Computer Networks - The Course

Computer Networks is a mandatory first course on fundamentals of computer networks. It belongs to the 5th semester of the degree in Informatics Engineering of FCT/UNL. As prerequisites students should have previous acquaintance with programming and operating systems.

This site presents a brief overview of the course and also delivers some course support materials, namely to the laboratory sessions.

Enrolled students from FCT/UNL should take in consideration that all academic information, as well the official rules, namely the official grading rules, are only available in the academic management system of FCT/UNL:

https://clip.unl.pt > .... > Redes de Computadores

Syllabus

• Introduction to computer networks: terminology, organization, services, components and structuring principles
• Reliable data transmission
• Quality of service
• Information diffusion
• Names and addresses
• Routing: principles and algorithms
• Fundamentals of TCP/IP networks
• Fundamentals of communication channels in general and Ethernet switched networks

Learning goals

• Understand the architecture and the internals of computer networks
• Performance indicators and their estimation and measurement
• Understand the transport and network layers impact in networked applications
• Understand how content is diffused
• Understand transport interfaces and their usage
• Analyze, structure and implement small distributed applications

Bibliografy

José Legatheaux Marins, "Fundamentos de Redes de Computadores - Ilustrado com base na Internet e nos Protocolos TCP/IP," FCT da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2018.

Public book site

James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, "Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach," Addison Wesley — Pearson Education, 2012, ISBN-10: 0136079679, 6th Edition