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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: (COMP1021& ELEC1041) or (COMP1021 &COMP2021)
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

An overview of computer networks. Basic concepts in the physical layer: signals and data, transmission media, data encoding schemes. Issues in the data link layer: Error correction and detection, flow and error control and shared medium access schemes. Concepts in the network layer: introduction to the Internet Protocol (IP), IP addressing, classical IP subnetting technique and IP routing. Transport layer concepts: introduction to the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The operation of the different Internet applications: HTTP, DNS, FTP, SMTP and Internet multimedia streaming applications.

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