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Valid for year : 2011
 
TDTS02 Computer Network Infrastructure, 6 ECTS credits.
/Infrastruktur för datornät/

For:   COS   CS   D   IT  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 34
Rec. self-study hours: 126

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of modern computer network infrastructure technologies, with a focus on IP-based networks. The course complements the basic computer network courses both in depth and in breadth. On completing the course successfully, participants will:
  • be able to explain, in detail, a wide range of technologies used to build data networks;
  • be able to explain the basics of hierarchical network design;
  • be able to predict and explain how different networking technologies at the same or different levels interact and affect each other in a system;
  • critically evaluate network technologies with respect to system requirements, based on information from current research, technical documentation and vendor-provided information;
  • generalize and synthesize information from multiple sources (and types of sources) in the computer network area to identify structure, internal and external connections and to form original, well motivated, conclusions;
  • alone or in a small group plan and conduct an extensive theoretical study of a selected area of technology, including integrating knowledge from multiple sources such as current research, technical documentation and vendor-provided information; and
  • based on an extensive theoretical study, orally present and explain a selected area of technology to an audience with similar general knowledge of computer networks.
Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Basic computer networks course (TDTS41, TDTS43 or equivalent).

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
Supplementary courses:
None.
Organisation:
Lectures, self-study in small group or individually, student-led seminars and written exercises. The course starts with conventional lectures. In parallel with this participants will conduct an in-depth study of a selected area in computer networking (individually or in small groups), with support of an advisor. The course concludes with student-led seminars in which the participants present the results of their self-study.
The course runs over the entire spring semester.
Course contents:
The precise contents of the course varies slightly from year to year, to keep up with developments in the area. Recurring topics include: history of data networks; Ethernet MAC, VLAN, switching, STP, RSTP; IPv4 and IPv4 addressing, protocols, mobility, routing, filtering and practical applications; plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH); optical networks from hardware through protocols such as SONET and SDH; wavelength multiplexed networks (WDM, DWDM); wavelength routing, label switching (ATM, MPLS, GMPLS).
Course literature:
No assigned literature; participants are free to select any suitable literature appropriate to their in-depth study.
Examination:
Project assigment with oral presentation
Seminars
 5 ECTS
1 ECTS
 
Active participation in the seminars is compulsory.
Grades are given as â?TFailâ?T or â?TPassâ?T.


Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IDA.
Director of Studies: Lena Strömbäck
Examiner: Nahid Shahmehri
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Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 04/29/2011