COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPUTER NETWORKS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BIL 3012 COMPUTER NETWORKS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Computer Science

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RESMIYE NASIBOĞLU

Offered to

Computer Science

Course Objective

This course will introduce the students the basic concepts of computer communication networks, protocol design and implementation. The main targets are to analyze, design and implementation of a computer network and its components

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Have general information about computer networks and protocols
2   Have ability to design and implement computer network components
3   Have general information about network security
4   Be capable to combine software and hardware components of a network
5   Have a good understanding of client-server structure

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to computer networks, basic concepts
2 Physical layer, Transmission media
3 Wireless transmission, Satellites, telephone and cable television systems
4 Data Link layer
5 Sliding windows protocols, Protocol verification, examples
6 Multiple access protocols, Ethernet
7 Wireless LANs, Bluetooth
8 Midterm Exam
9 Network layer, Routing algorithms
10 Quality of Service (QoS), Internetworking
11 Transport layer, UDP, TCP
12 Network Performance evaluation
13 Application layer, DNS, e-mail, WWW
14 Network security, Symmetric-key algorithms, Public-key algorithms, Digital signatures

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Tanenbaum, A. S., Computer Networks, Prentice Hall, 1996
Supplementary Book(s): Kurose, J., Ross, K. W., Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Addison-Wesley 2000

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned and presented in a discussion session. In some weeks of the course, results of the homework given previously are discussed

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students will come to the class in time. Attending the 70% of the classes are mandotary

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

resmiye.nasiboglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 0 0 0
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 151

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.1443
LO.2443
LO.3443
LO.4443
LO.5443

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