Program:

An overview of communication networks, LANs and WANs, trends in LAN technologies
Local Area Networks: Ethernet, token ring, token bus LANs
Bridged Local Area Networks: Transparent bridges, source routing bridges, switching hubs
High Speed Local Area Networks: FDDI, 100 Mb/s Ethernet, 100VG-AnyLAN, Gigabit Ethernet
Routers and LANs
Novell's NetWare protocols: IPX and SPX
Overview of WindowsNT networking environment
LAN interoperability issues at the application level, resource and file sharing: NFS, Samba
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) LANs, LAN emulation
Network Management: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Overview, Management Information Base, SNMPv2

Assignments:

All assignments will be submitted on-line. No printouts or floppy disks will be collected. The submission system will generate an assignment cover sheet containing a unique submission key. Please print this sheet and keep it for your records.

Course Materials:

Supporting files and documentation can be fetched from the Local Area Networks support site ( local access only, password required).

Textbook and Lecture Notes:

• W. Stallings. Local and Metropolitan Area Networks. 6th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2000 (errata).
• Y. A. Sekercioglu. Local Area Networks Lecture Notes. (Available at  the Swinburne University Bookshop), 2001.

References:

• E. Blanchard. Introduction to Data Communications (pdf, 2.2 MB, 400+ pages)

is the local copy of an online book located at http://www.cadvision.com/blanchas. It is an introduction to synchronous and asynchronous data transmission, telephony, local loops, LANs, MANs, WANs, ADSL, ISDN, modems, cabling, line encoding, RS-232, modulation, multiplexing, OSI model, Ethernet, Token Ring, Frame Relay, X.25, TCP/IP, packet sniffing and much more.
• L. L. Peterson and  B. Davie. Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996 (errata).
• R. Perlman. Interconnections: Bridges and Routers. Addison-Wesley, 1992.
• R. Stevens. TCP/IP Illustrated: Volume 1. Addison-Wesley, 1996.
• A. Tanenbaum. Computer Networks. Prentice Hall, 1996.

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