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FIT2020

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Information Technology

Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Joarder Kamruzzaman (Gippsland); Dr Mohan Das (South Africa)

Offered

South Africa

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

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 should be able to:

  1. describe the ISO OSI reference model;
  2. analyse physical layer for networking;
  3. explain and analyse the architecture of data link layer for networking;
  4. analyse the main functions and design issues of the network layer;
  5. describe the operation of IPv6;
  6. analyse the operation of TCP;
  7. explain and analyse integrated and differentiated services architecture;
  8. explain and analyse network management architecture;
  9. explain and analyse the basic concepts of multimedia communications and QoS.

Assessment

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

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.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Carlo Kopp

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/