Course details

Data Communications, Computer Networks and Protocols

PDS Acad. year 2007/2008 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Coding for error detection and correction, error control. Bit and packet synchronization. Data-flow control. Multiple access control methods. Switching techniques. Switch architectures. Internet structures. Internet routing. Routing with multicast. Scheduling. Packet-error control. Flow control. Traffic management. Protocol engineering and formal specifications. Protocol implementation.

Guarantor

Švéda Miroslav, prof. Ing., CSc.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures
  • 4 hrs exercises
  • 2 hrs laboratories
  • 7 hrs projects

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Understanding communication functions and their implementations in computer networks; being informed about related formal tools.

Understanding communication principles in current computer networks.

Learning objectives

Understand communication functions and their implementations in computer networks; be aware of related formal tools.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The sets, relations and mappings. The elementary notions of the graph theory. The elementary notions of communication protocols. Principles of Internet.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Coding for error detection and correction, error control 
  2. Bit and packet synchronization
  3. Multiple access
  4. Data-flow control
  5. Switching techniques
  6. Internet structures and multicasting
  7. Internet routing
  8. Multicast routing
  9. Scheduling
  10. Packet-error control
  11. Traffic management
  12. Protocol engineering and formal specifications
  13. Protocol implementation

Progress assessment

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Requirements for class accreditation are not defined.

Controlled instruction

Mid-term exam, laboratory practice supported by project work, and final exam are the monitored, and points earning, education. Mid-term exam and laboratory practice are without correction eventuality. Final exam has two additional correction eventualities. 

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