ANNA UNIVERSITY TRICHY MCA SYLLABUS -COMPUTER NETWORKS

ANNA UNIVERSITY TRICHY MCA SYLLABUS

CA5152 COMPUTER NETWORKS

LTPC

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UNIT I DATA COMMUNITATIONS FUNDAMENTALS 9

Communication model – Data communications networking – Data transmission concepts and terminology – Transmission media – Data encoding – Data link control.

UNIT II NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS 9

Protocol architecture – Protocols – OSI – TCP/IP – LAN architecture – Topologies – MAC – Ethernet – Fast Ethernet – Token ring – FDDI – Wireless LANS – Bridges.

UNIT III NETWORK LAYER 9

Network layer – Switching concepts – Circuit switching networks – Packet switching – Routing – Congestion control – X.25 – Internetworking concepts and X.25 architectural models – IP – Unreliable connectionless delivery – Datagrams – Routing IP datagram – ICMP .

UNIT IV TRANSPORT LAYER 9

Transport layer – Reliable delivery service – Congestion control – Connection establishment – Flow control – Transmission control protocol – User datagram protocol.

UNIT V NETWORK SECURITY AND APPLICATIONS 9

Cryptographic Algorithms – DES – RSA – MD5 – Security Mechanisms – Fire Walls – Name Service – Traditional Applications – SMTP – HTTP – Multimedia Application – RTP – RTCP – SCTP.

Total: 45

TEXT BOOK

1. L.Larry Peterson & Bruce S. Davie, “Computer Networks – A Systems Approach”, Fourth Edition, Harcourt Asia / Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.

REFERENCES

1. William Stallings, “Data and Computer Communications”, Eighth Edition, Pearson Education, 2007.

2. F.James Kurose and W.Keith Ross, “Computer Networking – A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet”, Third Edition, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 2006.