Fundamentals of Computer Networks and Security

S.No.

Module Name

Topics

1

Introduction (Dr. Kakali
Chatterjee, Nit Patna)

Introduction to Data Communication, Protocols and Standards: Protocols, Standards, Standards
Organizations, Internet Standards, Packet Switching, Circuit Switching, A Network of Networks;
Understanding of Delay, Loss and Throughput in the packet-switched networks; Protocols layers and
their service model: OSI, TCP/IP, X.25; TCP/IP vs OSI

2

Principles of Network Applications
(Dr. Kakali Chatterjee, NIT Patna)

Principles of Network Applications; The Web and HTTP; File Transfer: FTP; Electronic Mail in the
Internet: SMTP; DNS -The Internet’s Directory Service; Peer-to-Peer Applications

3

Overview of Layers (Dr. Santosh
Biswas, IIT Guwahati)

TCP/IP and OSI Model, Protocol Layers: Hierarchy, Services

4

  Link Layer (Dr. Santosh Biswas, IIT
Guwahati)

Introduction and Services; Error-Detection and Correction Techniques; Multiple Access Links and
Protocols, Link-Layer Addressing and ARP, Ethernet, Link-Layer Switches, PPP

5

Addressing at layers (Dr. Santosh
Biswas, IIT Guwahati)

Physical Addresses, Logical Addresses, Port Addresses, Specific Addresses

6

Introduction of transport layer
(Prof. M S Gaur, MNIT Jaipur)

Introduction and Transport-Layer Services, Relationship Between Transport and Network Layers,
Overview of the Transport Layer in the Internet, Multiplexing and Demultiplexing

7

Connectionless Transport (Prof. M
S Gaur, MNIT Jaipur)

UDP, UDP Segment Structure, UDP Checksum,
Principles of Reliable Data Transfer, Building a Reliable Data Transfer Protocol, Pipelined Reliable Data
Transfer Protocols, Go-Back-N, Selective Repeat, Hybrid

8

Connection-Oriented Transport
(Prof. M S Gaur, MNIT Jaipur)

TCP, TCP Connection, TCP Segment Structure, Round-Trip Time Estimation and Timeout, Reliable Data
Transfer, Flow Control, TCP Connection Management

9

Principles of Congestion Control
(Prof. M S Gaur, MNIT Jaipur)

Causes and the Costs of Congestion, Approaches to Congestion Control, Network-Assisted CongestionControl Example: ATM ABR Congestion Control, TCP and UDP Fairness

10

The Internet Protocol (IP)
(Dr. Ruchir Gupta, IIITDM
Jabalpur)

Forwarding and Routing, Network Service Models, Virtual Circuit and Datagram Networks, VirtualCircuit Networks, Datagram Networks, What’s Inside a Router?, Generation of routers, Input
Processing, Switching, Output Processing, Where Does Queuing Occur?  Forwarding and addressing in
the Internet, Datagram Format, IPv4 Addressing (classful and classless), IPv4 vs IPv6, Subnetting,
Supernetting, masking

11

Routing Algorithms (Dr. V K Jain,
IIITDM Jabalpur)

The Link-State (LS) Routing Algorithm, 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 and Multicast Routing, Broadcast Routing Algorithms,
Multicast, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), IGMP, ARP, RARP

12

Security at Layers (Prof. K Ramesh,
NIT Warangal)

Security Services: Introduction of Message Confidentiality, Message Integrity, Message Authentication,
Message Nonrepudiation, Security threats, Entity Authentication
Network Layer Security:  IP Security (lPSec): Two Modes, Two Security Protocols, Security Association,
Internet Key Exchange(IKE), Virtual Private Network.
Transport  Layer  Security:  SSL  Services  and  Security  Parameters,  Sessions  and  Connections,  Four
Protocols.
Application Layer Security: Email Security, S/MIME, PGP: Security Parameters, Services, PGP Algorithms,
PGP Certificates, Proxy Server Firewall.

13

Pedagogy Principles (Local
conduction by Academy)

Course objectives, Module objectives, Unit objectives, Bloom's taxonomy - knowledge levels, Pedagogy
Tool demo

14

Soft Skills (Local conduction by
Academy)

Listening, Writing, Communication Skills. Comprehension, Technical Report Writing, Team Work
Principles, Personality Development, Etiquette in Organizations.

15

Case Study presentations by
participants ( Local conduction by
Academy)

Case study presentation by team of participants