Network Systems and Technologies CE0027M

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Network Systems and Technologies- CE0027-M

• Session 2005/6
• 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 communication and network infrastructure
• LANs and WANs
• Communication architecture and protocols 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

• Week 1-6 - John Cowley
• Week 712 - Pirooz Saeidi

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Order of tutorials (4 groups)

• Week 1-6 - John Cowley
• Week 712 - Pirooz Saeidi

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Assessment

• Practical assignment in two parts (25 each)
• Part 1 (JC) Handout week 2 Hand-in Week 10
• Part 2 (PS)- Handout week 7 Hand-in Week 13
• End of semester written exam 50
• .PTO ?

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Lecture notes, etc.

• Via Lecturers web pages
•  http//www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/ps1/
• http//www.soc.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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Indicative Reading

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