Computer Networks

This guide tells you how the teaching will be structured, and how you will be assessed. Its main purpose is to enable you to organise your own time and efforts to get the most out of the module. Preparation and reading are essential to making progress and there will be little time for teacher leading revision, until the end of the module. Particularly in your assignment, there is a need to keep up and accumulate the new skills and knowledge that you will need eventually to produce your network infrastructure design assignment. Please note that you are required to maintain a log-book for all your research, analysis and planning activities in this module.

This module concentrates on teaching students networking principles in top three layers of the Internet?s five-layer architecture in a top-down manner, by beginning at application layer towards network layer. With top-down approach, students are exposed to network applications at a very early stage, which enables them not only examine how popular applications and protocols work but also explore how to create their own network applications. Fundament network concepts are taught by using the internet?s architecture and protocols as well as other network architectures.