58423 - Internet Architecture

Learning outcomes

Learning the Internet architecture, its organizazion, its communication protocols and prominent applications (i.e., web)

Course contents

• Internetworking: fundamentals
• Communication protocols for LAN, WAN, MAN
• MAC, Transport, and Application Layers
• Internet structure
• Routing in Internet
• Internet applications
• Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, HDLC, PPP, ARP, RARP, IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, ICMP, TELNET, FTP
• World Wide Web, Email, news, Chat, Client/Server, P2P file-sharing
• Security and Privacy (brief notes)
• Wireless Networking and Internet (brief notes)
• Focus on HTTP, TCP and IP

Readings/Bibliography

F. Kurose, K. W. Ross, Internet e Reti di Calcolatori, 3a Ed. or later ones, Pearson Ed.

Teaching methods

The course is comprised of:

- Lessons in presence.

- Exercises (with calculations) for the design of Internet based systems/applications/services.

Assessment methods

The examination aims at evaluating if students have acquired adequate knowledge and sufficient practical skills as to the Internet architecture, its organisation, its communication protocols and prominent applications/services (i.e., the web).

In particular, the written examination is comprised of an adequate number of exercises (usually the number is ten), whose solutions will indicate whether the student is able to manage this specific kind of knowledge, both from a technical and from a practical viewpoint.

The following three topics are typically addressed.

- application level protocols, e.g., HTTP,
- network level protocols, e.g., IP, RIP/OSPF/BGP,
- transport level protocols, e.g., TCP.

Every test is comprised of ten questions. Each question (answers to which imply simple calculations) is assigned 3 point, yielding 30 for a test carried out perfectly.

Also an oral examination can be conducted depending on the specific case.

As to students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible ( https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

- References to additional material on the web

- Suggested readings

- Exercises

Office hours

See the website of Marco Roccetti