COMPUTER NETWORKS 
 
 COURSE INSTRUCTOR 
      Mr.N.Sujaudeen, AP/CSE Dept
 COURSE OBJECTIVE 
The student should be made to:
   
  1. Understand the division of network functionalities into layers.
   
  2. Be familiar with the components required to build different types of networks.
   
  3. Be exposed to the required functionality at each layer.
   
  4. Learn the flow control and congestion control algorithms.
 SYLLABUS 
       
  Syllabus
      
   Lesson Plan
      
   CO-PO
 LECTURE NOTES 
 UNIT I 
 UNIT II 
|            NAME OF THE TOPIC               |  PRE CLASS   |  IN CLASS  | 
|  Lan Protocols, IEEE 802.3  |     |     | 
|  IEEE 802.4 Token Bus  |     | 
|  IEEE 802.5 Token Ring  |     |     | 
|  FDDI  |      | 
|  IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN  |     |   ,    | 
|  Bridges and LAN Switches  |     |   ,   | 
|  Circuit Switching & Packet Switching  |     |   ,   | 
|  Internetworking  |     |    , ,   | 
|  ARP & RARP  |     |   ,   | 
|  DHCP  |  -  |     | 
|  ICMP  |     |     | 
|  Subnetting  |     |     | 
|  CIDR  |  -  |     | 
 UNIT III 
 UNIT IV 
|            NAME OF THE TOPIC               |  PRE CLASS   |  IN CLASS  | 
|  User Datagram Protocol  |  -  |     | 
|  Transmission Control Protocol  |  -  |   ,   | 
|  Adaptive Flow Control & Retransmission  |  -  |   ,   | 
|  Congestion Control & Avoidance  |  -  |     | 
 UNIT V 
|            NAME OF THE TOPIC               |  PRE CLASS   |  IN CLASS  | 
|  E-Mail - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)  |  -  |     | 
|  POP3  |  -  |     | 
|  IMAP  |  -  |     | 
|  MIME  |  -  |     | 
|  Domain Name Service (DNS)  |  -  |     | 
|  Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)  |  -  |     | 
|  Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)  |  -  |     | 
 TEXT BOOK: 
1. Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach”, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011.
 REFERENCES: 
1. James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, “Computer Networking -A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2009.
2. Nader. F. Mir, “Computer and Communication Networks”, Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers, 2010.
3. Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Fred Baker, “Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach”, Mc Graw Hill Publisher, 2011.
4. Behrouz A. Forouzan, “Data communication and Networking”, Fourth Edition,Tata 
McGraw?–Hill, 2011.