58423 - Internet Architecture

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Information Science for Management (cod. 8014)

Learning outcomes

Learning the Internet architecture, its organizazion, its communication protocols and prominent applications (i.e., web)

Course contents

  • Computer organization (hw and sw) 
  • Internetworking concepts and fundamentals
  • Communication protocols for LAN, WAN, MAN
  • MAC, Transport, and Application Layers
  • Internet structure
  • Routing in Inernet
  • Internet applications
  • Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, HDLC, PPP, ARP, RARP, IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, ICMP, TELNET, FTP
  • World Wide Web, Email, news, Chat, Client/Server, P2P  file-sharing
  • Internet2 and QoS   
  • Wireless Networking
  • Wireless Internet

Readings/Bibliography

F. Kurose, K. W. Ross, Internet e Reti di Calcolatori, 3a Ed., McGraw-Hill

Teaching methods

Course lessons with illustration of electronics slides.

Experimentation on network protocols, system configuration and network services.

Assessment methods

Written and oral examinations

Teaching tools

References to additional material on the web

Suggested readings

Didactical lab

Links to further information

http://www.cs.unibo.it/~roccetti/

Office hours

See the website of Marco Roccetti