Syllabus
- fundamental principles of network communication, network taxonomy by various aspects, evolution of internetworking and Internet
- layered design, networking model ISO/OSI and its relation to TCP/IP protocols
- addressing nodes and services (MAC, IP, TCP/UDP ports, DNS, URI), routing, address translation
- transport protocols (TCP, UDP) and their principles
- electronic mail and related protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP)
- voice transmition services (VoIP) and related protocols (SIP)
- selected widely used application protocols of TCP/IP family (DNS, HTTP, FTP, SSH)
- Cryptography fundamentals, information security and integrity, authentication, certificate system, relation to TCP/IP protocols (SSL and TLS)
- Principles of desing and management of computer networks, address management and routing, Internet autonomous systems
- Fundamentals of media layers (data link) and dat transmition principles (Ethernet, Wi-Fi)
- History of World Wide Web, web pages, web applications, fundamentals of HTML and CSS
Annotation
An introductory course in communication techniques and technologies of computer networks, communication protocols (especially the TCP/IP family), and basic principles of web and web technologies.