Internet systems
Higher education teachers: Kos Andrej
Higher education teachers: , Pustišek Matevž
Credits: 6
Semester: summer
Subject code: 64506
Študijski program od študijskega leta 2014/15
Subject description
Prerequisits:
- Enrollment in the study year.
Content (Syllabus outline):
- Fundamentals of communication systems: connection oriented and connection-less communications; circuit and packet switching; signaling systems.
- Architectural reference models: OSI, TCP/IP.
- Network layer addressing in Internet systems: address classes, classless addressing, supporting protocols: ARP, RARP, DHCP.
- Internet protocol - IPv4, IPv6, ICMP.
- Multicast.
- Supporting applications and protocols: ping, traceroute, nslookup.
- Transport protocols: TCP, UDP, SCTP.
- Application protocols: HTTP, DNS, SNMP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, SNMP.
- Services provided by the network: network services, security services (firewalls, secure tunnels, address and port translations), virtual private networks, mobile IP, quality of service, management.
- Elements of Internet systems: routers and switches, firewalls, application gateways, servers.
Objectives and competences:
Overview of architecture, mechanisms and operations of Internet networks and services. Comprises network, transport and application layers of Internet systems. Students will qualify to set-up basic Internet communication services.
Intended learning outcomes:
Students acquire understanding of key principles of communication systems, architectural models, and elements and protocols, along with the services, provided by these systems. They also gain a broad understanding of composition and operation of telecommunication system and services, based on Internet communications. They are able to identify and evaluate possible technical and security issues of the discussed solutions.
Learning and teaching methods:
Lectures, demonstrations, practical laboratory work. In laboratory practice computer and multimedia terminals are used, along with internet networking equipment, including IP routers, switches, firewalls and network servers.
Study materials
Study in which the course is carried out
- 1 year - 1st cycle - Multimedia Communications