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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Damian Jurd
Michael Johnson
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(COMP1000 or COMP115) or (COMP1350 or ISYS114)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit introduces basic data communication concepts, theory and practice within the context of the use of communication networks in organisations. Topics include: protocols and standards, including the OSI model; network switching and routing; LAN and WAN topologies; wireless networking; network hardware, such as routers, modems, repeaters, switches and hubs; public telecommunication-based data services; the effect of telecommunications on society; the role of telecommunications within organisations; introduction to security and network management; organisational management of telecommunications; introduction to network design; and regulatory frameworks. Practical work includes basic network hardware set up and protocol performance in a specialised laboratory using dedicated switching and routing equipment. This unit does not presume any knowledge of programming nor is there any programming work in the unit.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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Assignment work must be written clearly, with good grammar, correct word usage, correct punctuation,and lack of spelling errors. Poor or bad expression will be penalized, Wherever required, all written work must be properly referenced and conform to standard stylistic conventions.
No extensions will be granted without an approved application for Special Consideration. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. For example, 25 hours late in submission for an assignment worth 10 marks – 20% penalty or 2 marks deducted from the total. No submission will be accepted after solutions have been posted.
Note that while the practical material is structured against the lecture material, you need to keep in mind that there will not always be a one to one mapping between the practical exercises and the lecture topics. This is because you need some practical sessions to get acquainted to new tools and devices thereby limiting the number of practical time slots available to experiment with technologies discussed in some lectures.
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Each week you should attend three hours of lectures, and a two hour practical workshop. For details of days, times and rooms consult the timetables webpage.
Note that practicals workshops (lab sessions) commence in week 2. The week-by-week details of the practical (lab) classes will be available from iLearn.
You should have selected both a Practical_1 and a Practical_2 at enrolment. You must attend the practicals that you are enrolled in.
The textbook for this semester is:
Additional reading that you may find useful for this unit:
Kurose, J. & Ross, K. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 7th edn, Pearson, 2016
Unit Websites
COMP2250 is administered via iLearn (http://ilearn.mq.edu.au/).
This unit outline can be found in the university's unit guides
Live Streaming
Digital recordings of lectures may be available. They will be linked from iLearn.
In this unit you will will be exposed to the following technology and tools:
In this unit, you should do the following:
Lecture notes will be made available each week however these notes are intended as an outline of the lecture only and are not a substitute for your own notes or the recommended reading list.
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Tentative teaching schedule, subject to change: |
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Week |
Module |
Lecture Topic |
Module Exam |
Weight |
Assignments |
Reading |
Workshop Streams 1-12 |
Workshop Streams 13-24 |
1 |
Networking Fundamentals (NF) |
Introduction |
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Ch 1 |
No Labs |
No Labs |
2 |
LANs |
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Ch 7 |
Wireshark |
Wireshark |
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3 |
Layers and Stacks (LS) |
Network Layer |
NF (30 min) |
10% |
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Ch 5 |
IP Headers |
IP Headers |
4 |
Application Layer, Transport Layer - UDP |
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Ch 5 |
Subnetting |
Subnetting |
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5 |
Transport Layer - TCP |
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Ch 5 & Ch 2 |
Transport and Application Layers |
Transport and Application Layers |
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6 |
Link Layer |
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Assignment 1 |
Ch 4 |
Network OS and Command Line |
DNS |
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7 |
Physical Layer |
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Ch 3 |
DNS |
Network OS and Command Line |
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Mid Semester Break |
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8 |
Network Security (NS) |
Network Security I |
LS (60 min) |
20% |
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Ch 11 |
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9 |
Network Security II |
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Ch 11 |
NAT |
Switches, MAC, ARP |
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10 |
Internetworking and Network Architecture (IA) |
Wireless Networks |
NS (30 min) |
10% |
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Ch 10 |
Switches, MAC, ARP |
NAT |
11 |
Backbone Networks |
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Ch 8 |
WiFi |
Router Configuration |
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12 |
MAN and WAN |
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Assignment 2 |
Ch 9 |
Router Configuration |
WiFi |
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13 |
The Internet |
IA (60 min) |
20% |
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Ch 7 |
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14-16 |
Formal Exam Period |
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NF, LS, NS, IA (180 min) |
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