Application Layer: Principles of Network Applications: Network ApplicationArchitectures, Processes Communicating, Transport Services Available toApplications, Transport Services Provided by the Internet, Application-LayerProtocols. The Web and HTTP: Overview of HTTP, Non-persistent andPersistent Connections, HTTP Message Format, User-Server Interaction:Cookies, Web Caching, The Conditional GET, File Transfer: FTP Commands &Replies, Electronic Mail in the Internet: SMTP, Comparison with HTTP, MailMessage Format, Mail Access Protocols, DNS; The Internet\'s Directory Service:Services Provided by DNS, Overview of How DNS Works, DNS Records andMessages, Peer-to-Peer Applications: P2P File Distribution, Distributed HashTables, Socket Programming: creating Network Applications: SocketProgramming with UDP, Socket Programming with TCP.T1: Chap 2
Transport Layer : Introduction and Transport-Layer Services: RelationshipBetween Transport and Network Layers, Overview of the Transport Layer in theInternet, Multiplexing and Demultiplexing: Connectionless Transport: UDP,UDPSegment Structure, UDP Checksum, Principles of Reliable Data Transfer:Building a Reliable Data Transfer Protocol, Pipelined Reliable Data TransferProtocols, Go-Back-N, Selective repeat, Connection-Oriented Transport TCP:The TCP Connection, TCP Segment Structure, Round-Trip Time Estimation andTimeout, Reliable Data Transfer, Flow Control, TCP Connection Management,Principles of Congestion Control: The Causes and the Costs of Congestion,Approaches to Congestion Control, Network-assisted congestion-controlexample, ATM ABR Congestion control, TCP Congestion Control: Fairness.T1: Chap 3
The Network layer: What\'s Inside a Router?: Input Processing, Switching,Output Processing, Where Does Queuing Occur? Routing control plane, IPv6,ABrief foray into IP Security, Routing Algorithms: The Link-State (LS) RoutingAlgorithm, The Distance-Vector (DV) Routing Algorithm, Hierarchical Routing,Routing in the Internet, Intra-AS Routing in the Internet: RIP, Intra-AS Routing in the Internet: OSPF, Inter/AS Routing: BGP, Broadcast Routing Algorithms and Multicast.
T1: Chap 4: 4.3-4.7
Wireless and Mobile Networks: Cellular Internet Access: An Overview ofCellular Network Architecture, 3G Cellular Data Networks: Extending theInternet to Cellular subscribers, On to 4G:LTE,Mobility management: Principles,Addressing, Routing to a mobile node, Mobile IP, Managing mobility in cellularNetworks, Routing calls to a Mobile user, Handoffs in GSM, Wireless andMobility: Impact on Higher-layer protocols.
T1: Chap: 6 : 6.4-6.8
Multimedia Networking: Properties of video, properties of Audio, Types ofmultimedia Network Applications, Streaming stored video: UDP Streaming,HTTP Streaming, Adaptive streaming and DASH, content distribution Networks,case studies: : Netflix, You Tube and Kankan.
Network Support for Multimedia: Dimensioning Best-Effort Networks,Providing Multiple Classes of Service, Diffserv, Per-Connection Quality-of-Service (QoS) Guarantees: Resource Reservation and Call Admission
T1: Chap: 7: 7.1,7.2,7.5