National Institute of Technology

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Winter Semester - 2022-23

B. Tech. - CSE (VI Semester)

CS3006D: Computer Networking - Topics covered

Sl. Date Module Topics Covered

No. (Day) Number

1. 03.01.2023 - ● Course Plan briefing

● Evaluation scheme
● Introduction to Computer Networks

2. 04.01.2023 1&2 ● Importance of Layered Architecture

● Significance of Connection Oriented and
Connectionless in Transport layer with analogies
and examples

3. 05.01.2023 1 ● Importance of Layered Architecture

● Introduction to TCP/IP stack
● Connectivity (point to point links and broadcast
links) - Examples
● Protocol Data Units in each layer

4. 10.01.2023 1&3 ● Comparison between OSI Model and TCP/IP

model
● Network components - hub, switch, and router
● Collision and Broadcast domain
● Encapsulation in the TCP/IP protocol stack
● Services, Interfaces, and Protocols

5. 11.01.2023 1 ● Performance measures (latency and throughput)

● Bandwidth, Throughput, and Offered Load -
Differences
● Bandwidth Delay Product
● Wired and Wireless Links

6. 12.01.2023 1 ● Amplitude, Wavelength, Frequency

● Modulation (AM and FM)
● Path (Switched or Routed)
● Network device - Modem

7. 17.01.2023 1 ● Openness : Interface or Implementation

● Interoperability Issues
● Software Architecture in a Router
● Shannon’s limit
● Nyquist theorem
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8. 18.01.2023 1 ● Circuit mode switching in telephone system
● Frequency Division Multiplexing
● Time Division Multiplexing

9. 19.01.2023 1 ● Code Division Multiple Access (Chip code

assignment, bipolar notation, transmission and
reception from the resultant signals)

10. 23.01.2023 1&2 ● IPv4 classful addressing

● Link Local and Private IPv4 address
● MAC address
● Port numbers

11. 24.01.2023 3 ● Data link layer services

● Framing Methods
○ Character Count
○ Byte Stuffing
○ Bit Stuffing
○ Physical Layer Coding

12. 25.01.2023 3 ● Single bit and burst Errors

● Code Rate
● Error Detection Techniques
○ Repetition Code
○ Parity Bits
● Error Correction Technique
○ Hamming Code (Forward Error Correction)

13. 31.01.2023 - ● Quiz - I

14. 01.02.2023 3 ● Error Detection Techniques

○ Checksum
○ Cyclic Redundancy Codes (CRC)

15. 02.02.2023 3 ● Basic Terms that are used in Flow Control

○ Bandwidth Delay Product
○ Window Size (Number of Buffers)
○ Sequence Numbers
○ Timers
● Flow Control Techniques
○ Stop and Wait
○ Go-back N
○ Selective Repeat

16. 07.02.2023 3 ● Practice problems and solutions on Flow control

protocols such as stop and wait, go back n, and
selective repeat
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17. 08.02.2023 3 ● Medium Access Control
○ ALOHA (Pure and Slotted)
○ 1 persistent CSMA
○ p persistent CSMA
○ Non-persistent CSMA

18. 09.02.2023 3 ● CSMA/CD

● Performance analysis of pure ALOHA and slotted
ALOHA
● Collision detection in half duplex ethernet
(relation between TT and PT)
● Binary Exponential Backoff

19. 11.02.2023 3 ● Hidden Terminal Problem

● Exposed Terminal Problem
● IEEE 802.11 (Wireless LANs)
○ Distributed Coordination Function (DCF)
(Physical sensing and Virtual sensing)
○ Point Coordination Function (PCF)

20. 14.02.2023 3 ● IEEE 802.11 (Wireless LANs)

○ Frame structure
○ Interframe spacing interval (5 nos.)
○ Data Fragments transmission
○ DCF And PCF co-existence

21. 15.02.2023 3 ● Collision Free MAC Protocols

○ Bitmap reservation
○ Token Passing
○ Binary Countdown

22. 16.02.2023 3 ● Wireless and Mobility

● Adjacent channel interference and Co-Channel
interference
● ISM Bands
○ 2.4 GHz
○ 5 GHz