Network technology
S Giles
6 points * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: COT2001* Prohibitions: CFR3012, CFR3213, RDT3662
Media issues: data link protocols. The OSI model and its application to LANs and WANs: MAC-level and related interfaces, CSMA/CD, Token Bus, Token Ring, fibre-optic distributed data interface, ATM. Personal computers and networks: PC-mainframe, operating systems. PC networking: Netbios, XNS, TCP/IP, NetBeU1, Appletalk, Novell Advanced Netware, client-server systems. Extending the LAN: metropolitan and wide-area networks, repeating, bridging, routing, gateways, multi-protocol environments, internetworking protocols - TCP/IP, OSI, network management, GOSIP and the future.
Assessment
Examination (2 hours): 50% * Practical work: 50%
Prescribed texts
Stallings W Data and computer communications 4th edn, Macmillan, 1993