Data Communication and Networking Standards Sem 2

Introduction to data communications and networking Introduction, Fundamental concepts, Data communications, Protocol, standards, standard organizations, signal propagation, analog and digital
signals, bandwidth of signal and a medium, Fourier analysis and the concept of bandwidth of a signal, The data transmission rate and bandwidth.


Network Models
Layered Tasks, The OSI reference model , Layers in the OSI reference model , TCP/IP protocol suite , Addressing IPv4

Information Encoding , Errors Detection and Correction Introduction, Representing different symbols, Minimizing errors , Multimedia , Multimedia and Data compression. Error classification, types
of errors, redundancy, detection versus correction , hamming distance , cyclic redundancy check.

Media and Transmission modes
Data and signals, Periodic analog signals, Digital signals, Transmission impairment, Data rate limits, Performance, Digital to digital, Analog to digital conversion , Transmission modes, Digital to analog conversion , Analog to analog conversion, Guided media and Unguided media 

Network topologies ,Switching and routing algorithms Mesh, star, tree, ring, bus, hybrid, switching basics , circuit switching, packet switching and Message switching , routing algorithms

IP version 6
Overview , Terminology, IPv6 addresses , Special addresses , IP v 6 header
formats, IPv6 extension headers , IPv6 autoconfiguration , configuration via
DHCP v6 , IPv6 transition