1. To give students an understanding of the basics of low-level digital communication
2. To develop an understanding of frame-based computer communication in local area networks.
3. To develop an understanding of the notions of virtual networks and encapsulation that underpin internet-based wide area networks. To illustrate these notions through an examination of the IP-based Internet.
4. To provide experience of the use of rudimentary programming language-level abstractions that simplify the programmer interface to computer networking.
5. To review system concepts such as processes and threads, process management and scheduling and to introduce the concept of distributed software systems. To relate the reviewed "single computer" concepts to equivalent issues in distributed computing eg interprocess communication, memory management and concurrency in the distributed processing sense. To extend these concepts to include investigation of issues such as heterogeneity, distributed process management, distributed file systems, transaction management and consistency models, distributed synchronisation and distributed security.
6. To provide experience in the use of at least one industry-standard environment for development of distributed software systems

* Frames and Topologies
* LAN features
* Building WANs
* Internet Addressing
* Sockets
* IP Datagrams, Error Checking and UDP
* TCP, DHCP, NAT, VPNs
* RPC and Middleware
* Review of system concepts such as processes and threads, process management and scheduling
* Introduction to distributed systems
* Interprocess communication, memory management and concurrency
* Distributed process management
* Distributed file systems
* Transaction management and consistency models
* Distributed synchronisation
* Distributed security

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SENG6110

Internal Mode

Lecture
Workshop

Lecture: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Workshop: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term