Information Engineering

This course provides an introduction to telecommunication networks with specific attention to computer networking. It presents the basic concepts, protocols and architectures of telecommunication networks; main topics covered are: layered models, network services, inter-networking and their implementation in main network's types like Internet, Ethernet and wireless LANs. The student will learn the principles about telecommunications networks and know how to apply both to theoretical simple cases and to some of the actual implementations of data networks. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING. The course will allow an in-depth comprehension of the fundamental concepts and tools of the Communication Networks. The students will learn how a communication network works and how to analyze its performance. CAPABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING. Through this course students will be able to use and configure the network devices. It will also learn how to evaluate the network performance and how to choose the main design parameters. MAKING AUTONOMOUS JUDGEMENTS. After the course, students will be able to choose, for a given application context, the best communication paradigm (client-server app, transport protocol, switching paradigm, transmission technology). COMMUNICATE SKILLS. At the end of the course the students will be able to illustrate the concepts of TCP/IP stack, explaining the relations that exist between different layers and the main services that these provide. LEARNING SKILLS. The student will develop the capability to autonomously study, network design skill, and it will develop the ability to evaluate the network performance.