Academic year 2013-14

Networks and Services

Degree:	Code:	Type:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science	21410	Compulsory subject, 1st year
Bachelor's Degree in Telematics Engineering	21299	Compulsory subject, 1st year
Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering	21599	Compulsory subject, 1st year

 

ECTS credits:

4

Workload:

100 hours

Trimester:

1st

 

Department:	Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies
Coordinator:	Boris Bellalta
Teaching staff:	Boris Bellalta, Joan Melià, Simon Oechsner, Gabriel Martins
Language:	Catalan, Spanish and English (part of the material) Boris i Joan: Catalan Simon i Gabrial: Spanish
Timetable:
Building:	Communication campus - Poblenou

 

Introduction

This course is about basic networking. We start describing the Internet structure and TCP/IP protocol stack. Then, we focus on the fundamental aspects to understand how Internet works: Packet switching, IP addresses, IP routing and transport protocols. Finally, we end the course describing the Client-server, P2P and Cloud computing approaches for developing Internet applications. 

 

Prerequisites

There are no previous requirements for this course.

 

Associated competences

 

G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6, G8, G11, G12, G14

P1, P4, P6, P7, P8

IN16, IN17, IN18, IN19, IN20, IN21

T14, T15 

E1

TE2, TE3, TE4, TE5. 

 

Assessment

• Grade = 0.6 · Final Exam + 0.25 · Mid Term Exam + 0.15 · Lab Exam
  

  • The minimum grade for the Final Exam is 4.

• Re-take Grade = min(6, 0.6 · Re-take Final Exam + 0.25 · Mid Term Exam + 0.15 · Lab Exam)

 

Contents

• Tema 1. Introduction

• Tema 2. Tubes

• Tema 3. Packet retransmissions

• Tema 4. IP addresses

• Tema 5. IP routing

• Tema 6. End-to-end communication

• Tema 7. Internet APPs

 

Methodology

There will be theory (20h), seminars (8 hours) and lab sessions (6 hours). In all sessions it is expected a high level of interaction between the teachers and the students. 

 

Resources

Kurose, J. F., Ross, K. W, “Computer Networks, A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet”, Pearson Addison Wesley. 

Leon-Garcia,Widjaja; “Communication Networks. Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures”. McGrawHill International.