Students from bachelor of engineering, computer engineering, cybernetics, telematics and other ict-studies
On course completion students shall:
- Have an understanding of what computer communication involves.
- Have an overall survey of the most inportant standards regarding data communication.
- Understand a protocol and be able to see it in a total communication relation.
- Be familiar with various network solutions.
- Be able to choose solutions on the basis of economic or functional criteria.
- Be able to install and maintain windows network.
- Understand the structure and use of both Local Area network (LAN) and Wide Area network (WAN) with standards and protocols, emphasizing the Internet and TCP/IP.
Fundamentals:
Concepts, principles and standards. Protocols, end systems, client/server model, circuit and packet switching, connectionless and connection-oriented service, layered protocol architecture and their service models. Cabling, media, technology and network access.
OSI and The Internet Protocol stack:
Services in the layers, socket programming, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, multiplexing and demultiplexing, TCP, UDP, IP, routing, access procols (including wireless), addressing, hubs, switches, bridges, ATM.
Multimedia networking:
Streaming stored material, real time, Quality of Service.
Security in computer networks:
Principles of cryptography, authentication, integrity, key distribution and certification, access control, firewalls, attacks and countermeasures.
Network management:
The infrastructure for network management, Structure of management information (SMI), Management information base (MIB), SNMP, Security and admininstration.
Windows 2003 network:
Operation and maintainance of Windows 2003 server.
- Architecture of Windows 2003
- Active directory, DSN and DHCP
- FAT, FAT32, VFAT and NTFS
- Installing Windows 2003 server
- Settings and errorcontrol of TCP/IP
- Administration of user accounts and workgroups
- Access rights localy and by network
- DFS(Distributed File System) and replication
- Diskspace, compressing and cryptation, diskhandling
- Group Plicy Object
- Printing over network
- Administration of a mixed environment with Novell Netware, Windows 2000 and other platforms
- RAS for Windows 2003 with modem and telephone
- Intra networks. VPN
WAN:
- Software and protocol hierarcy
- Switching, routing and traffic control
- Transport service, protocols, flowcontrol, application interface, sockets, TCP, UDP and IP
Lectures, practical and mandatory assignments. Communication solutions for given situations (case study).
Mandatory exercises in Windows 2003 network who is going to be consecutive approved.
Oral examination. The grade is given on the basis of a total assessment by oral examination.
