Network Systems and Technologies CE0027M

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Network Systems and Technologies- CE0027-M

• Session 2007/8
• Module Leader Pirooz Saeidi

Faculty of Computing Engineering
Technology Staffordshire University
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Members of Staff

• John Cowley (j.cowley_at_staffs.ac.uk)
• Pirooz Saeidi (p.saeidi_at_staffs.ac.uk)

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Indicative Content

• Development and operation of computer networks
• Data communications and network infrastructure
• LANs and WANs
• Communication architecture and protocol layering
• Network Software -Services and protocols
• Internetworking and TCP/IP

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Indicative Content

• Application Interfacing - Network management and
  security,WWW...
• Client-Server systems
• Distributed systems and applications of
  networking
• Naming Services
• IPC, client/server communication and RPC
• Distributed file systems
• Web Caching and Replication

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Order of teaching - lectures

• Week 1-8 - John Cowley
• Week 912 - Pirooz Saeidi

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Order of tutorials (4 groups)

• Week 1-8 - John Cowley
• Week 9-12 - Pirooz Saeidi

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Assessment

• Practical assignment in two parts (50)
• Part 1 (JC) Handout week 2 Hand-in Week 10
  (66)
• Part 2 (PS)- Continuous demo-based practical
  Start Week 9 Demos Week 12 (33)
• End of semester written exam (50)
• .PTO ?

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Lecture notes etc.

• Via Blackboard
•  http//blackboard.staffs.ac.uk/
• JCs files may sometimes be zipped and password
  protected (password st0kec1ty lower case
  letters, no spaces, a zero instead of the letter
  o and a number one instead of the letter i)

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Additional Resources

• Via Lecturers web pages
•  http//www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk/ps1/ (effective
  from Week 9)
• http//www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk/jc9/

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Recommended Books

• D.E. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets,
  Prentice Hall
• Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindeberg, Distributed
  Systems-Concepts and Design Addison-Wesley
• Data and Computer Communications by William
  Stallings, 7th Edition, published by Pearson
  Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-183311-1

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Cheaper Copy of Comers Book

• ISBN is 81-297-0330-0, but if you're searching
  for it on the Internet 8129703300 (i.e. same
  number without the hyphens) gives better results.
  You could try E-Bay.
• You can't buy this version of the book in UK
  shops. The print quality isn't fantastic but who
  cares if it's cheaper!

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Indicative Reading

• A.S.Tanenbaum, Computer Networks with Internet
  Applications, Prentice Hall
• D.E. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets,
  Prentice Hall
• G. Coulouris, Distributed Systems - Concepts
  Design, Addison Wesley
• E.R. Harold, Java Network Programming, OReilly
• Wright Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated (Vol I,II
  and III) Addison Wesley