Advanced Communication Networks
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Advanced Communication Networks Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Communication Networks (subject code 3712708) as prescribed for EACE · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 52 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3712708)Unit 1 Advance Topics in Networking
- Packet Switching
- Circuit Switching
- A Network of Networks
- Delay Loss and Throughput in Packet-Switched Networks
- Principles of Congestion Control
- Approaches to Congestion Control
- TCP Congestion Control
- Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
- IPv4 and IPv6
- Generalized forwarding and SDN, OSPF, BGP, SDN, ICMP
- Process of a Web Page Request
Unit 2 Network at Application
- Web and HTTP
- Cookies & Web Caching
- Electronic Mail, DNS, P2P, Video Streaming and Distribution
- UDP and TCP Socket Programming
Unit 3 Mobile and Multimedia Networking
- 802.11 Wireless LANs
- Cellular Internet Access
- 4G LTE, Mobility Management
- Mobile IP, Cellular Mobility Management
- Multimedia Networking
- Streaming Video
- Voice Over IP, RTP, SIP, Multimedia QoS
Unit 4 BroadBand Distribution & Access Network
- A History of Broadband Networks
- Legacy Access Networks
- Copper DSL Evolves
- Challenges to DSL Access Networks
- DSLAM Evolution
- ATM DSLAMs
- Ethernet DSLAMs
- Triple-Play Services
- MPLS Backbone Networks
- High- Availability Broadband Access, PPP, PPPoA
- ADSL Access
- VDSL and VDSL2
Unit 5 Security in Networking
- Network Security and Cryptography
- Message Integrity and Digital Signatures
- End- Point Authentication
- E-mail Security
- TCP and SSL, IPSec and VPN, Wireless Security
- Firewall and IDS
- References: ● Kuros and Ross
- Computer Networking A Top Down Approach 7th Ed, Pearson Publication Subject Code: 3712708 Subject Code: 3720520 ● Chris Hellberg
- Dylan Greene
- Truman Boyes - Broadband Network Architectures_ Designing and Deploying Triple Play Services-Prentice Hall (2007) ● Andrew Tanenbaum
- Computer Networks
- 5th Edition
- PearsonEducation ● Behrouz Forouzan
- Data Communication And Networking
- TMH ● Patrick J
- Conlan - Cisco network professional's advanced internetworking guide-Wiley Technical Pub (2009) ● James Roberts
- Ugo Mocci
- Jorma Virtamo (eds.) - Broadband Network Traffic_ Performance Evaluation and Design of Broadband Multiservice Networks-Springer
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