2. Packet Networks. Internet |
a) Performance: Throughput, delays, losses
b) The Internet ecosystem |
4. Ethernet and WiFi |
a) Ethernet Switching.
b) VLANs and trunking
c) Spanning Tree
d) WiFi networks |
6. IP Forwarding |
a) IP Forwarding mechanism
b) Connected and Next-Hop Routes
c) The DHCP protocol |
8. Routing |
a) Graph theory. Shortest distance paths
b) Link state: Dijkstra's algorithm
c) Distance vector: Bellman-Ford
d) Broadcast routing |
10. Transport protocols |
a) Service model
b) TCP & UDP
c) Transport connections: establishment, retransmissions, flow control |
12. Network security |
a) Vulnerabilities. Protection
c) Secure network and transport layers
c) Denial of service. Spoofing
d) Fundamentals of cryptography
e) Digital signatures |