Advanced Computer Network Course Code: 4350706

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (GTU)

Competency-focused Outcome-based Green Curriculum-2021 (COGC-2021)

Semester -V

Course Title: Advanced Computer Network

(Course Code: 4350706)

Diploma programme in which this course is offered Semester in which offered

Computer Engineering 5th semester

1. RATIONALE
In today's interconnected world, computer networks form the backbone of communication and
information exchange between individuals, businesses, and organizations. As the demand for
faster and more efficient network communication continues to increase, there is a need for
professionals who can design, implement, and manage computer networks. This course on
Advanced Computer Networks will focus on various concepts and protocols of computer
networks. Students will learn about IPv4, IPv6 and its features, routing protocols like RIP, OSPF
and BGP, and Transport Layer Protocols like TCP, UDP and SCTP. They will also gain knowledge
about Application Layer Protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and DNS. The course will
provide hands-on experience in configuring and managing network infrastructures,
troubleshooting network issues, and analyzing network traffic. Upon completion, students will
be equipped with the skills and knowledge to design, implement, and manage advanced
computer networks with a strong understanding of network, transport and application layers
concepts and protocols.

2. COMPETENCY

The purpose of this course is to help the student to attain the following industry identified
competency through various teaching-learning experiences:

● Configure network using different network, transport, and application layer

protocols of TCP/IP protocol stack.

3. COURSE OUTCOMES (COs)

The theory, practical experiences and relevant soft skills associated with this course are to be
taught and implemented, so that student demonstrates the following industry-oriented COs
associated with the above-mentioned competency:

a) Configure a computer network using IPv4 protocol.

b) Configure a computer network using IPv6 protocol.
c) Choose unicast routing protocols to implement routing in the given computer network.
d) Compare features, formats, and applications of various transport layer protocols.
e) Use various application layer protocols in the network configuration.

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4. TEACHING AND EXAMINATION SCHEME

Teaching Scheme Total Credits Examination Scheme

(In Hours) (L+T/2+P/2)
Theory Marks Practical Marks
Total Marks
L T P C CA ESE CA ESE

3 - 2 4 30 70 25 25 150
Out of 30 marks under the theory CA, 10 marks are for assessment of the micro-project to
facilitate integration of COs and the remaining 20 marks is the average of 2 tests to be taken
during the semester for the assessing the attainment of the cognitive domain UOs required for
the attainment of the COs.
Legends: L-Lecture; T – Tutorial/Teacher Guided Theory Practice; P -Practical; C – Credit, CA -
Continuous Assessment; ESE -End Semester Examination.

5. SUGGESTED PRACTICAL EXERCISES

The following practical outcomes (PrOs) are the subcomponents of the COs. These PrOs need
to be attained to achieve the COs.
Approx.
S. Unit
Practical Outcomes (PrOs) Hrs.
No. No.
required

a) Rewrite the following IP addresses in binary notation 1 2

192.168.12.79
156.152.187.189
172.16.12.11
10.159.187.198

b) Rewrite the following IP addresses in dotted decimal notation

11000000.10101000.00111000.00001100
10101001.00001100.00001011.01001111
00001010.10111011.00001100.01111011
1 01111101.10111011.11100000.11111111

c) Consider the following IP addresses

214.229.206.83/28
153.120.147.39/26
115.173.104.1/18
70.173.166.71/1

Find the following for each above IP address

1. Network Address
2. First Host Address

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3. Last Host Address

4. Broadcast Address
5. Next Subnet Address
d) An organization is granted block 212.18.190.0/24. The administrator
wants to create 32 subnets.

1. Find the subnet mask.

2. Find the number of addresses in each subnet.
3. Find the first and last address in subnet 1
4. Find the first and last address in subnet 32.

a) Investigate IP protocols by capturing and studying IP datagrams using 2

Wireshark

b) An IP datagram has arrived with the following partial information in

the header (in hexadecimal): 45000054 00030000 2006...
2 What is the header size? 1
Are there any options in the packet?
What is the size of data?
Is the packet fragmented?
How many more routers can the packet travel to?
What it the protocol number of the payload being carried by the packet?

Capture and study ICMPv4 packets generated by Other utility programs 1 2

3
such as ping and traceroute using relevant software

4 Create a small IPv4 static routing network using relevant software. 1 2

5 Create a small IPv6 network using any relevant software. 2 2

6 Configure RIP routing protocol using relevant software. 3 2

7 Configure OSPF routing protocol using relevant software. 3 2

8 Configure BGP routing protocol using relevant software. 3 2

a) The following is a dump (contents) of a UDP header in hexadecimal 4 2

format.

0045DF0000580000

a. What is the source port number?

b. What is the destination port number?
c. What is the total length of the user datagram?
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d. What is the length of the data?
e. Is the packet directed from a client to a server or vice versa?
f. What is the application-layer protocol?
g. Has the sender calculated a checksum for this packet?

b) The following is part of a TCP header dump (contents) in hexadecimal

format.

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E293 0017 00000001 00000000 5002 07FF..

a. What is the source port number?

b. What is the destination port number?
c. What is the sequence number?
d. What is the acknowledgment number?
e. What is the length of the header?
f. What is the type of the segment?
g. What is the window size?

c) The following is a dump of an SCTP general header in hexadecimal

format.

04320017 00000001 00000000

a. What is the source port number?

b. What is the destination port number?
c. What is the value of the verification tag?
d. What is the value of the checksum?

10 Capture and Study TCP and UDP Packets using relevant software. 4 2

11 Configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol using relevant software. 5 2

a) Configure Domain Name Server (DNS) using relevant software. 5 2

12
b) Configure Web Server using relevant software.

13 Configure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) using relevant software. 5 2

14 Configure Mail Server Using relevant software. 5 2

Total 28

Note
i. More Practical Exercises can be designed and offered by the respective course teacher to
develop the industry relevant skills/outcomes to match the COs. The above table is only a
suggestive list.
ii. The following are some sample ‘Process’ and ‘Product’ related skills (more may be
added/deleted depending on the course) that occur in the above listed Practical Exercises
of this course required which are embedded in the COs and ultimately the competency.

S. No. Sample Performance Indicators for the PrOs Weightage in %

1 Completion of given task 25

2 Correctness of the given task 30

3 Question & Answers 25

4 Regularity of report submission 20

Total 100

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6. MAJOR EQUIPMENT/ INSTRUMENTS REQUIRED

The major equipment/instruments and Software required to develop PrOs are given below
with broad specifications to facilitate procurement of them by the
administrators/management of the institutes. This will ensure the proper conduct of practicals
in all institutions across the state in a proper way so that the desired skills are developed in
students.
S. PrO S.No.
Equipment Name with Broad Specifications
No.

1 Computer System with basic configuration and connected with 2 to 8, 10 to 14

LAN and Internet.

2 Wireshark or any other similar software to capture and investigate 2, 3 and 10

packets.

3 Cisco Packet Tracer or any other similar software. 4,5,6,7,8 and 11

to 14
7. AFFECTIVE DOMAIN OUTCOMES
The following sample Affective Domain Outcomes (ADOs) are embedded in many of the
above-mentioned COs and PrOs More could be added to fulfill the development of this
competency.
a) Practice good housekeeping
b) Follow ethical practices.
c) Work as a leader/a team member.
d) Follow standard configuration.
e) Follow safety practices.

The ADOs are best developed through the laboratory/field-based exercises. Moreover, the
level of achievement of the ADOs according to Krathwohl’s ‘Affective Domain Taxonomy’
should gradually increase as planned below:
i. ‘Valuing Level’ in 1st year
ii. ‘Organization Level’ in 2nd year.
iii. ‘Characterization Level’ in 3rd year.

8. UNDERPINNING THEORY
Only the major Underpinning Theory is formulated as higher-level UOs of Revised Bloom’s
taxonomy in order development of the COs and competency is not missed out by the students
and teachers. If required, more such higher-level UOs could be included by the course teacher
to focus on the attainment of COs and competency.

Unit Unit Outcomes (UOs) Topics and Sub-topics

Unit-1 1.a Explain classful and classless 1.1 Introduction - Network layer
Network IP addressing. protocols
Layer
Protocols

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1.b Solve various problems 1.2 IPV4 Addresses - Address space,

related to subnetting and Classful addressing, Classless
supernetting. addressing, Network Address
1.c Explain Network Address Resolution (Translation).
Translation. 1.3 Forwarding of IP Packets-
1.d Explain forwarding of IP Forwarding based on destination
packets based on destination
address.
address.
1.4 Internet Protocol-Datagram
1.e Explain significance of the
fields of IPv4 Datagram Format, Fragmentation, Options,
format. Security of IPv4 Datagrams.
1.f Explain ICMPv4 protocol. 1.5 ICMPv4-Messages, Debugging
tools, ICMP checksum.

Unit-2 2.a Compare IPv4 and IPv6 2.1 IPv6 Addressing-Representation,

Next 2.b Classify Binary and Address space, Address space
Generation IP Hexadecimal representation of allocation, Autoconfiguration,
IPv6 address. Renumbering
2.c Explain address space 2.2 The IPv6 Protocol-Packet Format,
allocation of IPv6 address. Extension Header
2.d Describe the benefits of 2.3 The ICMPv6 Protocol- Error
autoconfiguration and reporting, Informational Messages,
renumbering. Neighbor-Discovery Messages,
2.e Convert the given IPv4 address Group Membership Messages
to IPv6 address. 2.4 Transition from IPv4 to IPv6-
2.f Explain significance of the Strategies, Use of IP addresses
fields of IPv6 Packet Format.
2.g Compare ICMPv6 and ICMPv4.
2.h Outline the given strategy of
Transition from IPv4 to IPv6.

Unit-3 3.a Differentiate intra and 3.1 Introduction - Routing

Unicast interdomain routing. 3.2 Intra- and Interdomain Routing
Routing 3.b Explain various routing 3.3 Routing Algorithms-Distance
algorithms. vector routing, Link-state routing,
3.c Demonstrate various unicast Path-vector routing
routing protocols 3.4 Unicast Routing Protocols-Internet
structure, Routing Information
Protocol, Open Shortest Path first,
Border Gateway Protocol version 4

Unit-4 4.a Explain significance of the 4.1 Introduction-Services, Port

Transport fields of UDP Numbers
Layer 4.b Explain various UDP services. 4.2 User Datagram Protocol-User
Protocols 4.c Outline the different features Datagram, UDP Services, UDP
of UDP. Applications
4.d Explain various TCP services. 4.3 Transmission Control Protocol-TCP
4.e List out different features of Services, TCP Features, Segment, A
TCP.

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4.f Explain significance of the TCP Connection, State Transition

fields of TCP Segment. Diagram
4.g Explain TCP connections. 4.4 SCTP-SCTP Services, SCTP Features,
4.h Describe State Transition Packet Format, An SCTP Association
Diagram of TCP.
4.i Explain various SCTP services.
4.j Explain significance of the
fields of SCTP packet format.

Unit-5 5.a Explain WWW and URL. 5.1 Introduction – Application Layer
Application 5.b Demonstrate the working of Protocols
Layer HTTP Protocol. 5.2 World Wide Web and HTTP
Protocols 5.c Demonstrate the working of 5.3 FTP-Two connections, Control
FTP Protocol. Connections, Data Connection,
5.d Explain the architecture of Security for FTP
Electronic mail. 5.4 Electronic Mail-Architecture
5.e Compare POP3 and IMAP4. (SMTP, POP, IMAP, Introduction of
5.f Describe MIME protocol. MIME) Web-Based Mail, E-mail
5.g Describe Web-based Mail. Security
5.h Explain working of DNS. 5.5 Domain Name System-Name
5.i Explain the significance of the Space, DNS in the internet,
fields of resource records. Resolution, Caching, Resource
5.j Explain DNS message format. Records, DNS Messages, Registrars,
5.k Outline DDNS and security of DDNS, Security of DNS
DNS.
Note: The UOs need to be formulated at the ‘Application Level’ and above of Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy’ to accelerate the attainment of the COs and the competency.

9. SUGGESTED SPECIFICATION TABLE FOR QUESTION PAPER DESIGN

Unit Unit Title Teaching Distribution of Theory Marks

No. Hours
R U A Total
Level Level Level Marks

1 Network Layer Protocols 10 4 6 6 16

2 Next Generation IP 6 4 5 3 12

3 Unicast Routing 7 4 9 0 13

4 Transport Layer Protocols 9 4 7 3 14

5 Application Layer Protocols 10 4 11 0 15

Total 42 20 38 12 70
Legends: R=Remember, U=Understand, A=Apply and above (Revised Bloom’s taxonomy)
Note: This specification table provides general guidelines to assist students for their learning
and to teachers to teach and question paper designers/setters to formulate test

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items/questions assess the attainment of the UOs. The actual distribution of marks at different
taxonomy levels (of R, U and A) in the question paper may vary from the above table.

10. SUGGESTED STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Other than the classroom and laboratory learning, following are the suggested student-related
co-curricular activities which can be undertaken to accelerate the attainment of the various
outcomes in this course: Students should conduct following activities in group and prepare
reports of about 5 pages for each activity, also collect/record physical evidences for their
(student’s) portfolio which will be useful for their placement interviews:

a) Undertake micro-projects in teams.

b) Give a seminar on any relevant topics.
c) Visit any ISP in your area.
d) Students are encouraged to register themselves in various MOOCs such as: Swayam,
edx, Coursera, Udemy etc to further enhance their learning.
e) Encourage students to form a Network club at institute level and can help to solve basic
network related faults in your institute as well as help slow learners.

11. SUGGESTED SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES (if any)

These are sample strategies, which the teacher can use to accelerate the attainment of the
various outcomes in this course:
a) Massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be used to teach various topics/subtopics.
b) Guide student(s) in undertaking micro-projects.
c) Managing Learning Environment.
d) Diagnosing Essential Missed Learning concepts that will help students.
e) Guide students to do personalized learning so that students can understand the course
material at his or her pace.
f) Encourage students to do group learning by sharing so that teaching can easily be
enhanced.
g) ‘L’ in section No. 4 means different types of teaching methods that are to be employed
by teachers to develop the outcomes.
h) About 20% of the topics/sub-topics which are relatively simpler or descriptive in
nature is to be given to the students for self-learning, but to be assessed using
different assessment methods.
i) With respect to section No.10, teachers need to ensure to create opportunities and
provisions for co-curricular activities.
j) Demonstrate students thoroughly before they start doing the practice.
k) Encourage students to refer different websites to have deeper understanding of the
topic.
l) Observe continuously and monitor the performance of students in the laboratory.
m) Guide students on how to address issues on environment and sustainability using the
knowledge of this course.

12. SUGGESTED MICRO-PROJECTS

Only one micro-project is planned to be undertaken by a student that needs to be assigned to
him/her in the beginning of the semester. In the first four semesters, the micro-project are
group-based. However, in the fifth and sixth semesters, it should be preferably be individually
undertaken to build up the skill and confidence in every student to become problem solver so

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that s/he contributes to the projects of the industry. In special situations where groups have
to be formed for micro-projects, the number of students in the group should not exceed three.
The micro-project could be industry application based, internet-based, workshop-
based, laboratory-based or field-based. Each micro-project should encompass two or more
COs which are in fact, an integration of PrOs, UOs and ADOs. Each student will have to
maintain a dated work diary consisting of individual contributions in the project work and give
a seminar presentation of it before submission. The total duration of the micro-project should
not be less than 16 (sixteen) student engagement hours during the course. The student ought
to submit a micro-project by the end of the semester to develop the industry-oriented COs.
A suggestive list of micro-projects is given here. This has to match the competency and
the COs. Similar micro-projects could be added by the concerned course teacher:

a) Create a webserver. Host any two websites in this webserver. Create a domain server
for the domain of these websites and enter the domain of the websites in it. Access
these websites from another computer's browser with its domain name.
b) Configure an email server in intranet and access it by using any email client.
c) Configure an ftp server in intranet and access it by using any ftp client.
d) Configure Telnet & SSH Server in intranet and access it by using particular client.
e) Configure Proxy server in intranet.
f) Prepare one static and one dynamic network with DHCP server. Use routing protocol
to route packets between these networks using any network simulator.
g) Configure VLAN using any network simulator.
h) Configure Site to Site VPN using any network simulator.

13. SUGGESTED LEARNING RESOURCES

S. Author
Title of Book Publication with place, year and ISBN
No.

1 Data Communication and Forouzan Behrouz McGraw Hill Educattion (India), New
Networking 5E Delhi, 2005,
ISBN-13:978-1-25-906475-3
ISBN-13:978-0-07-337622-6

2 Computer Networks: A Behrouz A. Forouzan, McGraw Hill Education(India)

Top-Down Approach Firouz Mosharraf ISBN-13:978-1-25-900156-7
Special Indian Edition ISBN-10:1-25-900156-3

3 Computer Networks Fifth Andrew S. Tanenbaum Pearson Education India; 5th edition
Edition DaviD J. Wetherall ISBN-10 : 9332518742
ISBN-13 : 978-9332518742

4 Computer Networking, A James F. Kurose Pearson; 7th edition, 2016

Top-down approach, Keith W. Ross ISBN-10 : 9780133594140
Seventh Edition ISBN-13 : 978-0133594140

5 Packet Tracer Network Jesin A Packt Publishing Limited

Simulator ISBN-10 : 1782170421
ISBN-13 : 978-1782170426

6 Wireshark Network Laura Chappell Chappell University; 2nd edition

Analysis (Second Edition) ISBN 978-1-893939-94-3

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14. SOFTWARE/LEARNING WEBSITES

a) https://subnetipv4.com/
b) https://learningcontent.cisco.com/games/binary/index.html
c) http://cisco.num.edu.mn/CCNA_R&S1/index.html
d) https://study-ccna.com/
e) https://www.nwkings.com/types-of-ipv6-addresses
f) https://campus.barracuda.com/product/cloudgenfirewall/doc/79462780/dynamic-
routing-protocols-ospf-rip-bgp/
g) https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/multipurpose-internet-mail-extension-mime-
protocol/
h) https://www.cloudns.net/blog/what-is-dynamic-dns/
i) https://study-ccna.com/ios-basic-commands/
j) https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-
xml/ios/fundamentals/configuration/15mt/fundamentals-15-mt-book/cf-cli-
basics.html
k) https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_b
ook.pdf
l) https://www.packettracernetwork.com/
m) https://www.computernetworkingnotes.com/networking-tutorials/
n) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb1Dw0elw0Q
o) https://www.javatpoint.com/wireshark
p) https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106105183
q) https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106106091
r) https://www.udemy.com/course/computer-networks-course-networking-basics/
s) https://www.studytonight.com/computer-networks/
t) https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
u) https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer
v) https://www.server-world.info/en/

15. PO-COMPETENCY-CO MAPPING

Semester II Advanced Computer Network (Course Code: 4350706)

POs and PSOs

PO 1 Basic PO 2 PO 3 Design/ PO 4 PO 5 PO 6 PO 7
& Discipline Problem development Engineering Engineering Project Life-long
specific Analysis of solutions Tools, practices for Manage learning
Competency knowledge Experimentatio society, ment
& Course Outcomes n &Testing sustainability
&
environment

Competency:
Configure network using different network, transport, and application layer protocols of TCP/IP protocol stack.

CO a) Configure a computer network using

2 3 3 3 1 1 1
IPv4 protocol.

CO b) Configure a computer network using

2 2 2 2 - 1 1
IPv6 protocol.

CO c) Choose unicast routing protocols to

implement routing in the given computer 2 2 2 2 - 1 1
network.

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CO d) Compare features, formats, and

applications of various transport layer 2 1 1 2 - 1 1
protocols.

CO e) Use various application layer

2 2 2 2 1 1 1
protocols in the network configuration.

Legend: ‘3’ for high, ‘2’ for medium, ‘1’ for low or ‘-’ for the relevant correlation of each competency, CO, with PO/ PSO

16. COURSE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

GTU Resource Persons

Sr.
Name and Designation Institute Email
No.
Smt. Manisha P. Mehta
1 GP, Himmatnagar [email protected]
HOD, Computer

Shri Chetan C. Kamani

2 GP, Jamnagar [email protected]
LEC (COMPUTER)

Shri Ashok K. Panchasara

3 A.V.P.T.I. Rajkot [email protected]
LEC (COMPUTER)

Shri Narendrasinh V. Limbad

4 CUSP, Surendranagar [email protected]
LEC (COMPUTER)

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