6 solutions for Mesh
- Mesh networks
- RPL
- Other protocols for IoT
- Why IoT devices need to spectate routing protocols
- Sensing
- The need for source routing and other refinements for processing
- Interactivity and communication needs
- SDN as a combined solution
- Methods for implementing SDN
- SDN architecture
- Controllers and forwarding devices
- Software Defined Networks (SDN)
- Northbound and southbound APIs
- What is the idea of OPEN solutions?
- Connection oriented networks and routing overlays
- Separation of data and control
- Paths and connections
- Communication need between controllers and other devices and external controllers
- Messages
- Usage
- Specific fields
- SDN implementation
- Software defined radios
- OpenFlow Technology
- Basics
- Vendor specific solution problems
- SDN architecture and OpenFlow
- How separation is managed
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