Addis Ababa institute of technology

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Data communication and computer networks (ECEG-4211)
Academic year 2019/2020

Course contents
1. Data communication and networking fundamentals
a. Data communication
b. Computer networking
c. The internet
d. Protocol layers
2. Physical layer
a. Introduction
b. Network media
c. Data transmission
d. Transmission impairments
3. Link Layer
a. Introduction
b. Error detection & correction
c. Medium access control
d. Link layer addressing
e. LAN technologies
f. Virtual circuit networks
4. Network layer
a. Introduction
b. Logical addressing
c. Internet protocol
d. Routing algorithms & protocols
 5. Transport layer
a. Transport layer service
b. Transport layer protocols
c. Connection management & congestion control
d. Socket programming
6. Application layer
a. Introduction
b. Application layer protocols
c. P2P applications

Teaching and learning method

 Lectures, tutorial, laboratory exercises and assignments

References:
 Michael Duck & Richard Read, “Data communication and computer
networks”
 Behrouz A. Forouzan, “Data communication and networking”