Advanced Networking

This course covers the architecture, components, and operations of routers and switches in a small network. Students learn how to configure a router and a switch for functionality.

The aims of this course are:

• To understand the principles of network infrastructure management.
• To design complex network infrastructure systems.
• To implement complex network infrastructure systems.
• To strengthen critical thinking skills.

Upon the successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• explain networking protocols and their hierarchical relationship hardware and software.
• compare protocol models and select appropriate protocols for a particular design.
• explain concepts and theories of networking and apply them to various situations, classifying networks, analyzing performance and implementing new technologies.
• identify infrastructure components and the roles they serve, and design infrastructure including devices, topologies, protocols, systems software and management.

Textbooks:

1. Computer Networking (A Top-Down Approach) by James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, 7^th Edition.

References:

1. Data and Computer Communications by William Stallings, 10th Edition.
2. Computer Networks – A Systems Approach, Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufman, 2011