MTT 1 Syllabus

Unit Topic Brief Notes Actual Reference

Unit 4 Medium access control sublayer: Tanenbaum 4.1
Channel allocation problem,

random access protocols (ALOHA, PPT 4.1 4.2

Carrier Sense Multiple Access,
CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA),

Controlled access (Reservation,

Polling, Token passing),

Channelization (FDMA, TDMA,

CDMA),

Ethernet (cabling,
encoding, frame structure, binary PPT 4.2
exponential backoff algorithm,
performance, switched Ethernet, fast
Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet)

data link layer switching, Assignment 1 4.4,4.8

X.25, PPP, HDLC. Introduction to
ATM, Frame Relay and WLAN
Unit 5 Network Layer: Tanenbaum
Forwarding and routing, 5.1
VC and Datagram networks, PPT 5.1
router
internals,
5.2
Routing algorithms ( optimality
principle, shortest path
routing, flooding, Distance Vector,
link state, hierarchical,
broadcast, multicast routing, routing
in Ad-hoc network, node
look up in peer to peer networks),

congestion control algorithms,

QoS. Not in MTT 2
IPv4 datagram format,

IP addresses. Class notes