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DATA COMMUNICATION (EC-603 (A)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Data Communication: Introduction, Components, data representation

  • Data Communication: Introduction, Components, data representation
  • Serial & Parallel transmission
  • Modes of data transmission
  • Line Encoding: Unipolar, Polar, Bipolar
  • Networks - Protocols and standards - Standards organizations
  • Line configurations - Topology - Transmission mode
  • Categories of networks - Inter networks
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Unit 2

OSI model: Functions of the layers

  • OSI model: Functions of the layers
  • Transmission media: Guided media - Unguided media
  • Transmission impairment - Performance
  • Switching Circuit switching , packet switching (virtual circuit and datagram approach), message switching
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Unit 3

ERROR CONTROL AND DATA LINK PROTOCOLS

  • Error detection and correction: Types of errors - Detection
  • Vertical Redundancy Check (VRC)
  • Longitudinal Redundancy Check (LRC)
  • Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
  • Check sum - Error Correction
  • Data Link Layer Protocols: Framing , HDLC
  • ARQ: Stop and Wait, Sliding Window
  • Efficiency
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Unit 4

NETWORKS

  • LAN: Project 802 - Ethernet - Token bus - Token ring - FDDI
  • MAN: IEEE 802.6 (DQDB) - SMDS
  • X.25, FRAME RELAY, ATM AND SONET/ SDH
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Unit 5

NETWORKING DEVICES AND TCP / IP PROTOCOL SUITE

  • Networking and internetworking devices: Repeaters - Bridges - Gateways - Other devices
  • Routing algorithms - Distance vector routing - Link state routing
  • TCP / IP protocol suite: Overview of TCP/IP

Reference Books

  • Data and Computer Communication — W. Stallings — Pearson
  • LANs — Keiser — Tata Mc-Graw Hill
  • Data Communication & Networking — B.A. Forouzan — Tata Mc-Graw Hill
  • Internetworking with TCP/IP - VOL-I — D.E. Comer — PHI
  • ISDN and Broad band ISDN with Frame Relay & ATM — W. Stallings — Pearson
  • Computer Networks — Tanenbaum — PHI
  • Data Networks — Bertsekas, Gallager
  • Understanding Data communications & Networks — William A. Shay — Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
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