Network Architecture

Description

- Overview of the Internet

- The layered model of network design (the OSI model and the TCP/IP model)
- TCP/IP architecture, what is meant by a networked protocol
- application layer : HTTP, DNS, SMTP, TELNET, FTP, etc.
- transport layer : UDP, reliable data transmission, TCP, congestion control
- network layer : IP, ICMP, addressing, routing
- data-link layer : addressing, switching

Finalité

Acquire the fundamentals of the architecture of the Internet, with a focus on the higher layers of  the TCP/IP architecture: the Application, Transport, and Network layers, touching lightly on the Data Link and Physical layers. Ability to understand what is taking place within a network by capturing and examining packet traces.

Compétences visées

- understanding of principles in network architectures and protocols
- understanding of the considerations that shape the design a corporate network

Description des modalités d'évaluation

Hands-on labs are organized to provide a deep undestanding of the course material, but are not graded. Grading is entirely based upon a midterm exam and a final exam.

Prérequis

basics of computer science

running commands at the Linux command

remote access via SSH