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Area/Catalogue
EEET 4032

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Course Level
Undergraduate

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Offered Externally
No

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Course ID
013062

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Unit Value
4.5

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University-wide elective course
No

Course owner

Course owner
School of Engineering

Course aim

To provide an in-depth understanding of selected Internet protocols (especially at the transport layer) including the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and to gain more advanced modelling and analysis skills required for the rigorous design of practical protocols via a structured project. Secondly, to provide some breadth of understanding of selected computer networking topics via guest lectures. The aim is to build on the foundations provided by the prerequisite courses.

Course content

IP Revision,Transmission Control Protocol, User Datagram Protocol, notion of Service provided by a protocol, modelling of protocols and services; behavioural analysis of protocols; and selected topics on Internet infrastructure and applications such as: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol; Web Protocols, particularly the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP); Electronic commerce (the Internet Open Trading Protocol); Web services; Mobile IP; Mobile Data (eg the Wireless Application Protocol, Multimedia Message Service); Real Time Protocol; Multimedia over Packet Networks (ITU-T Recommendations H.323, H.245, SIP); Domain Name System; Middleware: Object Management Architecture, object request brokers (CORBA, OLE/COM), services (trading, naming, event, transaction, security), interorb protocols (eg the Internet Interorb protocol)
NOTE: conceded and terminating passes be available to undergraduates taking this course but not to postgraduates

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number Course Name
EEET 3025 Data Communications and Networks
EEET 4031 System Design Techniques

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Lecture 2 hours x 13 weeks
Practical 2 hours x 6 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.


Assessment

Examination, Laboratory Portfolio, Test

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
International students and students undertaking this course as part of a postgraduate fee paying program must refer to the relevant program home page to determine the cost for undertaking this course.

Non-award enrolment
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Not all courses are available on all of the above bases, and students must check to ensure that they are permitted to enrol in a particular course.

* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.

Course Coordinators

Mr Amar Gupta
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