COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NETWORK DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CSE 5053 NETWORK DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YALÇIN ÇEBI

Offered to

Computer Engineering (Non-Thesis-Evening) (English)
Computer Engineering Non-Thesis (English)
Computer Engineering (English)
Computer Engineering (English)
COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

The main goal in the network design process is to design networks that meet a customer's business and technical goals. This course provides internetworking design and implementation case studies and examples, with the intent to help students identify and implement practical internetworking strategies that are both flexible and scalable.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define needs and goals of a customer
2   To analyse and question a network infrastructure
3   To compare alternative technologies
4   To design a network infrastructure
5   To analyse and revise proposed infrastructure

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General Overview of Network Design Approaches
2 Identifying Customer Needs and Goals
3 Characterizing the Existing Internetwork
4 Characterizing the Existing Internetwork (cont'd)
5 Characterizing the Network Traffic
6 Logical Network Design
7 Logical Network Design (cont'd)
8 Physical Network Design
9 Physical Network Design (cont'd)
10 LAN/MAN Systems
11 LAN/MAN Systems (cont'd)
12 Design Issues
13 WAN Design Principles
14 WAN Design Principles (cont'd)
15 WAN Security and Management

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
- Oppenheimer, P., Top-Down Network Design, Cisco Press, MacMillan, USA, 1999, ISBN 1 57870-069-8
Supplementary Book(s):
- Stallings, W., Local and Metropolitan Area Networks 6/e, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2000, ISBN 0-13-012939-0
- Marcus, J.S., Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks, Addison Wesley, USA, 1999, ISBN 0-201-69584-7
References:
- Scott, C., Wolfe, P., Erwin, M., Virtual Private Networks, O Reilly, USA, 1999, ISBN 1 56592 529-7
- Stallings, W., Data and Computer Communications, 5/e, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1997.
- Tanenbaum, A., Computer Networks 3/e, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1996

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- Lectures
- Group study
- On-site investigation
- Presentation
- Homeworks
- Term project

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 1


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

There will be minimum 2 mid-term presentations, averaged out grades for which will be 30% of the overall success of the students. One Term Project submitted at the end of the semester will be 70%, respectively of the resulting grade.

Assessment Criteria

Course outcomes will be evaluated with the presentations and the term project prepared by the student.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Students are expected to attend courses and realize their presentations on time.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr. Yalçın ÇEBI
Dokuz Eylul University
Department of Computer Engineering
Tinaztepe Campus 35390 BUCA/IZMIR
Tel: +90 (232) 301 74 07
e-mail:yalcin@cs.deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday and Thursday 9:30-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 3 45
Student Presentations 3 1 3
Field study 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 3 25 75
Preparing presentations 4 5 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 2 30
Project Assignment 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 203

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.155511555135
LO.255522555135
LO.355545555153
LO.455555555355
LO.555555555355