Scheme CSE4
Scheme CSE4
8 PCC 4CSE43B - - 1 - - 2 - 50 50
(CSE) Computer Networks Laboratory
$$$ - Students can choose open electives of the respective credit from other departments of the
university, NPTEL, MOOCs or similar online platforms and other institute of repute with the prior
permission of the head of the department.
Note: Students have to undergo a Practical Training - I of 45 days (in house/field) at the end of IV
Semester for which assessment will be made at the beginning of next semester.
To pass, a candidate must obtain:
(a) 35 per cent in each written paper,
(b) 50 per cent in each of the practicals and sessionals
(c) 45 per cent in aggregate
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SECOND YEAR IV-SEMESTER
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[PCC] 4CSE43A (CSE) – COMPUTER NETWORKS
3L, 1T 3 Hours, 70 Marks
Basic Communication Model. Analog and Digital Signals. Need and Advantages of Data
Communications. Network topologies and types of networks. OSI reference model and TCP/IP
Protocol Suite. Layers in TCP/IP. Network Devices – Switch, Hub, Router, Gateway. Circuit and
Packet Switching.
Digital Communication - Transmission of Digital Signals – Encoding, Impairments, Nyquist Bit Rate,
Noise. Performance – Bandwidth, Throughput, Latency, Bandwidth-Delay, Jitter. Multiplexing and
Transmission Media. Error Detection and Correction - Cyclic codes, Checksum, Forward error
correction.
Link control: Services of data link layer, flow and error control, addressing. Media Access control:
Random Access, Controlled Access and Channelization. Wired LANs and Ethernet Protocol.
Network Layer – Packets, Connectionless and Connection-Oriented protocols. Introduction to IPv4 &
IPv6. IPV4 Addressing, Forwarding of Packets. Routing algorithms. Performance – Delay,
Throughput, Packet Loss, Congestion. Introduction to Multicasting – types, addresses, forwarding.
Overview of ICMP.
Transport Layer – Services, Flow and Congestion Control Protocols. Datagrams & UDP – Services &
Applications. TCP – Services, Features, States, Ports and Sockets. Session and Application Layer –
Introduction to FTP, TELNET, SSH and SNMP. Overview of Wireless Communication, Adhoc
Networks and Tethering.
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[PCC] 4CSE45A (CSE) – COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE
3L 3 Hours, 70 Marks
Organization of computer system, Basic building blocks of CPU. Construction of ALU - Integer
representation, Floating point number system, Arithmetic operations on floating point numbers, Data-
path and bus design, Logical operations, implementation of logical instructions.
General instruction formats, addressing modes. Concept of control unit, execution of instructions,
Hardwired and Microprogrammed control unit, Microinstructions and Microprogramming. Instruction
execution cycle and instruction set. General and Special Purpose Registers.
Memory element, RAM, Static RAM, Dynamic RAM, dimension of memory access, ROM, PROM,
EPROM, EEPROM, CCD and cache memories. Hierarchy of memories. Magnetic, Optical and Flash
Disks.
Interconnection of computer components, buses, bus formats and operations, isolated and memory-
mapped input-output, interfacing of keyboards and printers. Interrupts in IO systems, DMA. Data
transfer, DMA interrupts, polling, masking, nested interrupts.
Introduction to instruction pipelining, pipeline hazards, and performance.
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