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*NEW* Course Slides (for academic year 2011-12) are available by joining the Moodle website of the course (Reti di Telecomunicazione).

*NUOVI LUCIDI* (anno accademico 2011-12) scaricabili tramite il sito Moodle del corso (Reti di Telecomunicazione).

Contents

The course allows the student to become proficient with the basics of communication networks. The following are the course topics:

  • Internet and computer networks
    • - What is Internet?
    - At the network edge
    - The network core
    - Main features of packet-switching networks
    - Protocol stacks
    - Security

  • Application
    • - Principles of network applications
    - Web and HTTP
    - File transfer: FTP
    - Electronic mail: SMTP
    - DNS
    - Peer-to-peer applications
    - Socket programming with TCP and UDP

  • Transport
    • - Introduction
    - Multiplexing and demultiplexing
    - Connectionless transport: UDP
    - Reliable data transfer: TCP
    - Congestion control

  • Network
    • - Virtual circuit and datagram networks
    - What is inside a router?
    - The Internet Protocol: IP
    - Routing

  • Data link and Local Area Network
    • - Introduction
    - Error detection and correction
    - Multiple access protocols
    - Addressing at link layer
    - Ethernet
    - Switch
    - PPP
    - Virtual channels: ATM, MPLS

*NEW* Course Slides (for academic year 2011-12) are available by joining the Moodle website of the course (Reti di Telecomunicazione).

*NUOVI LUCIDI* (anno accademico 2011-12) scaricabili tramite il sito Moodle del corso (Reti di Telecomunicazione).

*OLD* Course Slides (in italian, valid up to academic year 2010-11)

NOTICE: Slides are partially taken by support material of the course textbook: J. Kurose, K. Ross, "Reti di Calcolatori e Internet", Pearson Education, 4th Ed.