Syllabus
- Concept of layering. OSI and TCP/IP Protocol Stacks;
- Basics of packet, circuit and virtual circuit-switching;
- Data link layer: framing, error detection, Medium Access Control, Ethernet bridging;
- Routing protocols: shortest path, flooding, distance vector and link state routing;
- Fragmentation and IP addressing, IPv4, CIDR notation,
- Basics of IP support protocols (ARP, DHCP, ICMP), Network Address Translation (NAT);
- Transport layer: flow control and congestion control, UDP, TCP, sockets;
- Application layer protocols: DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, Email.
Book
- Peterson, Davie
Video
Web Links
Previous Year Questions
http://gateoverflow.in/questions/computer-networks
Important Questions
http://gateoverflow.in/blog/27/important-questions-in-computer-networks
Recommended Tests
- https://gateoverflow.in/exam/246/go-2021-computer-networks-1
- https://gateoverflow.in/exam/49/test-by-bikram-computer-networks-1
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