Delivery: face to face

Learning activities:

• attending lectures
• individual study
• Laboratory work

Attendance: Advised

Teaching methods:

• Lectures
• laboratory

The “reti di calcolatori” module introduces the foundations of computer networks by illustrating applications and protocols of the TCP/IP network architecture. Specifically, after an introduction to computer networks and to Internet, the protocol stack is introduced. Then, the relevant protocols and principles of: application layer (with the client-server paradigm and the protocols for web, FTP, email Telnet and DNS applications, and the peer-to-peer paradigm), transport layer (with siliding windows protocols, UDP and TCP), network layer (IPv4 and IPv6, algorithms and protocols for unicast routing), and data link layer (medium access protocols, link layer level addressing, wired LANs and Ethernet). Then, wireless networks (wireless LANs with IEEE 802.11 and bluetooth) and mobile IP, as well as security issues (SSL, Ipsec and PGP) are presented.

B.A. Forouzan & F. Mosharraf – Computer Networks: A Top Down Approach  McGraw-Hill