Monday, July 22, 2013

DCN Sllabus

DATA AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
UNIT-I
A communications model - Data Communications - Data Communications Networking - computer communication architecture - standards Data Transmission - Concepts and terminology - Analog and Digital - Transmission - Transmission Impairments - Transmission media.
UNIT-II
Data encoding - Digital data Digital signals ,Digital data Analog signals,, Analog data Analog signals Data Communications Interface : Asynchronous and synchronous Transmission - Line configuration - Interfacing.
UNIT-III  
Data link control: Flow controls - Error Detection - Error Control - High Level Data Link Control (HDLC) - MULTIPLEXING - Frequency Division multiplexing - Synchronous time - Division multiplexing - Statistical time division multiplexing.
UNIT-IV
Circuit switching: Circuit switching networks switching concepts - Routing in circuit switched networks - Packet switching principles - Routing in packet switching - Congestion control.
 UNIT-V
Frame relay: Frame relay Protocol Architecture - Frame relay call control user data transfer - Networks functions - Congestion control.
ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE (ATM) Protocol Architecture - ATM logical connection - ATM Cells - Transmission of ATM cells - ATM adaption layer - Traffic and congetion control.

Text Books
1. William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications Fifth Edition , Prentice Hall of India, 1997.
2. Forouzan: Introduction to Data Communication & Networking, McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Reference Books
1. Ulysess D. Black Data Communications and Distributed Networks Third Edition , 1997. Prentice Hall of India.
2. Prakash C.Gupta,Data Communications, Prentice Hall of India,1996.