Undergraduate - UnitFIT2020 - Network architecture

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Gippsland First semester 2014 (Off-campus) South Africa First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Joarder Kamruzzaman (Gippsland); Dr Mohan Das (South Africa)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to advances in the distributed networked environment. The unit provides knowledge of internetworking protocols, QoS for critical applications, network management and TCP/IP operation. Access to the university's computer systems through an internet service provider is compulsory for distance education students.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

describe the ISO OSI reference model;
analyse physical layer for networking;
understand the architecture of data link layer for networking;
analyse the main functions and design issues of the network layer;

describe the operation of IPv6;

analyse the operation of TCP;
understand integrated and differentiated services architecture;
understand network management architecture;
understand the basic concepts of multimedia communications and QoS.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 60%: In-semester assessment: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Carlo Kopp

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

Two hours of lectures
One 2-hour tutorial

(b.) Study schedule for off-campus students:

Off-campus students generally do not attend lecture, tutorial and laboratory sessions, however should plan to spend equivalent time working through the relevant resources and participating in discussion groups each week.

(c.) Additional requirements (all students):

A minimum of 2-3 hours of personal study per one hour of contact time in order to satisfy the reading and assignment expectations.

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Applications development and networks
Business systems

Prerequisites

One of FIT1031, FIT1005 or GCO3812 or equivalent

Prohibitions

GCO3824

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit2020/