UNIT-I: Network Communication Fundamentals
Network Architecture- Protocol Hierarchies, Layered model, Services, Interface, Reference Models,Underlying Technologies, LAN‟s (Ethernet, Token Ring, Wireless), Point-to-Point WAN‟s, Switched WAN‟s (X.25, Frame Relay, ATM)
UNIT-II: IP Networking Essentials
IP- Datagram, fragmentation and reassembly, ICP, ICMP, Interior and Exterior Routing-RIP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast Routing- Unicast, Multicast and Broadcast, Multicasting
UNIT-III: Demystifying Transport Protocols
The transport service-Services provided, Service primitives, Sockets, Elements of transport protocols-addressing, connection establishment, connection release, flow control and buffering, multiplexing, crash recovery, UDP-Introduction, Remote Procedure Call, TCP- Service model, Protocol, frame format, connection establishment release, connection management
UNIT-IV: Essential Internet Services
DNS, Telnet and Rlogin, FTP,TFTP,SNMP, SMTP, World Wide Web(Client and Server Side, cookies, wireless web), Java and the Internet, Multimedia (streaming audio, Internet Radio, voice over IP-RTP, video standards) Real time traffic over the internet.