18-sm-1010-vl Communication Networks I

Instructors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Steinmetz; M.Sc. Anna Marie Filighera; M.Sc. Sounak Kar; M.Sc. Jannis Fabian Weil

Event type: Lecture

Org-unit: Dept. 18 - Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Displayed in timetable as: E: VL Komm. Netze I

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Hours per week: 3

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Course Contents:
In this class, the technologies that make today`s communication networks work are introduced and discussed. This lecture covers basic knowledge about communication networks and discusses in detail the physical layer, the data link layer, the network layer and parts of the transport layer. The physical layer, which is responsible for an adequate transmission across a channel, is discussed briefly. Next, error control, flow control and medium access mechanisms of the data link layer are presented. Then the network layer is discussed. It comprises mainly routing and congestion control algorithms. After that, basic functionalities of the transport layer are discussed. This includes UDP and TCP. The Internet is thoroughly studied throughout the class.
Detailed topics are:

• ISO-OSI and TCP/IP layer models
  
• Tasks and properties of the physical layer
  
• Physical layer coding techniques
  
• Services and protocols of the data link layer
  
• Flow control (sliding window)
  
• Applications: LAN, MAN, High-Speed LAN, WAN
  
• Services of the network layer
  
• Routing algorithms
  
• Broadcast and multicast routing
  
• Congestion Control
  
• Addressing
  
• Internet protocol (IP)
  
• Internetworking
  
• Mobile networking
  
• Services and protocols of the transport layer
  
• TCP, UDP
  
• Introduction to software defined networks
  
• Introduction to performance evaluation
  

Literature:

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum: Computer Networks, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2010
  
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum: Computernetzwerke, 3. Auflage, Prentice Hall, 1998
  
• Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie: Computer Networks: A System Approach, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999
  
• Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie: Computernetze, Ein modernes Lehrbuch, 2. Auflage, Dpunkt Verlag, 2000
  
• James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 2nd Edition, Addison Wesley-Longman, 2002
  
• Jean Walrand: Communication Networks: A First Course, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1998
  

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